The Week in Review: The cost of downtime is rising, Google building big in Iowa, Microsoft expands Dublin cloud hub, Bitcoin arms race spurs interest in liquid cooling, Node gets traction with Paypal and Groupon.
There's a computing arms race going on in the world of bitcoin mining. Interest in the digital crypto-currency is driving the development of specialized hardware using FPGAs and ASIC chips, which are selling out...
Microsoft has announced a major expansion of its Dublin data center, which serves as the primary delivery hub for its cloud computing services for Europe. The company will spend $230 million to add 169,000 square feet...
At the recent Data Center World Fall 2013 conference in Orlando, we had a chance to visit with Indra Purkayastha, CEO and Founder of Purkay Labs, who provided a video overview of their environmental monitoring tool...
In this video, Telx provides an overview of the Clifton, New Jersey campus and NJR2 data center, which currently offer 30,000 square feet of raised floor space in its first phase.
Streaming video juggernaut Netflix will be the first customer for AMS-IX New York, making it the first major Internet player to ink a deal with an Internet Exchange created through the Open-IX initiative in the U.S.
It's not exactly "Field of Dreams." But a field in Iowa provides evidence of how the data center revolution can transform a piece of empty land into a $1 billion Internet traffic hub in a matter of months.
AST Modular, the Spanish firm specializing in pre-fabricated data centers, has moved beyond the container. The company recently completed its first non-ISO Modular Data Center (MDC) project for a leading educational...
Intel, which has been a pioneer in documenting the benefits of free cooling, says high levels of pollution in China and India are shortening the live of some components of PCs and servers. It has set up a lab to...