External Data Center News

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Tuesday, March 26th

Better Airflow Improves Cooling Capacity, Cuts Operating Costs

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 10:06 - From Data Center Knowledge

New data center environments are being designed and built to support large amounts of users. Furthermore, these infrastructures are created to handle powerful workloads capable of distributing data and information all over the world. In architecting the modern data center platform, administrators...

Brocade Reveals Fabric Vision Technology

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 08:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Brocade (BRCD) has introduced its Fabric Vision technology, a storage area networking (SAN) hardware and software solution that simplifies SAN deployment and management, and provides improved visibility into the storage network.

Swedish language council removes 'ungoogleable' after pressure from Google

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 07:09 - From Computer World

The Swedish Language Council has removed "ogooglebar", or "ungoogleable," from its annual list of new words after pressure from Google to respect its trademarks.

Five Myths of Cloud Computing

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 07:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Technologies around the Internet and the WAN have been around for some time. However, it wasn’t until very recently that a specific term began circulating which was supposed to emphasize the combination of these technologies. Cloud computing was born out of the idea of a distributed computing...

Hong Kong Mulls Underground Data Centers

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 06:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Land is never more dear than in global financial capital. Economic development officials in Hong Kong are pursuing an unusual solution: make more real estate by creating underground caves and bunkers that can be used as homes for new data centers.

Savvis Launches Online Customer Business Exchange

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 06:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Savvis introduced Savvis ClientConnect, an online gateway for businesses to generate new revenue opportunities by connecting with other businesses located in Savvis' data centers.

Not Every Cloud Outage is Created Equal

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

While it seems like “the cloud is down” every few months. Outages from public cloud providers do happen, but not every outage is created equal and not every outage impacts customers in the same way, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.

Cisco, Oracle Go Shopping, Announce Acquisitions

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 04:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

It's already been a busy year for deals, and Monday saw a flurry of deal announcements in the tech sector. The action was headed by two enterprise IT titans and frequent acquirers - Cisco and Oracle.

DreamWorks tops compute-cycle record with 'The Croods'

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 03:00 - From Computer World

"The Croods" is the most sophisticated 3D film to date from DreamWorks, having taken 15 million more compute hours to render and 250TB of storage to make

DreamWorks tops compute-cycle record with 'The Croods'

Tue, 3/26/13 @ 03:11 - From Network World

"The Croods" is the most sophisticated 3D film to date from DreamWorks, having taken 15 million more compute hours to render and 250TB of storage to make

Debra Chrapaty Departs Zynga to Head Nirvanix

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 14:35 - From Data Center Knowledge

Debra Chrapaty, who has served in infrastructure leadership positions for some of the Internet's largest players, is now calling the shots for a cloud service provider. Chrapaty is departing Zynga to become the chief executive officer at enterprise cloud storage specialist Nirvanix.

Cloud News: Red Hat, Panzura, Avaya

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 08:27 - From Data Center Knowledge

News from the cloud computing sector includes: Red Hat collaborating with Code for America; Panzura winning a contract with California State, Northridge; and Avaya rolling out a collaborative cloud for cloud service providers.

Network News: Zayo Partners With Internet2

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 07:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

In news from the networking sector, Zayo Group announced a partnership with Internet2 to add substantial new capacity on Zayo’s fiber route from Chicago to Seattle. We've also got news from CenturyLink (CTL), Level 3 (LVLT) and Extreme Networks (EXTR).

Colocation Communities Are a Match for Cloud

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 06:33 - From Data Center Knowledge

Today’s information explosion is proof enough that data is the lifeblood of any business and, therefore, how it’s contained is a top concern. As more enterprises put their internal servers under scrutiny, they are noticing that legacy enterprise data centers are becoming increasingly ineffective,...

Yahoo Building a Bigger Computing Coop

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 06:49 - From Data Center Knowledge

Yahoo's ultra-efficient "chicken coop" data center in upstate New York is getting bigger. The Internet company has announced plans to invest an additional $168 million in the campus for its hydro-powered, wind-cooled server farm.

