• ...Home

  • Data Center Design

  • Executive Q&A: Kevin Timmons of CyrusOne

    May 1st, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Kevin Timmons has been involved in creating some of the world's most efficient data centers. We caught up with Timmons for a Q&A about CyrusOne's Phoenix data center project and the recent peer review session convened to brainstorm design concepts. Read More

  • The Four Trends Driving the Future of Data Center Design

    April 24th, 2012 : Michael Potts

    The ability to maintain or improve availability while implementing technologies and services that reduce costs and improve design, management and operating efficiency is the most important goal for data center managers in the next 10 years. Read More

  • Inside Go Daddy’s Phoenix Data Center

    April 17th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    The global infrastructure for domain registrar Go Daddy is anchored by a 320,000 square foot data center in Phoenix. We recently had a tour of the huge facility, the lynchpin of an internet infrastructure that supports 5 million web sites. Here's a look Inside Go Daddy's Data Center. Read More

  • Interxion Readies Staff ‘Sleeping Pods’ for Olympics

    April 12th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Interxion today unveiled "sleeping pods" at its London data center campus, allowing staff to sleep amongst the racks to ensure that the facility will be fully staffed throughout the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Read More

  • The Long Term Costs of Capacity Loss

    March 20th, 2012 : Michael Potts

    The cost of under-utilizing the potential of a data center facility can be massive, increasing the price of each provided kW of processing power by up to 100%. Many of today’s data center management strategies risk encouraging short-term management over long term gain. Read More

  • Low-Orbit Servers? Or A Pirate Prank?

    March 19th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    The controversial BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay posted an odd announcement last night stating that it had decided to deploy servers using aerial "drones" in the upper atmosphere. Prank or outside-the-box ambition? Read More

  • Data Center Pulse IDs Top 10 Industry Challenges

    March 13th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Can IT and facilities work together to make data centers more effective? Will modular designs and renewable energy gain a greater foothold? Those are among the key challenges facing the industry, according to Data Center Pulse, which has released its annual "Top 10" list of priorities for data center users. Read More

  • eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency

    February 27th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    eBay's new containerized data center in Phoenix is one of the most efficient data centers ever built, recording exceptional performance on industry metrics while operating in temperatures as high as 115 degrees F, according to a report released today. 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

Page 6 of 18« First...45678...Last »

    RESOURCE LINKS:

Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter

Get daily email alerts direct to your inbox.

ARCHIVED ARTICLES