• What to Read at DCK: Week of July 31

    Updated: 2010-07-31 16:30:23
    : Home DCK What to Read at DCK : Week of July 31 What to Read at DCK : Week of July 31 July 31st , 2010 Rich Miller Had a busy work week For your weekend reading , here’s a recap some of the noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past : week Ten Unique Data Center Designs These data centers have gone beyond the ordinary , incorporating innovative methods of using the layout , building or environment to create unique data center designs that work for the 21st century . These are not your run-of-the-mill server rooms , but truly one-of-a-kind facilities that have a personality all their . own The First Energy Star Data Center The NetApp data center in Research Triangle Park achieved a near perfect mark by scoring a 99 on the 100-point scale used by the Energy Star

  • Solar renewable energy generation drives desert areas closer to Peak Water

    Updated: 2010-07-31 15:23:42
    WSJ has an opinion article on Peak Water issues caused by solar power mandates. For more in depth of the comparison of the term Peak Water vs. Peak Oil check out this pdf. Peak Water Meena Palaniappan and Peter H....

  • The Blue Cube Closes - Highest of Security Data Center, Anyone?

    Updated: 2010-07-31 04:54:20
    , Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login The Blue Cube Closes Highest of Security Data Center , Anyone Saturday , July 31, 2010 4:54 AM View Comments The Onizuka Air Force Station , located in Sunnyvale and nicknamed the Blue Cube , has just ceased to be a base for secretive US Air Force . operations A sort of relic of the secret operations necessitated by the Cold War , the windowless , maze-like building remains rather mysterious . What exactly went on in there is unclear , but it had a lot to do with satellites and spacecraft . In fact , the article from the San Jose Mercury News makes me think of the graphic novel and movie Watchmen a little bit , with its talk of good and evil and

  • Facebook Will Double Size of Oregon Data Center

    Updated: 2010-07-31 02:32:27
    Home Featured Facebook Will Double Size of Oregon Data Center Facebook Will Double Size of Oregon Data Center July 30th , 2010 Rich Miller A look at the progress of construction on the new Facebook data center in Prineville , . Oregon Facebook said today that it will double the size of its first company-built data center in Prineville , Oregon , which is currently under construction . The expansion will add another 160,000 square foot shell to the 147,000 square foot facility now being built , for a total of 307,000 square feet of . space Facebook’s decision to commit to an expansion before it has even completed the first phase of the facility reflects the accelerated pace of pace of infrastructure growth for the social network , which recently reached 500 million active . users We are

  • Roundup: PEER 1, Qwest, Global Switch

    Updated: 2010-07-30 18:20:23
    : , Home Asia-Pacific Europe Roundup : PEER 1, Qwest , Global Switch Roundup : PEER 1, Qwest , Global Switch July 30th , 2010 John Rath Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s headlines from the data center and hosting : industry PEER 1 Signs Deal with Capgemini . Canada PEER 1 TSX : PIX announced that it has  signed a five year colocation agreement with Capgemini Canada . Capgemini will be taking a full Performance Optimized Data Center POD of space in the PEER 1 Toronto data center . The 40,000 square foot data center opened in January of this year . The relationship between Capgemini Canada and PEER 1 Hosting is a powerful one in the Canadian marketplace and is designed to support a robust , secure , predictable service delivery for clients in a number of different industries , 8221

  • Google Font Previewer

    Updated: 2010-07-30 14:50:39
    Google has released a tool which lets you preview and live-edit fonts which are part of the Google Font API. It's called Google Font Previewer and features fonts like Vollkorn, Lobster, Cardo and Reanie Beanie. Once you're done tweaking a font, you can copy the HTML snippet Google shows into your own page.

  • Application of Video Analysis, future data center capability

    Updated: 2010-07-30 14:46:03
    I am having a blast with this helmet cam idea. People are so excited they want to figure out how to use this as a differentiator, and ask to not tell others. I could have gone down the money pit...

