June 30, 2009 3:16 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
data center coolingThe designs for a new Yahoo! data center in western New York have changed - by 10 degrees.
The engineering firm for the future 180,000-square-foot facility told local planning officials in Lockport, N.Y., that it was changing its design plans by 10 degrees to improve cooling. This according to...
June 23, 2009 3:03 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data Center Jobs,
DataCenterMicrosoft recently hired Kevin Timmons to lead Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS), the company's data center services organization. From Microsoft's data...
June 23, 2009 2:58 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Colocation,
CRG West,
DataCenterData center colocation provider CRG West changed its name to CoreSite -- a Carlyle Company this week. CoreSite Senior Vice President David Dunn said the company changed the name to reflect its more unified culture, and to better identify with its parent company. Dunn said the company plans to...
June 11, 2009 1:40 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center power,
Energy Star,
Green data centerThe federal Environmental Protection Agency has now started down the road to developing an Energy Star spec for storage equipment. Late last month, the EPA released the first version of its
June 8, 2009 8:46 PM
Posted by: Jbeltran
Data center power,
Energy Star,
Green data centerThis blog post was written by SearchDataCenter.com contributer Julius Neudorfer.
It’s out! After several years, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the first version of...
June 2, 2009 3:10 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
CA,
Cassatt,
Data center power managementLast month we reported that Cassatt Corp., a data center energy management software company, was nearing bankruptcy. The CEO said they had been unsuccessful in finding any suitors.
That has...
June 1, 2009 6:03 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Data center power management,
Green data centerData center power management software and cloud computing company Cassatt Corp. has a great survey out now on users' perceptions of data center efficiency. What makes the survey especially powerful is it's in its second year, so it can be compared to last year.
Jay Fry from Cassatt has a couple...
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...
April 21, 2009 2:58 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Green data centerIt is all well and good to talk about building green data centers here in the United States, but what is happening overseas?
Though some of the video teleconference at The Uptime Institute's show last week was dull, there were some interesting insights into how different parts of the world run...
