Hardware refresh cycles grew longer and more organizations tried to squeeze as much life as possible out of their data center environments. Unfortunately, there came a time when vintage systems could no longer meet modern demands. In fact, because of cloud computing, virtualization and even big...
CyberNAP in Maryland was formerly a department store in a mall. Now, with the mall facing foreclosure, AiNET is looking to buy the property and turn it into much needed data center space.
Data center developer Server Farm Realty (SFR) this week opened its new Chicago facility at 840 South Canal Street, hosting local officials for a tour of new space for anchor tenant Peerless Network.
Facebook has claimed that its new data centre, which has now gone live on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is likely to be one of the most efficient and sustainable in the world.
June 13, 2013 -- Cloud hosting provider EarthLink announced on Thursday it has opened its newest data center and sales office located at 8 Great Oaks Boulevard in San Jose, California. Keep on reading: EarthLink Opens Data Center and Sales Office in San Jose
June 13, 2013 -- Canadian cable giant Cogeco Data Services announced on Thursday it has opened its new multi-million dollar data center in Barrie just north of Toronto, Ontario. Keep on reading: Cogeco Data Services Opens Data Center in Barrie, Ontario
June 13, 2013 -- Construction and engineering company Cupertino Electric announced on Thursday it has acquired data center design and commissioning consulting firm California Data Center Design Group for an undisclosed amount.Keep on reading: Cupertino Electric Acquires California Data Center Design Group
It is kind of funny sitting at a low level in data centers discussing sites, power, cooling, etc, then sometimes pop your head up and get a big picture view what you can see. I was chatting with a Google person last week and I was thanking him for a response to an e-mail I sent a year ago to check on their data center calculations on their web site.
Facebook says its new data center in Lulea, Sweden is the most efficient and sustainable. For a closer look, check out our photo feature, Inside Facebook's Lulea Data Center.
With lots of water and the cool Nordic climate, Facebook is lowering its cost to operate a data center and improving its environmental friendliness. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
One of the conversations I have had with data center friends is when will Facebook bring its Lulea data center online. The project was publicly announced in Oct 2011. There was Swedish papers covering the commissioning process in May 2013.
Intel (INTC) has introduced the Solid-State Drive DC S3500 Series, its latest solid-state drive (SSD) for data centers and cloud computing.
Facebook has gone live in Lulea. The company's huge new data center in Sweden is now handling traffic from around the world, marking the first expansion of Facebook's infrastructure beyond the Untied States.
Telx has just completed the NJ3 data center, a $200 million greenfield project that marks a major expansion of its footprint in the greater New York market, where the company got its start.
Energy efficiency is a big deal in the data center industry and one of the bodies that helps data center owners make sense of technology in this sphere is The Green Grid. Things like carbon emissions and power consumption are big concerns but there is yet
June 12, 2013 -- While cloud providers have long touted the cost savings of using cloud services to customers, new research shows that US businesses who switch to the cloud actually help save a significant amount of energy as well.Keep on reading: Cloud Apps Offer Significant Energy Savings: Researchers
June 12, 2013 -- Data center operator RagingWire Data Centers announced on Wednesday it has signed a rare memorandum of understanding with the Virginia Economic Development Partnership committing to $150 million in capital investment and the creation of 50 new jobs over the next five years. Keep on reading: RagingWire to Invest $150M, Create 50 New Jobs for Virginia Tax Incentive
When I was at the first Open Compute Summit I was sitting with a data center executive and when he heard about the air misters used in Facebook's 1st data center he said they were going to run into problems. We don't hear about misters in Facebook's data center any more and news has leaked out what may have helped convince putting humidity into the data center has issues. The Register broke the news in an interview with Facebook VP Jay Parikh. Facebook's first data center ran into problems of a distinctly ironic nature when a literal cloud formed in the IT room and started to rain on servers. Though Facebook has previously hinted at this via references to a "humidity event" within its first data center in Prineville, Oregon, the social network's infrastructure king Jay Parikh told The Reg on Thursday that, for a ...
SageCloud has raised $10 million. The company comes from one of the founders of Carbonite, and claims it can offer Cold Storage on disk for the price point of tape.
Some of the folks out there have a US and EU focus on their data center services. Others see the double digital growth in emerging markets. Komonews reports on Boeing's 20 year forecast of airplane sales. The 20-year forecast, which Boeing puts out annually, predicts 60 percent of the demand for aircraft will come from Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The rest comes from carriers in Europe and North America.
During the past five years, most data center managers have become increasingly attuned to energy efficiency, water consumption and carbon emissions metrics. Often, the electronic waste (e-waste) disposal dilemma has taken a backseat. A data center trade
June 11, 2013 -- Data center developer Server Farm Realty announced on Tuesday it has opened its new 450,000 square foot data center in Chicago. Keep on reading: Server Farm Realty Opens Massive Data Center in Chicago
Cloud computing -- using a centralized data center to process and store you data so that you can access them wherever you are -- is supposed to be more cost effective and environmental friendly than conventional data centers. But how do you quantify those benefits?
