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Inside the Cobalt Cheyenne Data Center
February 12th, 2013 : Rich MillerCobalt Data Centers has opened the doors on the first of two planned Tier 3-compliant data centers in Las Vegas. Our photo feature provides a detailed look inside the new data center. Read More
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Building Smaller: DFT Adopts New Data Center Design
February 11th, 2013 : Rich MillerDuPont Fabros Technology will continue to build some of the largest data centers on the planet. But it will do so in smaller chunks. The developer says it is finalizing a new design that will deploy new wholesale data center space in smaller phases of about 4.5 megawatts. Read More
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Microsoft’s Evolving Data Center Design
February 4th, 2013 : Rich MillerRecent changes in web-scale data center design can be seen in the evolution of the Internet infrastructure at Microsoft, which has been the leading proponent of deploying servers on pre-fabricated modules rather than traditional data halls. We've put together a photo feature providing a visual guide to Microsoft's design evolution. Read More
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Digital Realty Powers Up its POD Architecture
January 31st, 2013 : Rich MillerDigital Realty Trust has updated a key building block in its data center construction process to provide tenants with more power to support their IT infrastructure. POD Architecture 3.0 makes more effective use of pre-fabricated designs, allowing Digital Realty to offer customers up to 1.2 megawatts of IT capacity in each data hall, up from 1.125 megawatts. Read More
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Compass Offers Data Center Comparison Shopping Tool
January 29th, 2013 : Rich MillerCompass Datacenters today released an online tool providing data center users with comparisons between different deployment models and providers. Compass says this "online data center configurator" is being offered as an educational resource for decision-makers involved in planning a data center project. Read More
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Modular Data Center Park Planned for Barcelona
January 28th, 2013 : Rich MillerAn entire campus for modular data centers? That's the concept for a new project coming together in Barcelona, where the government of Catalonia is teaming with AST Modular on the Barcelona Data Center Cluster. Read More
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Hyve Unveils Open Compute Servers and Storage
January 17th, 2013 : Colleen MillerHyve Solutions, a division of SYNNEX Corporation (SNX), rolled out Open Compute Project compliant hardware at Tuesday's Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit. Many attendees were at the company both reviewing the production-grade rack developed with gaming company, Riot Games. Read More
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OVH Goes Big and Green With New Quebec Data Center
January 17th, 2013 : Jason VergeWeb hosting giant OVH has officially opened up a massive, energy-efficient data center in Beauharnois, Quebec to act as its North American presence. The facility, located in a suburb of Montreal, is a behemoth of a data center with capacity for 360,000 servers. Read More
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Open Compute: Momentum Builds for Open Hardware
January 16th, 2013 : Rich MillerIn less than two years, the Open Compute Project (OCP) has grown far beyond its origins as a showcase for Facebook's design innovations, evolving into an active community building cutting-edge hardware, disrupting the traditional IT supply chain, and laying the groundwork for future innovation.. More than 1,900 technologists gathered for the Open Compute Summit at the Santa Clara Convention. Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
