Will Facebook’s IPO Have a Web Hosting Impact?

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012)

...same treatment to its APIs. “Facebook has kept a tight lid on its APIs and for good reason. But ask Amazon, eBay, and other Internet giants where their business models are heading and it’s about opening up ......ringement could also have negative implications on Facebook’s products. According to Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge, in April Yahoo claimed that Facebook’s data center and server technology may infringe ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace's latest drive-by data center shooting by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 18 2012)

...npeace USA, has started its latest "Do as I say, not as I do" data center jihad by attacking Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for using  "asthma-inducing, climate destroying coal pollution" to keep The Internet ......hem funding, but nada on how much carbon it uses.  Transparency? Nope. Back in 2010, Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge documented Greenpeace's hypocrisy with its servers in Northern Virginia (NoVA for locals).  The NoV... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...e powered. Australia is not mentioned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Aka......hich will each be the largest of their kind in the country,” Apple said in a statement published by Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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Apple slaps back at Greenpeace for dirty-cloud report

Explore Technology News (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Wind

...20 megawatts at full capacity. Greenpeace put the estimate at 100 megawatts. Greenpeace gave Apple, Amazon, and other companies low marks for locating their data centers in areas that rely heavily on coal a......mber was incorrect but didn't offer a more accurate number. Today, Apple issued a statement, run at Data Center Knowledge, which for the first time disclosed the expected power usage. It also notes that the ... (Read Full Article)

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Resuscitating Legacy Data Centers: A Darwinian Approach

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...my has contributed to the massive data center construction era we are now living in – hello Google, Amazon and Facebook! Given this situation, it behooves the facility managers, IT personnel and engineers t......olve to meet the demands of a future data generation. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 14

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 14 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...this week that its public cloud services will open to the public on May 10, competing directly with Amazon Web Services and other public cloud service providers. Stay current on Data Center Knowledge’s data center news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on T... (Read Full Article)

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eBay covers Utah data center roof with solar panels

Explore GigaOM (Apr 11 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

...nd over 6 times the size of its solar panel project at its small data center in Denver. But yes, as Amazon’s web infrastructure guru James Hamilton pointed out recently, these types of solar panel installat......e usually small enough that they only power a portion of the data center’s needs. According to this Data Center Knowledge post from 2010, the Topaz data center has a 30 MW ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 10 Data Center Stories: March 2012

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

Data Center Knowledge’s coverage of the data center industry in March included Google’s “too hot for humans” policy, the ......er industry in March included Google’s “too hot for humans” policy, the number of servers housed at Amazon and Akamai, and AOL’s server consolidation project. The news included a look at Apple’s solar farm ... (Read Full Article)

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Another Perspective on Solar at Data Centers

Explore Renewable Energy World (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Solar

...ntensive data centers or is it simply an expensive marketing tool? Two weeks ago, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Servi In February, word leaked that Apple will install a 20 megawatt solar farm—the largest cus......olar. Another common criticism is that solar requires a lot of space. According to Rich Miller from Data Center Knowledge, it takes about seven acres of solar panels to generate one megawatt of electricity ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of March 17th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 17 2012) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Estimate: Amazon Cloud Backed by 450,000 Servers – How many servers does it take to power Amazon’s huge cloud computing operation? Like many large Internet companies, Amazon doesn’t disclose details of its infrastructure, including how many servers it uses. But a researche... (Read Full Article)

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Three Vs of Big Data: Volume, Velocity, Variety

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 8 2012) Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing

... Dublin, Ireland, a transistor failure caused a power outage at major cloud computing data hubs for Amazon and Microsoft – what followed was a series of failures that resulted in partial corruption of the d......ries. It’s an exciting time to be a part of Big Data. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission ... (Read Full Article)

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Planning for Success: Private Storage Clouds

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 23 2012) Cloud Computing , Storage

...e they entail no capital expenditure. Moreover, with a limited IT budget, a third-party vendor like Amazon or Google can provide much better data security than the company itself. However, for an enterprise......ey focus area for an enterprise planning for success. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission proces... (Read Full Article)

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Vantage plants energy-efficient data center in the Valley

