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Closer Look: HP’s Suwanee Data Center
April 20th, 2011 : Rich Miller
In this video, HP offers an overview of operations at its data center in Suwanee, Georgia, which was the firstof six new data centers built in the company's data center consolidation. Read More
Video: Software Defined Networks Explained
April 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller
What exactly is OpenFlow networking, and why would six of the technology industry's biggest companies throw their collective weight behind it? Read More
Inside HP’s Fort Collins Efficiency Testbed
April 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller
HP recently opened a facility in Fort Collins, Colorado that will serve as a testbed for researching the most efficient and sustainable approaches for operating data centers. In this video, HP executives describe the facility's infrastructure and sustainability features. Read More
Closer Look: Next Generation Data’s MegaSite
April 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller
This video provides a look inside the Next Generation Data Facility in Wales, one of the world's largest data centers with more than 375,000 square feet of wholesale data center space. Read More
JouleX: Software for Tracking Energy Use
April 13th, 2011 : Rich Miller
JouleX software uses an agentless system to detect devices on IP networks and track their energy usage. In this video, Mark Davidson of JouleX talks about the company and demonstrates the software and some of its capabilities. Read More
The Shutdown: Dismantling A Data Center
April 12th, 2011 : Rich Miller
We've seen lots of time-lapse videos of people building server rooms and data centers. But here's the first example I've seen of a time-lapse video of someone breaking down a data center. Read More
Viridity: Hunting Down Zombie Servers
April 8th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Viridity offers data center software that tracks server utilization and matches it with energy usage and cost.At the recent AFCOM Data Center World conference in Las Vegas, Viridity co-founder and CTO Mike Rowan demonstrated the software for us. Here's a video. Read More
DataStax Rewires Hadoop with Apache Cassandra
March 31st, 2011 : Colleen Miller
DataStax, which has clients including entertainment companies such as Netflix as well as federal and financial organizations, recently unveiled Brisk, a new distribution that enhances the Hadoop and Hive platform with scalable low-latency data capabilities. Video interview with DataStax CEO Matt Pfeil. Read More
Calxeda Readies Low-Power ARM Servers
March 30th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Austin-based startup Calxeda is developing low-energy servers based on ARM chips. In this video, Karl Freund of Calxeda provides an overview of the company's products and roadmap, and the opportunity for ARM servers. Read More