Best of Data Center Knowledge, October 2008

The battle for the cloud supremacy between Google and Microsoft was a hot topic in October, as our coverage of those two companies dominated our monthly list of the 10 most popular stories at Data Center Knowledge. Our coverage of Google’s new data center in Goose Creek, South Carolina received the most page views of the six Google-related stories in the top 10. Also of interest last month: Microsoft’s energy efficiency initiatives and the peering dispute between Cogent and Sprint. Here are the 10 most popular stories of October 2008, ranked by total page views:

• A Look at Google’s Newest Data Center (Oct. 22)
• Are Containers Helping Google’s Low PUE? (Oct. 6)
• Google: ‘The World’s Most Efficient Data Centers’ (Oct. 1)
• Microsoft PUE of 1.22 for Data Center Containers (Oct. 20)
• Google: Raise Your Data Center Temperature (Oct. 14)
• Google Discloses Energy Usage Data (Cont.) (Oct. 1)
• Peering DIspute Between Cogent, Sprint (Oct. 31)
• Google Opens South Carolina Data Center (Oct. 8th )
• Router Failure at TBS Cited in ALCS Outage (Oct. 18)
• Microsoft’s ‘Cloud Operating System’ (Oct. 2)

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About Rich Miller

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.