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Amazon S3 Now Hosts 100 Billion Objects
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 9 2010) Storage
Amazon Web Services has quietly passed an interesting benchmark: the company’s S3 storage service now hosts more than 100 billion objects. This factoid was noted this morning at Data Center World, when keynote speaker Brian Lillie of Equinix said that Amazon now is hosting 102 billion objects in S3 (Simple Storage Service). Over the past year, the number of objects stored on S3 has grown from 54 billion to 100 billion, according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, who mentioned this startling growth curve in his recent presentation at the Cebit computer trade show in Germany.
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Feds Taking Requests for $100M in Energy Efficiency Stimulus
Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Mar 3 2010) Emissions , Servers , Storage
The U.S. Department of Energy is injecting another $100 million into energy efficiency in buildings, electricity storage and other energy saving technologies. Energy Secretary Steven Chu on March 2 opened up the third round of funding under the Advanced Research Project Agency — Energy (ARPA-E), reports the San Francisco Business Times. Chu said that ARPA-E aims to yield technology jumps, such as those that produced the Internet or lasers, reports CNET.
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Avatar, Hollywood and the Data Center
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 8 2010) Storage
Back in December we shared some details about the powerhouse data center at Weta Digital, which is responsible for the digital effect featured in the 3D sci-fi epic ”Avatar.” The stunning visual effects produced at Weta have won several awards in past years and Avatar is nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Art Direction, Cinematography, and Visual Effects. As the movie continues to generate awards and attention, IT vendors are sharing details of how their systems played a role in creating “Avatar.” Last week NetApp outlined details of how its storage systems helped reduce Weta’s data management overhead by 95 ...
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Analyzing Energy-Efficiency Metrics Can Reduce Energy Use in Data Centers
Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Feb 5 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage
Capturing and analyzing energy efficiency-metrics in data centers can improve business management decisions in several areas, particularly as computing and storage requirements grow, coupled with rising electricity costs, according to a report from Info-Tech. These include improving capacity planning for power and cooling infrastructure, avoiding costly brownouts and service interruptions, meeting corporate priorities for “green” initiatives, [...]
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Inside The Tonight Show’s Data Center
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 12 2010) Storage
You probably thought there wasn’t a data center angle to the brouhaha over NBC’s late night lineup, pitting Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien in a battle for the 11:35 p.m. time slot. At stake: whose digitized images flow into the 80 terabyte storage area network (SAN) deep in the bowels of the NBC Universal lot. Here’s a look at the on-site data center for “The Tonight Show,” which captures video and audio feeds as the show is taped. After some initial fooling around with Tonight Show blogger “Bley,” systems engineer Matthew Cooper provides a tour of the facility. Not much ...
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Green Data Centers Yield Energy-Efficient Data Storage: Report
Explore Article Smart Data Centers Micro (Dec 16 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage
An industry report released this week finds that cost savings, along with the economic downturn, have emerged as the main catalysts in green IT initiatives. The economic downturn has emerged as an unlikely driver for the adoption of green data centers, according to Frost & Sullivan’s (News - Alert) “Green Data Centers: Emerging Trends and Developments” report. In an attempt to cut costs, data center owners are investigating technologies and solutions that would enhance the energy efficiency of their data centers, according to the report. Information technology companies running data centers are also “keen” on implementing green technologies that might ...
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Dell Pushes Ahead With Converged Data Centre Strategy
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Dec 11 2009) Cloud Computing , Networking , Storage
Dell ups its game in the converged data centre market with new management software and a unified networking fabric based on 10GbE. Dell is building out its converged data centre vision with new infrastructure management software and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity to its server and storage offerings. Dell entered the burgeoning unified data centre space in September, announcing partnerships with networking vendor Brocade Communications Systems and Scalent Systems, which makes automation software. On 10 December Dell unveiled the latest steps it is taking to expand its offerings in this area as it looks to compete with the likes of Cisco ...
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Top data center challenges include social networks, rising energy costs
Explore Article NetworkWorld.com (Dec 1 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage
Enterprise data needs will grow a staggering 650% over the next five years, and that's just one of numerous challenges IT leaders have to start preparing for today, analysts said as the annual Gartner Data Center Conference kicked off in Las Vegas Tuesday morning. Rising use of social networks, rising energy costs and a need to understand new technologies such as virtualization and cloud computing are among the top issues IT leaders face in the evolving data center, Gartner analyst David Cappuccio said in an opening keynote address. The 650% enterprise data growth over the next five years poses a ...
