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February 11, 2010  7:00 PM

Uptime Institute names speakers for symposium in May



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center, Uptime Institute

The Uptime Institute has now listed the program for its May symposium. The event will take place May 17-18 in New York City. The roster reads like a who's who of some major players in the data center industry, and include Christian Belady,...

February 9, 2010  4:23 PM

Digital Realty Trust gets first “POD” customer



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center, digital realty trust

Data center real estate giant Digital Realty Trust has announced that it has completed its first customer agreement for its POD Architecture Services, with a Fortune 100...


February 1, 2010  5:03 PM

Mike Manos leaves Digital Realty Trust to go to Nokia



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center, mike manos

Mike Manos, one of the more well-known and well-respected figures in the data center industry, is making another job change. It was less than a year ago when Manos decided to leave Microsoft's data center team, where he was the general manager of its data center services division. He decided to...


January 20, 2010  7:23 PM

Hosting companies join to help Haiti



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center, Data center hosting

A group of...


January 19, 2010  11:46 AM

Data Center Pulse and The Green Grid team up



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center, data center pulse, Green Grid

Data Center Pulse, a data center end user group, has formed a collaboration with The Green Grid, a nonprofit data center efficiency group.

Data Center Pulse has 1,350 data center end user members in 55 different countries, and so the news...


January 5, 2010  1:24 PM

A monkey is better than Jim Cramer at picking data center stocks



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center, data center stocks

In October, Jim Cramer, the host of "Mad Money" on CNBC, predicted that data center stocks would tumble, in part because the Intel Nehalem chip would do so much more inside a server. Rich Miller...


November 30, 2009  2:11 PM

Helsinki to be heated using recycled data center heat



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center

Reuters has a story today on a plan to recycled data center heat to help heat Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The data center will be located underground, below a city cathedral. The heat will be directed...


June 11, 2009  2:24 PM

New York Times Magazine story on data centers



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data Center

The New York Times Magazine this weekend will have a story on the data center industry. The story, "Data Center Overload," is already online. Major sources in the article include...


May 20, 2009  7:10 PM

Facebook spending big money on data center real estate



Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data Center

Rich 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...


March 12, 2009  11:43 PM

Sorting through data center utility rebates



Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
AFCOM, Data Center, Data center power management, Green data center

There's a good chance that your utility company has an incentive program in place if you boost your data center energy efficiency. But sorting through the programs can be a hassle, and dealing with the back-and-forth with the utility company can as well. In addition, said Adam Fairbanks, vice...