TechXact, a global leader and provider of state-of-the-art total data center solutions, is organizing ‘Data Center Tops‘, a day-long conference and technology road-show on advancements, standards, and innovations in mission-critical and high-availability data centers The exclusive event to be held at Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi on January 27, 2010  is being tagged as a [...]

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 [...]

one of the things I have found is the name “data center” is not an accurate description to the layman of what data centers do. Are data centers the “center of data”?  In the past there was one corporate building that was the place where data was housed for the corporation. The standard for Fortune [...]

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 [...]