External Data Center News

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Wednesday, May 16th


Wed, 5/16/12 @ 16:49 - From ZDNet

Facebook is absolutely dominating in the U.S. Here are 15 new (and not so new) statistics about the social network in advance of the company's initial public offering (IPO) later this week.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 15:47 - From ZDNet

A new edition of Chrome appears, and, yes, once again, it's better than the last version and it's much better than the competition.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 14:05 - From Computer World

Someday, the digital economy will be powered by big black boxes, formerly known as data centers, that are so self-managing they may be partly robotic.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 14:29 - From ZDNet

The advent of big data has companies scrambling to find data scientists

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 13:51 - From ZDNet

Screenshots of a new app from Facebook called Pages Manager have leaked. This is the third standalone app from Facebook, after the main Facebook app and the Facebook Messenger app.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 12:55 - From Data Center Knowledge

Fortune Data Centers has added Zoosk as a customer at its San Jose, Calif. Data center facility, the compny said today. Zoosk, the romantic social network, will migrate from a retail colocation facility to Fortune’s wholesale data center.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 11:03 - From ZDNet

If you need complete control over a publicly-accessible iPad, MokiMobility is your answer. You won't believe it until you see what it can do for you.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 10:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Colocation and interconnection provider Cologix has continued its expansion with the acquisition of Minnesota’s leading network neutral colocation provider, The Minnesota Gateway.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 09:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Terremark, a Verizon Company, has boosted its cloud infrastructure capacity by deploying a node of its Enterprise Cloud at its data center in Denver.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 09:04 - From ZDNet

Legendary SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner discusses the limits of today's technology and why in-memory computing will change everything -- nevermind what Larry Ellison says about it.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 08:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

The UK's Daisy Group has unveiled its underground data center in Manchester, which is housed within a former Bank of England bullion vault, and features a 12-ton bomb-proof vault door at the entrance to its data center.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 07:07 - From Network World

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has set off on his Woz Live tour across Australia and New Zealand, revealing why Steve Jobs liked secrecy, why he thinks computers should be able to interact with humans, how he feels about leaving Apple and what he knows about the iPhone 5.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 07:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Equinix (EQIX) selected for BT Radianz proximity hosting, Phoenix NAP selected by Yahoo Serious, Colocation America expanding Los Angeles data centers, Global Capacity expands with Ethernet services.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 06:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Discover Financial Services announced Tuesday that it will add a $76 million data center at its New Albany, Ohio campus.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 06:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

This white paper from Emerson describes the Trellis family of software and hardware for data center infrastructure management (DCIM). along with the benefits of the Avocent Universal Management Gateway, a Trellis hardware appliance.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 06:52 - From Data Center Knowledge

Equinix has agreed to buy ancotel GmbH of Frankfurt, Germany in a deal that will further boost the strength of its network in one of the world's most important meeting points for Internet traffic and financial trading.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Business drivers influence design, says Ron Diersen of Infosys Limited. The type of IT infrastructure in today's data center is designed to provide specific business services, which impacts the physical design of the data center.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 04:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

The open source infrastructure management tool Chef has now been downloaded more than 1 million times, Chef’s parent company Opscode said today. Opscode will release a number of new features today at its first ChefCon user conference.

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Wed, 5/16/12 @ 04:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

About 1,700 data center professionals and vendors gathered this week for the seventh annual Uptime Institute Symposium at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. For highlights, see our special photo feature.

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Tuesday, May 15th


Tue, 5/15/12 @ 18:22 - From ZDNet

For businesses the perceived risk of putting sensitive information into the ether and inviting critique can seem greater than the benefits of collaboration.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 14:50 - From ZDNet

San Francisco denizens are angry that facial-detection cameras placed in bars by nightlife startup app SceneTap go live on Friday.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 14:40 - From ZDNet

NVIDIA leverages the Kepler architecture to take GPU computing into the cloud.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 14:00 - From ZDNet

A lot of companies have chosen to blacklist certain Apps. The question is, "Does it do any good?"

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 12:03 - From Computer World

Nvidia announced technologies that could make its upcoming Tesla graphics processors more accessible to cloud deployments in enterprises, while also reversing a trend of relegating highly parallel chips to specialized math and scientific calculations.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 12:07 - From ZDNet

Former SuccessFactors CEO Lars Dalgaard makes his pitch that SAP bought a winner that can take the company into a cloud-based future.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 11:11 - From ZDNet

In a speech last night, co-CEO Bill McDermott sought to preach the word about the company's short-term potential. This morning, counterpart Jim Hagemann Snabe looked beyond the horizon.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 10:49 - From ZDNet

Red Hat held a press conference today to predict its ascendancy as the top dog in the cloud era, driven by its open source subscription model, open source community driven development model and...

