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Built in 1998 by Korean firm LG Semiconductor, the facility was abandoned when the Asian markets collapsed. For 10 years, the Welsh government has tried to fill the space. Finally, a group of entrepreneurs took over and began re-developing what will become the Next...
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Oct 20, 2008
is to give data center managers more control over making changes to their IT infrastructure. But not everyone is convinced the agentless approach is all some vendors are making it out to be.
The traditional method of managing equipment is to put an agent (monitoring software) on each piece of... More... Jul 14, 2005
I think that data center owners are probably more concerned overall about power savings," King said.
Aside from just inserting reduced watt processors in the new systems, IBM said it has managed to further reduce power draw on the systems through detached storage and more efficient network... More... Apr 13, 2007
N.J.-based managed network provider that has been around since 2001. The company helps deliver private video and digital signage networks, particularly in consumer retail and public venues. Because of the fast pace of its marketing and advertising industry, Melillo made it a high...
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Aug 15, 2008
the top data center stories of 2006. On the menu in this audiocast are stories about metrics, mainframes, blades and power and cooling, to name a few. Download the MP3 and the accompanying slides to review what happened in 2006 on SearchDataCenter.com.
Data center review of 2006: ... More... Jan 5, 2007
their data center space this year, due to infrastructure needs, like power, network connectivity and compliance requirements, according to a new survey on data center-related initiatives conducted by Campos Research & Analysis LLC (CR&A) and sponsored by Digital Realty Trust Inc.
Five out of... More... May 16, 2007
Though data center hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment is not yet the status quo, it has quickly become a design option every facility should consider.
Server and chip vendors packing more compute power into smaller envelopes has caused sharp rises in data center energy densities. Ten years... More... Jan 18, 2010
built data center servers.
That was the highlight of the Google Efficient Data Center Summit at its Mountain View, Calif. facility Tuesday. Google also confirmed long-held rumors that it uses container-based data centers and has done so since 2005.
The onboard battery backup allows custom...
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Apr 2, 2009
has a small data center located in the basement of an 81-year-old building with an aging power infrastructure. And yet the company was able to make significant improvements and forgo having to build another facility.
AgFirst is a $30 billion company that provides funding and financial services... More... Nov 4, 2008
as the data center of the future
Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) is working on designing a data center for the future, which takes its cue from nature in the form of a snowflake. The snowflake-like structures could then be stacked on top of one another as high as the data center needed. Palo Alto, Calif... More... Jul 31, 2006
Data center wins environmental and uptime certifications
Pittsburgh, Pa.-based healthcare insurance company Highmark Inc. built a new data center that received a Silver Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. The... More... Apr 4, 2006
to cutting data center costs, never let a good recession go to waste.
IT pros and Gartner researchers offer up some penny pinching tips that can cut costs in the data center during a 12- to 18-month period and help companies weather the recession. First, the bad economy gives businesses a valid... More... Jul 7, 2009
square-foot data center that supports more than 2,000 IT racks and 25 megawatts of power. SearchDataCenter.com spoke with Gary Simpson, the VP of global operations, and Mark Skiff, the senior director of East Coast real estate, about some of the design features – ramping up temperature, using...
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Oct 21, 2009
Wiersma, the data center manager for Politie, the Dutch police, told attendees at AFCOM's Data Center World conference in Las Vegas that consolidation involved numerous challenges. Now complete, the project includes seven data centers and a highly secure facility in a secret location for the...
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Apr 8, 2008
data center temperature and humidity ranges. But do the changes matter to users?
ASHRAE ASHRAE Technical Committee 9.9 (TC 9.9)members reported out on the expanded range last week during a session at the group's winter meeting in Chicago. The ASHRAE extended environmental envelope, as... More... Jan 27, 2009
reasons, data center site selection experts say.
Google's $600 million Iowa data center project is under construction on a 55-acre site at the Council Bluffs Industrial Foundation's new business park and is expected to open spring 2009. The two-building project includes the purchase of an... More... Jun 26, 2007
s annual data center event yesterday. According to Claunch, it's technologies like virtualization, grid and liquid cooling that will have the most visible impact on the way data centers operate in 2007.
According to Claunch, data center pros are going to be using... More... Nov 30, 2006
be a boon to data center managers ready to swap their mainframe for a crop of Windows servers, but it isn't likely to fuel a mass exodus.
Still, Microsoft's efforts to move into the data center, an environment traditionally dominated by the mainframe, is taking shape, observers said. In fact, many... More... Sep 30, 2004
Data center consolidation: Columbia University's molecular biophysics department recently consolidated its five data centers to one -- a move the school says increased server availability by about 30%.
Hans-Erik Aronson, senior systems analyst/programmer at the New York City-based... More... May 26, 2006
and out of a data center, and to create a space for air distribution.
Be sure that the load ratings for all raised floors and ramps are adequate to support all of your racks and equipment. Cast aluminum tiles in the raised floors seem to handle heavier load better than other materials, but check with... More... Feb 28, 2005
in the data center. As long as overall enterprise workloads stay split between mainframe and Unix/Linux/Windows or shift away from the mainframe altogether, the mainframe's future is in question.
A new enterprise architecture concept Apr 30, 2008
that allows data center managers to measure and control how much power their servers are using.
Big Blue said the new release monitors the power to individual servers or groups of them, and has a new feature that can set a ceiling for how much power can flow to a particular area of the data center.
One... More... Nov 21, 2006
for some data center operators.
The single-socket physical servers slide into Rackable's CloudRack enclosure trays and run divided workloads. They are based on what the company calls its "MicroSlice" architecture and are Rackable's smallest servers to date. Rackable is known for half-depth... More... Jan 26, 2009
BT Infonet's data center in El Segundo, Calif., had trouble keeping up with the numerous alerts and volume of data generated by multiple monitoring tools. "We have different monitoring tools that generate a lot of data," said Armand Shirikian, BT Infonet's senior IT manager of operations. "With...
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Apr 3, 2008
the whole data center industry and make everything we've built over the past two decades obsolete. It will allow IT to scale without effort, at minimal cost! It is an on-demand data center with zero capital outlay! It slices, dices and juliennes! But even in the best-case scenario it seems like it can...
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Dec 31, 2008
an emerging data center tool over the last few years.
Perhaps no one in the marketplace has capitalized on the trend as much as VMware, which leads the space in market share. According to the company, a subsidiary of EMC Corp., business has doubled every year for the last four years. Aug 16, 2005
be in your data center.
On average, 45 to 60 watts per square foot is typical. However, a densely packed server room may require 80-100 watts per square foot or more. Don't forget to add the power requirements for the overhead lighting, UPS, rack mounted fans and air-conditioning units. Next, estimate... More... Feb 28, 2005
in a data center and the relationships between those components.
The technology is designed to help data center pros figure out what equipment they have, where it is, how it's connected and the impact of changing it. CMDB offers control over the data so that it can only be changed by... More... Apr 5, 2006
out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro. An AMD executive discusses interoperability issues with Intel, live migration and AMD's virtualization-assist technologies...
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Sep 16, 2008
colocation data center under investigation for fraud
The company that runs a Dallas colocation data center which the FBI raided last week is under investigation for fraud, according to a report. CBS in Dallas, citing court documents related to the raid, reports that Core IP Networks is one of... More... Apr 6, 2009
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