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Interactive Tour: Cisco’s Flagship Data Center
October 27th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Cisco Systems (CSCO) provides an inside look at the design and construction of its flagship data center in Richardson, Texas in an interactive presentation with 3-D graphics, videos and images. Read More
The Uptime Institute Sold to 451 Group
October 23rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
The Uptime Institute, the think tank and consultancy that developed the widely-used system for defining data center reliability, has been acquired by The 451 Group. Read More
Webinar: Designing a Data Center for the Future
October 20th, 2009 : Kevin Normandeau
In this webcast, you'll learn how Cisco's new architecture delivers reductions in capital and operating expenses; a decrease in hardware components; and simplified system management that radically speeds provisioning time from days to minutes. Read More
The Briefcase Server: Maybe Too Portable?
October 16th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Here's a look at the "data center in a briefcase," a personal project in which Jimmy Pike, the director of system architecture at Dell’s Data Center Solutions, built two servers and some solid state storage drives into a briefcase. Read More
‘Container Centers’ As a Facility Niche
October 14th, 2009 : Rich Miller
A Virginia real estate company is developing dedicated facilities to house up to 20 "docking stations" for data center containers. Read More
'Container Centers' As a Facility Niche
October 14th, 2009 : Rich Miller
A Virginia real estate company is developing dedicated facilities to house up to 20 "docking stations" for data center containers. Read More
Designing for ‘Ultra-Low’ Efficiency and PUE
September 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
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Veteran data center designer KC Mares reports that he has worked on three projects this year that used unconventional design decisions to achieve "ultra-low PUEs" of between 1.046 and 1.08. Read More
Designing for 'Ultra-Low' Efficiency and PUE
September 10th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Mr Columnist
Columnist Corp

Veteran data center designer KC Mares reports that he has worked on three projects this year that used unconventional design decisions to achieve "ultra-low PUEs" of between 1.046 and 1.08. Read More
Digital Realty Debuts POD Design Service
August 3rd, 2009 : Rich Miller
Digital Realty Trust (DLR) today took the wraps off its service to design and build data centers for enterprise clients, called POD Architecture Services. Read More