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  The world's coolest data centers

• Samsung releases MLC-based SSDs for data centers

  By Lucas Mearian | 22 December, 2010 08:22

  Samsung on Tuesday released its first solid state drive (SSD) built with consumer-class NAND flash but targeted for use in enterprise-class storage systems.

• SGI offers air-cooled modular data center

  By James Niccolai | 07 December, 2010 12:57

  SGI has launched a modular data center that uses outside air instead of chilled water to cool the IT gear inside, making it highly energy efficient, the company said Monday.

• The world's coolest data centers

  By Tim Greene | 20 October, 2010 10:05

  Data centers gobble up energy and generate heat, but here are some data centers that try to do it with their own flair

• Chip startup seeks to lower electric bills in data centers

  By Dan Nystedt | 17 August, 2010 04:50

  A new startup funded by major chip makers and investment firms is taking aim at electricity bills, the biggest cost in data centers.

• Facebook doubles the size of its first data center

  By James Niccolai | 04 August, 2010 09:51

  Facebook has decided to double the size of its planned data center in Oregon before the first part of the project is even built, the latest sign of the company's rapid growth.

• Firm promises new take on containerized data centers

  By James Niccolai | 19 July, 2010 05:31

  I/o Data Centers hopes to leapfrog the competition by developing what it claims will be a new, more integrated type of containerized data center, the company said on Friday.

• Virtualization no cure-all for data center energy crunch

  By James Niccolai | 19 July, 2010 06:10

  Virtualization gave data center managers some breathing room in their battle against rising energy use, but more changes are needed to keep pace with the demands of IT departments, speakers at an industry conference said Friday.

• Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency

  By Nancy Gohring | 16 July, 2010 09:33

  A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to bring consistency to the metric and make it easier for different facilities to compare their results.

• Cloud SLA: Another Point of View

  By Bernard Golden | 17 November, 2009 08:27

  You've probably seen a hundred-or even a thousand-articles criticizing cloud computing Service Level Agreements (SLAs). A common example in those articles is the putatively low Amazon Web Services SLA. Typically authors of these kind of articles go on to cite recent outages by cloud providers, implying (or stating directly) that cloud computing falls woefully short of the true SLA requirements of enterprises, often described as "five nines," i.e., 99.999 per cent availability.

• Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?

  By Robert Lemos | 17 November, 2009 07:26

  With data center costs on the rise, Jeff Monroe is always looking for a deal.

• Data centers go underground

  By Robert L. Mitchell | 29 July, 2009 08:20

  As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines' flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline's pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded as usual.

• Researchers speed up the chase for cooler data centers

  By Robert Lemos | 11 June, 2009 00:36

  With energy costs rising and data centers at the core of IT strategy for many companies, cooling the growing number of computers jammed into data centers is an issue that has taken center stage.

• HP uses outside air, big fans, 12-foot raised floor to cool servers

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 03 June, 2009 03:44

  Just off the North Sea coast in the United Kingdom, Hewlett-Packard Co.'s EDS unit has built a data center that largely relies on cold sea air to keep servers chilled and -- by doing so -- cut the center's cooling power needs in half.

• Cisco quietly downsizing through outsourcing

  By Jim Duffy | 13 March, 2009 10:26

  When Cisco celebrated the fifth anniversary of its New England Development Center last year - a ceremony attended by Massachusetts Congresswoman Niki Tsongas and a representative from Gov. Deval Patrick’s office - the company was quietly preparing to move several jobs from there and other locations to contractors in India and elsewhere, mostly in the company's Network Management Technology Group (NMTG).

• Elastic IT resources transform data centers

  By Jon Brodkin | 08 December, 2008 09:21

  The enterprise data center of the future will be a highly flexible and adaptable organism, responding quickly to changing needs because of technologies like virtualization, a modular building approach, and an operating system that treats distributed resources as a single computing pool.

• Moving a Data Center Into the Cloud

  By Kevin Fogarty | 28 November, 2008 08:40

  A year in which the economics of the travel and hotel industries are so bad that business analysts keep making comparisons to the months immediately following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York is not generally the time most IT people would be comfortable putting together a disaster recovery plan for the first time. Most would be in their offices, sweating over spreadsheets, looking for ways to trim spending a bit more, or push a project to drive down operational costs.