Google purchased a 60-year-old paper mill in Finland, which it has converted into one of its most modern, efficient data centers worldwide, and its now investing an additional EUR450 million (about 608 million in USD) to continue expansion of the...

The London Internet Exchange and Dupont Fabros Technology have entered into an agreement to build a member-operated exchange in Ashburn. The rise of Open-IX and the European model continues stateside, with LINX now having a presence in the heart...

Big Data announcements are coming from the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 in New York this week, from industry leaders such as Hortonworks, Rainstor, and Appfluent.

Verizon Terremark is experimenting with a novel way to push hot and cold air around data center racks called virtual containment. Verizon's Ben Stewart discussed the concept this week at the Data Center Efficiency Summit in Palo Alto, Calif.

Liquid-cooled servers at a data center at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory used less energy in certain circumstances than air-cooled servers on site, a researcher said Tuesday at the sixth annual Data Center Efficiency Summit hosted by...

With so much focus on cloud, it's equally important to meet security challenges that occur on modern virtualization platforms. In working with virtualization, just like any other technology, security must be a priority. It's time to create cloud...

Could barges stacked with containers and spotted in San Francisco and Portland, Maine waterways be the Google floating data center projects? Or is it another practical joke from the Googlers? Data Center Knowledge examines the mystery.

It's hard to say for sure just what's being built on a barge docked at Treasure Island, in the middle of San Francisco Bay. A data center by infrastructure innovator Google is one of the possibilities. Our photo feature provides a closer look at...