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Google Energy Buys Up Iowa Wind Power
July 20th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google has used its new status as an energy company to strike a deal to buy a large volume of electricity from an Iowa company that uses wind turbines to generate its power. Read More
Google Boosts Data Center Spending
July 19th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google is building again. After several years of muted investment in its data center infrastructure, Google reported capital expenditures of $476 million in the second quarter of 2010, more than doubling its spending from the previous quarter. Read More
Google Patents Liquid-Cooled ‘Server Sandwich’
July 6th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google has patented a design for a "server sandwich" in which two motherboards are attached to either side of a liquid-cooled heat sink, which is cooled through a series of pipes containing cold fluid. Read More
Google: How We’re Making the Web Faster
June 23rd, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google is stepping up its efforts to make the Internet faster, using its software, servers and infrastructure to provide tools to help web site owners build speedier sites. Google's Urs Holzle outlined the company's efforts in his Keynote at the Velocity 2010 conference. Read More
Google Patents ‘Tower of Containers’
June 18th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Google has been awarded a patent on data center layouts that stack containers up to four high, and others featuring rows of containers attached to a central power spine or distributed in girds organized along shared power and cooling lines. Read More
Videos: Google’s Data Center Technology
June 18th, 2010 : Rich Miller
We've pulled together the best videos from Google's 2009 Efficient Data Centers Summit, as a prelude to looking into some of the technologies Google has been working on more recently. Read More
Google Eyes ‘Optical Express’ for its Network
May 24th, 2010 : John Rath
Google's Senior Network Architect Bikash Koley said that machine-to-machine traffic is rising at Google and as such the company reconsidering overall optical network choices. Plus more highlights from the Light Reading optical conference. Read More
Roundup: VISI, The Planet, Google TV, Cray
May 21st, 2010 : John Rath
VISI opens its new data center in Eden Prairie, The Planet reports first quarter results, Google takes the wraps off Google TV, and Cray wins a $47 million contract from the DOE and Oak Ridge. Read More
VMware, Google Partner on Cloud Portability
May 20th, 2010 : John Rath
VMware (VMW) and Google (GOOG) are collaborating to help enterprise software developers build and manage applications within any cloud environment. Read More