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JULY 28, 2013

5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. 5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. It’s not easy to stay current on the many facets of data center technology and operations. This week’s Industry Perspectives explore five hot topics for data center professionals and executives. Colocation.

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JULY 24, 2013

Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Determining the location of a data center is one of the crucial decisions for a company as it is based on strategy and goals of a company. Industry Perspectives. PRASHANT BAWEJA.

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JULY 20, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20. Racks of servers housed inside the Microsoft data center in Dublin, Ireland. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

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JULY 25, 2013

As it seeks to consolidate its IT infrastructure across dozens of agencies, the government has had trouble sorting out how many data centers it has, and even more trouble adding up all the server closets, which includes rooms smaller than 100 square feet. Now Over 7,000 Data Centers. Consolidation » Government.

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JULY 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. Data Centers are increasingly complex. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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JULY 13, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

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JULY 22, 2013

Blades » Green Data Centers. Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. LoPoCo Launches Low Power Server Line. Photo: LowPower Company).

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JULY 16, 2013

Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry Doubles Capacity in Omaha Data Center. Cosentry has doubled capacity in its Midlands data center in Omaha, Nebraska, citing increased demand as the reason for expansion. The Midlands Data Center was given Energy Star Certification in 2012.

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JULY 12, 2013

Intel is offering a new Software Development Kit for data centers that complements its Data Center Manager (DCM) product, a key ingredient in more than 80 percent of today’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offerings. Intel » Management. Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools.

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JULY 19, 2013

Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Google’s extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 billion in its data centers in the second quarter of 2013.

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JULY 11, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have two new job listings from CBRE, which is seeking a Project Manager – Data Center and an Associate Project Manager – Data Center in Mountain View, California.

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JULY 22, 2013

Data Center Videos. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. Rows and rows of custom-built servers inside an OVH data center. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.

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JULY 22, 2013

Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. Data is permeating everything we do. By: Jason Verge July 22nd, 2013.

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JULY 10, 2013

Modular Data Centers. Colt Adds 1.65MW to Netherlands Data Center. Colt Adds 1.65MW to Netherlands Data Center. The inside of Colt’s data center in the Netherlands, filled with double-stacked rows of modular data centers. Colt Sells Modular Data Center To Phoenix IT.

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JULY 18, 2013

Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. “We created some unique tax incentives, but as a data center power guy for nearly two decades negotiating power deals and developing power plants, I saw the real potential was for clean, ‘ controllable’ power.

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JULY 17, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: Cushman and Wakefield. Data Center Jobs: Cushman and Wakefield. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have a new job listings from Cushman and Wakefield, which is seeking a Project Engineer in Shelton, Connecticut. Are you hiring for your data center?

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JULY 27, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 27. Servers pack the racks in a Facebook data center. The social network’s data center power usage grew 33 percent in 2012 as it added thousands of servers to support new users. Photo: Facebook).

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JULY 11, 2013

One of the new Digital Realty Trust data centers in Ashburn, Virginia. Digital Realty plans to build a 400,000 square foot data center at its Digital Loudoun campus in Ashburn, Virginia, the company said Wednesday. Digital Realty » Washington DC area. Digital Realty Plans Huge Expansion in Ashburn.

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JULY 25, 2013

Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis Announces Availability of Rebuilt Cloud Data Center. Savvis , the cloud hosting unit of CenturyLink, announced global availability of an infrastructure as a service offering called Cloud Data Center. By: Jason Verge July 25th, 2013.

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JULY 23, 2013

Data center developer Digital Realty Trust has purchased a 5.3 megawatt data center, the company said today. The site will also offer access to multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 International Carriers, and will connect via Amsterdam’s main fibre ring to Digital Realty’s other European data centers as well as its U.S.

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JULY 22, 2013

Content delivery and security specialist CloudFlare has been growing rapidly as it builds out a global network of data centers. Content delivery and security specialist CloudFlare has been growing rapidly as it builds out a global network of data centers. RELATED POSTS: OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers.

