• Supercomputer ‘Watson’ Takes On Jeopardy!

    Updated: 2010-08-31 12:45:17
    Home Featured Supercomputer Watson’ Takes On Jeopardy Supercomputer Watson’ Takes On Jeopardy August 31st , 2010 Colleen Miller Dave Ferrucci , IBM scientist and Watson project director What is a supercomputer , Alex In the television game show Jeopardy where the answers are phrased as questions contestants are usually the flesh-and-blood kind . This fall , the show will give a silicon-and-metal challenger a chance to compete against . humans The computer scientists at IBM Blue Gene Research project , which is dedicated to pushing the boundaries in supercomputing , will probably hold their collective breath as a computing system of their design competes on the game show , test-driving several years of intensive work on national . television The scientists believe the computing system

  • VMworld 2010 Roundup

    Updated: 2010-08-31 12:30:25
    Home Virtualization VMworld 2010 Roundup VMworld 2010 Roundup August 31st , 2010 John Rath With the slogan virtual roads , actual clouds” , VMware’s annual U.S . conference , VMworld 2010 takes place this week in San Francisco . More than 170 breakout sessions , 30 lab topics , networking events and more than 200 exhibitors will pack the four day . event VMware VMW outlined its vision for the next decade in IT , along with new products to help businesses and governments move beyond IT as a Cost Center” to a more business-centric IT as a Service” . model A shift to a services-based relationship and much faster response to demand are two reasons why virtualization fundamentally affects more than IT , 8221 said Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman , Cloud computing is more than an infrastructure

  • Expedient Announces New Ohio Data Center

    Updated: 2010-08-31 01:30:54
    Home colocation Expedient Announces New Ohio Data Center Expedient Announces New Ohio Data Center August 31st , 2010 Rich Miller It’s already a busy week for the data center market in the state of Ohio . Today Expedient Communications the colocation and managed hosting arm of Continental Broadband , announced plans to expand into the Columbus , Ohio market with a new data center facility that will open on January 1, 2011. The announcement comes a day after Involta broke ground on a new data center in Akron , . Ohio The new Expedient facility at 5000 Arlington Center in Upper Arlington and will be the company’s first data center in the Columbus market and the eighth data center the company operates across six cities under three  brand names . Expedient also operates data centers are located

  • Microsoft Data Center Director Daniel Costello joins Google

    Updated: 2010-08-30 22:26:51
    Data Centers are competitive advantages for the Internet companies, and how much you know about your competitors helps plan your future. Microsoft's Daniel Costello has been a heavily recruited data center executive for months (I think I count 8 from...

  • Involta Expands With Ohio Data Center

    Updated: 2010-08-30 21:43:29
    Home colocation Involta Expands With Ohio Data Center Involta Expands With Ohio Data Center August 30th , 2010 Rich Miller Iowa-based data center provider Involta , LLC will expand into Ohio . The company said today that it will build and operate a 46,000 square foot enterprise data center in Akron , Ohio , which it expects to be operational by fourth quarter of 2011. Local officials hailed the 20 million project , which will rise on a site that was once a ceramics manufacturer and a lumberyard . Almost ten years ago , the lumber yard here closed and opportunity left this place , 8221 said Phio Gov . Ted Strickland . But today opportunity is returning . Involta’s decision to build their state of the art data center here means dozens of new , good paying technology jobs for the south side

  • Equinix Plans New Hong Kong Data Center

    Updated: 2010-08-30 20:28:26
    Home Asia-Pacific Equinix Equinix Plans New Hong Kong Data Center Equinix Plans New Hong Kong Data Center August 30th , 2010 Rich Miller , Equinix will build its second data center in Hong Kong , a 63 million facility to be known as HK2 that will allow the colocation and interconnection provider to support a growing base of banking and financial companies in the region . The new data center , which Equinix refers to as an International Business Exchange IBX will provide total capacity for more than 1,450 cabinet equivalents . The center will open for business in the third quarter of 2011 with a 20 million first phase that will add an initial 450 cabinet . equivalents Hong Kong is a critical data center market for global customers , 8221 said Jonathan Leung , managing director , Equinix

