Amazon EC2 now adding 70,000 instances a day, Snow & Ice Data Center gets energy retrofit, Disney goes high tech to keep lines moving at theme parks, better benchmarking for supercomputers.
Carter Validus Mission Critical REIT has begun selling shares for a stock offering in which it hopes to raise between $200 million and $1.75 billion to purchase data centers and medical facilities.
Data Center Knowledge's top videos of 2010 show the topics of interest to industry execs and data center managers from powering and cooling data center space to the always-popular video tours of newly opened and innovative facilities.
Here's a video tour of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, in which Data Center Manager Matt Campbell shows off the facility's data center rooms and seismic isolation system.
Have your work or holiday plans been disrupted by the Blizzard? At least there's stuff to read on the Internet! To help out, here's a recap some of the noteworthy stories from the data center sector this past week.
Internet telephony service Skype said that it has restored service for up to 10 million users after being totally offline for much of yesterday. Here's a roundup of additional analysis of what happened and the impact on Skype users.
IBM creates cloud computing system for NATO, Open Data Center Alliance charts its future, PhoenixNAP adds Tinet, Voltaire (VOLT) in licensing deal with IBM, Unisys (UIS) helps CDC get certification.
A video tour of PEER 1 Hosting's new 41,000 square foot data center near Toronto, which houses servers for its colocation and managed hosting businesses.
BP signs $400 million global hosting services agreement with HP (HPQ), CoreSite (COR) declares dividend, Oregon town runs out of power in data center hunt.
Our special report on the world's largest data centers was the most popular story of the year at Data Center Knowledge, followed by our coverage of Facebook, Apple and Google. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular stories of 2010, ranked by total ...