Data centers are making progress on energy efficiency, but a large percentage of green initiatives remain informal and a significant number of data center operators admit to procrastinating on efficiency measures. Those are the key findings of a survey released today by AFCOM, the largest association for data center professionals. In a survey of 436 of its 4,500 member sites, AFCOM reported [...]

I am often asked for recommendations for co-location facilities, and I always respond with “What is important to you in a co-lo?” and I have not gotten the same answer twice. So, I now put it out there, what are the Top 5 considerations when picking a new co-location? If I were to answer, I [...]

Google has provided a fantastic video tour of their container based computing solution. They do a fantastic job of showing the amount of infrastructure required to effectively run a datacenter in a container. They also outline the “best practices” that this facility and method use. As well as their PUE of 1.25 – which is [...]

Because of an ever-increasing demand for data center space, we’re seeing a lot of news about Data Center construction.  Some of these exciting new projects are huge corporate affairs, while others are more focused on hosting and colocation space.  It also looks like there’s strong interest in developing more and more green data center technology [...]

What assets remain solid when the value of nearly all other financial assets are called into question? Data centers. Lehman Brothers’ real estate, including two data centers, proved central to a deal yesterday in which Barclays agreed to pay $1.75 billion to acquire most of Lehman’s North American operations. The data centers and Lehman’s headquarters [...]