Data Center Design

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• New Tenants for Verne’s Modular Colo in Iceland

  February 9th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  Verne Global today unveiled its new "modular colo" data center in Iceland, along with three new tenants. The data center hall consists of 37 modules that were built in the UK and then shipped to Iceland, where they were assembled into a completed data center. Read More

• Benefits of 10GBASE-T Adoption

  February 8th, 2012 : Michael Potts

  10GBASE-T is the standard technology that enables 1- Gigabit Ethernet operations over balanced twisted-pair copper, including Category 6A unshielded and shielded cabling. It provides flexibility in network design due to its 100-meter reach capability, and the requisite backward compatibility that allows most end users to upgrade from their 10/100/1000-Mbps networks. Read More

• Upgrading a Landmark Data Center Hub

  January 24th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  60 Hudson Street, which has a grand history as a cornerstone in the development of America's communications infrastructure, is undergoing a complex upgrade of its power and cooling infrastructure to expand the data center space in the building. Read More

• A Data Center That Mimics A Mansion

  January 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  A luxury homebuilder in Minnesota wants to build a data center that appears to be a mansion, allowing the commercial building to fit into a residential neighborhood. The facility would be used by FiberPop, a broadband content provider. Read More

• Designing Around Harmonic Currents

  January 18th, 2012 : Michael Potts

  A new white paper from StarLine examines harmonics and their significance to power flow. It goes on to detail options to mitigate harmonics and their costs in order to balance the real harmonic load against the cost of the solution. Read More

• The Year Ahead: Data Center Design & Operations

  December 29th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  What's ahead in data center design and operations for 2012? Data Center Knowledge readers see continuing emergence of modular data center designs, as well as the need for improved management techniques and tools for complex data center environments. Read More

• Data Cave Protected by 4.5 Million Pound Roof

  December 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller

  When you're building a hardened data center in the Midwest, you need to take tornadoes seriously. That was the case at Data Cave, which uses a 4.5 million pound roof as its first line of defense against windstorms. Read More

• AOL: 60,000 Servers, Retooling for the Future

  November 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  AOL runs about 60,000 servers, Manos said, which are spread across five primary data centers in North America and Europe. "We're talking about dramatically reforming what was one of the world's largest Internet companies," said Manos Read More

• In Sweden, Cool Design Meets Cool Climate

  November 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  As Sweden celebrates the recent announcement that a new Facebook data center will be built in Lulea, one of the country's data center visionaries was outlining an alternative vision in which Sweden's cool climate embraces cool modular design. Read More

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