  • ARM Servers in Data Centers is inevitable

    Updated: 2010-07-30 13:34:43
    I've been discussing ARM servers in data centers for a while and now it is becoming common in media to ask when will ARM have servers in the data center. GigaOm is one of those keeping up the momentum. For...

  • Atlantic Metro Debuts NYC Data Center

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:57:57
    Home New York Atlantic Metro Debuts NYC Data Center The New York Channel is brought to you by Equinix Atlantic Metro Debuts NYC Data Center July 30th , 2010 Rich Miller Building a new data center in Manhattan is a major challenge . This week Atlantic Metro Communications and Data Center NYC Group announced the opening of new facility at 121 Varick Street , which previously housed printing firms and is being converted to data center usage . Atlantic Metro has opened a first phase that includes a meet-me room and 5,000 square feet of data center . space The two companies plan to convert at least seven floors of the 12-story SoHo building into data center in a 100 million phased build-out . The key to making the project happen was convincing Con Edison to expand the building’s power capacity

  • Earnings Roundup: Akamai, Level 3, Equinix

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:14:15
    : , Home Akamai Equinix Level 3 Earnings Roundup : Akamai , Level 3, Equinix Earnings Roundup : Akamai , Level 3, Equinix July 30th , 2010 John Rath Here’s a roundup of some of this week’s quarterly financial reports from the data center : industry Akamai Shares Fall After Earnings Reports Shares of Akamai AKAM slipped nearly 13 percent Thursday after the content delivery network reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30. Revenue for the second quarter 2010 was 245.3 million , a 20 percent increase over second quarter 2009 revenue of 204.6 million . Demand for our services grew across all verticals of our business , 8221 said Paul Sagan , president and CEO of Akamai . We believe our strong performance in the second quarter demonstrated continued traction for our

  • Data Center Jobs: McKinstry

    Updated: 2010-07-30 01:05:05
    : Home Data Center Jobs Data Center Jobs : McKinstry Data Center Jobs : McKinstry July 30th , 2010 Rich Miller At the Data Center Jobs Board we have new job listings from McKinstry which is seeking a Critical Environments Operations Manager and a Critical Environments Facility Manager The Critical Environments Operations Manager will manage the maintenance activities on the data center mechanical systems to ensure system uptime , new project build out , and that the services and programs are in compliance with best practices with client and McKinstry standards expectations . The Facility Manager position will be responsible for the operations of a data center or other critical environment including uninterrupted service at all times , management and scheduling of technical teams ,

  • HP PODs Speed Purdue Research Expansion

    Updated: 2010-07-29 22:38:57
    Home Hewlett-Packard HP PODs Speed Purdue Research Expansion HP PODs Speed Purdue Research Expansion July 29th , 2010 John Rath The HP-POD data center . container HP announced Wednesday that Purdue University is using its container-based HP Performance-Optimized Data Center POD to expand and speed its ability to deliver research . projects Faced with the need to expand its research compute cluster , Purdue found its operations constrained by budget , power and space limitations . The university was particularly impressed with the speed-to-market capabilities offered by the HP . POD We provide the resources for world-leading research , and delaying this work while building a new data center facility simply wasn’t an option , said John Campbell , associate vice president , Academic

  • TelecityGroup Achieves Carbon Trust Standard

    Updated: 2010-07-29 21:07:21
    Home Green Data Centers Telecity TelecityGroup Achieves Carbon Trust Standard The Green Data Center Channel is brought to you by Rittal Corporation TelecityGroup Achieves Carbon Trust Standard July 29th , 2010 Colleen Miller TelecityGroup a European data center provider headquartered in the United Kingdom , has become the first provider to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard for its UK operations . The company also earned an ISO 14001 certification for environmental . management The Carbon Trust Standard is a carbon award that requires organizations to measure , manage and reduce carbon emissions across their own operations . By improving its carbon efficiency from January 2007 through to December 2009 across the company’s UK operations and subsidiaries , TelecityGroup achieved the Carbon

