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Dell Building Data Center Container

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:08:32 -0500

Dell Inc. (DELL) is building a data center in a shipping container for a customer, and will follow with a container product line. "We have (a container system) in the works for a customer," a Dell insider told The Register. "We are looking at that space very, very closely." The Register's Ashlee...

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Xerox PARC Plans Data Center Software

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:47:57 -0500

The Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has developed data center management software and is in talks with large data center users about the new tools, according to Greentech Media. The software evolved from Xerox tools to manage complex printing tasks, which coordinated activity of different...

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Google's Schmidt on Cloud Computing

Fri, 09 May 2008 14:33:12 -0500

Last week we noted reports from the IBM Business Partners Conference that Google (GOOG) and IBM would team up on an enterprise cloud computing initiative. Here's a video of Google CEO Eric Schmidt's presentation at the event in which he spoke about cloud computing. "We're on the edge of a truly...

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Peak 10 Gets $60 Million in Funding

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:09:20 -0500

In the latest sign of growth for regional data center companies, Peak 10 has arranged $60 million in funding to support its continued expansion. RBC Capital Markets arranged the credit facility through a bank syndicate including GE Capital Corporation and CIT. Peak 10 says it will use the funding...

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Internap Will Expand Boston Data Center

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:15:17 -0500

Internap Network Services (INAP) will add approximately 15,000 square feet of colocation to meet strong customer demand for space, the company said today. Internap's new space is located in a stand-alone 45,000 square foot facility adjacent to its existing Boston data center, and will come online...

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NJ Data Center Campus Moves Forward

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:23:33 -0500

Plans for a huge data center campus in Old Bridge, New Jersey continue to move ahead. This week the developers of the planned 1.4 million square foot Deep Run Corporate Campus cleared another hurdle in the local planning process, moving the project closer to a final approval in June. The...

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A Skeptical Look at Containers

Fri, 09 May 2008 07:22:02 -0500

The "data center in a box" approach to container computing has been controversial from the start. The merits and drawbacks of packing servers into shipping containers have been vigorously debated from day one (see Sun's Blackbox: Game Changer or Niche Product? from October 2006). Some of the...

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Digital Realty Sees 'Significant' Surge in Demand

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:58:56 -0500

Data center demand is likely to surge in the second half of 2008, as U.S. enterprise companies indicate they will be increasing both the number and size of their data center projects in the next 12 months, according to new research by Digital Realty Trust. The research findings, coming on the heels...

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HSBC Server Stolen, With Customer Data

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:20:02 -0500

The server thefts are getting out of hand. The latest incident didn't involve a data center, but involved an HSBC server in Hong Kong that contained transaction records for 159,000 customer accounts. The bank said it had lost track of the server during renovation work at a Kwun Tong district branch...

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Eaton Introduces ' World's Ugliest Server'

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:57:12 -0500

Eaton's Power Xpert Server Solution isn't going to win any beauty contests. In fact, the company is marketing it as the "Ugliest Server You'll Ever Buy." The product is clearly geared for folks who think power monitoring is sexy. With the growing focus on data center energy efficiency, that's a...

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Are You A Digg User? DCK on Digg

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:25:56 -0500

In our never-ending quest for data center news, I've checked out most of the hot social media sites. Since Data Center Knowledge keeps me busy, it's hard to find the time to be meaningfully active in more than one or two at a time. One I've stuck with is Digg, which was co-founded by a data center...

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Internap Shares Slip on Lower Guidance

Thu, 08 May 2008 10:35:23 -0500

Shares of Internap Network Services (INAP) lost ground today after the company lowered its revenue projections, citing slower growth due to fallout from outages and customer credits in its CDN network. Shares of Internap fell 33 cents, or 6.6 percent, in early trading after the stock was downgraded...

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Upcoming Data Center Conferences

Thu, 08 May 2008 08:27:49 -0500

There are quite a few industry events for data center professionals in the next couple several months. Here's a list of the schedule for May and June, with links to additional information about each event. The schedule for all of 2008 can be found at DataCenterConferences.com: May 13:...

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Virginia is for Data Centers (Still)

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:35:03 -0500

Parts of northern Virginia are running short of power for data center projects, but state officials say there are still plenty of quality development sites. Companies considering Virginia for data center projects may want to look beyond the most crowded data center clusters, according to Michael...

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Microsoft: 300,000 Servers in Container Farm

Wed, 07 May 2008 08:19:12 -0500

Microsoft will be able to pack up to 300,000 servers into the data center "container farm" it is building on the first floor of its new Chicago data center. By packing the 40-foot shipping containers with data center equipment, Microsoft will be able to manage extraordinarily dense server...

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