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One Rack’s 18-Story Plunge to the Pavement
October 3rd, 2012 : Rich MillerIf one of your fully-loaded racks plunged 18 stories and shattered on the pavement, would your data survive? To find out, Symantec dropped a rack of expensive IT gear off the roof of a building in Santa Clara. Go ahead, you know you want to look. Read More
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Joe Weinman: Investing in Cloud Computing
October 1st, 2012 : Rich MillerInvestors are eager for ways to participate in the buzz around cloud computing. What's the best way to invest in this sector? It's not simple, as Joe Weinman of Telx explains in this video interview with The Street. Read More
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HokieSpeed: How GPUs and CPUs Team Up in Supercomputers
September 12th, 2012 : Colleen MillerWu Feng, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Virginia Tech, gives a video tour of VT's latest supercomputer, called HokieSpeed after the school's old sports cheer that uses the term, "Hookie!". Read More
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Closer Look: Dell’s Project Copper ARM Server
September 6th, 2012 : Colleen MillerOn this brief video, Dell's Rafael Zamora demonstrates the Project Copper ARM server that drew quite a bit of attention at the recent OSCON event. The use of ARM chips leads to increased density and energy savings simultaneously, says Zamora. Read More
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Video Tour: Inside A SoftLayer Data Center
August 8th, 2012 : Rich MillerSoftLayer is one of the world's largest hosting providers, running more than 100,000 servers. In this video, SoftLayer site manager Josh Daley provides a tour of the company's DAL05 data center. Read More
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Video: The New Jersey Dark Fiber Market
August 3rd, 2012 : Rich MillerIt's been a busy year for the dark fiber market in New Jersey. In this video, we speak with Mike Sevret of Cross River Fiber, one of the companies that has been building new routes to provide low-latency connections between the state's financial data centers. Read More
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Video Q&A: Hunter Newby of Allied Fiber
August 2nd, 2012 : Rich MillerWe recently spoke with Hunter Newby, founder and CEO of Allied Fiber, about the intersection of modular data centers and dark fiber and its potential impact on the geography of the data center industry. Read More
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A Data Center Served With Tasty Frosting
July 30th, 2012 : Rich Milleriomart Hosting, a premium UK-based managed hosting company, created a sweet interpretation of a data center with its "data centre cake" video. Read More
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Video: Sneak Peek at Data Center World Fall 2012
July 26th, 2012 : Rich MillerThis video preview of the Fall 2012 Data Center World Conference outlines the features of the conference, which is scheduled for September 30 – October 3 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. Read More
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