Next Generation Data (NGD) has prepared the top floor of its massive facility in Newport, Wales to house containerized data centers. The 140,000 square foot space includes just four pillars, which NGD executives say has made it ideal for a major...
Electronics retailer Best Buy has reached an agreement to acquire managed services provider mindSHIFT Technologies for $167 million, the company said today.
Massive flooding in Thailand has shut down some of the world's leading production facilities for hard disk drives. Here's a roundup of the notable media coverage of the impact of these production halts on HDD availability and pricing.
IBM testing 50-kilowatt solar array optimized for data centers, NetApp announces SPEC benchmark results, SGI selected for HPC system at university in Japan.
ABB continues to invest in direct current (DC) power technology, which offers the potential for simplifying power distribution systems in data centers. Today ABB said it is partnering with IO on the development of a new data center module based...
In the last part of the Data Center Knowledge Guide on Modular Data Centers we look at the due diligence steps to take when selecting a modular product or modular provider
Sandia Labs cools its Red Sky supercomputer with a cooling system design that combines the use of traditional raised-floor air cooling with refrigerant-cooled rear door heat exchangers.
Facebook is reducing the number of backup generators by 70 percent at its new data center in Sweden, saying the extraordinary reliability of the regional power grid serving the town of Lulea allows it to rely upon redundant power feeds.