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 [...]

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 [...]

The creators of Wikipedia will add about 50 servers in a new European traffic hub in a “green” data center in Amsterdam, the company said today. The Wikimedia Foundation has signed a contract with EvoSwitch, which will donate more than 300,000 euros (about $415,000) of in-kind support in bandwidth and hosting services. The Wikipedia site [...]

Raising the temperature in the data center can save big money on power costs. But nudge the thermostat too high, and the energy savings can evaporate in a flurry of fan activity. That was the takeaway from several presentations at last week’s Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit (DCEE) in Sunnyvale, Calif. The case studies documented [...]

Data center users have lots of design choices. Turn-key space or powered shell? Raised floor or slab? Chilled water or air-side economization? Most users decide on a set of desired design characteristics and search for data centers or providers that can meet all their criteria. In its new Chicago data center project, developer Ascent Corp. [...]