External Data Center News

Last week, I attended HP’s Converged Cloud Tech Day in Puerto Rico. Fellow colleagues attended from North, Latin and South America. The purpose of the event was to 1) take a deep dive into HP’s cloud offerings and 2) visit HP’s Aguadilla location, which houses manufacturing and an HP Labs presence. What makes the story […]

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Peer 1 has introduced its Mission Critical Cloud, an offering built on Tier 3 and VMWare that leverages the flexibility of public clouds with the needed features of enterprises.

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Pushing into a new frontier in the field of U.S. supercomputing with 11.6 petaflops of power, the $350 million Blue Waters supercomputer was dedicated last week at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The Cray supercomputer is made up of over 300 cabinets,...

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is using a mobile enclosure from Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS) for conducting sensitive research into the safety of space tourism.

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A U.S. government watchdog agency has found that nearly half of 14 large ongoing military IT projects are over budget and more than half are behind schedule.

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With public and private cloud emerging as true business tools, it's time to learn how to improve agility by easily tapping into new capacity resources.

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Spanning from basic file backup to a total restore, the lower costs and higher resiliency of cloud infrastructure have re-framed disaster recovery discussions by providing greater options, writes Cortney Thompson of Green House Data.

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Digital Realty Trust continues its initiative to buy fully-lease income properties and expand its portfolio with a facility in suburban Minnesota.The deal continues Digital Realty’s initiative to buy fully-leased income properties, which generate revenue through rent from existing tenants, and an...

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Amazon added a new element to its Cloud Drive service this week that expands it usefulness. The new Cloud Drive Sync app keeps files in sync across different devices and platforms, and pits Amazon Cloud Drive head-to-head against rivals such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple. However, businesses should steer clear of Amazon Cloud Drive.

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PeakColo has experienced strong growth by focusing on sales of turnkey "white label" cloud offerings through reseller channels. The Denver-based company is filling a need for IaaS products for value-added resellers.

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The business case for custom data centers are sometimes driven by special technical requirements, rath¬er than a better ROI. In those cases, the IT architects should be asked to make a solid business justification for its long term viability of the specialized IT hardware, as well as the...

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I've been a part-time, work-from-home employee for years now. And yes, I do work. A lot. Still, I hear whispers from coworkers who wonder if I'm just avoiding a commute to spend quality time with my laundry. And then there are the moms I meet at the park on my day off--the ones who say they love "working from home" (complete with air quotes) because it "gives me so much free time."

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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's recentA ban on telecommuting sent shockwaves across the business world. Pundits were quick to take sides, with supporters of the work-at-home option insisting that suchA arrangements "can make you more productive," and naysayers denouncing telecommuting as "the worst of everything."

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Internap was the best performing data center stock in the first three months of 2013. Shares of the the Atlanta-based colocation provider soared 34.9 percent on the quarter, as strong earnings made it the standout performer in a decidedly mixed quarter for the data center sector.

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During the month of March, Microsoft news dominated our reader's attention, with a feature on its ultra-efficient Dublin data center topping our list of most popular articles on Data Center Knowledge.

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Data center automation company Univa, announced the release of Univa Grid Engine Version 8.1.4 with 46 new updates, and enhanced support for Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors.

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You might be surprised to learn that many large organizations commit to cloud computing without really knowing their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and projected Return on Investment (ROI), writes Ravi Rajagopal of CA Technologies. It’s not that they’re irresponsible and ignoring this requirement....

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Worldwide spending on IT products and services will grow 4.1% this year to roughly $3.8 trillion, according to new forecast figures released by analyst firm Gartner.

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SoftLayer now supports more than 100 million active game players online worldwide, and has added 60 new gaming companies to its customer list in the last two quarters alone. What's its secret sauce for gaming?

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In its first days of operation, the new Stampede system at the University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) debuted as the world's seventh-fastest supercomputer. But there's plenty more power in the pipeline.

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Now, more than ever before, the data center has truly become the heart of any organization. This guide examines how Cisco's Domain Ten can be applied to a diverse range of data center projects.

