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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 28
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 28 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
...n 18 megawatts of data center space at its new ACC6 data center in Ashburn, the company said today. Digital Realty Expands Its Colocation Business – Digital Realty Trust, the world’s largest provider of wholesale data center space, is expanding its colocation bus......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 ...
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Comment Mentions: Google Digital Realty DuPont Fabros
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 7th
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 7 2012) Construction , Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing
...ies to improve data center energy efficiency. But that hasn’t included thermal storage – until now. Google said today that it would use a thermal storage system for the first time in its new data center in ......+ By: Rich Miller April 7th, 2012 + + Tweet + + + An example of a thermal energy storage tank at a Digital Realty Trust data center building in Chicago (seen in background). For your weekend reading, here ...
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Comment Mentions: Google Digital Realty Data Center Knowledge
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Google Embraces Thermal Storage in Taiwan
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 3 2012) Construction , Data Center Outages , Storage
Google said today that it would use a thermal storage system for the first time in its new data center in ...... ton hours of thermal storage. A second phase will eventually boost capacity to 24,000 ton hours. + Digital Realty Trust’s carrier hotel at 350 East Cermak in Chicago is supported by a thermal storage system featur...
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Comment Mentions: Google Digital Realty Noaa
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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
...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 wi......ting increased demand for data center space in North America, according to a survey commissioned by Digital Realty. The growing interest in cloud adoption, along with the resumption of planned expansions that were ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Digital Realty
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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.
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www.SynapSe......g on inside. Cameras are aimed at the building's perimeter. A small sign at the back entrance says "Digital Realty Trust."
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The ‘Facebook Effect’ and the Data Center Market
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 12 2011)
...on a year leasing “plug-n-play” wholesale data center space from at least four providers, including Digital Realty Trust, DuPont Fabros Technology, CoreSite Realty and Fortune Data Centers. As a result, the impact ......llenge is Facebook’s future migration? Data center providers have dealt with similar transitions as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo shifted from leased space to company-built infrastructure. Facebook’s inven...
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Comment Mentions: Google Yahoo Digital Realty
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How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 13 2010)
... when the industry is debating the appropriate use of metrics like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), Digital Realty Trust has produced some real-world data to illustrate how improved efficiency can save power and mo......end to improve as a data center nears full utilization, which is one reason why large users such as Google report industry-leading ratings in the 1.1 to 1.2 range. At a time when the industry ...
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Comment Mentions: Google Yahoo Uptime Institute
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Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing
...lf model, Facebook and Twitter are following the lead of other huge “Internet-scale” companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay, who all build custom data centers to maximize gains in performance and ......of dollars with companies that design, build and commission new facilities. One interested party is Digital Realty Trust (DLR), which is landlord to both Facebook and NTT America, Twitter’s primary service provider...
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Manos Goes Mobile, Takes Post at Nokia
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 31 2010)
...ded? Into the mobile cloud, with a new position at Nokia. Manos, who announced his resignation from Digital Realty Trust on Friday, said today that he will be Nokia’s Vice President of Service Operations, with glob......og post, but notes that his new role will mean competing against other mobile platform builders, as Google develops its Android platform and Apple prepares for a cloudy future for its iTunes, iPhone ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Google Digital Realty
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Facebook to Build Its Own Data Centers
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 20 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers
...lready underway on the 117,000 square foot data center, which is expected to employ 35 workers. Not Google or Yahoo The data center is being built by Vitesse LLC on behalf of an unidentified tenant. But Vit......illion user barrier, has expanded by leasing space from “wholesale” data center landlords,including Digital Realty Trust, DuPont Fabros Technologies and Fortune Data Centers. Since the beginning of 2009, Facebook h...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Yahoo
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Data Center Leasing: It’s All About the Megawatts
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 11 2009) Construction
...deals.
“Our business is all about leasing access to power,” said Michael Foust, the CEO of Digital Realty Trust, the largest data center developer landlord. “The square footage is almost secondary in some ......t we’re charging for is the availability of power.” Wanted: Cheap, Abundant Power As companies like Google and Microsoft build ever-larger data centers packed with tens of thousands of servers, they are cho...
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Comment Mentions: Google Digital Realty DuPont Fabros
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