Top 10 Data Center Stories, June 2012

Posted By Colleen Miller On July 2, 2012 @ 12:30 pm In DCK | No Comments


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 [1]).

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:

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About Colleen Miller [17]

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.


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[1] Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ibm_media/7375835468/in/set-72157630136230036/

[2] Top 10 Supercomputers Illustrated: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/top-10-supercomputers-illustrated-june-2012/

[3] Hawking is First User of SGI ‘Big Brain’ Supercomputer: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/14/hawking-is-first-user-of-sgi-big-brain-supercomputer/

[4] Video: Amazing LEGO Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/19/video-lego-data-center/

[5] Seven Cloud Computing Trends – Part 1: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/04/seven-cloud-computing-trends-part-1/

[6] Amazon Data Center Loses Power During Storm: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/30/amazon-data-center-loses-power-during-storm/

[7] More Problems for Amazon EC2 Cloud: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/29/another-outage-amazon-cloud/

[8] Power Outage Affects Amazon Customers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/15/power-outage-affects-amazon-customers/

[9] Closer Look: Facebook’s New Server, Storage Designs: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/27/facebook-server-storage-designs/

[10] Netflix Rolls Out Its Own Content Delivery Network: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/05/netflix-rolls-its-own-content-delivery-network/

[11] eBay: Bloom Boxes Will Power Utah Data Center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/21/ebay-bloom-boxes-will-power-utah-data-center/

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