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JULY 25, 2013

DataStax raises $45 million to expand its product development and channel growth, Cloudera adds an Apache security module for Hadoop, and Univa and MapR partner on enterprise-grade workload management for Hadoop. DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. DataStax Raises $45 million for Big Databases. By: John Rath July 25th, 2013.

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JULY 12, 2013

The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The Software Defined Data Center Meets Disaster Recovery. The concept of the software-defined data center (SDDC) rose to prominence during VMworld 2012, with VMware touting it as the next big leap forward in information technology management.

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JULY 19, 2013

DreamWorks Animation utilized HP Enterprise Cloud Services to provide a robust, scalable, cloud-based infrastructure that offers the additional compute power needed to render the 10 CG films that are in production at any given time. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge.

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JULY 26, 2013

Colocation facilities like this Equinix data center are key components of many hybrid cloud infrastructures. Enterprises are taking their time as they contemplate hybrid cloud infrastructures, and that’s translating into a longer process for leasing colocation space. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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JULY 11, 2013

Equinix (EQIX) and video advertising platform company Brightroll announced that Rocket Fuel is leveraging the BrightRoll VideoRTB+ solution on Platform Equinix to improve the ability of buyers to successfully bid on video ad inventory. colocation » Equinix » Internap » Telx. Customer Wins for Equinix, Telx, and Internap.

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JULY 11, 2013

EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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JULY 24, 2013

Continuing to sharpen its focus on enterprise cloud computing, IBM is joining forces with Pivotal to support CloudFoundry, the versatile platform as a service (PaaS) framework that allows developers to build applications that can run on multiple clouds. .” Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. Modular Data Centers.

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JULY 18, 2013

The new owner, a long-time player in data center real estate, acquired the building from Hines Property Trust. The 30-story building in downtown Los Angeles has more than 300 tenants, including dozens of data center firms and telecom carriers. ” The Data Center Premium. . Los Angeles.

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JULY 18, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: Communication Supply Corporation. Data Center Jobs: Communication Supply Corporation. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have a new job listings from Communication Supply Corporation, which is seeking a Sales Specialist – Power in Carol Stream, Illinois.

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JULY 23, 2013

A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. The need around the modern data center infrastructure continues to grow. colocation » Fortrust » White Papers. By: Bill Kleyman July 23rd, 2013.

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JULY 22, 2013

Data Center Design » Green Data Centers. Some of the power infrastructure at an Equinix data center. Equinix has become the latest provider to test drive the use of fuel cells, installing a 100-kilowatt system to generate energy for its FR4 data center in Frankfurt, Germany, the company said.

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JULY 26, 2013

The AMD FirePro professional graphics demonstrations featured unique animation, display, simulation and other creative hardware and software collaborations for attendees from around the world. Avatar, Hollywood and the Data Center. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers.

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JULY 12, 2013

The Peak Hosting deal is the latest in a series of announcements highlighting the expansion of Digital Realty’s operations in Ashburn, as well as the broader growth trends for the data center industry in Loudoun County. Phase two will feature 12 Turn-Key Flex data center PODs. colocation » Digital Realty.

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JULY 23, 2013

The exterior of the COPT DC-6 data center in Manassas, Virginia. Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT) has signed a 2 megawatt lease at its COPT-DC 6 data center in Manassas, Virginia, the company said today. COPT Building New Data Center in Ashburn. Video Tour: COPT’s PowerLoft Data Center.

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JULY 19, 2013

Vantage Data Centers. The exterior of the’ V2 data center on the Vantage Data Centers campus in Santa Clara, Calif. Vantage Data Centers has appointed Sureel Choksi as President and Chief Executive Officer, the company said Thursday. Silver Lake’s Choksi Becomes CEO at Vantage.

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JULY 12, 2013

The story focuses on the concentration of trading activity at the CoreSite data center building at 1275 K Street. CNBC writes: “The idea: Get access to federal data milliseconds faster than those traders waiting patiently for it to travel at the speed of light up fiber optic lines to markets in New York, New Jersey and Chicago.

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