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Facebook open sources data center efficiency code

Facebook has open sourced the code it uses to measure the energy and water consumption of its data centers, as well as the code for the dashboard that visualizes those readings in real time. Facebook...

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The internet of things will require new thinking on data centers

In a world with 26 billion connected devices generating upwards of $300 billion in revenue is coming according to Gartner. In a release issued Tuesday, the analyst firm outlined the promise of the...

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Ineda Systems gets $17M for a new chip design aimed at wearables and data...

Ineda Systems, a company building out a new type of semiconductor for the internet of things, has raised $17 million in second-round funding. The startup, which is also pursuing a data center chip...

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Look inside IBM’s bold plan to save the Power architecture

After opening up its Power PC architecture last August, IBM on Wednesday unveiled a new line of servers built to challenge Intel’s x86 architecture inside the data center. IBM said it will deploy those...

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Automation is the key to saving cash in the cloud. But how to do it?

We’re a month out from our Structure conference, so we took the opportunity on this week’s Structure Show podcast to talk about one of the underlying themes of every Structure event: scalability. More...

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SanDisk to buy Fusion.io for $1.1 billion

SanDisk will buy flash storage firm Fusion.io in a $1.1 billion transaction, the companies said on Monday. According to a statement, Fusion.io will play into SanDisk’s “flash-transformed data center”...

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Crate and Nimboxx are the winners of the 2014 Structure Launchpad competition

Data-store company Crate and IT hardware specialist Nimboxx left today’s Structure event as the winners of Gigaom’s Launchpad competition. Crate won the judges’ hearts and took home the Judge’s Choice...

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Nimboxx unveils its data center appliance and snags $12 million in funding

Nimboxx, a Gigaom Structure 2014 Launchpad People’s Choice winner, plans to announce its kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) data-center-in-a-box Thursday at Structure. Additionally, the company will...

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Russia may force web firms to store Russians’ personal data within its borders

The Russian parliament, the Duma, has passed a bill that would require web service providers to store Russians’ personal data within the country’s borders. The bill was passed on its first reading....

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MIT researchers develop new network-management system to cut down on data...

MIT researchers have created a new network-management system, called Fastpass, that they say cuts down on the long wait times that occur during periods of heavy network congestion. The research team...

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It turns out a lot of companies like building their own storage gear

Backblaze pioneered the concept of open source storage hardware in 2009, and its designs have caught on. Hundreds of institutions -- including Netflix and Shutterfly -- use the designs, which have just...

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Google’s 10 rules for designing data centers

Google' vice president of data centers, Joe Kava, outlines how the search giant's pursuit of data center designs corresponds nicely to the company's ten governing rules. Well, almost. Google’s 10 rules...

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Challenges emerge for making Europe’s data centers more efficient

Europe needs to do more to reduce wasteful energy consumption, and its policy makers are looking at how to green its data centers to help them achieve a 2020 energy efficiency goal. Challenges emerge...

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Where does the web live? Surprisingly, Houston is a popular neighborhood

One in 20 of the web's top million sites are hosted out of Houston, the Texas city more famous for big oil and big hair than big data center space. Why? Where does the web live? Surprisingly, Houston...

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How the mega data center is changing the hardware and data center markets

Mega data centers’ innovations in serviceability, automatically detecting and recovering from failures, procurement practices, and so forth will become standard practice in all modern data centers. How...

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Superstorms aside, folks still want to build up their new data centers in New...

You might think that after two 100-year storms in two years, New York businesses would want to put new data center capacity far, far away. But new research says you would be wrong. Superstorms aside,...

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Data centers are getting more sophisticated, so why aren’t our metrics...

As the web giants, co-lo providers and cloud companies add millions of square feet of data center space we need to start getting more sophisticated in how we view these rooms full of servers. Data...

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Google uses Finnish data center as springboard for startup outreach

After doing something similar in Belgium, Google is using its seawater-cooled data center in Hamina, southeastern Finland, as a way to solidify its presence among local startups. Google uses Finnish...

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Salesforce finally solidifies European data center plans

The UK-sited data center, which should help settle the compliance worries of many of Salesforce's European customers, will be completed in 2014. The firm is also running a €5 million Innovation...

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Meet the cloud that will keep you warm at night

AoTerra, a German company that's shattering records for crowdfunding in that country, is a cloud provider with a difference. Its servers heat the air and water in buildings, saving everyone money and...

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Getting your organization ready for SDN: Part 1

Today, functioning networks hide many faults. Software-defined networking (SDN) offers network operators a solution for poor traffic visibility and clumsy operational systems. A network actively,...

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Facebook’s first European data center goes live in Sweden

The data center in Luleå, Sweden, is highly energy-efficient as it uses hydroelectric power. It may also prove handy in keeping Facebook on the right side of European data protection legislation....

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Why eBay is powering its Utah data center with fuel cells

The cells will produce 6 MW of power from natural gas on-site, with the normal power grid serving as a backup. Why eBay is powering its Utah data center with fuel cells originally published by Gigaom,...

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The Corn Belt turning into a datacenter hub with Microsoft plans for $677M...

Microsoft has received tax incentives to help it with a $677 million expansion of it's west Des Moines, Iowa data center. The state is home to new data center projects from Google and Facebook. The...

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Report: Efficient IT devices are the key to greener data centers

According to a new report, making servers and IT gear within a data center as efficient as possible -- and ensuring they're used as efficiently as possible -- is the key to green data centers. Report:...

