The federal government has begun what looms as the largest data center consolidation in history, hoping to dramatically reduce IT operations that are currently distributed among more than 1,100 data centers.
How would your company's director of engineering react if a visitor to your data center took out a pair of scissors and cut through an Ethernet cable? In this video, the folks at Isilon Systems team with magician Scott Tokar to find out.
New data centers by Apple and HP have the hotness. Here's a look at the 10 most popular stories appearing on Data Center Knowledge in February 2010, ranked by total page views.
What becomes of a data center when it reaches the end of its usefulness? What procedures and rituals are required when a data center is turned off? Dean Nelson details the process as eBay powers down its oldest data center.
Here's a video overview of Sacramento-based colocation proivder Herakles Data, along with a look inside the company's 90,000 square foot data center facility.
These videos provide a design overview of the new TelecityGroup Condorcet data center in Paris, the company's third data center in the city and 23rd across Europe.