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Goldman Sachs Eyes Servers With Batteries
March 4th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Both Google and Facebook are using custom web servers with on-board batteries to capture big gains in energy efficiency in their data centers. Now Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs may be ready to join them. Read More
Open Sourcing Data Center Design
March 4th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Can the principles of open source software transform the data center industry? A group of industry veterans are teaming with the University of Missouri to test-drive an open source data center design and engineering initiative. Read More
Building Up: Nine-Foot High Server Racks
February 12th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Some data center users are building up, rather than out. By using oversize racks that are 9 feet tall instead of the standard 7 feet, they are able to pack more servers into each square foot of data center space. Read More
Bick Group Acquires Cloud Consultants
February 5th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Bick Group has announced the acquisition of Blue Mountain Labs (BML), a consulting firm focused on the adoption of cloud computing within enterprise and government organizations. BML was founded by David Linthicum, a thought leader in the cloud computing and service oriented architecture (SOA) space. Read More
HP, Eaton Team on Pod-Style Enclosures
January 26th, 2010 : Rich Miller
A grant for $7.4 million from the Department of Energy will accelerate the development of new enclosures that can improve the energy efficiency of existing data centers, according to HP and Eaton Corp., which are teaming on the project. Read More
The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind ‘Avatar’
December 22nd, 2009 : John Rath
It takes a lot of rendering horsepower to create the stunning visual effects behind blockbuster movies like James Cameron's new Avatar. Here's a look at the high-density data center in New Zealand where Weta Digital brings the mythical worlds of Middle Earth and Pandora to life. Read More
The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind 'Avatar'
December 22nd, 2009 : John Rath
It takes a lot of rendering horsepower to create the stunning visual effects behind blockbuster movies like James Cameron's new Avatar. Here's a look at the high-density data center in New Zealand where Weta Digital brings the mythical worlds of Middle Earth and Pandora to life. Read More
Data Center of the Future: A Virtual Trade Show
December 14th, 2009 : Kevin Normandeau
Learn what the future of the data center might look like from the perspectives of networking, storage, applications, and physical infrastructure technology partners Read More
Wild New Design: Data Center in A Silo
December 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
The CLUMEQ supercomputing center in Quebec has transformed a 65-foot tall cement silo into a data center. Rings of cabinets within the silo (which previously housed a Van de Graaf particle accelerator) are cooled via an exterior cold air plenum, with a "hot core" in the center of the silo. Read More