Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...Cutting costs in IT has huge effects on the bottom line. For example, Facebook spent 16 percent and Google both spent about 9 percent of its revenue on infrastructure and capital expenditures in 2011.For de......didn’t seem to involve a way for the server guys to make much money. At first, Rackable, now called SGI, picked up on the business, but as Forrest Norrad, the VP of servers ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Google

How Cloud Technology Can Cut Energy Costs

Explore cnbc.com (Jun 2 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

...on in our power bill alone” by moving to Chippewa Falls from Sacramento, Calif., says Bill Mannell, SGI’s VP of product marketing. Tech giants like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have built or planned data centers along the Columbia River in the Pacific Nor... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Pike Research

What's inside the box?

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jan 19 2011) Container

...what we are told. But that is not to say that well-publicized installations within megasites run by Google and Microsoft are standing still. Earlier this year the US Patent and Trademark Office granted Google a patent for its modular computing environment design, which consists of a central dock and a numbe......advance has been in cooling, and the move from purely chilled water-to-air and evaporative cooling. SGI made a noise ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   IBM   Dell

Best Container/modular Data Center approach 2010? SGI's Ice Cube is one choice

Explore greenm3.com (Dec 13 2010) Construction , Container

...a Center is confusing as many companies have added container/modular data center capabilities - HP, SGI, Dell, IBM, Sun, Lee Technologies, Digital Realty Trust, IO DataCenters. Which company do you pick?......C LV. BTW, Patrick's boss was Daniel Costello, ex-Microsoft data center engineering manager, now at Google.  The data center engineering is a small community. If you want to know which container/modular dat... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Sun Microsystems   Gartner   Google

Toshiba targets $240m in containerized data center sales in 2015

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Nov 23 2010)

...lly loaded. Related feature: PDI rolls out its own data center container called i-Con Related news: Google patents centrally connected container data centers Related news: SGI tries adiabatic cooling to make a data center container greener (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Toshiba   SGI