Top 10 Data Center Stories: March 2012

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Top 10 Data Center Stories: March 2012

Top 10 Data Center Stories: March 2012
- By: Colleen Miller
  April 2nd, 2012
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The Google data center in Belgium, which features no chillers and routes traffic to other facilities during hot spells. (Photo from Google)

Data Center Knowledge’s coverage of the data center industry in March included Google’s “too hot for humans” policy, the number of servers housed at Amazon and Akamai, and AOL’s server consolidation project. The news included a look at Apple’s solar farm going in at its site in North Carolina and a look at Skanska’s modular approach in the colo market. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge during March 2012, ranked by total page views:
- Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming Along – March 23
- Estimate: Amazon Cloud Backed by 450,000 Servers – March 14
- Low-Orbit Servers? Or A Pirate Prank? – March 19
- AOL Retires 9,500 Servers in Uptime Roundup – March 29
- George Takei Helps Facebook Debug MySQL – March 7
- Akamai Now Running 105,000 Servers – March 8
- Video: Apple Preps Solar Power Site for iDataCenter – March 21
- Zynga Data Centers Power zCloud, New Platform – March 1
- Rackspace: Minting Billionaires? – March 19
- Skanska USA Goes Modular, Eyes Colo Market – March 26
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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.