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AUGUST 26, 2013

From there, she launches into a discussion of the “customer virtualization journey”; it’s the same 3-step journey of IT production, business production, and IT-as-a-Service that we’ve heard about for several years. First, the control plane must be policy-driven. Second, the data plane must be virtualized.

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JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. Photo: Intel).

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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. New Focus on Optimization.

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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 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 15, 2013

The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. . “We have something over a million servers in our data center infrastructure. 12 Million SF of New Microsoft Data Centers?

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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 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. By: Jason Verge July 12th, 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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Data Center Knowledge

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 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 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 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. Data Centers are increasingly complex. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena.

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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 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 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. The data center IT equipment space and environment. Access and connectivity.

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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 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 Plans Huge Expansion in Ashburn. By: Jason Verge July 11th, 2013. Photo: Rich Miller).

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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. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. On Data Center Knowledge: LoPoCo Launches Low Power Server Line.

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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 15,900 square meter development at De President, Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer will feature six data halls, each capable of supporting 1.92 Digital Realty Acquires Two Data Centers in Europe.

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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 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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Since TalentWise manages sensitive candidate and employee data, it must meet stringent data security and compliance requirements, including the Experian Independent 3rd Party Assessment (EI3PA) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) designed to protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII). White Papers.

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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. . Longtime Partners in Sector.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

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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Data Center Knowledge

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 19, 2013

About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management. 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. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

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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JULY 22, 2013

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. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Data Center Strategies.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The partnership enables customers to leverage the MapR Distribution for Hadoop in conjunction with Univa Grid Engine capabilities of policy control management and infrastructure sharing to run mixed workloads with insightful enterprise reporting and analytics. ” RELATED POSTS: Big Data News: Intel, WalmartLabs, DataStax.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

It’s Friday and time for a little lighthearted fun about the data center. Here’s how it works: We provide the cartoon (drawn by Diane Alber, our favorite data center cartoonist) and you, our readers, submit the captions. ” Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor.

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JULY 24, 2013

Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. About Rich Miller Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Virtualization.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Data Domain systems now support direct backup from SAP HANA Studio via NFS, and DD Boost for Oracle RMAN now supports Oracle Exadata and SAP running on Oracle. . EMC Avamar 7 now supports all major data center workloads being directed to Data Domain systems, with the addition of file system and NAS/NDMP backups. .

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