  • Upcoming: DataCenterDynamics DC is Tomorrow

    Updated: 2010-08-30 16:46:39
    : Home Events Upcoming : DataCenterDynamics DC is Tomorrow Upcoming : DataCenterDynamics DC is Tomorrow August 30th , 2010 Rich Miller It’s Back to School season , and that also means the kickoff for the fall conference schedule , which gets underway this week . Here’s a look at several upcoming : events August : 31 DataCenterDynamics Washington DC 2010 : Public Sector Data Centers is set for the Renaissance Washington DC . This year’s focus is The Shape of Government Data Centers to Come : Legacy Issues , Consolidation , and Shared Services . 8221 The event will feature a panel on the evolution of government data centers and an update on the Energy Star for Data Centers . program Sept . : 13-15 The Tier 1 Research Hosting Cloud Transformation Summit North America is at Caesar’s Palace in

  • Green Data Center is a standard

    Updated: 2010-08-30 15:13:34
    I’ve been blogging about Green Data Center for 3 years and been discussing the concept for a bit longer. When I started blogging about green data centers it was hard to find content I could reference. Now there is so...

  • Digital Realty, Behringer Team Up in Santa Clara

    Updated: 2010-08-30 14:58:18
    , Home Digital Realty Trust Digital Realty , Behringer Team Up in Santa Clara Digital Realty , Behringer Team Up in Santa Clara August 30th , 2010 Rich Miller Digital Realty Trust will team with real estate firm Behringer Harvard on a joint venture to develop a data center facility at the Santa Clara Tech Center in Santa Clara , Calif . The effort is the latest in a flurry of acquisitions and redevelopment projects undertaken by Digital Realty DLR to boost its inventory of data center space in Silicon . Valley Digital Realty has acquired a 50 percent equity interest in the Santa Clara Tech Center , Behringer Harvard’s three-building development on Central Expressway in Santa Clara , adjacent to Digital Realty’s flagship Santa Clara campus The property includes two buildings with 300,000

  • With HP Bid at $2B, Dell Mulls Options on 3PAR

    Updated: 2010-08-30 02:31:42
    , Home DCK Uncategorized With HP Bid at 2B , Dell Mulls Options on 3PAR With HP Bid at 2B , Dell Mulls Options on 3PAR August 29th , 2010 Rich Miller Will HP’s 2 billion , 30 a share bid for storage vendor 3PAR PAR be the last word The ball is in Dell’s court . Here’s a roundup of the latest news and analysis on the Battle for : 3PAR Dell says assessing 3PAR offer after HP trumps bid Dell Inc said on Sunday it was assessing its bid for 3PAR Inc after the data storage company’s board of directors late on Friday said Hewlett-Packard Co’s 2 billion offer was a superior proposal . 8221 From . Reuters Investors in 3Par are big winners Regardless of who triumphs in the high-stakes battle to acquire Fremont tech company 3Par , the immediate winner in the bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and

  • Maintenance & Optimization of Cooling Systems

    Updated: 2010-08-30 01:21:01
    Home Industry Perspectives Maintenance Optimization of Cooling Systems Highlighting thought leadership in the data center Maintenance Optimization of Cooling Systems August 30th , 2010 Industry Perspectives Jeff Powers is marketing manager for Emerson Network Power’s Liebert services business . Powers is responsible for leading the development and deployment of new service products supporting an overall integrated service solution in the data center . JEFF POWERS Emerson Network Power As a heat wave rolls across the United States , as it does every summer , many reach for the thermostat to adjust their home’s air conditioning only to discover that their comfort cooling system is non-responsive . A hasty call to the local HVAC provider soon alleviates the heat inspired . stress A similar

  • Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy

    Updated: 2010-08-30 01:09:23
    Home Cloud Computing Virtualization Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy The Cloud Computing Channel is brought to you by ZT Systems Red Hat Outlines Its Cloud Strategy August 30th , 2010 John Rath Last week open source software vendor Red Hat RHT laid out its vision for a comprehensive Platform-as-a-Service PaaS solution as a part of its Cloud Foundations . It’s the latest company to unveil solutions aimed at bridging the corporate data center and the cloud . Aiming to create consistency between enterprise applications and the cloud , the Foundations portfolio is a flexible cloud stack that incorporates operating system , middleware and . virtualization For the middleware strategy , Red Hat is looking to bring JBoss Enterprise into their PaaS solution as means to  take existing assets and

  • Oracle Business Intelligence Solutions

    Updated: 2010-08-30 01:09:00
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  • Customer Support for frozen Kindle 3, a 15 second fix

    Updated: 2010-08-29 14:10:03
    I wrote about having the Kindle 3, and I use my Kindle 3 much more than my Kindle first generation. But, it froze on me last night at 9p. Wouldn't turn off, reset didn't work. Plugged it in to make...

  • Dell’s New Open Data Center Image

    Updated: 2010-08-28 19:16:56
    Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Dell’s New Open Data Center Image Saturday , August 28, 2010 7:16 PM View Comments The Register makes a very good and pretty funny point about Dell’s recent reinvention . With all their recent acquisitions here in the general San Francisco Bay Area , Dell is developing a decidedly West Coast . flair Between buying Scalent , Ocarina Networks , and KACE , all Bay Area Silicon Valley-based companies , it looks like Dell is definitely making progress towards a new conception of data . centers One of the most admirable things about Dell right now is devotion to an open system in which all kinds of third-party components can be used with Dell’s systems .

  • Why I like my Kindle 3

    Updated: 2010-08-27 18:51:30
    I have the first generation Kindle and just received the Kindle 3 wifi only. For $139 it was time for an upgrade. Reading on the Kindle 3 is much closer to a book. And, I enjoy a book to focus...

  • John Cleese's ideas for Creativity leveraging the unconscious brain

    Updated: 2010-08-27 07:37:47
    Jason Z. has a great post about John Cleese. The amazing John Cleese shares his wisdom on writing, creativity, getting in the zone, and interruptions. It’s great to see advice that we hear all the time reaffirmed from outside the...

  • The World’s Greenest Data Center?

    Updated: 2010-08-26 04:55:51
    Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login The World’s Greenest Data Center Thursday , August 26, 2010 4:55 AM View Comments First of all , its nickname is Merlin . Second , it’s supposed to be the greenest data center extant . These factors place CapGemini’s newest venture high on the list of coolest data centers as well as . greenest So , say the industry average PUE is about 2.5 Merlin’s is just 1.08.  The Reuters news article doesn’t go into as much detail as one could wish about how exactly this exemplary PUE is sustained , but it does discuss the cooling technique which is a part of it all , and more information is available at ZDNet The data center was built in a recycled facility , a

  • Should You Consolidate Your Maintenance Contracts?

    Updated: 2010-08-25 19:32:00
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  • Purdue’s Solution to Overheating Data Centers

    Updated: 2010-08-24 03:31:50
    Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Purdue’s Solution to Overheating Data Centers Tuesday , August 24, 2010 3:31 AM View Comments Apparently simply slowing down IT equipment in the data center solves the problem of the equipment overheating in all this summer . heat Outages at universities can be especially catastrophic since some research projects that their facilities are working on may require continuous processing , and an outage can completely reset the whole . affair Cooling in these facilities is pretty reliable , but in the intensive summer heat many data centers are at risk , especially as global warming heats things . up The technique Purdue specialists have developed to take

  • 4 Steps to Controlling Data Center Costs

    Updated: 2010-08-23 17:40:00
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  • Data Center Energy Management: Sensors vs. Software

