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European Data-Center Revenue Will Double by 2015

The economical worldwide crisis is said to have affected every aspect of life on the planet. Economy, culture, religion, commerce, everything had to suffer because of it. Everything except the data-center outsourcing, that is. Europe has seen a huge number of emerging data centers and the total revenue for 2010 is an...

13 November 2009
09:06 GMT

Facebook Is Powered by over 30,000 Servers

Facebook is the world's largest social network by a large margin. With 300 million users and closing in on 350 million by the year's end, the social network is one of the most visited places online. And because of the nature of the service people tend to stick around for longer navigating the site. Add to t...

14 October 2009
11:10 GMT

Go Daddy Introduces European Data Center for EU Clients

As countries from Europe continue to have a better Internet adoption rate among its population numbers, the business world will have to adapt to the changes in technology and consider launching local products for the EU region more and more. Acting on this market trend and on its internal statistics analysis, the Go ...

18 September 2009
11:03 GMT

eBay Snatches Sun Data Center Expert

The Sun – Oracle merger makes another victim. One of Sun's veterans, Dean Nelson, has left his job with Sun to join eBay as the senior director of global data center strategy, architecture, and operations, citing job “uncertainty.” This move comes after eBay's Data Center Chief Operator, O...

9 September 2009
03:00 GMT

DDR3 and SSDs Can Save Data Center Costs, Samsung Claims

Saving costs and reducing the energy consumption are among the main priorities of today's professional users looking for a new server system to meet their data center performance requirements. In that perspective, new technologies emerge every day trying to provide customers with new ways to improve efficiency, ...

26 August 2009
06:53 GMT

Hitachi Unveils Robust and Reliable Green Data Center

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation has announced today the opening of its green data center in Yokohama, Japan, which the company claims to be one of the most robust and reliable in the industry, occupying 10,000 square meters of total floor space. In addition, according to Hitachi, the newly opened Yokohama Third Cent...

24 August 2009
11:18 GMT

Fire in Seattle Data Center Takes Out Bing Travel, Authorize.net

A fire at the Seattle Fisher Plaza data center caused outages for a number of websites including Bing Travel, Microsoft's travel planning site, and Authorize.net, an important payment gateway service provider processing credit card and e-check data for online vendors.“Last night at approximately 11:10 pm, ...

4 July 2009
04:15 GMT

Microsoft Cloud to Get Support from 2 New Mega Data Centers

The Microsoft Cloud, Online and Windows Live services are about to get a boost in terms of support with the Redmond company gearing up to open two new mega data centers, according to Arne Josefsberg, general manager of Infrastructure Services, Global Foundation Services. The new facilities are located in Dublin and C...

30 June 2009
07:53 GMT

Microsoft Data Centers at the Intersection of Cost and Sustainability

The global economic crisis provides ample opportunity to reinvigorate the focus on increasing efficiency on all aspects that combine to drive business success and data center operations make no exception to this. Microsoft is no stranger to efforts designed to increase the efficiency of data centers, from cutting cos...

3 April 2009
05:56 GMT

Microsoft Cloud Computing Futures

With its data centers running in recession mode, Microsoft has announced the birth of Cloud Computing Futures. Having a key concept at heart, a vision in which the data center is nothing more than a computer, Cloud Computing Futures aims to no less than apply the same design and programming strategies as for any inte...

25 February 2009
09:13 GMT

Microsoft Hits the Break on Construction of New Data Centers

Using the global economic downturn as argument, Microsoft revealed that it had interrupted the construction of new data centers, even though the company needed to evolve its infrastructure in order to be on par with its Cloud vision. One of the projects that was postponed indefinitely was the $500 million data center...

26 January 2009
04:49 GMT

Google's Servers Are About Protecting the Environment

Going green is the latest thing to do in the computing industry. Consequently, we are seeing several major companies resorting to a more energy-efficient business plan, which takes care of several aspects, including infrastructure. Search engine giant Google is one of these companies that are currently transitioning ...

8 October 2008
05:02 GMT

Fresh Air Can Cool Data Centers, Says Intel

Intel has recently concluded a ten-month experiment on energy saving solutions for data centers announcing that a possible answer to power and money saving would be fresh air cooling. According to the chip manufacturer giant, the experiment took place in the New Mexico desert, and air conditioning was replaced with p...

