The pace of innovation in data design is accelerating, according to James Hamilton of Amazon, who says companies must look beyond conventional assumptions about data center environments and their cost.
Active Power (ACPW) said yesterday that it has received a follow-on multimillion dollar order for its CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems from a major search company, totaling nearly 13 megawatts of total rated UPS capacity.
Emerson Network Power is partnering with Panduit to incorporate its products into Panduit's Unified Physical Infrastructure (UPI) system, the two companies said today.
Data centers can now earn the Energy Star label seen on TVs, refrigerators and computer monitors. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially launched a program that allows data centers to receive an Energy Star rating based on a...
ABB Ltd today made an offer of $1.3 billion for UK-based critical power firm Chloride, topping a $1.1 billion offer made in April by American critical power firm Emerson Electric. The Chloride board has accepted ABB's 325 pence per share offer.
This white paper from Schneider Electric describes the challenges that a typical data center presents to the system study engineer, common pitfalls that must be avoided, and how a system study is crucial to the successful performance of a data...
QTS chief technology officer Simon Tusha says the cost of power is transforming the economics of building and operating data centers. Tusha says it doesn't make sense to build data centers with less than 30 megawatts of power capacity.