Last week Arista Networks launched EOS Central, an open development platform for third-party developers to build extensions of Arista's Extensible Operating System. In this video, Arista's Doug Gourlay discusses the potential for open standards in...
Good cable management is essential to maintaining order in a data center. What does this process look like? The data center team at SoftLayer provides a closer look in this 4-minute video of its cabling operations.
Notable commentary from data center blogs: Tax break may boost colo activity in 2011, James Urquhart on the complexity of clouds, reflections on Facebook's new designs, and virtual wagering on the Top 500.
The week in review: Survey sees more companies ready to outsource data centers, Cisco rolls out its data center containers, Playstation Network to shift to new data center, Brocade launches faster Fibre Channel networking gear.
Emulex unveils new architecture for network convergence, Avaya expands networking portfolio, EMC delivers 16 gigabit Fibre Channel products based on Brocade technology, Gigamon announced new GigaVUE switch.
Cisco Systems chose a rotary system when building its new data center in Allen, Texas and put together a video to provide an overview of the system and how it works.
New data from one of the industry's leading players, Digital Realty Trust, suggests that a growing number of large companies are turning to an outsourcing model for their data centers.
Innovating in the data center industry and showcasing new designs and hardware led the top ten list of most popular stories and videos at Data Center Knowledge in April.
Week in Review: Telco CenturyLink to acquire Savvis for $2.5 billion, Microsoft reveals its specialty servers and racks, U.S. government to shutter 137 data centers in 2011, Equinix announces new data center in NJ.
The U.S. government has shut down 39 data centers so far this year, and expects to close 98 more by the end of 2011, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said in an update on the government's data center consolidation and cloud computin...