Why are zombies always attacking data centers? We can only assume that it's because their brain-eating habits direct them to the biggest brains they can find. This time they're at Brocade.
Our contributors to the Industry Perspective channel this week shared thoughts on cloud-ready apps, data warehouse strategy, brokering IT services internally and today's outlook on the vendor scene.
This week I posted our 10,000th article since Data Center Knowledge was launched in 2005. These 10,000 news stories provide a thorough history of the data center industry over the past seven years.
The Week in Review: Intel's Hadoop announcements caps a big week for Big Data, Azure uptime expires along with its SSL certificate, Equinix boosts its cash stash, and GM plans to consolidate in Michigan.
February was a month for "big" news, such as Dell gaining a contract for 3 petabyte storage, a mysterious $1.5 billion project in Iowa, and Microsoft reaching the $15 billion benchmark in data center spending. Here's the month's top posts.
General Motors is hoping to build a $258 million data center at a research facility it owns in Milford, Michigan. The company is seeking tax abatements for the project at the Milford Proving Ground, which would feature a 100,000 square foot data...
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The Week in Review: Valuing shares of public data center companies, Texas and Virginia work on tax incentives, 365 Main focuses on the local customer, and Amazon introduces a potentially disruptive new cloud management tool.
Last Saturday Barron's took a critical look at the methods used to value data center companies on Wall Street. That kicked off a series of articles in the financial press and blogosphere debating the merit of data center investments. Here's a...
Best of the Blogs: Schneider Electric on outages and efficiency, Data Center Overlords look at network congestion, Chris Crosby mulls whether data centers have become ubiquitous, and Equinix on the changing face of media companies.