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Article | 2/07/2011 Survey: US agencies aren't tracking data center use
Even though the U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has pushed government agencies to reduce the number of data centers they operat...
Article | 1/07/2011 How Japan's data centers survived the earthquake
Smart construction and good planning allowed Japan's data centers to escape virtually unharmed from the massive earthquake that rocked the country in ...
Article | 29/06/2011 Romonet brings predictive data center tool to US
Data center engineers looking to maximize energy efficiency can now model design changes using a tool called Prognose from U.K. startup Romonet.
Article | 19/06/2011 Viridity calculates energy cost of applications
Viridity has updated its data center infrastructure management software to let businesses keep track of how much electrical power is being consumed by...
Article | 13/06/2011 Inside HP's prefab data center
The cutaway section of Hewlett-Packard's latest iteration of a prefabricated modular data center has a space-station-like feel to it.
Article | 4/06/2011 Google: Five data center energy saving ideas you can implement
When it comes to saving data center energy few companies would have the expertise of Google, which has some of the largest data centers in the world. ...
Article | 30/05/2011 ARM servers still 'several years' away, its president says
The president of ARM Holdings has sought to temper the expectations around ARM-based servers, saying those systems might not ship in volume before 201...
Article | 23/05/2011 Intel sees opportunity from Asian data center boom
Intel’s sale of chips and related products to data centers is growing by over 20 percent year-on-year in Asia-Pacific, on the back of increased data c...
Article | 19/05/2011 The Green IT movement has lost the plot
When it comes to environmental sustainability, the information technology community has seriously mistaken its priorities. Our latest research has con...
Article | 17/05/2011 'Project Triforce': How Facebook tested its new data center
When Facebook built its first company-owned data center in Prineville, Oregon, designing and managing the facility was only part of the challenge. In ...
Article | 11/05/2011 Data centers turn to outsourcing to meet capacity needs
More large companies are turning to collocation providers to relieve capacity constraints in their data centers, as a way to avoid the high cost of bu...
Article | 10/05/2011 Data centers experiment with new power sources
Data center power usage is soaring -- the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that data center energy requirements will double in the next ...
Article | 4/05/2011 Uptime exec: Data center ratings aid cloud choice
Julian Kudritzki has more visibility than most into how the Uptime Institute's data center tier system is being used around the world, and according t...
Article | 2/05/2011 Cisco jumps into portable data center market
Cisco Systems launched its first containerized data center on Monday, coming late to the party but offering some unique management features that could...
Article | 22/04/2011 Google invests in another wind farm for its data centers
Google has invested in a wind farm in Oklahoma to help offset the environmental impact of its data centers, even as Greenpeace stepped up its criticis...