External Data Center News

The latest industry news from external feeds

Saturday, March 13th

How Fast Can You Build A Server?

Sat, 3/13/10 @ 17:55 - From Data Center Knowledge

Participants in The Planet Server Challenge at the SxSW conference in Austin have a deconstructed Pentium4 server sitting on a table in front of them, and must put it back together as quickly as possible.

Baltimore Technology Park nears completion of data center expansion

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 11:56 - From Data Center Dynamics

Company pre-sells some future space, says demand is high in Baltimore

Roundup: Equinix, Nirvanix, Nasuni, Ixia

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 11:23 - From Data Center Knowledge

The Boston Options Eschange moves its operations to Equinix (EQIX), Nirvanix added to Nasuni list of cloud providers, and Ixia hosts low-latency measurement summit.

SunGuard buys Irish data center firm 365 Hosting

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 11:00 - From Data Center Dynamics

Buyer says deal gives it access to new geographic market

CJC to provide support for Thomson Reuters offering for trading firms at Savvis data centers

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 11:56 - From Data Center Dynamics

Partner to manage maintenance, monitoring, capacity and problem resolution

Cancer Research UK colocates with Interxion

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 11:00 - From Data Center Dynamics

Charity moves into supplier's London data center after comparing outsourcing and retrofit costs

Cisco Lets Slip Plans For Container-based Data Center

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 10:23 - From Data Center Dynamics

Cisco Systems may soon be offering a container-based data center after an executive admitted that it looking at the option as part of its unified computing system.

NaviSite Sharpens Enterprise Focus

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 10:07 - From Data Center Knowledge

NaviSite (NAVI) said it expects the most growth to come from enterprise customers, and focus on that segment as it prepares to launch its managed cloud offering.

Data center manager of the year weathers hurricane, merger

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 10:23 - From Search Data Center

Chevron's Michael Greeney won AFCOM's Data Center Manager of the Year award for his leadership during a disruptive merger and a devastating hurricane.

mattokeefe: RT @acroll: When people say "like oil and water" they mean that they don't mix well. I prefer "like Cesium and water." http://bit.ly/1y3 ...

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 09:38 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @acroll: When people say "like oil and water" they mean that they don't mix well. I prefer "like Cesium and water." http://bit.ly/1y3 ...

mattokeefe: RT @jeremiahg: Did you know XSS can retrieve passwords from a browser's password manager stored for the vulnerable website?

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 09:49 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @jeremiahg: Did you know XSS can retrieve passwords from a browser's password manager stored for the vulnerable website?

Horizon’s Expansion Begins at Power Loft

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 07:05 - From Data Center Knowledge

Horizon Data Center Solutions has leased space at the new Power Loft data center in Manassas, Va. as the first step in an ambitious national expansion. CEO Lance Smith says Horizon plans to have a data center footprint in three key markets - Texas, northern Virginia and California.

Data Center Monitoring Key to Cost Savings

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 06:06 - From Data Center Knowledge

This white paper from Aperture explores how real-time access to key data center metrics can help effectively plan and manage capacity, right-size the data center to meet business demands, improve operational efficiency and prevent outages.

SunGard Acquires Irish Provider Hosting 365

Fri, 3/12/10 @ 04:19 - From Data Center Knowledge

SunGard has acquired the parent company of Dublin-based Hosting 365, providing the company with a strong presence in Ireland. The deal continues recent investments by SunGard Availability Services, which has announced expansions in the Sacramento and Atlanta markets this year.

mattokeefe: RT @dkaz: while researching how/if reCAPTCHA has been cracked, I figured out why I can never land a SuperBowl ticket http://tinyurl.com ...

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 21:36 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @dkaz: while researching how/if reCAPTCHA has been cracked, I figured out why I can never land a SuperBowl ticket http://tinyurl.com ...

mattokeefe: RT @samj: Still spend a fortune on Mac apps, but I can't think of anything I need to buy for Android.

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 20:24 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @samj: Still spend a fortune on Mac apps, but I can't think of anything I need to buy for Android.

mattokeefe: RT @onsaas: HEADLINE: Business <- <fotc>It's biz-ness time!</fotc>

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 19:43 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @onsaas: HEADLINE: Business <- <fotc>It's biz-ness time!</fotc>

mattokeefe: Mac apparently uses OpenCL for html5 vid acceleration. Nice. http://is.gd/ahe3G

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 18:50 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: Mac apparently uses OpenCL for html5 vid acceleration. Nice. http://is.gd/ahe3G

Cisco tries to expand video calling with IME

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 18:40 - From Computer World

Cisco Systems plans to extend unified communications beyond individual enterprises, introducing a new appliance and a protocol that the company hopes will become an industry standard.

NaviSite cuts losses, continues shedding colocation-only data centers

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 16:27 - From Data Center Dynamics

Provider gets first managed services client; sets launch date for new cloud services

Equinix wins new electronic exchange customer for New Jersey data center

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 16:27 - From Data Center Dynamics

Boston Options Exchange to move matching engine to Equinix facility in Secaucus

Data center power management at forefront of IT agenda

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 14:20 - From Search Data Center

In their data center power management tactics, managers attempt to squeeze as much capacity out of every energy dollar as possible.

