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    Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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  • Report: IBM, EMC Among Suitors for SoftLayer

    March 15th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    Are we on the brink of another intense flurry of cloud hosting acquisitions? Reuters is reporting that tech titans IBM and EMC are bidding to acquire SoftLayer Technologies, one of the world's largest hosting and cloud service providers. Read More

  • Schneider Electric Sharpens Focus on Service Providers

    March 15th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    Energy management conglomerate Schneider Electric this week announced two new teams, one to focus on data center service providers and another to integrate Schneider's acquisition of Lee Technologies into a software and services offering. Read More

  • Heat Spike in Data Center Caused Hotmail Outage

    March 14th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    The Hotmail servers got entirely too hot Tuesday, causing a major outage for Microsoft's web-based email services. Both Hotmail and Outlook.com were offline for up to 16 hours after a failed software update caused the heat to spike in one part of a data center supporting those services. Read More

  • Ascent Goes Downtown With New Chicago Data Center

    March 13th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    Ascent, which has built several large data centers in the suburban Chicago market, is going downtown. The developer confirmed this week that it will team with Sterling Bay Cos. to renovate a property on South Desplaines Street as its CH3 data center. Read More

  • How Sandy Has Altered Data Center Disaster Planning

    March 13th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    The scope of Superstorm Sandy has altered disaster planning for many data centers, which now must consider how to manage regional events in which travel may be limited across large areas due to fallen trees and gasoline shortages, restricting the movement of staff and supplies, according to a panel at yesterday's DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in New York. Read More

  • Highlights from DatacenterDynamics Converged

    March 13th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    More than 1,500 data center professionals from the New York region gathered Tuesday for the DatacenterDynamics Converged conference at the Marriott Marquis. Check out our photo feature providing a recap of the conference highlights. Read More

  • CyrusOne Continues Expansion, Eyes New Markets

    March 11th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    It's been a whirlwind 2013 thus far for CyrusOne, which has completed its IPO, opened two large data centers, upgraded power at another, and reported record sales and leasing. The company, which was spun off from parent Cincinnati Bell, is looking at new markets and could expand through acquisitions, executives say. Read More

  • DatacenterDynamics NYC is Tomorrow

    March 11th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    Conference organizer Datacenter Dynamics kicks off its U.S. schedule tomorrow (Tuesday, March 12) with DatacenterDynamics Converged, the 10th edition of its conference in the Big Apple. Read More

  • This Week in Thought Leadership

    March 10th, 2013 : Rich Miller

    This week, our contributors to the Industry Perspectives channel shared thoughts on the data center "skills gap," managing IT risk, methods to improve capacity planning, and a closer look at the differences between PCI compliance and HIPAA. Read More

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