The Week in Review: Major outage for Salesforce.com, Greenpeace's odd math on Apple's energy use, EvoSwitch gets its Trek on, developing a Big Data strategy, and squirrels as a downtime driver.

Big Data (BD) is popular on all the social networks and forums. As much as it is being discussed, there is room to clarify what BD is all about and what owners of infrastructure need to be doing in preparation. Jerry Gentry and John Burke of...

Automaker General Motors will launch a major data center consolidation as part of a larger plan to drastically reduce its reliance upon third-party outsourcing firms. GM says it plans to go from 23 sizable data centers worldwide to just two, both...

The Week in Review: AOL sees a future for server huts, still no sign of data ships on the horizon, generator woes triggered Amazon cloud crash, data center stocks defy Jim Cramer's prognostications, Dell buys Quest for $2.4 billion.

How have Wall Street pundit Jim Cramer's critiques of the data center sector worked out. We look at the performance of industry stocks since Cramer told his audience to "sell, sell, sell" shares of data center companies.

Data center developer DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) and colocation provider Equinix (EQIX) had the strongest performances among public companies in the data center industry in the second quarter of 2012, notching double-digit gains amid a mixed...

Week in Review: Amazon Web Services hit by multiple outages, Apple Plans Huge New Data Center near Reno, a closer look at Facebook's new hardware designs, Google Challenges Amazon With Compute Engine, making hot water cooling work.