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Addressing FCoE in the Data Center
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 23 2009) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers , Storage
Power, cooling and space challenges are the norm for most data centers today. These challenges are a direct result of infrastructure sprawl and disparate technologies caused by cabling, adaptors and switch ports for networking and storage. While server virtualization has begun to address part of the issue, many problems remain and new challenges emerge. This webcast look as ways to solve some of these data center challenges using Fibre Channel over Ethernet. The main application of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is in data center storage area networks (SANs). FCoE has particular application in data centers due to the cabling ...
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Building an Energy-Efficient Data Center Using Virtualization Technology
Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Nov 19 2009) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers , Storage
Electrical power usage has always been a large and increasing cost of operating a data center. Over the last decade, as applications have grown more sophisticated and servers more powerful, digital data has grown at an exponential rate and the deployment of storage systems has proliferated. Add to this the wired and wireless networks connecting millions of users to these systems, and the stage is set for a microcosm of the world’s energy crisis in every data center. Fortunately, innovation in servers, storage, and networking technology – especially server and storage virtualization – have made possible an entirely new way ...
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The Next War Over IT
Explore Article Forbes.com (Nov 16 2009) Cloud Computing , Networking , Servers , Storage
Making sense out of the massive acquisitions and alliances struck by the enterprise systems vendors isn't easy. While it's clear that war has broken out, these companies are so large and complex that in some cases it's uncertain exactly who is fighting whom or in which geographical markets they're likely to clash. It's obvious this isn't business as usual, though. These are hostilities on a scale that hasn't been seen in the enterprise since the advent of the minicomputer in the 1980s and the commodity PC server in the 1990s. A technology shift is under way, and big companies are ...
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Terremark Acquires Storage Provider DS3
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Nov 12 2009) Storage
Just weeks after announcing a focus on seeking acquisition opportunities, managed hosting provider Terremark Worldwide (TMRK) has acquired DS3 DataVaulting for $11.5 million in cash, the company said today. DS3 provides customers with offsite, online data backup and restore services which enable enterprises and government agencies to rapidly and securely backup and restore files, databases and operating systems. The company is based in Fairfax, Va. and was founded in 2002. “Acquiring DS3 enhances our overall data storage offering and helps us accelerate the development of our solutions in the area of managed storage, which is a key growth opportunity driven ... -
Achieving Federal Data Center Modernization
Explore Article Government Computer News (Nov 10 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers , Storage
Government organizations must overcome hefty challenges to meet evolving IT mission goals in 2009 as the impact of the ongoing economic crisis, along with wars overseas and an extensive economic stimulus program are complicating their efforts to modernize, consolidate and transform data center operations. For instance, while a general rule for data center hardware has typically been three to five years between upgrade and/or replacement, in the current economic climate, government IT organizations are extending life cycles and leveraging legacy systems to squeeze more from existing IT assets, particularly servers, storage, and power equipment.
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If the Data Center Is the Computer the Fight Is on to Control the Ecosystem
Explore Article GigaOM (Nov 4 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage
Liquid Computing, a startup going head-to-head with giants, today launched its own version of unified computing gear that stands in almost direct contrast to the announcements made yesterday by Cisco, EMC and VMware about Vblocks and the new Acadia services arm. Also today, HP laid out its vision and new software for a converged computing infrastructure, the heir to its adaptive infrastructure products of the last four years. These two announcements are the latest in a web of partnerships that are taking place in the data center infrastructure space as folks try to combine computer, storage and networking into some ...
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Facebook’s Spooktacular Scaling for Halloween
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Oct 30 2009) Storage
The growth of the Internet and mobile technology have been good for Halloween. This weekend, many of us will use the cameras in our mobile phones to snap photos of our friends and/or kids in their Halloweeen costumes, and then upload them to Facebook. This trend has made Halloween the Super Bowl for online photo storage, and one of the busiest days of the year for the Facebook web site. “Our users go all out to capture the zany costumes and freewheeling spirit, typically uploading about 20% more photos than usual during Halloween week,” Facebook engineer Doug Beaver noted last ...
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