That was the case with a presentation from Facebook’s Tom Cook at last week’s  Velocity 2010 conference, which depicted the growth of the company’s server footprint. Designed to illustrate Facebook’s insatiable need for more servers to support its 400 million users, the chart didn’t include any numbers, seeking not to reveal the actual server count. Dates [...]

KEVIN DEAN Interxion Cloud computing is widely acknowledged as the major force driving IT into the future. International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted that spending on cloud services is set to increase from $16.2 billion in 2008 to $42 billion by 2012. (1) But as the cloud revolution continues, companies need to consider how they’re [...]

Dubai Investments PJSC (DI) has recently announced the setting up of a state-of-the-art data center in Dubai Investments Park to cater to the data management and protection needs of tenant companies within the Park. This centre was inaugurated by Mr. Khalid Kalban, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Investments. The data centre will [...]