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Cutting through the Myth, what is a Modular Data Center

Explore greenm3.com (May 18 2012) Construction

...I stopped trying to post on all the different news. How bad is it? How about 35 suppliers. See what DatacenterKnowledge posts. A Shift in the Modular Conversation This year’s Uptime Symposium reflected an ongoing shift ... (Read Full Article)

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When will Wal-Mart green its data center? Next Data Center destined to high carbon Colorado Springs

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 22 2011)

DatacenterKnowledge reports on Wal-Mart's selection of Colorado Springs for a new data center site. Wal-Mart Confi... (Read Full Article)

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

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

...  The people out at the trade shows are the sales people who know how to engage customers and sell. DataCenterKnowledge has a post on SGI's latest ICE Cube modular data center at Gartner DC LV 2010. Data Center Knowledg... (Read Full Article)

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Can Google go below 1.10 PUE with Sea Water Cooling?

Explore greenm3.com (Sep 15 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...use compared to cleaning it for drinking use.” Can Google go below 1.10 PUE with Sea Water Cooling? DataCenterKnowledge reports on Google's use of Sea Water in its Hamina, Finland data center. Google Using Sea Water to ... (Read Full Article)

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Environmental Impact of Data Center Diesel Generators - Quincy, WA

Explore greenm3.com (Sep 14 2010)

...data center details, there is a social and environmental impact the public has the right to review. DataCenterKnowledge has a post about Washington State's Department of Ecology studying the environmental impact of Data... (Read Full Article)

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Yahoo, Intel, EvoSwitch Showcase the Future of Large, Green Data Centers

Explore GreenBiz.com (May 12 2010) Construction , Servers

... to evacuate the hot air," Scott Noteboom, the Director of Data Center Operations for Yahoo, told DataCenterKnowledge. "We applied a lot of similar thought to our data center." He continued: "The building itself is a... (Read Full Article)

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First Look at Yahoo’s New Design

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 13 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

Yahoo has broken ground on its new data center in Lockport, N.Y. The $150 million project features a new design called the Yahoo Computing Coop, which emphasizes free cooling and air flow management. The Yahoo Computing Coops will be metal prefabricated structures measuring 120 feet by 60 feet. The company plans to use five of these structures in its Lockport complex. The new design can be seen in this ... (Read Full Article)

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Third Outage This Year for Primus Facility

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 12 2009) Power and Cooling

A Primus Telecommunications data center in Melbourne, Australia lost power Sunday, marking the third outage this year for the facility at 55 King Street. The outage disrupted service for a number of Australian ISPs and phone services. The same facility suffered power outages in February and again in May due to issue in its power infrastructure. After the incident in May, Primus Australia CEO Ravi Bhatia told local IT media ... (Read Full Article)

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A Data Center Shortage for Silicon Valley?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 12 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

Data center projects planned for Santa Clara, Calif. are now taking a back seat to the red-hot northern Virginia market, where the Obama administration’s stimulus funding and focus on cloud computing are expected to boost data center construction. Several data center developers are focusing their limited capital on Virginia projects, and delaying or downsizing projects in Santa Clara, the leading data center hub in Silicon Valley. That’s a ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Hires eBay Data Center Executive

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 12 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

Apple has hired a key data center executive from eBay to oversee the expansion of its data center operations, reports Dave Ohara over at the Green Data Center blog. Olivier Sanche will join Apple as Director of Global Data Center Operations, and will presumably oversee the operations of Apple’s new $1 billion data center in North Carolina. eBay has built a number of large (200,000 SF plus) data ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Conferences for 2009

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 10 2009)

Data Center Knowledge has put together a list of conferences for the data center industry in 2009, with links to additional information on each event. Updated throughout the year, the list will be available at the easy-to-remember URL DataCenterConferences.com: (Read Full Article)

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Inside Twitter’s Network Architecture

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 7 2009) Microblogging , Networking

Barrett Lyon is a veteran when it comes to defending against denial of service attacks, having founded Prolexic, a leading player in defending against electronic attacks. Lyon, who is now CTO and co-founder of content distributon provider BitGravity, has created a detailed network map of Twitter’s architecture as part of an analysis of yesterday attack on social networks. Lyon and Richard Steinnon from Threat Chaos also found that Twitter ... (Read Full Article)

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Phoenix NAP Gets Anchor Tenant

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 7 2009) Construction

Managed hosting and content delivery specialist EC Suite will be the first tenant in the Phoenix NAP, a new 160,000 data center facility in Phoenix, the companies said this week. EC Suite will locate its network operations center (NOC) and managed servers at the building, and will also partner with Phoenix NAP to market data center space. “The move to Phoenix NAP as an anchor tenant enables us to ... (Read Full Article)

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Water Main Break at Key NYC Telecom Hub

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 7 2009)

A major water main break in New York has flooded streets near 60 Hudson Street, one of the most important communications buildings in Manhattan. Early reports indicate there is water in the basement of 60 Hudson, which houses data centers and telecom hubs for more than 100 communications companies. New York emergency officials are aware of the building’s strategic importance and said to be using sandbags to try and ... (Read Full Article)

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Twitter is Latest Victim in Series of Attacks

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 6 2009) Microblogging , Networking

Today’s denial of service (DOS) attack on Twitter is the latest in a series of electronic attacks this year on major Internet properties, which have targeted large web hosts and domain registrars, and more recently have expanded to prominent social media sites. The attacks knocked Twitter offline for most of the morning, with both Netcraft and Pingdom reporting about three hours of downtime. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone confirmed that ... (Read Full Article)

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