Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...to the data center annually. Other companies deploying solar at data centers include eBay (665 kW), Facebook (100 kW), i/o Data Centers (4.5 MW), McGraw-Hill Companies (14.1 MW), and Quality Technology Servic...... Microsoft is exploring siting data centers at landfills and wastewater treatment plants.  AT&T and NTT America have also installed fuel cells at their data center facilities. Onsite Wind – Wind is another poten... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Facebook

Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ews proposed projects and decides if they make the grade. It’s been a little more than a year since Facebook showed off it’s newly built servers and data center technologies for webscale computing. But at its......he private cloud that it’s building using Open Compute hardware. Fidelity will be one use case, and NTT, the data center provider is another. NTT has built a cloud using Open ... (Read Full Article)

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Edison's Revenge: The Rise of DC Power

Explore Technology Review (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

...zed converters and distributing 380-volt DC power across their server farms. Japanese telecom giant NTT has four data centers in the Tokyo region operating on DC; last year it completed a DC-based server......ity to stabilize the grid Homomorphic Encryption Making cloud computing more secure Social Indexing Facebook remaps the Web to personalize online services (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Edison

Will Apple Beat Google to Tap North Carolina's Pig Power?

Explore TPM Idea Lab (Apr 9 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell

...om landfills or livestock operations. Last year the company announced that the global telecom giant NTT was running an installation of Bloom Box fuel cells at its San Jose data center using renewable bio......le’s green cred. Until now the company has been lagging behind other tech giants such as Google and Facebook for bragging rights on sustainability leadership, and the Maiden data center has given it plenty to... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Facebook

Top 5 Data Center Stories: Week of Jan. 28

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

...ories: Week of Jan. 28 + By: Colleen Miller January 28th, 2012 + + Tweet + + + The exterior of the Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon, which is involved in a tax controversy with Oregon officials. (P......provider is told it may face a large, unanticipated tax bill due to an interpretation of state law. NTT Communications Acquires India’s NetMagic – In a move to expand into the growing data center market ... (Read Full Article)

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Twitter Adding More Data Center Space (Again)

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 19 2011) Cloud Computing , Microblogging

...ategy, with server hubs on both coasts. It’s an approach followed by Internet-scale companies like Facebook and Apple, which have each supplemented their California server farms with huge data centers in Nor...... more than 230 million Tweets sent daily. Up until 2010, Twitter used managed hosting services from NTT America, housing its servers in NTT data centers in Silicon Valley and Ashburn, Virginia. In 2010, Twitter announced that it ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   NTT

Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

...ill accelerate innovation and make it easier to manage their far-flung networks. Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo have teamed with telecom giants Verizon and Deutsche Telekom to... The world’s largest da...... Broadcom, Ciena, Riverbed Technology, Force10, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, IBM, Marvell, NEC, Netgear, NTT and VMware. “With broad industry support from technology leaders and networking experts, the ONF br... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Yahoo

Major Data Center Outages of 2009

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 16 2009) Power and Cooling

...wn as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) targeted sites on several major social networks. While Facebook and LiveJournals were slowed, Twitter crashed completely for about three hours before restoring ser......restoring service. The attacks continued for weeks as Twitter worked with its data center provider, NTT America, to strengthen its defenses. Amazon Cloud Glitches: One of the top technology trends on Twitter in ... (Read Full Article)

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How Much of Twitter’s $100M is for Servers?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 28 2009) Microblogging

...e to support its rapid growth. Massive Scalability Never Cheap By outsourcing its infrastructure to NTT America and Amazon Web Services, Twitter has undoubtedly spent far less on infrastructure than if it built ......e load. Twitter’s storage requirements aren’t as onerous as some other social media sites, such as  Facebook, which stores billions of photos and videos. Twitter’s storage output is primarily text (Tweets), a... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Facebook   NTT

Twitter in ‘Combat Mode’ As Attacks Continue

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 9 2009) Microblogging

...mbat mode, but handling it.” Twitter was badly hobbled by the Aug. 6 attack, which also targeted Facebook and several other social media sites. In a recent interview, NTT America addressed the steps taken to harden Twitter’s defenses against these attacks, and addressed some cr......These measures are not a customized solution for Twitter, but a broader hardening to protect all of NTT’s customers, the company said. “We ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Facebook   NTT

Twitter’s Growth Drives NTT Expansion

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 31 2009) Construction , Microblogging

...s. That capacity crunch has been driven by Twitter, which outsources its infrastructure to NTT America through a managed hosting agreement. Twitter experienced 752 percent traffic growth in 2008, but th......iability stumbles in recent weeks, most notably an Aug. 6 denial of service attack that also slowed Facebook and LiveJournal. (Read Full Article)

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