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 10:49 - From ZDNet

Red Hat held a press conference today to predict its ascendancy as the top dog in the cloud era, driven by its open source subscription model, open source community driven development model and...

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 09:49 - From ZDNet

I stalked the Mobile Campus of SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando on Monday, looking to shoot video of some of the most interesting enterprise apps on display.Despite flaky Wi-Fi inside the Orange County...

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 08:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Intel (INTC) announced an expansion of its Xeon processor portfolio with new products designed to address a broad and emerging set of server requirements and provide IT managers with additional choice and flexibility.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 07:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Today Emerson Network Power released its Trellis software, the company’s big bet on data center infrastructure management (DCIM). The global availability of the first four software applications for Trellis culminates a two-year development period.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 07:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

While western Oregon has been a hotbed of data center activity, developer Mission West Properties has decided to look east with a data center development in Ontario, Oregon, close to the border of Idaho.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 07:20 - From Data Center Knowledge

Insurance provider Unum will lease wholesale data center space from T5 Data Centers at its T5@Atlanta wholesale data center located in Alpharetta, Ga.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 06:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Airflow impedance is a factor that is overlooked when dealing with data center cooling issues. This white paper from ActivCool examines Demand Based Cooling (DBC), a holistic approach that can overcome the airflow impedance in a data center and improve overall cooling efficiency.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 06:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

This video provides an overview of a new cloud computing facility that SAIC put into operation a new cloud computing data center in a colocation facility in December 2011..

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 06:18 - From ZDNet

Key differentiators less involve building applications now than in the effective composition of services.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

With increasing size and complexity there is an increased need to drive intelligence to the domain of IT devices, writes Greg More of Raritan. Aptly named, "smart racks" bring intelligence to the data center that is helpful for planning and managing equipment, power and more.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 04:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Global roundup: Fujitsu invests $60 million for Australia upgrade, Level 3 expands in Latin America, Tata to become anchor tenant on US-Brazil cable, Interxion selected by VPS.net.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 04:55 - From ZDNet

Day 1 at SAPPHIRE Now was one of little news but a lot of comforting of the user base. Here's how SAP achieved that goal.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 03:18 - From Network World

Although the standard for DDR4 memory won't be finalized until summer, several companies are already preparing to ship modules that will boost performance in data centers and on consumer devices

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 03:00 - From ZDNet

Sustainability as a concept is quickly falling out of favor. But sustainability as a strategy couldn't be more important. At Sapphire Now 2012, we sit down with SAP's Peter Graf to talk shop.

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 03:07 - From Computer World

Although the standard for DDR4 memory won't be finalized until summer, several companies are already preparing to ship modules that will boost performance in data centers and on consumer devices

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 03:51 - From ZDNet

ADARA Networks appears to be doing its best to do just about everything for everyone, everywhere, always. While an interesting concept, I have to wonder about a company trying to have such a broad...

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Tue, 5/15/12 @ 00:01 - From ZDNet

Can Apple release its own maps app that has more features than Google Maps? Or is it just using maps as a pawn in its jihad against Android?

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Monday, May 14th


Mon, 5/14/12 @ 20:25 - From ZDNet

At SAP Sapphire Now, Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts, Ace Hardware CEO Ray Griffith and Coinstar CFO Scott Di Valerio discuss how they tackled problems with a platform.

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Mon, 5/14/12 @ 20:36 - From ZDNet

At the closing keynote presentation of Day 1 of SAP's Sapphire Now confab in Orlando, co-CEO Bill McDermott repositions the company as a partner for business innovation.

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Mon, 5/14/12 @ 15:27 - From Computer World

Toys are fun to play with, but making them is serious business. Hazardous toys from Greater China make great headline-material for US media, so regional toy manufacturers must make extra efforts to ensure that both their materials and finished products are safe.

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Mon, 5/14/12 @ 09:00 - From ZDNet

Want to program your own iOS App? Find out how one developer took a weekend project and made a success story out of it.

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Mon, 5/14/12 @ 09:00 - From ZDNet

Want to program your own iOS App? Find out how one developer took a weekend project and made a success story out of it.

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Mon, 5/14/12 @ 08:15 - From Data Center Knowledge

HP today expanded its HP ProLiant Generation 8 (Gen8) line of servers with the latest processors from the AMD Opteron 6200 Series and Intel’s Xeon E5-2400 Xeon E5-4600 products.

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