IT professionals implementing energy efficient solutions in the data center are realizing big savings, and many report it has been easier to do than they thought it would be. In its fourth year, the CDW Energy Efficient IT Report found…
The faltering economy in 2010 and 2011, the increasing demand for IT as a service, and the incredible pressure to keep costs down has lead to these overarching trends in data centers: Consolidated data centers The concept of multiple data…
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centers gained momentum on Wednesday, with some top technology companies joining the effort and introducing server designs. The company provided details about implementations of the…
Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming By: Rich Miller The Google data center in Belgium, which features no chillers and routes traffic to other facilities during hot spells. Raising the temperature in server racks can make a…
