With 1 billion users and growing, the social network needs more servers to keep up with the constant flux of information. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
The social network is the mysterious company behind a billion-dollar-plus data facility in Iowa, says a report. Apple had also been among the suspects named by data detectives. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
With the move, Big Blue is the latest on the bandwagon to aggressively push flash into data centers. IBM's flash push comes courtesy of its Texas Memory Systems acquisition. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
The new Wave Glider SV3 is essentially a fully autonomous floating server rack, a system its maker fashions as the Amazon Web Services of the open ocean. Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge
A rise of 4.1 percent over last year will be driven in part by companies buying "premium smartphones" for employees, the research firm says. Spending on tablets is also expected to rise. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
Outlook and Hotmail users came blame the recent outage on an overheated data center, Microsoft says. On Tuesday at around 1:30 p.m. PT, the two online e-mail services suffered a service disruption, rendering them inaccessible to many users. Microsoft started to bring them back online the rest of the day and on into Wednesday. But access wasn't fully restored until 5:43 a.m. yesterday, according to the company.
The 161-megawatt Spinning Spur Wind Project in Oldham County boasts 70 Siemens wind turbines of 2.3 megawatts each. Google says the farm produces enough juice to power more than 60,000 homes in the U.S. Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge
Ray Kurzweil will have implications far beyond the fun projects at Google. His machine learning knowhow could impact networks, data centers and algorithms too. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
The tech giant seeks to amp up its energy project and produce 10 megawatts of electricity -- making its farm the largest fuel cell project in the nation not run by an electric utility.
* Apple looks to double its N.C. biogas ... Apple looks to double its N.C. biogas fuel cell farm The tech giant seeks to amp up its energy project and produce 10 megawatts of electricity -- making its farm the largest fuel cell project in the nation not run by an electric utility.
The more data centers are built, the more power is consumed. The more power is consumed, the more people rely on that power. The more we rely on the grid, the more chance there is, perhaps, that something will go wrong. The more we become reliant on the cloud, such a calamity will annoy more people who are desperate to, um, watch Netflix or stare at Instagram.
As Hurricane Sandy delivers a glancing blow to New York City, the power company pulls the plug on parts of lower Manhattan, and some Web sites without redundant servers go down.
As part of an effort to get people to appreciate how Google actually runs online services like search, the company is showing how it houses its massive computing resources.
Congressman says American IT buyers should steer clear of Huawei, but the Chinese networking giant is forging distributions in the U.S. in a bid to crack the data center market. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
The company says that it has inked a deal with the Grand River Dam Authority for 48 MW of wind energy. Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge
The New York Times today kicks off a series on how the cloud's physical structures affect the environment with a persuasive story that offers some harrowing stats. But some say it's unfair. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
The chipmaker opens the Intel Developer Forum 2012 with a peek at what it's doing to enable touch and speech functionality across all devices. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
Cloud openness, and what "open" means exactly in the context of cloud computing -- whether on-premise or in a public cloud--are hot topics at the CloudOpen conference, which is being held by the Linux Foundation in San Diego this week. CloudOpen is a new event being run in parallel with LinuxCon.
Apple is one step closer to being offered $89 million in tax breaks to set up a data center in Biggest Little City in the World, aka Reno, Nev. The Nevada Board of Economic Development approved a deal on the plan today that was initially negotiated by Reno's city council, according to the Associated Press. Despite, the state being closer to inviting Apple to set up shop, there are still a few more logistics the government must sort out.
Facebook posted the breakdown of its carbon footprint today, drawing praise from Greenpeace for the company's efforts and transparency. Facebook reported that its greenhouse gas emissions from data centers, office space, employee commuting and air travel, data center construction and sever transportation totaled about 285,000 metric tonnes in 2011.
Apple responded to criticism today for pulling its products from a green-electronics certification registry -- just as the city of San Francisco vowed to stop buying the company's desktops and laptops for that very reason. According to The Loop, Apple said it uses rigorous environmental standards to measure its devices, many of which are not used by the certification registry. This registry is called EPEAT and was created by the U.S. government's Environmental Protection Agency and several device manufacturers (including Apple). EPEAT lists products certified to be recyclable and energy efficient. Here's what Apple's spokesperson Kristin Huguet told The Loop:
