datacenterknowledge — Hugh Lindsay is the Director of Data Center Software Solutions, Offer & Strategy at Schneider Electric. As the owner of Schneider Electric’s StruxureWare for Data Centers program, Hugh provides vision and guidance to the software development teams across Schneider. HUGH LINDSAY Schneider Electric For the better part of the last decade, the data...
datacenterknowledge — An illustration of ViaWest's plans for its new data center in Las Vegas. (Source: ViaWest) Las Vegas continues to be a hot market for data center development. Data center services firm ViaWest said this week has completed a lease agreement on a 110,000 square foot facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada, which...
datacenterknowledge — A look at the new Alcatel-Lucent 7950 XRS family of core routers (Photo:Alcatel-Lucent) Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) has unveiled new 7950 XRS (Extensible Routing System) core routers, allowing network operators to embrace the rapid adoption of ‘cloud’ applications, the explosion in video traffic and the widespread use of smartphones and tablets and prepare the core of...
datacenterknowledge — At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from McKinstry, which is seeking a Senior Account Executive in Seattle. The Senior Account Executive, will be responsible for providing engineering and estimating services to potential customers/clients; planning sale policies, goals, objectives and budgets with the Director of Business Development...
datacenterknowledge — In April, about 400 developers attended OpenStack Design Summit, which was held in San Francisco, and more than 1,000 people turned out for the related conference event. This convening occurred shortly after the release of the Essex version of OpenStack OS. OpenStack is open source software for building public and...
datacenterknowledge — The question of data center hot isle and cold isle containment is no longer “what is containment,” but now, “How much containment is enough?” There is no one answer to optimum degree of containment, as architectural environments, business objectives, deployment constraints, and cost-benefit curves all weigh on the decision. Data center...
datacenterknowledge — Vaibhav Bhatia is a Senior Consultant with the Sustainability Practice at Infosys Limited and a certified Data Center Associate. With 9 years of IT experience, he has managed operations of a data center, and worked on several data center optimizing and Green IT initiatives. VAIBHAV BHATIA Infosys Ltd. In Part 1 of this...
datacenterknowledge — Rackspace President Lew Moorman discusses the company's support for the Open Compute Project during the project's recent summit in San Antonio. (Photo: Colleen Miller) SAN ANTONIO – In the battle for the hyper-scale data center, long-dominant server OEMs like Dell and HP are doing battle with a growing challenge from firms...
aws.typepad — You can now view and modify the contents of your DynamoDB tables from within the AWS Management Console. With the addition of this new feature, you can learn by doing -- trying out a number of DynamoDB features without even writing any code. You can create a table, add some...
forbes — On March 11, 2010, Conan O’Brien (@ConanOBrien) announced “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour” on Twitter via a single tweet. The reaction was immediate. Within two hours, the national 32-city comedy tour was sold out and new shows had to be added to meet demand. Welcome to...
datacenterknowledge — Telx has expanded its infrastructure at 200 Paul Avenue, a key connectivity hub in San Francisco. (Photo: Digital Realty) Telx got its start on the east coast, but is rapidly expanding its data center presence in California. Today the company announced its third expansion in just six months in strategic west...
datacenterknowledge — Cequel Data Centers continues to grow through acquisitions. This week the company announced the acquisition of TierPoint, a regional provider of colocation and cloud computing services in the Pacific Northwest. Cequel Data Centers is a portfolio company of Thompson Street Capital Partners, Charterhouse Group, and Cequel III that was formed to acquire...
datacenterknowledge — EMC announced it has acquired privately held Syncplicity, a cloud-based file management solutions provider.The deal was announced as the 2012 EMC World got underway this week in Las Vegas, and was accompanied by news about product announcements being made at the event. Syncplicity provides native cloud-based sync and file share capabilities, enabling organizations...
datacenterknowledge — Today’s data centers are more complex, more interdependent and more critical than ever before. This has led to the need for more intelligent and automated IT infrastructure management. The tools which enable the data center team to effectively and efficiently operate this complex environment have been grouped into a classification...
datacenterknowledge — Cloud South has opened a colocation and disaster recovery facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, the company announced recently. The 6,500 square-foot facility was originally designed and built by Global Crossing in 2003 and operated as a private data center until 2011. In 2011, the property was upgraded to serve as...
zdnet — A few years ago I would have had trouble naming more than a handful of UK-based cloud start-ups. Today there are several dozen that are very successful businesses, and I’m proud to be organising a EuroCloud UK event in London this Wednesday at which the CEOs of several will be...
datacenterknowledge — A photo Google released last week showing servers in one of its facilities. Click for larger version of the image. (Photo: Google) It’s been a while since we’ve had a good look at the inner realms of a Google data center, where the company houses its servers. Oh sure, we’ve seen...
datacenterknowledge — At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have three new job listings from ZT Systems, which is seeking a Storage Architect in Freemont, Calif.; a Field Application Engineer in Freemont, Calif.; and a Systems Engineer in Seattle. The Storage Architect, located in Freemont, will be responsible for engaging strategic storage vendors (HDD,...
datacenterknowledge — Here’s our review of some of this week’s noteworthy links for the data center industry: Ecritel Leases Paris Space With Digital Realty: Ecritel, a provider of internet hosting and managed services for businesses, has signed a new long-term lease at Digital Realty’s Paris facility, the companies said today. The lease commenced...
datacenterknowledge — Markku Willgren is President of U.S. Operations for Blancco, where he focuses on the data security sector. His expertise encompasses asset disposal security and process efficiency, regulatory compliance and data erasure technology. MARKKU WILLGREN Blancco How can data centers and businesses protect massive amounts of data created by cloud computing? Physical security is...
datacenterknowledge — At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have two new job listings from Google, which is seeking a Mechanical Engineer, Data Center R&D and an Electrical Engineer, Data Center R&D in Mountain View, Calif. The Mechanical Engineer, Data Center R&D, will be responsible for researching new designs, materials, and construction methods...
datacenterknowledge — Jerry Gentry is Vice President, IT Program Management at Nemertes Research I used to work for a company that did financial transactions. Every week the owner of one of the main transactions reported greater than 99.5% uptime on the application. A new CIO came on board and shortly afterward there was a...
datacenterknowledge — The "PowerHouse" by Active Power is a modular facility unit which contains all the power gear to power up a data center. (Photo: Colleen Miller) Active Power brought its “PowerHouse” modular unit to the Modular Data Center Campus as part of the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 in Santa Clara, Calif. for...
datacenterknowledge — The exterior of the IO.Anywhere pre-fabricated modular data center, which was among four modular concepts on display last week at the Uptime Sympsium in Santa Clara, Calif. (Photo: Colleen Miller) IT infrastructure provider IO has emerged as one of the leading providers in the global market for pre-fabricated, modular data centers....
datacenterknowledge — Schneider Electric pre-fab module at the Uptime Institute conference. The power module can handle 500kW of power for data centers. As part of the Uptime Institute Symposium’s “Modular Data Center Campus,” Schneider Electric brought a 50,000-pound pre-manufactured power facility module to Santa Clara Convention Center for event attendees to walk-through the...