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    1. OVH Deploys “Container Cube” Data Center

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      OVH Deploys “Container Cube” Data Center

      The French firm OVH is one of the world’s largest hosting companies, with more than 120,000 servers. It has also earned a reputation for its innovative data center designs. DCK readers may be familiar with OVH for the innovative Cube-shaped data center it opened last year in Roubaix, France, which houses servers in an exterior corridor built around an open center, allowing for easy airflow through the facility.

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    3. Video Roundup: 14 Modular Products Revealed

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      Video Roundup: 14 Modular Products Revealed
      Modular data center solutions, in all their shapes and forms, are an emerging deployment model for many organizations’ growing need to add data center capacity quickly and cost-effectively. We have brought together all of our videos from the last few years, showing modular solutions from 14...
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    4. Smart Data Center Design for More Effective Cooling

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      Smart Data Center Design for More Effective Cooling

      The data center is one of the most dynamic and critical operations in any business. Complexity and criticality have only increased in recent years as data centers experienced steady growth in capacity and density, straining resources and increasing the consequences of poor performance. This Industry Perspective looks at a pair of design practices data center managers can carry out on the cooling side to increase efficiency, availability and capacity. Maximize Cooling Units Return Temperature to Improve Capacity and Efficiency This best practice is based on the hot-aisle/ cold-aisle rack arrangement (Figure 1), which improves cooling unit performance by reducing mixing of hot and cold air, thus enabling higher return air temperatures. A 10 degree F increase in return air temperature typically results in a 30 to 38 percent increase in cooling unit capacity and a 15-20 percent increase in system efficiency.

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    5. Head in the Clouds, or Feet on the Ground? The Future of Data Center Design

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      Head in the Clouds, or Feet on the Ground? The Future of Data Center Design

      Organizations of all sizes are looking at how their data center facilities can support their IT requirements for greater flexibility and responsiveness using cloud computing and virtualization. But implementing these technologies and strategies in existing data center environments is easier said than done. Data center managers must take their data center, which can be up to 15 years old, and rebuild it using the latest deployment principles. One approach here is to take a more modular approach to data center design. The initial adopters of this strategy five years ago were Amazon and Google, and they are usually the reference for data center best practices in current deployment methodology. For companies evaluating where modular data center assets can help their own strategies, there are both lessons to be learned and pitfalls to avoid.

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    7. Welcome to the World's First Data Center Container Park

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      Welcome to the World's First Data Center Container Park

      Welcome to the World’s First Data Center Container Park Press Release February 20, 2012 No Comments » AST Modular, the modular and containerized data center pioneers, confirmed the successful delivery of a multiple data center container park in Denmark. The Container Data Center Park rolled out by the Spanish engineering firm in conjunction with IBM Strategic Outsourcing Denmark will bring additional capacity to the outsourcing facilities of IBM and is composed of 21 containers spread over tw

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    8. iPad Supplier Building Cloud Container Farm

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      iPad Supplier Building Cloud Container Farm
      Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics manufacturer known as a supplier for Apple’s iPhone and iPad, is entering the cloud computing market and will invest $63.3 million over the next five years to construct a campus to support its efforts. The complex will be built in Kaohsiung Software Park in southern Taiwan, and feature a “cloud computing center to be equipped with an internally developed container data center,” along with a software development center and a tech incubator, according to a report in DigiTimes (subscription required, also see Focus Taiwan). Pre-fabricated modular data centers using shipping containers have been adopted by companies seeking to deploy IT infrastructure quickly and in phases. The project is similar in concept to the cloud labs launched by IBM in seven sites in the Asia-Pacific market in China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore. The Foxconn campus will offer a place where developers ...
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    9. Swedish operator plans to package design in to modular data center

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      Swedish operator plans to package design in to modular data center
      Swedish operator plans to package design in to modular data centerDatacenterDynamicsIt is free cooling, and can be used anywhere in the world,” Karlung says. The power module, however, can be used as a built-in part of the solution, or omitted by companies choosing to use a different solution. The modules themselves, if more than one ...and more »
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    10. Next Generation Preps for Cloud Containers

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      Next Generation Preps for Cloud Containers
      Can Wales become a destination for modular data centers? Next Generation Data (NGD) has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers. The 140,000 square foot space includes just four pillars, which NGD executives say has made it ideal for a major modular deployment, perhaps for a U.S. cloud computing provider seeking to add capacity in Europe. The new space spans one of the three floors at the 750,000 square foot NGD facility, with the other two floors housing traditional raised-floor data center space. “We believe we have one of the premier locations in the world for containerized computing,” said Simon Taylor, chairman of Next Generation Data. “Our new container floor offers the ultimate in accommodation for a very select number of large cloud providers searching for exceptional space, power and security all from under one roof. As with ...
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    11. DCK Guide To Modular Data Centers: Why Modular?

