Yahoo’s new data center in Lockport, New York will feature a new design that the company has dubbed the Yahoo Computing Coop. Chief Yahoo David Filo announced the new design today in a blog post, saying the name was adopted “because it looks like something chickens live in” and will use outside air to cool [...]

Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger factor in its data center management. Chillers, which are used to refrigerate water, are widely used in data center cooling systems [...]

Storage networking in the data center is becoming increasing complex. IT directors/managers who have overall responsibility for server, networking and storage operations will benefit from attending this live webcast from IDC and Cisco on strategies for storage networking in a virtualized data center. As more virtualized servers generate larger quantities of data, access to storage [...]

The Green Grid has launched a new free online tool and maps designed to help European data center and facilities managers easily the amount of time that free cooling is available for their data centers. The group offered similar tools to U.S. data center operators last year. The updates extend coverage of the tool and [...]

In honor of Blog Action Day 2009 and this year’s climate change theme, we wanted to walk you through some of the green features of our global headquarters here in sunny Mountain View, California. * Getting to work: We’ve got a shuttle service that brings employees from around the Bay Area to the Googleplex every [...]