Explore GigaOM (Feb 15 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...age. Because the building has to support multiple clients, it is more customized than the massive Amazon or Facebook data centers that are held up as paragons of energy efficiency. “We can’t have a one-si......system along the lines of Facebook’s state-of-the-art data center in Prineville, Ore., according to Data Center Knowledge. V2 is a 9 MW facility but can run at 18 MW. “We plumbed it to ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 4

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...rs, significantly expanding the type of workloads that can run on the company’s low-energy servers. Amazon: 762 Billion Objects Stored on S3 Cloud – How fast is Amazon Web Services growing? The number of objects stored on the company’s S3 cloud storage service triple......Photo: Switch) For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Facebook ... (Read Full Article)

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5 Reasons to Own Your Cloud

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 2 2012) Cloud Computing

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Amazon’s Oregon cloud region open for business

Explore GigaOM (Nov 9 2011) Construction

...AWS says services in the Oregon region costs about 10 percent less than in Northern California; for Amazon EC2, at least, Oregon costs the same as Amazon’s U.S. East region in Virginia. According to Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge, Amazon has been building multiple modular data centers in remote areas of Oregon. Prices for AWS offering... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

Explore usatoday.com (Sep 22 2011)

...ntentional anonymity and security, says Rich Miller: "The Internet lives there." Miller, editor of Data Center Knowledge, which tracks the industry, and Dave Caron, senior vice president of portfolio management for Digit...... in the footprints of the old," he says. Giant companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Amazon often build their data centers in rural areas. "They're looking for cheap power and cheap real esta... (Read Full Article)

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Tenant-based Cloud Security: Not a Contradiction

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 22 2011) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

...here you can be provided with compute and storage capabilities. Examples of IaaS providers include Amazon, Rackspace, and Softlayer. + Platform cloud or PaaS – again, public or private, multi-tenant soluti......s for security from these forward thinking providers. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission proces... (Read Full Article)

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Video: A Closer Look at CloudSwitch

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 25 2011) Cloud Computing

...VMware and Xen environments and enables customers to move Windows and Linux virtual machines to the Amazon EC2 and Terremark clouds, and run their applications in the cloud using existing management and monitor......ud computing by enterprise customers. Rubin also authored several Industry Perspectives columns for Data Center Knowledge: Cloud Computing a Catalyst for Virtualization and Pharmas Lead in Enterprise Cloud Adoption. (Read Full Article)

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The 3 Layers of Data Center Management

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 5 2011) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

...nyone who runs most of their applications on hardware they control, it’s worth looking at the model Amazon.com uses. Although most companies don’t operate at Amazon.com’s scale, the company has an efficient distribution of data center assets that provide load balancin......e business. You need a holistic view—the big picture. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers & IPv6: Why It Matters to You

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 28 2011) Networking

... further benefited from more transparency provided by data center experts like Google, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon and now Facebook. These forward thinking companies have opened their “kimonos” so to speak, sheddin...... number the agency expects to decline to 1.9 by 2011. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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Behind the feud between Greenpeace and Facebook over renewable energy.

Explore Slate Magazine (Mar 7 2011) Solar , Wind

...r locations and emissions numbers. According to Rich Miller, the founder and editor of the Web site Data Center Knowledge, Amazon has a data center in Northern Virginia and one on the West Coast—no one knows for sure. Amazon's Northern Virginia data center, located in Ashburn, is powered by Dominion. In 2010, Dominion repo... (Read Full Article)

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Pharmas Lead in Enterprise Cloud Adoption

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Grid Computing

...les for a breakthrough drug, they’re under great pressure to get to market quickly and efficiently. Amazon has helped a number of major pharmaceuticals become early cloud adopters, taking advantage of the f......to drive customer focus and value in cloud offerings. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission proces... (Read Full Article)

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RightScale Gets Another $25M in Funding

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...astructures globally, including accelerating our existing operations in Europe and Asia.” Last year Data Center Knowledge interviewed Crandall, who discussed his company’s niche in “managing clouds” on multiple platforms ......d Crandall, who discussed his company’s niche in “managing clouds” on multiple platforms (including Amazon Web Services, Google App Engine and FlexiScale. View video. Additionally, we covered the addition o... (Read Full Article)

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