Most data center managers are chartered with creating a rate card in a catalog of services to assist users who are planning their budgets. This process has been complicated by virtualization. Jerry Gentry from Nemertes Research proposes a way...
The Week in Review: An IPO announced for CyrusOne, DOE plans "extreme scale" supercomputers, competition from iNYSE hasn't slowed Equinix, Facebook's energy use focused in third-party space.
This week's notable blog posts: Reuven Cohen on whether cloud computing is cheaper or just more convenient, Chris Crosby on Apple vs. Greenpeace, tips from Schneider Electric on reviving an aging facility, thoughts on utilization from Pervasive...
SoftLayer is one of the world's largest hosting providers, running more than 100,000 servers. In this video, SoftLayer site manager Josh Daley provides a tour of the company's DAL05 data center.
During the month of July, our readers were interested in stories of micro data centers being deployed at AOL and news of outages of Amazon's cloud. Here's the wrap-up of our ten most popular stories of the month.
The Week in Review: Challenges of running servers in the cold, understanding the hypervisor market, CyrusOne goes V-shaped with data center roof, Internet companies may eye New Jersey, errant "safety valve" caused Azure outage.
It's been a busy year for the dark fiber market in New Jersey. In this video, we speak with Mike Sevret of Cross River Fiber, one of the companies that has been building new routes to provide low-latency connections between the state's financial...
We recently spoke with Hunter Newby, founder and CEO of Allied Fiber, about the intersection of modular data centers and dark fiber and its potential impact on the geography of the data center industry.
The Week in Review: An Olympian effort to wire the London Games, VMware buys Nicira for $1.2 Billion, Fed data center consolidation flawed, Windows Azure hit by cloud outage, data center modules bloom along the Turnpike.
