Some quick data center news links seen around the web this morning:
- The American Express web site home page was offline for more than five hours yesterday, according to Pingdom [1]. The outage occurred during overnight hours for the East Coast, but doesn’t appear to have been planned. “If American Express were performing planned website maintenance, a maintenance message should have been shown on the homepage,” Pingdom notes.
- Dell has launched In The Clouds [2], a blog dedicated to “condensing ideas on the future of cloud computing.” And discussing the merits of hardware options for running those clouds.
- Google will use on-site renewable energy [3]at its data center in Goose Creek, South Carolina, according to Paul Froutan, director of Google’s hardware operations. Froutan was the keynote speaker Wednesday night at a fundraising dinner for technology education in Columbia, South Carolina – just a few short miles from Blythewood, where Google has purchased a large piece of land for evaluation as a future data center.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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URLs in this post:
[1] Pingdom: http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=258
[2] In The Clouds: http://direct2dell.com/cloudcomputing/
[3] on-site renewable energy : http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/mar/07/google_runs_tests_at_goose_creek_center32971/
[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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