Data Center Design

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• Can You Afford Lost Data Center Capacity?

  February 21st, 2012 : Michael Potts

  Data center space, power, cooling and networking resources must be put to good use or else available capacity will be lost. Learn how to predict resource utilization outcomes before IT equipment is installed. Read More

• Web-Scale Data Center Design Comes to Silicon Valley

  February 15th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  In its new V2 facility, Vantage Data Centers has taken data center design concepts pioneered by "Internet scale" data centers in remote locations, and implemented them in the heart of Silicon Valley. The result is a data center that matches the energy efficiency of Google's faciliities and implements key design components of Facebook's Open Compute Project. Read More

• New Tenants for Verne’s Modular Colo in Iceland

  February 9th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  Verne Global today unveiled its new "modular colo" data center in Iceland, along with three new tenants. The data center hall consists of 37 modules that were built in the UK and then shipped to Iceland, where they were assembled into a completed data center. Read More

• Benefits of 10GBASE-T Adoption

  February 8th, 2012 : Michael Potts

  10GBASE-T is the standard technology that enables 1- Gigabit Ethernet operations over balanced twisted-pair copper, including Category 6A unshielded and shielded cabling. It provides flexibility in network design due to its 100-meter reach capability, and the requisite backward compatibility that allows most end users to upgrade from their 10/100/1000-Mbps networks. Read More

• Upgrading a Landmark Data Center Hub

  January 24th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  60 Hudson Street, which has a grand history as a cornerstone in the development of America's communications infrastructure, is undergoing a complex upgrade of its power and cooling infrastructure to expand the data center space in the building. Read More

• A Data Center That Mimics A Mansion

  January 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  A luxury homebuilder in Minnesota wants to build a data center that appears to be a mansion, allowing the commercial building to fit into a residential neighborhood. The facility would be used by FiberPop, a broadband content provider. Read More

• Designing Around Harmonic Currents

  January 18th, 2012 : Michael Potts

  A new white paper from StarLine examines harmonics and their significance to power flow. It goes on to detail options to mitigate harmonics and their costs in order to balance the real harmonic load against the cost of the solution. Read More

• The Year Ahead: Data Center Design & Operations

  December 29th, 2011 : Rich Miller

  What's ahead in data center design and operations for 2012? Data Center Knowledge readers see continuing emergence of modular data center designs, as well as the need for improved management techniques and tools for complex data center environments. Read More

• Data Cave Protected by 4.5 Million Pound Roof

  December 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller

  When you're building a hardened data center in the Midwest, you need to take tornadoes seriously. That was the case at Data Cave, which uses a 4.5 million pound roof as its first line of defense against windstorms. Read More

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