20 September 2008
04:19 GMT

Google Applies for Water-Based Data Center Patent

Google has applied for a new patent, this time for a water-based data center. The company plans to build several systems more or less at a close distance from the shore, as land is continuously being crowded by huge data centers, which use a lot of conventional energy. Each center, if approved by the US Patent &...

8 September 2008
10:31 GMT

Peter Gabriel's Website Goes Missing in Data Center Theft

Those of you who think that online identity theft is the worst that can happen, here's the bad news: how about thieves that steal not only your data, but the entire web server as well? This is exactly what happened to Peter Gabriel's website yesterday morning when all the browser requests for the webpage en...

6 May 2008
10:05 GMT

IBM Fights Web 2.0 With iDataPlex Servers

IBM has pulled out of its sleeve a new series of Web 2.0-ready servers in the iDataPlex family. The new computers are especially tailored to suit the demands of Web 2.0 sites, and can face the heavy traffic usually associated with popular social networking sites. According to the company, the iDataPlex architecture c...

24 April 2008
03:47 GMT

Intel's Chips to Save Mankind From the Cosmic Rays Threat

Chip manufacturer Intel has just revealed further details about its upcoming generations of computer processors, that are alleged to be immune to the side effects caused by cosmic rays. Although they do not affect the life on Earth, cosmic rays have the habit of causing havoc amongst electronic systems, as they go th...

10 April 2008
03:36 GMT

Dell to Ink Green IT Agreement with Oil Company Maxol

Dell has announced that it will implement a new virtual environment for the Ireland-based oil company Maxol as part of its green strategy initiative. The deal between the two companies will focus towards Maxol's data storage, business continuity and consolidation needs."Maxol had a lot of old equipment which wa...

21 February 2008
04:56 GMT

Thin Client Computers Get More Popular As Energy Price Goes Up

Electricity was never cheap, yet the restrictions and regulations imposed as environmental measures make it much more expensive. Green computers cut the energy requirements, but there is more to be done in order to keep the electricity bill at a minimum.Server manufacturer Sun Microsystems estimates increased custome...

14 February 2008
03:24 GMT

Intel Promotes Virtualization

Virtualization is one of the strongest development directions of the computer industry right now as it can lead to a new era of performance in data center environments while keeping running costs at a reasonable level. Because of the many good points that come with this technology, more and more hardware and software...

12 September 2007
11:25 GMT

Thin Computing vs. Desktop PCs vs. Datacenters

Most companies worldwide are using a quite large number of desktop systems and as that number grows by the year, so does the cost of the energy bill, alongside with additional costs like service and maintenance. Desktop virtualization aims at replacing the currently large number of desktop computer systems that are t...

10 September 2007
08:19 GMT

Going Green or Being Efficient?

The green trend that extended through the entire world did not jump over the computer industry and concerns about power consumption and energy efficiency were felt primary by the processor and mobile computer manufacturers. While the processors are coming with all kinds of technologies to make them run in a more ener...

9 August 2007
11:25 GMT

Intel Shakes Up Its Network Chips

Intel may plan sometime later this year to use its network chips as a way to exploit the major new features in data centers: multi processor based systems, processors with a multi core architecture and increased virtualization. During a Cisco Systems Inc.'s Networkers user conference, the processor making compan...

24 July 2007
06:54 GMT

HP Buys Software Development Firm

HP just announced that it will acquire the software development firm Opsware Inc, having today signed the definitive agreement of purchase. Opsware is a data center automation company that will enhance HP's portfolio of Business Technology Optimization (or BTO for short) for $1.6 billion in cash. Opsware, co fou...

23 July 2007
09:21 GMT

Google: Sue Us and We'll Open a New Office!

Or maybe not. But this seems to be the latest Google motto after the company announced that it plans to open a new data center in Belgium, a country that often brought Google quite a lot of trouble. If you didn't know yet, Google lost an important lawsuit against some Belgian newspapers, the publications suing t...

30 April 2007
06:29 GMT

Dell Designs Web 2.0 Data Centers

A company that has made a name for itself by bringing consumers the option of choosing their most suitable computer configuration and through the extended warranty and quality service is now undertaking some changes by adding to their domain of expertise the "custom built data centers".This is part of Dell Cloud Comp...

28 March 2007
05:30 GMT


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