SNIA backs EU Code of Conduct for Data Centers

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 13:11 - From Data Center Dynamics

Storage industry group to issue guidelines on implementing Code's best practices

mattokeefe: Found a way to shorten my commute: http://bit.ly/9Ckrvt

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 12:23 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: Found a way to shorten my commute: http://bit.ly/9Ckrvt

Ousley named full-time CEO at Savvis after two months as interim chief

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 11:44 - From Data Center Dynamics

Data center provider board says new exec has proved himself in interim role

Verizon and three network vendors transmit real traffic at 100 Gbps over 1,500 km of fiber

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 11:45 - From Data Center Dynamics

Companies say trial’s success validates maturity of the technology

mattokeefe: I will watch OSI more closely now: http://is.gd/aepi1

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 11:21 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: I will watch OSI more closely now: http://is.gd/aepi1

Ethernet switch sales may have forced Brocade product exec out

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 09:00 - From Network World

Senior Vice President Marc Randall left Brocade following disappointing first quarter sales of Ethernet switches.

A Closer Look at Emerson’s SmartAisle

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 08:15 - From Data Center Knowledge

In this video, Emerson's Fred Stack provides an overview of the SmartAisle, a new enclosure system that combines cold-aisle containment, in-row cooling and management tools to offer data center managers greater control over temperature and energy use in their environments.

Microsoft To Cut Data Center Costs in Half

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 08:38 - From Data Center Knowledge

After years of investing up to $500 million in each data center project, Microsoft plans to spend about $250 million or less on each data center going forward. Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons said his goal is for Microsoft's data center network to be "incredibly scalable at awesome cost...

Live data center modernization: A nail-biting experience

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 08:12 - From Search Data Center

Modernizing a live data center with no downtime is no small task, but a data center colocation company managed to do it.

Roundup: SGI Sets Performance Mark, AboveNet

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 07:19 - From Data Center Knowledge

SGI's Altix ICE integrated blade cluster is the leading performer in SPEC benchmark tests for HPC, and AboveNet becomes cash flow positive as revenues from lit services surpass those for dark fiber.

EnerNOC takes an integrated approach to energy management

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 07:21 - From ZDNet

I've written about energy management company EnerNOC in the demand response sense, based on the work that it is doing to help companies with generating capacity reduce their grid dependency in peak demand situations. (As a reminder, here's my post about how EnerNOC is working with a New York-based data...

mattokeefe: @raykrueger yeah, maybe we could help fund Larry's next yacht

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 07:55 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: @raykrueger yeah, maybe we could help fund Larry's next yacht

Roundup: Telx, SoftLayer, 100GB Trial, GlobeNet

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 06:37 - From Data Center Knowledge

SoftLayer partners with Telx for connectivity and colo, 100 GB per second Ethernet test by Verizon (VZN) and Juniper (JNPR), GlobeNet and Alcatel-Lucent complete submarine cable linking U.S. and Latin America.

DatacenterDynamics New York - Thought leaders to challenge pre-conceptions of data center design and management and address the latest energy efficiency initiatives

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 04:08 - From Data Center Dynamics

New York’s largest gathering of data center professionals takes place on March 3rd at the Hilton New York

DatacenterDynamics welcomes more than 1,000 data center professionals to its 8th annual New York conference

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 04:08 - From Data Center Dynamics

This year's is a record number of attendees to the largest DCD event in the US

First Data names Forehand CEO; Capellas steps back

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 04:51 - From ZDNet

First Data, a leading e-commerce and payments player, named Joe Forehand as new CEO. Meanwhile, Michael Capellas will join buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts KKR as a senior advisor focused on technology. The CEO swap occurs on March 31. by Larry Dignan

APC Launches Data Center Efficiency Calculator

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 03:53 - From Data Center Dynamics

APC by Schneider Electric is offering a free online tool to help organisations see how various power and cooling designs can affect the efficiency and electrical cost of a typical data centre configuration

What is IT’s role in ensuring energy efficiency in the data center?

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 00:06 - From INFRARATI

What has IT got to do with making sure that the data center power, energy usage, and utilities are managed cost-effectively? This question was posed on the Data Center Pulse group on LinkedIn. A wonderful discussion developed about why Facilities and IT should working closely together. With quotes like “As an IT guy, I aways assumed that if there was physical space in the room, then there was enough power and cooling.” Or “My CIO doesn’t see an electric bill because the facility folks can’t break it down to the room level (yet) so IS isn’t incentified to reduce cooling or electric costs.” Discussion about treating the data center as a system, getting the right information, monitoring IT equipment and how to translate that to communicate with building control systems (e.g. BACNET). The discussion shows there is still a big gap between the different folks that are working in a data center: facilities, the server, storage and network people who make their one choices and hardly aware of the impact of this choices for the other groups. Awareness of energy usage is just starting but ideas about what to do and who should do what is still hazy. This technical, process oriented, organizational, commercial interdependency is described in the chapter “Why Green IT is Hard - an Economic Perspective” in the coming book of the Greening IT Initiative. Energy efficiency in IT is a very interesting topic but there is still a lot of work to do to get things done.