Top 10 Data Center Stories, August 2012

The cold temperatures in Lulea, Sweden make it easy for the local community to greet the new Facebook data center with this huge ice sculpture of the “Like” symbol. Our story about the mix of frigid temperatures and servers and IT equipment, which is not always a positive combination, was very popular with DCK readers in August.

Despite the hot weather in August throughout the U.S., Data Center Knowledge readers were keeping cool by reading about Facebook’s servers traveling to cooler regions above the Arctic Circle and Amazon’s new cold storage product, dubbed Glacier. There was also coverage of new developments in the data center marketplace, such as the investment J.P. Morgan’s made in its data centers and VMWare’s tools for “Software Defined Data Centers” and many more news items. Here are the most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge for August 2012. Enjoy!

• Dimon: JPMorgan Spends $500 Million per Data Center – August 13
• Facebook’s Servers Stay Warm en Route to Arctic Circle – August 2
• Hypervisor 101: Understanding the Virtualization Market – August 1
• VMware Unveils Tools for Software-Defined Data Center – August 28
• Estimate: Facebook Running 180,000 Servers – August 15
• DOE Announces Funding for ‘Extreme Scale’ Supercomputers – August 10
• openDCIM Offers Open Source Option for DCIM – August 23
• Glacier: Cold Cloud Storage From Amazon – August 21
• Video Tour: Inside A SoftLayer Data Center – August 8
• Apple Expansion Boosts Prineville Data Center Ecosystem – August 16

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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.