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AWS East might get more reliable, if reports of new data center pan out

Posted January 15, 2013 - 8:22 pm

Reports say that Amazon is working on new data centers in Virginia to shore up its outage-prone East region
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A tour of DreamWorks Studios' data center

Posted October 20, 2012 - 7:20 am

DreamWorks Studios is busy producing eight to 10 films at any given time, and each film produces 120,000 frames of film and uses 200TB of storage. In recent years, 150 engineers have been working on creating software that can take advantage of 25,000 CPUs in a parallel fashion.
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Global data center investment up 22% in a year

Posted October 9, 2012 - 8:43 am

Global investment in data centres has grown 22% in the last year, from approximately $86 billion in 2011 to $105 billion in 2012, according to the latest findings from the DatacenterDynamics (DCD) 2012 Global Census.
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Prepare for the era of the data center in a box

Posted August 21, 2012 - 12:14 pm

Start-up SimpliVity is the latest vendor to emerge from the development stage with an all-in-one array that performs all the functions of a complete IT stack with the addition of deduplication and data replication. More companies and products are preparing similar launches.
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Microsoft System Center targets cloud, virtualization

Posted July 16, 2012 - 3:03 pm

With the revamped System Center 2012 suite of management tools, Microsoft has launched a powerful new weapon in the battle to control the virtualized data center and the cloud, both private and public.
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Gartner: top 10 emerging infrastructure trends

Posted June 9, 2012 - 7:15 am

Gartner kicked off its Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit here today with a "top 10" list of the most significant emerging trends that will impact data centers and information technology used by businesses and government from now into the next four or five years.
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True tech confessions II: sinners and winners

Posted May 10, 2012 - 7:50 am

Recursive deletes, deep-sixing servers, bugs that become rewarding features -- let he who is without IT sin cast the first bits
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North American companies give cloud the most business

Posted March 31, 2012 - 1:45 pm

Where in the world are data center services booming?
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Google bests itself on PUE

Posted March 26, 2012 - 4:44 pm

Google data center down – in PUE
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Modern data center borrows medieval security tactics

Posted March 26, 2012 - 3:45 pm

Hope you can swim evildoers
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AC vs. DC in a battle for data center efficiency

Posted March 14, 2012 - 10:12 am

Battle of the Currents: AC vs. DC
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Cloud improves data centers

Posted March 1, 2012 - 12:44 am

Want a better data center? Try a little cloud.
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Iceland’s carbon-neutral data center opens for business

Posted February 17, 2012 - 5:24 pm

Lights are on in this Icelandic data center
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Sioux Falls, S.D., is tops for data centers

Posted January 31, 2012 - 10:33 pm

Is the Midwest the data center industry’s new frontier?
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Facebook's data center tax bill shrinks

Posted January 30, 2012 - 12:23 pm

Dear Facebook, you can keep your money.
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Intense solar storm electrifies the air

Posted January 26, 2012 - 5:53 pm

Sorry boss, a solar storm has wiped out our data center here on earth.
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Smart lights, bright data center

Posted January 25, 2012 - 12:31 pm

Who left the lights on in your data center?
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Facebook disputes data center taxes

Posted January 21, 2012 - 1:26 pm

Facebook fought the law and the…
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Data center expansion or consolidation

Posted January 13, 2012 - 6:47 pm

Consolidating..., er expanding..., er consolidating data centers!
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10 essential data center appliances

Posted January 9, 2012 - 9:00 am

WAN optimizers and application accelerators are vital pieces of the data center
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Are you cool with your data center cool?

Posted December 26, 2011 - 1:37 pm

How cool is your data center?
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Data center marketing speak can come in many flavors

Posted December 12, 2011 - 4:06 pm

Selling data centers
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Data center costs and other (lost) details

Posted December 7, 2011 - 12:31 pm

The devil is in the data center details!
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Romonet adds more smarts to its data center predictive modeling software

Posted November 30, 2011 - 10:39 pm

Is predictive modeling the smarter way to build data centers?
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Big government getting smaller, at least in data centers

Posted November 29, 2011 - 6:22 pm

Department of Defense fights data center sprawl
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