Best of Data Center Knowledge, March 2010

Can an incident report for a data center outage be the most popular data center news headline of the month? It can if you’re Google. Our article about Google’s post-mortem on a power outage in its Google App Engine data center was the most popular story on Data Center Knowledge in March 2010. Other hot topics were the looming data center consolidation for the federal government and a data center “punking” involving a mischievous magician. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular stories of March 2010, ranked by total page views:

• When The Power Goes out at Google (March 08)
• Feds Commence Huge Data Center Consolidation (March 1)
• Punked in the Data Center (March 1)
• Rendering Happy Feet 2 at 30kW a Rack (March 25)
• Submerged Servers: Green Revolution Cooling (March 17)
• How Fast Can You Build A Server? (March 13)
• Greenpeace’s Hosting: Not ‘Truly Green’ (March 3)
• Can Bloom Boxes Power Data Centers? (March 2)
• Amazon S3 Now Hosts 100 Billion Objects (March 9)
• Who Are the Contenders for the Federal Cloud? (March 1)

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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.