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 [...]