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YouTube's Bandwidth: Cheap, But Not Free
October 19th, 2009 : Rich Miller
How much is YouTube paying for the bandwidth to deliver its 1 billion page views per day? Could it be zero? Pundits debate a Wired article based on research from Arbor Networks. Read More
Google Efficiency Update: PUE of 1.22
October 15th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Google's latest quarterly update of the energy efficiency of its data centers showed a slight uptick from the previous quarter, but improvement from the same period last year. The Power Usage Effectiveness for Google's "fleet" was 1.22 in the third quarter. Read More
Vint Cerf on the Future of the Internet
October 12th, 2009 : Rich Miller
In this video, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf gives a comprehensive overview of the state of the Internet today, and shares his thoughts on cloud computing and other key issues that will mold the future of the Internet. Read More
1 Billion Page Views A Day for YouTube
October 9th, 2009 : Rich Miller
YouTube announced this morning that it is serving more than a billion page views a day. That works out to 11,547 page views per second. Read More
Facebook, Google Ready for Faster Ethernet
September 25th, 2009 : John Rath
Engineers from Facebook and Google made the case for faster Ethernet networks - definitely 100-Gigabit Ethernet, and perhaps even Terabit Ethernet - at an Ethernet Alliance seminar last week. Read More
All Quiet at Google’s Oklahoma Data Center
September 16th, 2009 : Rich Miller
There's no construction activity at the delayed Google data center site in Pryor, Oklahoma, the most visible sign of the company's decision to scale back its capital spending on infrastructure. Read More
All Quiet at Google's Oklahoma Data Center
September 16th, 2009 : Rich Miller
There's no construction activity at the delayed Google data center site in Pryor, Oklahoma, the most visible sign of the company's decision to scale back its capital spending on infrastructure. Read More
Roundup: Telco rumors, Ingram Micro, CBTS
September 15th, 2009 : John Rath
A rundup of data center news from Ingram Micro, Cincinnati Bell, Storwize and Force 10. Plus some tasty telecom rumors. Read More
Router Ripples Cited in GMail Outage
September 1st, 2009 : Rich Miller
Today's Gmail outage resulted from underestimating the load that routine maintenance on "a small fraction" of Gmail servers would place on the routers supporting the application, Google said. Read More