Dell confirms bids from Blackstone, Icahn group

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 06:21 - From Network World

Dell has received two counter-offers related to its plans to go private, with rival bids coming in from private equity fund manager Blackstone and entities associated with investor Carl Icahn.

Comparing Cost of a Custom Data Centers

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

It should be noted that a custom data center design may cost somewhat more than a standard data center. This aspect should be examined closely, a higher initial Capex alone (whether amortized or factored into a lease) should not be the deciding factor alone. It is possible that over the long run it...

GPU News: Cray Awarded $32 Million Contract

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 05:45 - From Data Center Knowledge

Cray announced that it has signed a contract with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) to upgrade and expand its Cray XC30 supercomputer. Cirrascale and Penguin also unveil news on GPU technologies.

American Internet Lands $43.5 Million Credit Facility

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 05:51 - From Data Center Knowledge

American Internet Services has refinanced at a great time, lowering its cost of capital due to historically low interest rates, as well as providing some capital for continued growth.

eBay develops metric for data center performance

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 03:17 - From Network World

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 a new measurement for doing both.

Japan's Fujitsu pays Â£800M to cut deficit in UK subsidiaries' pension fund

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 03:25 - From Network World

Fujitsu has paid APS800 million (US$1.2 billion) into its pension funds for current and former U.K. employees, and renegotiated cuts to ongoing pension contributions, freeing up cash to grow other areas of its U.K. business, the company said Monday.

eBay develops metric for data center performance

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 03:00 - From Computer World

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 a new measurement for doing both.

New Juniper SDN device portends forklift upgrades for core Ethernet switch

Mon, 3/25/13 @ 01:00 - From Network World

Any hopes Juniper EX8200 customers had that the core switch would grow to support next-generation 40/100G Ethernet, mobility, media-rich traffic, virtualization or cloud have been dashed.

Blackstone proposes counterbid for Dell, reports say

Sat, 3/23/13 @ 12:13 - From Computer World

Blackstone Group has reportedly sent a preliminary counterbid to buy out Dell, which would rival the current proposed offer of US$24.4 billion from Silver Lake Partners and Michael Dell made in early February.

Are Carrier Hotels Reliable Enough?

Sat, 3/23/13 @ 11:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

John Savageau, who spent many years at CoreSite, recently shared his thoughts on the dual role of carrier hotels, which operate as both commercial real estate and critical national infrastructure.

Time Lapse: Lone Mountain Data Center Build

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 08:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

A short time-lapse video by ViaWest gives you a bird's eye view of the construction of the providers newest facility in North Las Vegas.

Cloudera Partners with T-Systems on Cloud Analytics

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 08:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Enterprise Hadoop provider Cloudera announced a European partnership for delivering analytics as a service, and AMD's SeaMicro has obtained CDH4 certification from Cloudera for its SM15000 server.

European Supercomputer to Map Human Brain

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 07:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

This video gives an overview of JuQueen, a new supercomputer recently unveiled at a research center in Juelich, Germany, which is the fastest supercomputer in Europe, capable of performing quadrillions of calculations per second.

Friday Funny: Raised Floor Adventures

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 07:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

It’s Friday and time for a few laughs. See what our cartoonist imagined multiplying under the raised floor and enter your own humorous suggestion.

NVIDIA Conference: GPU Can Power Big Data Analytics

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 06:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

NVIDIA tackles GPU-powered big data, accelerated virtual desktops, and a visual computing appliance, unrolling multiple announcements at its GPU Tech Conference in San Jose this week.

Apple Hits 100% Renewable Energy in its Data Centers

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 05:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Apple said Thursday that it has achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of its data centers, including facilities in North Carolina, Oregon, California and Nevada.

Why is Data Storage Such an Exciting Space?

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

As the IT environment has evolved, legacy storage solutions can present problems in new-age data centers, writes Vibhav Balaram of CloudByte.

