You know those cabling contests that try to get systems administrators to show off their racks? If this article from the MIT Technology Review is right, those may become a distant memory as researchers from the University of California, Santa…
One of the main focus area in data centers today is Data Center Infrastructure Management or DCIM. Why is DCIM now more important to many facility managers than anything else in their data center? Streamlining power consumption DCIM provides for…
Social media and Web 2.0 companies take advantage of available wholesale data center space, especially in Chicago and Santa Clara, Calif. Zynga, the online game provider that recently went public, and Twitter were the two largest leasers of wholesale data…
Interesting article from a customer’s perspective on choosing the right colocation facility. SmarterTools recently completed its transition to a new data center in the Phoenix area. The addition of the Tier 3 data center was integral for the upcoming launch…
The tunnels linking data halls in the Green Mountain Data Center in Norway, which will use cool water from a nearby fjord to support its cooling system. A small but growing number of data centers are slashing their cooling costs…
