The number of IT facilities included in the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative (FDCCI) continues to grow. The number, which started at 432 in 1999, grew to 3,000 last year and has now exploded to nearly 7,000. The culprit: server closets.
When the staff at OVH's newest data center need to install a new server, they don't need to go far to find one. The huge web hosting firm builds its own custom servers on-site at its facility in Beauharnois, Quebec, creating perhaps the shortest...
This week's Industry Perspectives offered key takes on several aspects of the data center industry, including a closer look at the benefits of cloud computing, scalability and app management in cloud environments, takeaways on DCIM from Gartner...
The Week in Review: Microsoft's million servers, One Wilshire changes hands, Google spends $1.6 billion in 90 days on data centers, Yahoo expands its wind-cooled coop campus, Telx expands to another Manhattan telecom hub.
This week, notable posts from an all-star lineup of data center veterans, including KC Mares of Megawatt Consulting, James Hamilton of Amazon, Mark Thiele from Switch and Compass Datacenters' Chris Crosby.
In light of Steve Ballmer's confirmation that Microsoft has more than 1 million servers, we've updated our list of Who Has The Most Web Servers? The list also features new totals from Facebook, OVH, Akamai, Rackspace and eBay.
