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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
In Sweden, Cool Design Meets Cool Climate
November 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller
As Sweden celebrates the recent announcement that a new Facebook data center will be built in Lulea, one of the country's data center visionaries was outlining an alternative vision in which Sweden's cool climate embraces cool modular design. Read More
Facebook Cuts Back on Generators in Sweden
October 31st, 2011 : Rich Miller
Facebook is reducing the number of backup generators by 70 percent at its new data center in Sweden, saying the extraordinary reliability of the regional power grid serving the town of Lulea allows it to rely upon redundant power feeds. Read More