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IO Software to Support Active Power UPS Modules
December 4th, 2012 : Rich Miller
IO and Active Power today announced a strategic partnership, bringing together two companies who have been early players in the modular deployment of data center capacity. Read More
Colt Wants to Future-Proof the Data Center
November 12th, 2012 : Jason Verge
With the latest incarnation of its modular design, UK-based IT provider Colt is promising to future proof the data center by using modular components to enable customers to scale up or down in their use of power, cooling and space using 3 different sized modules. Read More
An OpenStack Cloud in the Parking Lot
October 12th, 2012 : Rich Miller
At Dell headquarters in Round Rock, Texas, the company has used space in one of its parking lots of house a Dell Modular Data Center (MDC), which will house Dell's OpenStack-powered cloud computing platform. Read More
Going Modular in Iceland to Slash BMW’s Costs, Carbon
October 11th, 2012 : Rich Miller
BMW Group says it expects to see dramatic improvements in its energy efficiency and sharp reductions in its carbon emissions by moving 10 clusters of high-performance computing gear from Germany to a Verne Global data center in Iceland that uses free cooling and renewable energy. Read More
IO Gets $90 Million to Advance Modular Data Centers
October 10th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Modular data center specialist IO has raised $90 million in equity funding from a group led by New World Ventures, an investment arm of the Pritzker family, the company said today. IO will use the funds to accelerate deployment of its data center modules for customers, and boost its software and hardware development efforts. Read More
What Are The Pros and Cons of Modular Deployments?
October 9th, 2012 : Colleen Miller
In this brief video, Kevin Brown, VP, Global Data Center Offer, Schneider Electric, offers thoughts on the benefits and drawbacks of pre-fabricated modular data center units. Read More
SGI Modular HPC System Selected At the Department of Energy
September 28th, 2012 : John Rath
SGI announced that it has partnered with URS Energy and Construction to design, build and deploy an energy efficient high performance computing (HPC) system housed in an SGI ICE Cube Air modular data center. Read More
Report Sees 40 Percent Growth for Pre-Fab Data Centers
September 27th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Shipments of containerized data centers are forecast to grow 40 percent in 2013 compared to 2012, following a near doubling of the market in 2012, according to a new report from IMS Research. Read More
IO Receives First-Ever Modular UL Certification
September 26th, 2012 : John Rath
The IO.Anywhere product portfolio has been awarded the data center industry's first-ever modular data center safety certification by Underwriters Laboratories, a step that could further boost customer comfort levels with modular form factors. Read More