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With approximately 4 million IT jobs available United States, there's a serious shortage of qualified data center staffers. AFCOM President Tom Roberts says the best way to improve this situation is to standardize the education path for data center professionals.

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Intelligent storage systems can help an organization cut costs and control very vital resources. In this white pape, HP describes how utility storage creates a unified platform for efficiency and growth.

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Oracle (ORCL) announced a complete refresh of its midrange and high-end SPARC server lines with new SPARC T5 and M5 servers running Solaris. Building on the SPARC T4 platform, the new servers complete Oracle's SPARC family, spanning entry-level, mid-range and high-end.

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A new piece of malware that infects point-of-sale (POS) systems has already been used to compromise thousands of payment cards belonging to customers of U.S. banks, according to researchers from Group-IB, a security and computer forensics company based in Russia.

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DreamWorks' latest movie, "The Croods,"pushed the boundaries of high-performance workloads, requiring more than 80 million render hours to generate visual images from 3-D models.

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Citing strong demand and limited supply in the Toronto data center market, Digital Realty Trust has acquired a mixed-use property in Markham, Ontario and will convert part of the site for data center use.

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Big Switch Networks this week introduced introduced Switch Light, an open source thin switching software platform. The release is a step toward BigSwitch's ambitious goal to accelerate the adoption of OpenFlow-based networking, providing more choices in networking hardware.

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Virtualization, cloud services and SaaS is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing.

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Virtualization, cloud services and SaaS is making it much easier to shift IT infrastructure operations to service providers, and that is exactly what many users are doing.

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An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off on what is expected to be the fastest trip to the International Space Station in the history of space flight.

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Apple Insider has obtained some aerial photos and one close-up of a new structure on the Apple data center site in Reno, Nevada, which raises some interesting questions about its design and how Apple is staging its deployment of capacity.

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Oracle (ORCL) announced that it is opening a data center in Japan, to support its RightNow Cloud Service. Meanwhile, Akamai (AKAM) expands its partnership with Korea's KT, and ITG expands with Interxion in London.

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Equinix has announced the latest in series of major projects in Singapore, teaming with real estate investment trust Mapletree Industrial to build a 385,000 square foot data center that will add capacity for another 5,000 cabinets of servers and IT gear.

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David Bills, Microsoft's chief reliability strategist, outlines the challenges facing all cloud service providers as they strive to provide highly available services to power the digital lives of billions. Providers now need to factor resiliency in at all levels and across all components of the...

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In a recent study by Carnegie Mellon University it is believed that video game consoles cost U.S. homeowners more than $1.24 billion per year. A significant portion of that cost is due to 10.8 terawatt-hours of power consumption (is that right?), according to their study.

We can all agree wasted energy adds up quickly when you have gamers starting at a very young age and continuing into adulthood. No worries, just like anything else there is a solution and believe it or not it is SIMPLE. All you games really need to do is fully turn off the console when you are done. And don’t worry, your game will save. It’s no longer the days of the Atari 2600 when all your settings and achievements get lost when you power down.

Sony and Microsoft have worked to make their products more energy efficient however;, both the Xbox 360 and PS3 still draw significant power. If gamers choose to let their consoles go into standby mode and not completely power them down as they often do, the game console can continue to consume about 75 watts of power..

To provide the consumer with a better understanding of this high cost and wasted power issue, game console manufactures can create efficiency charts that show the power wasted over a certain period of time if the console does not get completely powered off.

Manufacturers can utilize Raritan iPDUs to implement power efficiency testing methods that can build a framework for game console power utilization efficiency standards.

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With the expansion of cloud computing and various cloud services – many organizations are now further considering some type of cloud model. In many instances, companies looking to keep their data outside of a provider are looking to move to a private cloud platform. Where this type of environment...

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The advantages of a custom design can look and be attractive, since they may be able to accommodate non-standard IT hardware or provide very high energy efficiency or high cooling density. However there are potential pitfalls for those who have not had a great deal of experience with custom designs.

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