  • Ten Unique Data Center Designs

    Updated: 2010-07-29 18:35:37
    Home Featured Ten Unique Data Center Designs Ten Unique Data Center Designs July 29th , 2010 Colleen Miller Across the globe , many data center designs use an amazing amount of creativity in locating and deploying unique data centers . These are not your run-of-the-mill server rooms , but truly one-of-a-kind facilities that have a personality all their . own There is more to data center design than the straightforward mechanical approach , according to Rob Snevely , author of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology The detailed process of data center design appears on the outset to be a purely mechanical process involving the layout of the area , computations to determine equipment capacities , and innumerable other engineering details , 8221 Snevely writes . They are , of course ,

  • The Data Center Market is looking strong; recent quarter results

    Updated: 2010-07-29 17:45:55
    Recent quarterly results from data center companies show strong growth and high rack utilization. They also show that cloud computing is growing at an strong pace. Read for more details.

  • Amazon: Eli Lilly Still A Customer

    Updated: 2010-07-29 17:45:43
    : Home Amazon Cloud Computing Amazon : Eli Lilly Still A Customer The Cloud Computing Channel is brought to you by ZT Systems Amazon : Eli Lilly Still A Customer July 29th , 2010 Rich Miller Earlier today we briefly posted an item referencing a report from Tech Target’s  SearchCloudComputing that Eli Lilly had discontinued using Amazon Web Services for cloud computing services . Amazon says the story is inaccurate . Eli Lilly is still very much a customer and has not dumped AWS as was reported , 8221 said Amazon’s Kay . Kinton Slashdot It Add Your Comments Name required Email will not be published Website Comments required RESOURCE : LINKS DataCenterKnowledge Companies 365 Main APC Akamai Amazon Cisco CoreSite Digital Realty Trust Dupont Fabros Eaton Emerson Network Power Equinix EvoSwitch

  • HP's Butterfly Data Center Design

    Updated: 2010-07-29 06:01:13
    Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login HP's Butterfly Data Center Design Thursday , July 29, 2010 6:01 AM View Comments A data center that’s pre-designed , needs less than a year for construction , and offers excellent PUE but isn’t just containerized . sounds revolutionary . HP’s new offering in the works , the so-called butterfly data center , or Flexible Data Center , could well offer all this . Besides its environmental appeal , because it’s so much more economically viable than building an entire new facility from scratch , the Flexible Data Center could add an interesting nuance to the popularity of colocation . It’s also more longterm than a containerized data center approach not so

  • New Data Center Efficiency Standard Proposed

    Updated: 2010-07-26 09:56:00
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  • Back from a watery grave...IDS Data Center on a Ship?!?

    Updated: 2010-07-25 03:20:02
    . Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Back from a watery grave . IDS Data Center on a Ship Sunday , July 25, 2010 3:20 AM View Comments Well , it’s official , International Data Security IDS is back from what many thought was a watery grave . AND the initial phase of the first data center ship is set to be online and functional in October 2010 I had the pleasure of meeting with Ken Choi and Dick Naughton and was given an update on IDS , where they disappeared to , what they have been doing in secret , and when if ever the highly anticipated data center on a ship’ was going to go . live What I learned is that IDS suffered the same credit crunch every other data center and commercial

  • Technical Tavern Launches

    Updated: 2010-07-24 05:18:37
    Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Technical Tavern Launches Saturday , July 24, 2010 5:18 AM View Comments As some of you may already be aware , Team Silverback has launched a new site , http : www.technicaltavern.com It's an exciting place where the technology community can come to . connect As the name tavern implies , the Technical Tavern is designed to act as a neat meeting point for the technical community to get in on industry news and blogs , and for social . networking The main page features news and site highlights , with links to technology videos , the blog , upcoming events of interest in the community , and your own personal page once you've made an . account It's a great

  • En Espanol Por Favor

    Updated: 2010-07-23 19:12:04
    Recently, one of our customers from South of the border came to visit Rackspace to meet with their team and discuss their account. While they were here, we asked them to sit down and tell us why they chose to host with Rackspace…in Spanish, of course. Check out the video below (with subtitles for those [...] Related posts:Recent Local News on Rackspace There’s been some local buzz in recent weeks on Rackspace... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • Still Curious About the New Features of SharePoint 2010?

