Roundup: The Planet offers sweeping price reductions on hosting and services, Nirvanix and Commvault partner on storage delivery, Extreme Networks unveils virtualization infrastructure tools for hosters.
Web hosting provider TurnKey Internet, Inc. says it has purchased a former federal government building in Colonie, New York as the site for a new data center to expand its operations.
The WAN Optimization market has been hot lately, as corporate networks support more dispersed audiences and cloud computing applications proliferate. Here's a look at major players and recent headlines.
A California utility will buy thermal energy storage systems and distribute them to commercial customers, hoping the move will shift power usage to off-peak hours. The concept may hold promise for the data center industry, where thermal storage is...
Can cloud computing take hold on Wall Street? Not in the current environment, according to an analysis from the TABB Group, but that could change dramatically if financial regulators took a more active role.
Oracle has been honored by ASHRAE for design innovations in its Austin data center, which pioneered approaches to hot air containment and variable speed airflow that are now common in major data centers.
A grant for $7.4 million from the Department of Energy will accelerate the development of new enclosures that can improve the energy efficiency of existing data centers, according to HP and Eaton Corp., which are teaming on the project.
The initial buzz around stealthy server startup SeaMicro has focused on its plans to build powerful multi-core servers using Intel's low-power Atom chips. But the company's patent filings reveal broader plans for an interconnection fabric that...
Princeton University will build a new data center to house its high performance computing operations, the university said last week. The 40,000 square foot facility will be built on land the university owns in Plainsboro, N.J.
Roundup: Cisco's space router operates in orbit, AboveNet says it has deployed to all 20 Equinix data centers in the U.S., Lexent Metro joins Switch and Data's GeoReach program, Huawei deplys DWDM platform for GlobeNet.