Articles from Associated Content

The demand for datacenters has gone up. As a result, there is a huge need for power in order to operate. Research conducted highlights, that the new age datacenters are being established with 300 watts capacity per square feet. However, this range is significantly more than what was consumed or required few years back. The amount then used to be approximately 60 watts per square feet. This power percentage used to be sufficient for most installations. Today, it is the era of Green Datacenters. However, unlike many people who believe that setting up a green datacenter needs heavy investment, there is good news. If your research is done adequately, then you are saved of the heavy investments. Green building products along with green technology witnessed a massive downfall in the past few years. Your research work is what enables the green data center set up to be of the same ... (Read Full Article)

Yahoo Inc. has just opened a new data center in Lockport, New York. It is the company's first use of a new environmentally friendly design that relies in large part on western New York's cooler climate. It makes use of the prevailing winds from Lake Ontario and low-cost hydropower from the New York Power Authority to keep the 120-foot by 60-foot server buildings cool. That significantly reduces its electricity use, so that its power usage rating is nearly half that of the industry average. (Read Full Article)

Northern Virginia data center providers such as CoreSite and Switch and Data (Equinix) in Reston, Equinix and Dupont Fabros Technology in Ashburn, and other area providers such as Savvis and AT&T provide companies with well-connected, powerful and secure data centers without having to utilize corporate space, power and human resources to maintain the data center infrastructure. Many times the Ashburn and Reston data centers provide greater security, scalability, power density, and energy efficiency than a corporate in-house data center environment. In choosing one of the aforementioned third party Reston data centers or Ashburn data center, most companies gain access to a truly better setting for the heart of their company (ICT infrastructure), while realizing cost savings, more efficient personnel management, interconnection opportunities, and an overall greener computing environment. (Read Full Article)