Top 10 Data Center Stories: January 2012

An illustration of a proposed "community-based" data center in Minnetonka, Minnesota (Image: Keith Waters & Associates).

While much data center news broke in January, one story on a unique data center design – camouflaging a data center as a residence – clearly led the pack of the best-read items on Data Center Knowledge. There was also interest in stories on the federal government’s plans to close data centers, Facebook’s spending on its facility in Oregon, and a guest column on audit standards confusion in the industry. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge during January 2012, ranked by total page views:

• A Data Center That Mimics A Mansion – January 20
• Feds Now Plan to Close 1,200 Data Centers – January 4
• Facebook Has Spent $210 Million on Oregon Data Center – January 30
• AICPA Fumbles Audit Standards at the 5-Yard Line – January 19
• Google Spent $951 Million on Data Centers in Q4 – January 23
• The Coming Colo Crunch – January 18
• Mobile Cloud Computing Will Soar in 2012 – January 12
• Cisco Reaches 10,000 UCS Customers – January 18
• Roundup: Amazon’s DynamoDB – January 19
• Equinix Outage Means Downtime for Zoho – January 20

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About Colleen Miller

Colleen Miller is a journalist and social media specialist. She has more than 25 years of writing and editing experience, with her most recent work dedicated to the online space. Colleen covers the data center industry, including topics such as modular, cloud and storage/big data.