May 26, 2009 6:11 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center constructionData Center Knowledge cites local media reports on speculation that Apple is building a massive data center that could cost as much as $1 billion.
Most of the massive data centers out there...
May 21, 2009 6:40 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Container Data Center,
data center coolingA couple weeks ago I got the chance to spend the morning with Paul Brenner, who works in the high-performance computing department at the University of Notre Dame. Brenner is spearheading a project to build a containerized data center next to a local municipal greenhouse so that, during winter...
May 20, 2009 7:10 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data CenterRich Miller at Data Center Knowledge did some great research into how much money the social networking giant Facebook is spending on data center real estate a year. The majority of that...
May 4, 2009 11:18 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center availability,
data center tier standards,
Uptime InstituteThe Uptime Institute plans to open up its data center availability tier standards, with two programs catered toward end users and design engineers.
The Uptime tiers have become the de facto standard for availability in the data center industry. The system includes four tiers that escalate in...
May 4, 2009 1:37 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center capacity planning,
digital realty trust,
michael manos,
MicrosoftMichael Manos, the former data center pro at Microsoft, lays out his reasons for moving to Digital Realty Trust in a blog post this morning.
There are two main ones: 1) Digital is in a position to effect change in...