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      DCK Guide To Modular Data Centers: Why Modular?
      In the first installment of our Guide to Modular Data Centers, we defined modularity as an approach to data center design that implies either a prefabricated data center module or a deployment method for delivering data center infrastructure in a modular, quick and flexible method. Why Modular? The initial challenge for containers and the modular concept was its association with mobility. The Sun Blackbox was seen on oil rigs, war zones and places a data center is typically not found. As an industry of large brick and mortar facilities that went to extremes to protect the IT within, the notion of a data center in a box was not only unattractive, but not seen as a viable solution. However, the Blackbox and other early containerized offerings started a conversation around how data centers could benefit from a new level of standardizing components and delivering IT in a modular fashion around ...
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    12. DCK Guide To Modular Data Centers

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      DCK Guide To Modular Data Centers
      The data center of the future is letting go of long-held traditions for design, where modular products and providers are ushering in a new era. A modular data center is an approach that implies a prefabricated module or a method for delivering data center infrastructure in a modular fashion. A modular solution takes the best ideas for design, reliability and efficiency and packages everything into a prefabricated, repeatable and operationally optimized module. What is Modular? Performing an image search on the Internet for a data center will result in a wide assortment of designs used in the past. The architectural, mechanical and electrical designs for data centers have typically been an open book. They were an open book to match existing IT requirements and an attempt to anticipate what requirements will be for the next 10 to 15 years.
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    13. Pre-Fab Green Data Centres Come In Any Size

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      Pre-Fab Green Data Centres Come In Any Size
      Pre-fab data centres are a reality, and containers are reaching places we wouldn't have expected, says Peter Judge. Pre-fabricated buildings have a way of becoming permanent. It looks like the data centre industry has cottoned to that, and is now selling a range of options to people who want different kinds of data centres. Essentially, we have full-on pre-fabricated data centres, such as that provided by Colt to Verne Global in Iceland, which are being offered alongside containers, such as those used by HP to supply Airbus’ high-performance computing needs. There are even micro-modular data centres – consisting of one rack in a box. And I think they all have their place. Homes for heroes Excalibur proves the prefab concept The word “pre-fab” has interesting resonances. After the Second world War, the British government built 156,000 temporary homes, universally known as “pre-fabs”, to replace bomb-damaged homes. They were designed ...
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    15. Welcome to the world's first Data Center Container Park.

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      Welcome to the world's first Data Center Container Park.
      Welcome to the world's first Data Center Container Park.Online PR News (press release)Redundancy and high availability are coupled with great levels of energy efficiency. The Container Park achieves a PUE of 1.13 thanks to AST Modular's Natural Free Cooling patented technology and is herewith recorded as the lowest PUE of any of the ...and more »
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    16. AST Modular Opens Container Data Centre In Denmark

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      AST Modular Opens Container Data Centre In Denmark
      AST Modular has opened a data centre in Denmark, built using 21 modular shipping containers Modular data centre specialist, AST Modular, last week completed the delivery of a multiple data centre container park in Denmark. The container-based data centre is designed for the Nordic financial services industry. It consists of 21 containers spread over two sites, and the new containerised modules will complement the existing brick & mortar data centres. The containers are interconnected to the existing facilities by redundant dark fibre trunks, which according to AST Modular, allows the whole campus to work as one highly resilient virtual data centre of about 9,000 m2 raised floor space.
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    17. AST Modular delivers Danish container park

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      AST Modular delivers Danish container park
      AST Modular delivers Danish container parkDatacenterDynamicsThe site consists of seven 40' IT Containers, seven 10' Natural Free Cooling Containers, three 40' Service Containers for Power and back up Cooling and four 20' Containers housing diesel generators. Power supply is 350 Watt IT load capacity at 80% ...
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    20. AST Modular deploys air cooled container in Australia

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      AST Modular deploys air cooled container in Australia
      DatacenterDynamicsAST Modular deploys air cooled container in AustraliaDatacenterDynamicsThe system consists of a 40' IT container and a 20' 'Free Cooling' container placed on top. The firm, which is the original equipment manufacturer for IBM's Portable Modular Data Center, deployed the containers in April and said it measured a PUE of ...
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    21. Amazon Deploying Containers in Oregon

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      Amazon Deploying Containers in Oregon
      Last week we noted a presentation from Amazon Web Services that discussed the company’s use of modular data centers to deploy server capacity for its cloud computing operation. Amazon’s latest modular deployment has been noticed by local media in central Oregon. On Saturday The Hermiston Herald reported that Amazon subsidiary Vadata has deployed six modules in Umatilla, Oregon. The paper describes the facility as “innocuous, bland structures — a row of six shipping containers gussied up with a few doors and vents. ” That description matches images of a modular design called Perdix that Amazon’s James Hamilton discussed earlier this month at a technology open house.
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    22. Measuring Efficiency through Modeling

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      Measuring Efficiency through Modeling
      EATON produced this timely whitepaper using computational modeling as a study for a major, non-profit, healthcare network. If a picture is worth a thousand words then this graph rich document speaks volumes. BayCare Health System was looking to optimize their cold aisle containment system (CACS). EATON simulated the performance of the data center using Future Facilities’ 6SigmaDC computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Initial results showed the modeling mirrored the actual performance of the data Center quite closely. The exercise was then utilized to help determine solutions for overall optimization.
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    23. Verizon Uses PolarPlex Containment System to Reduce Data Center Energy

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      Verizon Uses PolarPlex Containment System to Reduce Data Center Energy
      Telecommunications provider Verizon (www.verizon.com) announced on Wednesday it has decreased its data center energy usage by implementing Polargy's (www.polargy.com) PolarPlex data center containment solution. The move comes a week after Verzion revealed it developed a new metric for measuring carbon efficiency, which will allow the company to accurately quantify the impact of all of its green initiatives. Rather than cooling the entire data center, the PolarPlex system uses several methods of separating hot and cold air to maximize cooling potential.
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    24. Verizon contains cold aisles and cuts 18.8m kWh/year

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      Verizon contains cold aisles and cuts 18.8m kWh/year
      Global network and IT services provider Verizon has completed an airflow optimization project across a dozen US data centers, resulting in projected annual energy savings of 18.8m kWh. Verizon contracted California-based provider of containment services Polargy, which designed the containment solutions for each of the facilities, secured local fire-marshal approvals, managed installation and helped with the commissioning process. The project started in 2010.
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