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Private Data Center Trends for 2014 and Beyond

CTOvision

Today’s data centers are being built at the forefront of industry standards. Within the past five years, the way we construct data centers has changed dramatically. David Cappuccio, the Chief of Infrastructure Research at Gartner, told CIO that “Data centers will no longer be constrained by one specific site.

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First Look: Facebook’s Oregon Cold Storage Facility

Data Center Knowledge

Facebook has began migrating data to its newly constructed cold storage facility. On Tuesday it opened the facility to reporters, providing a look at a hyperscale implementation of custom-built long-term storage. Data Center Design Facebook Storage'

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The Convergence of High-Performance Compute and Sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Recently, data center operators have recognized the challenges associated with the ever-growing rack power density and that the demand for HPC and storage cannot be underestimated. Perspective on data center energy and water use. An HPC data center intensity is even higher.

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Where Websites Live

CTOvision

However, some larger companies that for years opted to keep their websites on on-site servers or servers in private data centers are starting to move more and more of their computing, including their sites, to third-party data centers– the migration to the cloud. So where are these giant data centers located?

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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud networking comprises three layers: first from on-premises data centers to the cloud, then within a cloud that has multiple accounts or virtual private clouds, and finally, between individual clouds in a multicloud environment. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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Big tech’s billions for climate: Here’s where Amazon and Microsoft are making their carbon bets

GeekWire

” Their priorities overlap in some areas, with shared interests in clean energy and green construction innovation. The related storage and computing operations rely on massive data centers around the world that are packed with computers that chug energy 24 hours a day. Here are the areas of focus for the businesses.

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Fountainhead: A data center trifecta? (Prediction)

Fountainhead

Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. A data center trifecta? It allows IT operations to define I/O, storage connectivity and networking entirely in software, resulting in stateless and re-configurable CPUs. is constructed and "doled-out" as a workload on #1 and #2.