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• Facebook Cuts Back on Generators in Sweden

  October 31st, 2011 : Rich Miller

  Facebook is reducing the number of backup generators by 70 percent at its new data center in Sweden, saying the extraordinary reliability of the regional power grid serving the town of Lulea allows it to rely upon redundant power feeds. Read More

• The Cube: OVH’s New Data Center Design

  August 19th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  The large, Borg-style cube-shaped building in France is the new data center for hosting company OVH, which plans to assimilate more than 35,000 servers into its new facility. The new design its part of OVH's custom server and data center infrastructure. Read More

• Pair Plans ‘Grid Zero’ Data Center in Las Vegas

  July 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  Can a low-key web hosting company from Pittsburgh build one of the world's most efficient data centers in the desert? pair Networks recently broke ground on a data center project in Las Vegas that will be powered entirely by a combination of an on-site cogeneration plant and a rooftop array of solar panels, using the utility grid only for backup. Read More

• Tornado Risk Seen for Social Security Project

  June 3rd, 2011 : Rich Miller

  The recent outbreak of powerful and deadly tornadoes across the United States raises a question: Should data centers be engineered to survive stronger wind storms? Curiously, the Social Security Administration has moved in the other direction. Read More

• A UNIX comparison – HP, AIX and Solaris

  May 17th, 2011 : Kevin Normandeau

  Ideas International (IDEAS), a leading global supplier of comparative intelligence on enterprise infrastructure presents a white paper on UNIX. This comparison features three systems HP-UX 11i v3, AIX 6.1, and Solaris 10. Read More

• Cisco Opens Doors on New Texas Data Center

  April 18th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  Cisco Systems (CSCO) officially opened the doors at its new data center in Allen, Texas, which showcases a number of energy efficiency features and is outfitted with Cisco's latest technologies for building unified infrastructures for cloud computing applications. Read More

• Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market?

  April 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  Are the designs advanced by the Open Compute Project only useful for building huge single-tenant data centers like Facebook's new Oregon facility? Or will they eventually make their way into facilities offering colocation and turn-key "wholesale" data center space? Read More

• Roundup: Is Open Compute A Game-Changer?

  April 8th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  Will the new Open Compute Project be disruptive to the way the data center industry operates, and to the vendor ecosystem that supports it? Here's a roundup of notable commentary and analysis from around the Web. Read More

• The Building as an Air Handler

  April 8th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  We've recently seen a number of two-story data centers design the entire structure to optimize airflow to take advantage of free cooling. Researcher James Hamilton of Amazon highlights another example in a new UK project. Read More

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