Big Data Success Is All in the Analysis

Fri, 3/22/13 @ 05:37 - From Network World

IT executives are starting to realize that there's little value in big data without robust analytics systems that can crunch the numbers and give key decision makers (read: their bosses) easy-to-digest information. With so few real solutions on the market, though, this is easier said than done.

Long buyout battle could erode customer confidence in Dell, analysts say

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 16:00 - From Computer World

With Michael Dell still battling to get his US$24.4 billion buyout deal approved by shareholders, his company needs to avoid a long, drawn-out battle that could erode customer confidence.

Squeezing More Efficiency Out of Microsoft’s Cloud

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 11:26 - From Data Center Knowledge

Squeezing more efficiency and density out of bleeding-edge facilities is the next phase in the data center arms race. An example: Microsoft continues to refine the design of new data halls in its Dublin data center.

Sabey Opens High-Rise Manhattan Data Tower

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 11:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Sabey Data Centers has opened the doors on Intergate.Manhattan, having completed an extensive retrofit and commissioning process. The property offered a rare opportunity to convert a New York high-rise into a purpose-built data center.

LED-backlight Console Drawer for At-the-Rack Server Access – Now Available

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 10:41 - From Raritan Blog

Looking for fast and dependable at-the-rack access to your servers for deployment, administration and maintenance activities? Now with Raritan’s T1700-LED Console Drawer, with a LED-backlight LCD display, you can get consolidated access to multiple servers from a single location and get energy savings.

Connecting to your existing analog or digital KVM switches, Raritan’s T1700-LED combines video, keyboard and touchpad functionality to enable the use of a single workstation to manage a rack, or multiple racks of servers.

Raritan’s T1700-LED is designed with an Energy Efficient LED-backlight LCD display which reduces energy consumption up to 20-50%, over current LCD cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL) back-lit technology. The LED-backlight technology provides for better contrast and brightness, greater color range, and more rapid response to changes in scene and more accurate image rendering for a clean, crisp display.

Download our spec sheet or visit http://www.raritan.com/products/console-drawers/T1700-LED-Console-Drawer to learn more.

At the Optical Transport Conference News, a 100G Party

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 09:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

At the OFC/NFOEC conference in Anaheim, California this week several vendors have competing 100G technology announcements, fueling the need to drive big data through ultra-fast networks.

CDN.net Launches Customizable Content Delivery Network

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 08:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

After securing a valuable domain name, London-based OnApp has launched CDN.net, a federated content delivery network that offers a variety of configration options..

Big Week For Big Data

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 07:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

It's been a week full of big events for big data and analytics. In the news: MapR closes $30 million in funding, Hortonworks expands its European operations, and Gartner sees Big Data entering "trough of disillusionment."

How the Data Center Has Evolved to Support the Modern Cloud

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 07:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

there are many platforms, tools and solutions which help facilitate data center usability in conjunction with the cloud . Here's a look at some that outline just how far we’ve come with data center and cloud technology.

Joyent, Cloudant Launch Database Service Atop SmartOS

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 06:00 - From Data Center Knowledge

Database-as-a-service provider Cloudant and cloud infrastructure provider Joyent launch a high-performance multi-tenant service for application developers.

ProfitBricks Raises $19.5 Million For Its Muscular Cloud

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 06:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Profitbricks has raised a $19.5 million investment from the company’s founders and from United Internet AG, a European Internet services provider.

Exposing the Six Myths of Deduplication

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 05:30 - From Data Center Knowledge

Companies are faced with data growing at increasing rates. That impacts the entire data protection strategy. It also makes data slow and dopey like a koala bear, writes Darrell Riddle of FalconStor. Addressing it through deduplication will address mounting data storage issues.

Would a 3D-printed gun really be legal?

Thu, 3/21/13 @ 05:07 - From Network World

Defense Distributed, the pro-gun nonprofit working to make 3D-printable gun designs freely available to everyone on the Internet, recently inched one step closer toward achieving that goal. The Austin, Texas-based group last week was granted a federal firearms license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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