Top 10 Data Center Stories, April 2012

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 9 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ies of the month. So with our apologies and without further ado, here’s the most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge for April 2012: Interxion Readies Staff ‘Sleeping Pods’ for Olympics – April 12 Apple: Greenpeace’s......Tap Landfills, Sewage for Power – April 19 How Go Daddy Keeps 52 Million Domains Running – April 17 Google Embraces Thermal Storage in Taiwan – April 3 Microsoft to Build Cloud Data Center in Wyoming ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Data Center Knowledge   Facebook

Apple’s fuel cells will be powered by landfills

Explore GigaOM (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

... will get the biogas — which is methane from decomposing organic material — from landfills (hat tip Data Center Knowledge). Apple will actually use “Directed Biogas,” meaning that the biogas from the landfills will be cle......and it is also being stopped from being released into the atmosphere in this process. Beyond Apple, Google and Microsoft are also interested in biogas projects. Biogas is still a very small source of power ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 28

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 28 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Huge Leasing Deals for DuPont Fabros in Virginia – Data center leasing in no......ming four years after the opening of the company’s first facility in Iowa, the expansion will bring Google’s investment in Council Bluffs to more than $900 million, and create at least 50 additional ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Digital Realty   DuPont Fabros

Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

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

... report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpeace’s overview, but more recent investments in Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kon......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)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

Apple slaps back at Greenpeace for dirty-cloud report

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

...vily on coal and "dangerous nuclear." Those companies also scored lower than competitors, including Google and Yahoo, because they disclose less information on energy use. Before publishing its report yeste......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 facility in Ma... (Read Full Article)

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Resuscitating Legacy Data Centers: A Darwinian Approach

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

...en economy 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 eng......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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Data Center Knowledge

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 7th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 7 2012) Construction , Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Google Embraces Thermal Storage in Taiwan – Google has been a leader in adopting many strategies to improve data center energy efficiency. But that ha... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Digital Realty   Data Center Knowledge

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 number of servers housed at Amazon and Akamai, and AOL’s server ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of March 31st

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 31 2012) Construction , 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! Skanska USA Goes Modular, Eyes Colo Market – The process of building a data ...... efficiency of its data centers, the company said today in its annual update of its infrastructure. Google said that it has lowered the energy usage of its facilities, as measured by Power Usage Effecti... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of March 24th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , 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! NxGen Making Waves in the Modular Market – When you think of cloud builders,......re-fabricated components that can be assembled into a complete data center. Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming – Raising the temperature in server racks can make a data center more efficien... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Vivek Kundra   Data Center Knowledge

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 ......ble energy more accessible? Joe Kava believes that it can. Kava, who heads that data center team at Google, said Tuesday that the company’s power purchasing agreements will add more than 200 megawatts of ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 24th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Apple Confirms Plans for Oregon Data Center – Apple has bought 160 acres of ......5 Partners. The announcement is the latest in a series of data center wins for the state, including Google, Facebook and Apple. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Europe   Google

Planning for Success: Private Storage Clouds

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

...ail 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, private ......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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Data Center Knowledge

Top 5 Data Center Stories: Week of Jan. 28

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 28 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling

... Alan Brandt). For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Google Spent $951 Million on Data Centers in 4Q – Google invested nearly a billion dollars in its Internet infrastructure in the last quarter of 2011, recor... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

Explore usatoday.com (Sep 22 2011)

... management company in Byers, Pa. The facility is 200 feet deep in a former limestone mine. Ads by Google Data Center Cooling Save Up To 50% In Cooling Costs Using SynapSense Active Control www.SynapSe......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... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Europe

Green Photonics for Energy Efficient Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 20 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...t and megawatts of power. Rich Miller provided a very nice special report on large data centers in Data Center Knowledge in April 2010. The largest data center in the world, the Lakeside Technology Center, 350 East Cerma......4 exabytes. Overall, global IP traffic will increase four times in the next five years. Sites like Google, YouTube, Facebook and Netflix are driving the growth. In any case, data centers of ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Cisco   Data Center Knowledge

Google Data Centers Consume 50 Percent Less Energy than Average Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Sep 9 2011) Carbon Footprint

...hoosing Gmail over a locally hosted server can save up to 170 kWh per user. However, as a report on Data Center Knowledge points out, Google is not saying what it spends on carbon offsets or hard numbers on its data center energy usage, ins... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   New York Times   The New York Times   Google

Data Centers & IPv6: Why It Matters to You

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 28 2011) Networking

...a center industry has 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”...... 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)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Yahoo

Tangled Worldwide Web for online pollution

Explore canadaeast.com (Jun 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

...computers. It's Saturday night, and you want to catch the latest summer blockbuster. You do a quick Google search to find the venue and right time, and off you go to enjoy some mindless fun. Meanwhile, your......timated to have 20 to 30 data centres worldwide, including one in Toronto, according to the website Data Center Knowledge, which tracks server farms. Over one-third of the power for all these ... (Read Full Article)

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The web’s watchful eye fixes on Apple’s cloud gear

Explore GigaOM (Jun 8 2011)

...he fact that it appears to have gone best-of-breed for its various storage needs. * It’s efficient. Data Center Knowledge’s Rich Miller noted some of the data-center-design principles that Apple employed, including “a sla......ture build with a light wallet or the mindset that it has to build its own gear and software like Google and Facebook have done. As Jobs said during his keynote, “It’s full of ... (Read Full Article)

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Dirty data: The Internet's giant carbon footprint

Explore canada.com (Jun 4 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

It’s Saturday night, and you want to catch the latest summer blockbuster. You do a quick Google search to find the venue and right time, and off you go to enjoy some mindless fun. Meanwhile, y......timated to have 20 to 30 data centres worldwide, including one in Toronto, according to the website Data Center Knowledge, which tracks server farms. Over one-third of the power for all these data ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Europe   Google

Microsoft Reveals its Specialty Servers, Racks

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 25 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...gns based on specs developed by the Microsoft server team. He recently discussed these designs with Data Center Knowledge. Over the past three years, Microsoft has openly shared information at industry conferences about i......n concept (if not execution) to cloud-scale system refinements that have been publicly discussed by Google and the Facebook Open Compute project. Bhandarkar says the disclosures are helpful in advancing in... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data Center

Explore GigaOM (Apr 17 2011) Solar

Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data CenterGigaOmAt Green:Net Google and Yahoo will discuss their green data center plans. Register for our awesome event here. The sola......, a very small amount of solar compared to the sizable power needs of its data center. According to Data Center Knowledge, Facebook has built a 100 kW solar panel array, which will produce 204,000 kilowatt hours of solar ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Yahoo

Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ironments. Even a data center user in the Middle East and eBay in Phoenix go without chillers. Both Google and Microsoft operate facilities without chillers, using fresh air cooling. Guest columnists at Data Center Knowledge have weighed in on the appropriate management of temperature in the data center. Jason Friedler of ... (Read Full Article)

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