Sun co-founder Scott McNealy to advise "liquid blade" maker Hardcore Computer, Internap CDN delivers content for Sundance Festival, new cloud management release by Platform Computing, Telecity honored for green Paris data center.
Data center veteran Mark Monroe has been named the new executive director of The Green Grid, the industry group focused on helping data center operators improve the energy efficiency of their IT infrastructure.
James Hamilton of Amazon has details about the new DeepGreen data center project in Switzerland, one of a growing number of data centers using nearby bodies of water to provide cooling for servers.
Brocade made energy efficiency a top priority in the design of its new data center and corporate campus, which paid off in $2.2 million in rebates from utility PG&E and an estimated $1.5 million in annual operational savings.
BNY Mellon's Northpointe Data Center, located near Pittsburgh, has earned an Energy Star designation. The 71,000-square-foot data center houses the operations of the global financial services firm.
The nation's leading users of data center space continue to increase their use of mission-critical facilities, as nearly two-thirds are in active expansion mode, according to a survey of Data Center Knowledge readers.
Pike Research says investment in greener data centers will increase from $7.5 billion in global revenue to $41.4 billion by 2015, representing 28 percent of the total data center market.
TelecityGroup, an European data center provider headquartered in the United Kingdom, has become the first provider to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard for its UK operations.