Inside A Cloud Computing Data Center

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The interior of a 40-foot container inside the new Microsoft Chicago data center, packed with servers on either side of a center aisle (click to see a larger version of this image).

• Inside Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center ^[2]: A look at the mammoth 700,000 square foot data center, featuring shipping containers packed with up to 2,000 servers apiece.
• Inside A Google Data Center ^[3]:  Highlights of a rare video tour of a Google data center, which also uses server-packed shipping containers.
• Terremark’s Federal Data Fortress ^[4]:  A detailed video tour of the NAP of the Capital Region, an ultra-secure data center in Virginia designed to host sensitive government data.
• Inside Microsoft’s Dublin Mega Data Center ^[5]: A photo tour of this newly-opened facility, which is one of the world’s most most energy efficient information facilities, and will power Microsoft’s cloud computing operations in Europe and Africa.
• A Look Inside the Sun Cloud ^[6]: The Sun Microsystems cloud computing platform is housed at the SuperNAP, a 400,000 square foot facility in Las Vegas that’s customized for high-density computing.
• The Internet’s Busiest Intersection ^[7]: The Equinix data center complex in northern Virginia is is a key connectivity hub in the digital economy.

About Rich Miller ^[8]

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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[1] Image: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Chicago-Inside-Container-47.jpg

[2] Inside Microsoft’s Chicago Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/inside-microsofts-chicago-data-center/

[3] Inside A Google Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/02/inside-a-google-data-center/

[4] Terremark’s Federal Data Fortress: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/06/16/data-center-tour-the-nap-of-the-capital-region/

[5] Inside Microsoft’s Dublin Mega Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/inside-microsofts-dublin-mega-data-center/

[6] A Look Inside the Sun Cloud: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/17/suns-cloud-chilling-at-vegas-supernap/

[7] The Internet’s Busiest Intersection: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/06/09/inside-an-equinix-data-center/

[8] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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