Top 10 Data Center Stories of 2008
What were the big data center stories of 2008? First we’ll look at the year’s 10 most popular stories, and then take a separate look at the 10 key industry trends during 2008. We had more than 2...
View ArticleHappy Holidays, Everybody!
I wanted to take a moment to wish you a great holiday season. Data Center Knowledge will take a break until Monday, Dec. 29, when we’ll be back to complete our review of 2008 and take a look ahead into...
View ArticleWhat Will Be The Big Stories of 2009?
As 2008 draws to a close, it’s time to look ahead to 2009. Next week we’ll have stories looking at some hot topics in the coming year. But first we’d like to hear from you: what do you think will be...
View ArticleRoundup: Hamilton, Savvis, Bhutan and More
I wasn’t writing over the holidays, but I had time to do a lot of reading, both online and off. Here are some interesting news links about the data center industry: Amazon’s James Hamilton has a...
View ArticleLooking Back, Looking Ahead
For those of you who can’t get enough of those roundup/predictions stories for the New Year, here are some lists from other sites: Data Center Links: John Rath looks back at 2008 in review. Renesys:...
View ArticleRoundup: Equinix, Terremark, Raritan, Verizon
Here’s a quick roundup of a few links of interest from this week: Low latency trading specialist 7ticks has expanded its services to the Equinix Frankfurt-North (FR2) International Business Exchange...
View ArticleRoundup: ASHRAE, Woz, Sequoia, Nationwide
Here’s a roundup of data center news items from around the web: Just days after HVAC industry group ASHRAE expanded its temperature range for data center operations, one prominent technologist says...
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The Server Farm as a Plot Device
What really happens inside a ”server farm”? The advanced technology and security seen in modern data centers has stirred the imagination of many in the media and entertainment industry over the years....
View ArticleResources from Velocity 2009, Structure 09
It’s been a busy week with our conference coverage, so we’ll spend some time Monday and Tuesday catching up on some of this week’s other news in the data center industry. In the meantime, the...
View ArticleBest of Data Center Knowledge, June 2009
New server designs and web site outages were hot topics on Data Center Knowledge in June. The top two stories examined new server introductions from HP and Cisco, while outages at Amazon, Rackspace and...
View ArticleGreenpeace Takes Clicking Clean Campaign to Pinterest HQ
Greenpeace continued its unapologetic pursuit of the internet’s top brands, pressuring them to do something about coal power which fuels most of the internet and all other industries, with an action...
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Data Center Design: Which Standards to Follow?
This month, we focus on data center design. We’ll look into design best practices, examine in depth some of the most interesting recent design trends, and talk with leading data center design experts....
View ArticleLowering Your Data Center’s Exposure to Insurance Claims
There are multiple areas of potential risk in data center environments that can cause incidents resulting in an insurance claim. Risks include: Accidents that damage the facility Potential for...
View ArticleReport: US No Longer Lowest-Risk Country for Data Centers
There are more data centers in the US than anywhere else, and until at least three years ago, building a data center in the US was less risky than building one in any other country. According to recent...
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Performance Indicator, Green Grid’s New Data Center Metric, Explained
The Green Grid, the data center industry group known best for creating the industry’s most popular data center efficiency metric, Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), has developed a new metric for data...
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Five Best Practices for Outsourcing Cybersecurity
Brought to you by MSPmentor Data breaches are getting more sophisticated, more common, and more expensive; the average cost of a breach has reached $4 million, up 29% in the past three years. No...
View ArticleTen Simple Ways to Fine-Tune Your Data Center Cooling System
Unless your data center cooling system was incorrectly specified, there is probably more than enough raw cooling capacity to meet the projected heat load. Yet very often there are hotspots and other...
View ArticleVirtual Infrastructure Resource Monitoring Best Practices
Today, we’re going to take a look at a very critical monitoring and resource management aspect of the modern data center: Your virtualization layer (logical). Pretty much all analysts agree that...
View ArticleData Centers’ Water Use Has Investors on High Alert
(Bloomberg) — Data centers, used by governments and large corporations to house their computer systems, have one big environmental problem: They get hot. To keep them from overheating, large data...
View Article“Right-Sizing” The Data Center: A Fool’s Errand?
Overprovisioned. Undersubscribed. Those are some of the most common adjectives people apply when speaking about IT architecture or data centers. Both can cause data center operational issues that can...
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