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Introduction to Interxion
June 25th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Interxion (pronounced “interaction”) is one of the largest data center providers in Europe with 24 carrier-neutral facilities. In this video, group managing director Anthony Foy provides an overview of Interxion and a look at how the data center environment has evolved. This video runs about 4 minutes, 30 seconds.

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LucasFilm: A Fast Network Key to Visual Effects
June 24th, 2009 : Rich Miller
LucasFilm has produced some of the most memorable visual effects in the history of films. Rendering the special effects for Star Wars (Episodes 1, 2 and 3) and the Terminator and Indiana Jones series requires serious high-performance computing infrastructure in the company’s data center in San Francisco and animation studio in Singapore. In this customer profile from Brocade Communications, LucasFilm senior network manager Peter Hricak talks about the importance of network performance in visual effects and the company’s use of Brocade equipment. This video runs about 4 minutes.

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Sun’s Cloud Chilling at Vegas SuperNAP
June 17th, 2009 : Rich Miller
What lies ahead for the Sun Open Cloud Platform unveiled in March? That will likely be a decision for Oracle Systems (ORCL), which has agreed to acquire Sun Microsystems (JAVA) for $7.4 billion, with the deal is expected to close this summer. Until then, the Sun Cloud is chilling in the SuperNAP in Las Vegas, where its servers are housed in one of Switch Communciations’ custom high-density computing pods known as a T-SCIF (short for Thermal Separate Compartment in Facility). We had a look at the Sun installation during a recent tour of the SuperNAP. The racks are packed top to bottom with servers, creating a power load of up to 24 kW per rack. This video from Sun provides an inside look at the company’s operation at the SuperNAP and the cooling systems that manage that density for the Sun cloud platform. This video runs about 5 minutes.

For additional information, check out our SuperNAP Channel and Sun Microsystems Channel. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
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Inside an Equinix Data Center
June 9th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Equinix has built a reputation for engineering its data centers for reliability. The company says its U.S. data centers reached “six nines” of reliability (99.9999 percent uptime) for 2008. That track record has attracted more than 2,200 customers hosting mission-critical equipment in the company’s data centers. The Equinix uptime strategy is built atop a redundant power and cooling infrastructure. During a recent visit to Equinix in Ashburn, Virginia, we had a chance to look inside one of the company’s newer data centers. We couldn’t film the cages or racks, but were able to have a look at much of the mechanical and electrical infrastructure supporting the site. This video runs about 2 minutes, 20 seconds.

For additional information, check out our Equinix Channel. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
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Using Economizers to Save Energy
June 5th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Fresh air cooling using air-side economizers - also known as “free cooling” - is being more widely adopted as data centers seek improved energy efficiency and lower Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratings. Advanced Data Centers recently hosted a meeting of the Critical Facilities Roundtable in which Peter Rumsey, the President of Rumsey Engineers, gave a presentation on the use of economizers at ADC’s LEED Platinum facility in Sacramento, Calif. ADC says its economizers are a key piece of the facility’s PUE rating of 1.12. Rumsey’s presentation spans four 10-minute videos. The first is embedded below, while Part Two, Part Three and Part Four can all be viewed on YouTube.

Check out our Green Data Center Channel for more on this topic. For additional video, visit our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
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Vint Cerf at the Google Internet Summit
June 1st, 2009 : Rich Miller
In early May Google hosted the Google Internet Summit 2009 at its Mountain View, Calif. campus. The event brought together thought leaders in Internet infrastructure, with the goal of gathering “a wide range of knowledge to inform Google’s future plans.” This video presents the introductory remarks from Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist and the co-designer of the TCP/IP network protocol. ”The Internet is at an important flex point in its history,” Cerf says. ”Scaling, in many different ways, is still an important issue. Cloud computing is adding another dimension to the way the Internet is being used.” This video runs 9 minutes, but the substance of Cerf’s remarks commece at the 4 minute mark after some opening greetings and housekeeping.

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Is Wall Street Still Investing in its Data Centers?
May 27th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Are financial firms continuing to refresh their data center hardware? Do container data centers or renewable energy fit into Wall Street’s plans for technology infrastructure? Those were among the topics explored at the recent Waters Power conference in New York City. The event was organized by Waters Online, which tracks technology in the securities industry. In this video, Waters news editor Emily Fraser talks to Tabb Group’s Kevin McPartland, who summarizes the discussion from a panel he moderated on new data center technologies. This video runs about 4 minutes, 30 seconds.

For more news on Wall Street data center infrastructure, see our Low Latency Channel. For additional video, visit our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
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Dell Targets TCO with Fortuna Server
May 22nd, 2009 : Rich Miller
Dell’s Data Center Solutions Group recently introduced the XS11-VX8 server, better known as “Fortuna.” The server features VIA Nano processors and can fit 12 servers in a 2U (3.5 inches) server form factor. In this video, Dell’s Drew Schulke discusses the features of Fortuna, including its power profile, and how customers are likely to use it. This video runs about 6 minutes.

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