    Updated: 2010-08-21 22:24:43
    : . Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Data Center Energy Management : Sensors vs . Software Saturday , August 21, 2010 10:24 PM View Comments Interestingly , Viridity Software , based in Massachusetts , reckons it can provide a more affordable solution to data center energy management than the typical use of sensors . The startup has raised 8 million in funding to market this software-based management system they’ve . developed The software would cost just 500 per rack to implement , and would provide important information about server performance and power usage , so data center operators can sort out which servers are using more energy than they ought to be and which are being

  • Fanatical Support Wows TDD Enterprises

    Updated: 2010-08-20 17:52:42
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  • Rackspace “Adopts” Ed White Middle School

    Updated: 2010-08-20 17:45:51
    On Saturday August 17, over 85 Rackers, plus spouses and children, joined forces to beautify and update Ed White Middle School, Rackspace’s third adopted school in the Roosevelt Cluster. Rackers landscaped, decorated the assistant principals’ offices, painted, and even built a stage for the theater department. On top of the overall refresher the school received, [...] Related posts:Storming the New York Stock Exchange Last week marked the first ever Rackspace Financial Analyst Day... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

  • Join Rackspace and GigaSpaces for a Free Webinar

    Updated: 2010-08-18 22:48:10
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  • Free Sounds

    Updated: 2010-08-18 13:55:19
    Looking for free sounds for a project of yours... say, atmospheric background noises, or a dog barking, or laughter, piano music, a squeaking door, or anything else? FreeSounds.org is a great collection of Creative Commons licensed WAVs, MP3, AIFF files and more. You can enter a whole lot of things into their search engine and get back a whole lot of great samples. You can hear a preview for every sound, and for downloading a quick registration will do.

  • New Data Center Cooling Solution from APC

    Updated: 2010-08-17 23:49:39
    Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login New Data Center Cooling Solution from APC Tuesday , August 17, 2010 11:49 PM View Comments APC by Schneider Electric has come out with an interesting new cooling system . It’s an overhead system which uses a somewhat environmentally-sound refrigerant instead of water for cooling , so that equipment isn’t in danger from water leaks and is effectively cooled in an energy-efficient . format The InRow® OA and Refrigerant Distribution Unit RDU pumped refrigerant cooling system is very adaptable to different data center environments because of its modular nature and adjustable fans . After being mounted on a rack or installed over a hot aisle , the equipment

  • ING Dabbling in Cloud Computing

    Updated: 2010-08-17 16:16:16
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  • Cloud Hosting Interactive Webinar – Live Demo

    Updated: 2010-08-17 15:41:30
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  • Smooth-Stone & ARM-based servers

    Updated: 2010-08-15 20:39:32
    Servers consume 250-350 watts each and 90+% of our ultra-efficient data center designs today. Enter Smooth-Stone with ARM-based servers that consume 5 Watts each, provide comparable performance, and we have an amazing game changing technology.

  • OpenStack insights and code

    Updated: 2010-08-12 03:22:24
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  • A Look at IBM Storage Software

    Updated: 2010-08-11 14:46:00
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  • Smaller, modular data centers & data center news and job post

    Updated: 2010-08-10 21:24:36
    Data centers that serve the next 1-3 years of load may be more efficient and lower cost over time than those built for 5-10 years of growth. This is scalable, module data centers. Also recent news, including a position opening, quarterly results and greening data centers to grow 5x in 5 years.

  • Data Center Design Trends

    Updated: 2010-08-09 15:37:00
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  • How to Set Up a Virtualization Server

    Updated: 2010-08-06 15:05:00
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  • PowerEdge C410x — Whiteboard topology

    Updated: 2010-08-06 05:44:04
    Barton's Blog To the clouds and beyond Home About PowerEdge C410x Whiteboard topology

  • The cute little button that makes you money

    Updated: 2010-08-04 17:33:30
    Why do we leave our servers (and storage and network equipment) idling 8,760 hours a day when average peak times are well less than 1,000 hours per year? Learn about the benefits of powering down those servers when not needed to save precious dollars for more important tasks than burning power unproductively.

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