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Google and Microsoft spent a combined $3.4B on infrastructure last quarter

Google and Microsoft might have disappointed investors in the last quarter, but they didn't disappoint their equipment manufacturers and data center partners. Both companies spent boatloads on...

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Here’s why Intel announced a custom silicon business today

Intel today said it was making custom chips for larger customers. If true, that would be a huge shift and might break the chip giant's advantage that comes from its manufacturing economies of scale....

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A new reason to use fuel cells for data centers: fire prevention

Fire prevention is the latest benefit of using fuel cells in data centers, according to data center giant Equinix, a German project developer and fuel cell maker Fuji Electric. A new reason to use fuel...

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How to cost-efficiently increase efficiency in the data center

Today’s data center managers must not only satisfy customer demands for around-the-clock availability from anywhere in the world; they must also contend with demands from within their own organizations...

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Cisco might be down, but its fortunes (and market share) rise in the data center

Cisco entered the data center business in 2009 and four years later, that has turned into a $2 billion a year business and there are no signs of a slowdown. Looks like Cisco built the right products at...

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Near misses, at best, in data center interconnection

Data centers have been hobbled by using optical interconnections designed and optimized for telecom applications, but what's next for interconnect technology designed for scale out computing? Near...

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Report sponsored by coal industry says coal is the answer to powering cloud...

If you believe the coal industry (or reports sponsored by the coal industry), coal power is the only way to fuel the growth of the Internet and the cloud. Report sponsored by coal industry says coal is...

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The third era of processing is here. And it’s heterogeneous

If we’re tracking eras of computer processing, the first is single core processing, followed by multicore. But now, since heterogeneous architectures can be hidden by the cloud, the HSA Foundation...

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Are internet companies easy targets for the green movement?

Internet giants' brands are much more vulnerable to attack from the environmental movement than other industries. That explains in part why many of them pursue green technologies. Are internet...

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Modular data center specialist IO files for IPO

Modular data center manufacturer IO has filed a confidential S-1 form and plans to go public in the near future. The company has made a name for itself selling fully contained data centers that take up...

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How to find the right data-protection solution in the cloud era

Outages and data loss reinforce the critical importance of thorough disaster recovery and business continuity.Today's cloud-based solutions, however, are limited — something data protection vendors...

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The 2020 network: How our communications infrastructure will evolve

Ahead of our Mobilize event Oct. 16 and 17, we asked experts how 50 billion connected devices and 6 billion people change their industries. In this essay, Ericsson's Vish Nandlall describes the...

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Super-secure NSA Utah data center laid low by electrical problems: Report

Whoops. The NSA's mega data center in Bluffdale, Utah has been hamstrung by repeated electrical snafus, according to The Wall Street Journal. Super-secure NSA Utah data center laid low by electrical...

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Lessons from Facebook on efficiency for the enterprise

Boosting datacenter efficiency is essential to bringing down costs and expanding Internet access across the globe. Here are some tips for doing so from the social media giant. Lessons from Facebook on...

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Calxeda’s done, but ARM’s days in the data center might only be getting started

Calxeda's restructuring was a blow to the ARM-processor-based server market, but hardly a fatal one. While Calxeda started its life trying to build systems using 32-bit chips, there's a whole new...

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Microsoft says it will let users choose where data is stored, but things...

Microsoft says foreign customers will be able to choose to have their data stored outside the U.S. However, there are a couple of problems to bear in mind, with the big one being the Patriot Act....

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UpCloud reckons Finnish privacy laws can protect data hosted in US

The Finnish infrastructure-as-a-service provider is moving into the U.S. with a slightly secretive new model that, it claims, will protect customers' personal data from U.S. authorities. UpCloud...

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Cloud provider Digital Ocean expands globally with new Singapore data center

The addition of Singapore facility brings Digital Ocean's data center total to six worldwide. Cloud provider Digital Ocean expands globally with new Singapore data center originally published by...

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Fittingly, Facebook is building an Ikea-style data center in Sweden

Facebook is building its second data center in Luleå, Sweden, using "rapid deployment data center" techniques that will speed construction and simplify design by prebuilding certain parts and creating...

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Cloud provider Atlantic.net expands data centers in Toronto and Dallas

New data centers will help Atlantic.net target business workloads that are not necessarily webscale jobs. And there are an awful lot of those. Cloud provider Atlantic.net expands data centers in...

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Former Googler Peter Magnusson leaves Snapchat after six months

Magnusson was a big get for Snapchat when he moved over from Google, although his brief tenure was marked by some controversy. Former Googler Peter Magnusson leaves Snapchat after six months originally...

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How Facebook orchestrates its network traffic to save energy

Facebook's custom load balancing controller, dubbed Autoscale, helps distribute network traffic to the servers in a manner that can save 10 to 15 percent in energy on an average day. How Facebook...

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Bezos’s law signals it’s time to ditch the data center

According to "Bezos's law," a unit of computing power price is reduced by 50 percent approximately every three years. AppZero's Greg O'Connor looks at why the economic gap that favors cloud providers...

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Security startup vArmour targets the hybrid cloud with a $21M funding round

The stealth startup helps people understand how network traffic flows throughout their data centers in order to prevent hacking attacks. Security startup vArmour targets the hybrid cloud with a $21M...

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Want a more efficient data center? Maybe it’s time you tried a core and pod...

In order for companies to improve their internal data centers’ efficiency and improve their applications' performance, many are turning to using a “core and pod” setup. In this type of arrangement,...

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