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Top 10 Data Center Stories, June 2012

The United States is back on top! Researchers from IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California with Sequoia, the LLNL system that was named the most powerful supercomputer in the world June 18 when the top 500 list was announced. (Photo: IBM via Flickr).During the month of June, stories about supercomputers, Stephen Hawking and downtime for Amazon’s cloud were among the top items that interested Data Center Knowledge readers. Also, Facebook’s data center designs, such as those for servers and racks, continued to be a leading topic on our site. Here are the most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge for June 2012, ranked by page views:
- Top 10 Supercomputers Illustrated – June 18
- Hawking is First User of SGI ‘Big Brain’ Supercomputer – June 14
- Video: Amazing LEGO Data Center – June 14
- Seven Cloud Computing Trends – Part 1 – June 4
- Amazon Data Center Loses Power During Storm – June 30
- More Problems for Amazon EC2 Cloud – June 29
- Power Outage Affects Amazon Customers – June 15
- Closer Look: Facebook’s New Server, Storage Designs – June 27
- Netflix Rolls Out Its Own Content Delivery Network – June 27
- eBay: Bloom Boxes Will Power Utah Data Center – June 27
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RESOURCE LINKS:
Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center

July 2nd, 2012