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Dell Hawks Its New Modular Data Center
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 31 2010)
Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a new design it has started selling to large "hyperscale" customers, which include big Internet firms like Microsoft and Facebook. The first modular data centers, including one shown by Dell two years ago, used standard shipping containers to house servers and other IT gear. The containers are sturdy, relatively cheap and highly portable, but some vendors have found them a little inflexible.
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Container Data Center Buyers Guide coming soon
Explore Article greenm3.com (Aug 25 2010)
n another sign of the momentum for modular data center designs, the federal government is developing a guide to help agencies choose among the growing number of container-based offerings. Industry consultant Mark Bramfitt says he is working with the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) to develop a guide to evaluating container data centers and next-generation modular designs
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US government commissions datacentre guidebook
Explore Article ZDNet UK (Aug 25 2010)
The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are working with industry consultant Mark Bramfitt on developing the guide, Bramfitt said in a statement on Tuesday. Read this Inside Capgemini's free-cooled datacentre Read more "I am drafting a guidebook that charts a process of choosing from available container-based and modular datacentre technologies, with a focus on energy efficiency and the provision of supporting infrastructure," Bramfitt wrote in the statement. The primary goal of the guidebook is to describe "a specification and deployment planning process that will be relevant in the future", he said.
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Digital Realty Buys Two More Data Centers
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 23 2010)
Digital Realty Trust (DLR) continues to buy up data center facilities, further expanding its portfolio to more than 16 million square feet of space. The company announced today that it has acquired two fully-leased data center buildings for $50.3 million. The first property is 2950 Zanker Road in San Jose, California, which includes 69,700 rentable square feet and is 100 percent leased. Digital Realty identified the tenant only as a “major telecommunications company,” but Verizon operates a facility at that address.
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Wipro's Rapid-Deploy Data Centers Target SME Market
Explore Article GreenBiz.com (Aug 16 2010)
In response to the ever-growing demand for data center capacity and the growth of cloud computing, IT firm Wipro has developed a series of modular data centers that can be installed in just one week. The company's FluidState data center line is targeted and small to medium-sized businesses, companies that see both rapid growth and quick demand for additional compute power and bandwidth. Wipro is quick to tout the green nature of its FluidState data centers, saying in an announcement for the technology that the facilities can run around the clock in a "lights-out" manner, and can be run for ...
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Inside an Energy Efficient Data Center
Explore Article baselinemag.com (Aug 13 2010)
IEmerson Electric, a $20.9 billion technology manufacturer, offers a glimpse of the future of green IT. The firm’s 35,000-square-foot global data center, located at its St. Louis headquarters, is 31 percent more energy efficient than traditional data centers, and it is home to Missouri’s largest solar array—a 7,800-square-foot rooftop array with more than 550 solar panels. The $50 million state-of-the-art facility has already earned two high-profile industry awards for environmental responsibility: LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council and a 2009 Beyond Green High-Performance Building Award from the Sustainable Buildings Industry Council. More importantly, it’s trimming energy costs ...
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Europe investing in solar and carbon capture
Explore Article examiner.com (Aug 9 2010)
The European Union (EU) is investing in solar and carbon capture. The European Union (EU) plans to aggressively cut Greenhouse Gases with new technology. The EU is investing $50 billion Euros into research and development of solar and carbon capture at coal plants. The EU is comprised of 27 members. It already has a carbon limiting cap and trade program but it is viewed as too expensive by business. Some EU countries have a carbon tax also. Solar power is getting $23 billion Euros over the next decade in investment. Carbon capture is receiving $13 billion Euros over the same ...
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HP's Flexible 'Butterfly' Data Center Prefabbed to Save Costs
Explore Article GreenBiz.com (Aug 3 2010)
Addressing the rising demand for expansive data-center environments while also minimizing the complexity and lack of control over energy use in custom facilities, Hewlett Packard has unveiled a modular, pre-fabricated data center that bundles energy efficiency with standardized features.
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Facebook Doubles Size of Data Center Before It’s Even Built
Explore Article GigaOM (Aug 2 2010)
Facebook said late Friday that it is adding 160,000 square feet to the 147,000 square-foot data center it’s currently building in Prineville, Ore. Being able to make such on-the-fly changes is part of why Facebook wants a wholly owned data center that it can manage and optimize at its whim. The company cited a need for more servers to accommodate its 500 million users.
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A Vision for the Modular Enterprise
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 2 2010)
i/o Data Centers, believes the company's new modular data center design is at the forefront of a fundamental shift in the way enterprise companies will buy and deploy data centers. Data Center Knowledge got an early look at i/o Anywhere.
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HP PODs Speed Purdue Research Expansion
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010)
HP announced Wednesday that Purdue University is using its container-based HP Performance-Optimized Data Center (POD) to expand and speed its ability to deliver research projects. Faced with the need to expand its research compute cluster, Purdue found its operations constrained by budget, power and space limitations. The university was particularly impressed with the speed-to-market capabilities offered by the HP POD.
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Strong Leasing for Digital Realty in Santa Clara
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 27 2010)
Santa Clara, Calif. continues to be one of the hottest data center markets, as end users are leasing entire buildings almost as soon as they are available. Digital Realty Trust said this week that it has already signed leases for more than 65,000 square feet of data center in two Santa Clara properties it acquired in May. Digital Realty said Friday that it has leased all of a 40,000 square foot building at 1725 Comstock in Santa Clara to a new customer it identified only as an “Internet enterprise customer.” The data center REIT acquired the building in May for ...
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eBay Bids on Energy Efficiency and Wins
Explore Article favstocks.com (Jul 21 2010)
When I originally set out to spend the summer as an EDF Climate Corps fellow at eBay Inc., I anticipated spending my 10-week fellowship focused on making the business case for energy efficiency in the company’s data centers. On my first day at eBay headquarters, I realized I had been mistaken. The greatest energy efficiency gains would actually not be in the data centers, but found elsewhere.
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Look to the Kyoto wheel to maximize free data center cooling
Explore Article Data Center (Jul 13 2010)
It's new and it's old. It's proven, but still mysterious. It's big, and a major energy saver, but it's gone largely unnoticed. It's the Kyoto wheel -- a tremendously improved design on an older idea that seems to have solved the challenges of air-side free cooling in the data center. Although it has been well proven since its introduction in 2007, the innovations that make the Kyoto wheel such an energy-efficient cooling device have not been well understood, and its potential for large savings ...
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Would You Buy A Data Centre Delivered By Truck?
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 13 2010)
If companies think they can stop their data centres expanding, they are wrong, says Akber Jeffer. They'll need new space - and it could come by truck. Businesses have to find a sustainable approach to energy use, to cut costs in an uncertain economy, and to meet increasing environmental regulations. One of the biggest drains on energy use for large enterprises is the data centre. According to recent research by analyst Frost and Sullivan (Green Data Centres – Emerging Trends and Developments” 2009) as much as 40 percent of a company’s total power requirements could be associated with data centre ...
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