The European Commission-funded project wants data center designers and operators to test prototypes of tools that should, from 2014, make it easier to build data centers that are as energy-efficient as possible.
An article from Data Center Knowledge points to things robots can do to increase efficiency in data centers. But hurdles lie ahead, and data centers will still need administrators, the article suggests.
Power companies in areas with a growing amount of clean power are looking at new ways to store compressed air underground. The Pacific Northwest could get some of these new air technologies in the coming years.
Mellanox, the networking chip company famous for its Infinband products has agreed to to buy photonics startup Kotura in an all-cash deal. The purchase comes after Kotura started making products for the data center.
Northern New Jersey is a hotbed for data centers, with New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq data located there. And there's considerable demand for rented space nearby, meaning Equinix and the like are keeping busy.
Silicon Valley fuel cell startup Bloom Energy has raised another $130 million in funding, according to Fortune's Dan Primack. The latest funding means that Bloom Energy has closed on over $1.1 billion in venture capital funding over its eleven-year lifetime.
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At our current pace of consumption, the world's demands for compute power will quickly outpace the energy provided by our data centers. The solution is a global smart grid, and Europe provides a model for what that might look like.
Twitter will expand its data center footprint in Sacramento, Data Center Knowledge reports. The move would help the social network support traffic spikes and a continually growing user base.
The leading energy data startups Nest and Opower have quietly started to look more like competitors, though with some significant differences.
EMC says ViPR will abstract out a company's storage and automate how it gets divvied up by the workload. The company will roll out its software-defined data center plan this week.
With Enstratius, Dell gets enterprise-class cloud management capabilities, says Enstratius CTO George Reese.
Building on Amazon's Peritor purchase last year, the company is to hire more than 70 engineers in Berlin and Dresden to work on various cloud management and machine learning technologies.
Intel on Thursday named a new CEO and a new president. While both are internal candidates, the new president has experience that should help her face the challenges Intel has in the mobile and data center market.
The UK-sited data center, which should help settle the compliance worries of many of Salesforce's European customers, will be completed in 2014. The firm is also running a €5 million Innovation Challenge for EU startups.
Telecom giant Verizon is expected to announce on Tuesday that it plans to spend $100 million on clean power projects, including installing solar panels and fuel cells at 19 locations to help power its buildings and network infrastructure. Verizon's Chief Sustainability Officer James Gowen plans to make the ... For example, Verizon is putting solar panels on the roof of a data center in New Jersey, as well as on the ground next to the data center. The return on investment for the combined clean power projects is
After doing something similar in Belgium, Google is using its seawater-cooled data center in Hamina, south-eastern Finland, as a way to solidify its presence among local startups.
Facebook confirmed a data center in Altoona, Iowa, the same day Google said it would also expand its data center operations in the state. As Facebook pushes transparency, it's also pushing the notoriously secretive Google.
As the web giants, co-lo providers and cloud companies add millions of square feet of data center space we need to start getting more sophisticated in how we view these rooms full of servers.
Feedly has faced two outages since adding millions of users in the wake of the announcement that Google will retire its Google Reader service. Now Feedly is accelerating its monetization plans.
Google is asking utilities to create programs that will sell companies clean power if they're willing to pay for it, starting with Duke Energy in North Carolina.
Apple confirms the anonymized information may be kept "for up to two years." But when Siri is turned off all the user data is deleted.
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Intel has big plans in the networking --plans that will upset the status quo from merchant silicon vendors like Broadcom to box makers like Cisco and Juniper who are dependent on custom ASICs.