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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
AOL: 60,000 Servers, Retooling for the Future
November 15th, 2011 : Rich Miller
AOL runs about 60,000 servers, Manos said, which are spread across five primary data centers in North America and Europe. "We're talking about dramatically reforming what was one of the world's largest Internet companies," said Manos Read More