    Updated: 2010-07-22 02:43:07
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  • First Energy Star for Data Centers Awarded

    Updated: 2010-07-21 06:49:31
    Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login First Energy Star for Data Centers Awarded Wednesday , July 21, 2010 6:49 AM View Comments NetApp has the distinction of being the first data center to win the coveted Energy Star for data centers label from the Environmental Protection Agency . The guidelines of course are already receiving some criticism , but when facilities feature as much variety in style and location as data centers do , this is to be . expected Not only did NetApp get the Energy Star they scored ninety-nine out of a hundred possible points . Only seventy-five points are required to secure the . certification The facility is an excellent example for other companies looking to

  • Under the Covers with VMware FT (Fault Tolerance)

    Updated: 2010-07-21 02:30:01
    By any measure, FT (Fault Tolerance) is a ground-breaking technology. Introduced a year ago with vSphere 4.0, FT enables an application to continue uninterrupted even after a complete and catastrophic physical server failure. But how does it work? What is...

  • HP and Storage Retention Policies

    Updated: 2010-07-20 07:42:00
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  • IBM Power7 Hardware Planning Pitfalls

    Updated: 2010-07-15 09:44:00
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  • Meet Cassandra

    Updated: 2010-07-13 16:13:31
    Many users arrive at Cassandra after reaching the limits of what they can affordably accomplish with a traditional relational database (RDBMS). However, Cassandra is not a drop-in replacement for MySQL or Oracle. It has some features that relational systems lack and is missing some features found relational systems. If you understand your application well and are willing to think about problems differently, Cassandra might be a tool worth exploring. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • Running Windows Server 2003?

    Updated: 2010-07-12 19:31:16
    Rackspace Home Managed Hosting Cloud Hosting Email Apps United Kingdom Belgium Denmark Germany Hong Kong Netherlands Norway South Africa Sweden Hosting Solutions Managed Hosting Dedicated Server Configurations Managed Private Clouds Managed Colocation Servers Cloud Hosting Email Apps Why Rackspace Fanatical Support® Zero-Downtime Network Our Data Centers Bandwidth Billing Awards Expertise Partner Network Become a Partner Search for a Rackspace Partner Partner Login Information Center About Rackspace Contact Information Leadership Hosting 101 Programs Events Our Greenspace Initiative Rack Gives Back Briefing Program THE FANATI® Media Center Careers Investors Legal Blog Login Register The Official Rackspace Blog Running Windows Server 2003 Running Windows Server 2003 by Cara Nichols on July

  • Google Games?

    Updated: 2010-07-12 04:14:46
    TechCrunch writes: "Google has quietly (secretly, one might say) invested somewhere between $100 million and $200 million in social gaming behemoth Zynga, we've confirmed from multiple sources. (...) Zynga will be the cornerstone of a new Google Games to launch later this year, say multiple sources." Wikipedia has some information on controversies surrounding Zynga's business methods. [Thanks Mbegin!]

  • Over 1,000,000 Visitors to South African Tourism Site During World Cup

    Updated: 2010-07-09 21:24:58
    The South African Tourism website, which was used as a pivotal tool for World Cup fans, is being hosted by Rackspace Hosting. Considered a critical component of the 2010 World Cup event, the website saw the number of unique visitors sky-rocket following site reconstruction – more than 250,000 a month since June 2009. This was an increase of more than 600%! No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • Rackspace-Sponsored Youth Musicians Tour China

    Updated: 2010-07-07 21:29:33
    One of our latest community endeavors involves the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio (YOSA). We awarded scholarships to two of their musicians to attend YOSA’s “Great Tour of China.” No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • Consolidate Maintenance Contracts for Cost Savings

    Updated: 2010-07-06 09:49:00
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