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Article | 17/05/2013 Virtual reality and non-conductive liquids: data centers get innovative
Google I/O is getting most of the attention this week, but a conference at the other end of Silicon Valley showed there's plenty of innovation happeni...
Article | 16/05/2013 Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling
A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional ha...
Article | 12/03/2013 Smartphone usage driving up greenhouse gas emissions: report
Exponential growth in the use of computers, smartphones and other networked devices could cause the environmental impact of the ICT sector to increase...
Article | 6/03/2013 EBay develops 'miles per gallon' metric for data centers
There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement syst...
Article | 1/03/2013 New SPEC tool to ID most energy-efficient servers
SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has released a new toolkit that should help customers choose the most energy-efficient server for...
Article | 27/02/2013 Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance
Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by ...
Article | 27/02/2013 Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer
Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds, in the north ...
Article | 26/02/2013 Intel releases Hadoop software primed for its own chips
Intel has released its own Hadoop distribution in a move intended to accelerate adoption of the big data platform while ensuring more of those workloa...
Article | 22/02/2013 HP's first 'Project Moonshot' server due next quarter
Hewlett-Packard's first low-power server for hyperscale computing environments, developed under a project it calls Moonshot, will go on sale next quar...
Article | 17/01/2013 Facebook pushes a new model for buying servers
Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upg...
Article | 27/11/2012 NEC data center units to use convection to cut power use by 30 percent
NEC is working on a new type of small data center unit that uses convection to slash power usage by a third, even in Japan's hot, sticky climate.
Article | 5/11/2012 Colt aims to make power, cooling management in data centers more flexible
Colt's new data-center architecture is designed to allow operators more flexibility in managing power and cooling, without having to do extensive remo...
Article | 21/12/2011 Google invests in more renewable energy production capacity
Google has paid US$94 million for a stake in four photovoltaic power generation projects around Sacramento, California, bringing its total investment ...
Article | 16/12/2011 Facebook unfriends coal, friends Greenpeace in clean energy campaign
Greenpeace International has ended a long-running campaign calling on Facebook to "unfriend coal" as a source of energy for its data centers, after Fa...
Article | 3/12/2011 Facebook sets up New York engineering shop
Facebook is expanding its operations in the Big Apple, announcing on Friday plans to open an engineering office in New York in 2012.