Data Center Knowledge

This week's Industry Perspectives columns come from Dell's Travis Vigil, Kent Christensen of Datalink, and Bhavesh Patel of Emerson Network Power.

Week in Review: Facebook's $1 billion network, SeaMicro servers get brawny with Xen chips, Amazon cloud stores 762 billion objects, SuperNAP featured on CBS Evening News, inside IO's modular data center assembly line.

It’s Friday! Time for another cartoon caption contest. Readers provide funny captions for the drawing by Diane Alber, the Arizona artist who created those loveable data center pros, Kip and Gary.

AFCOM will present its Data Center World conference March 18-22 at the Mirage Hotel and Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference promises to help seasoned data center and facilities management professionals gain crucial insight into how they can improve operations.

Opengata Data Systems opens Silicon Valley Office, ATI picks Phoenix NAP for disaster recovery, heathcare software solutions firm RcordQuest selects Immedion for managed services.

HP announces OpenFlow-enabled switches, Cray supercomputers now available starting at $200,000, UPS Limited expands PowerWave 6000 line of UPS systems.

The first two recipients of the new Management and Operations ‘Stamp of Approval’ from the Uptime Institute are Equinix and Colt, the companies said this week.

At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from CyrusOne, Inc, which is seeking a Facility Technician in Austin, Texas.

enStratus releases new version of cloud management solution, CA Technologies (CA) releases new Erwin products, Interxion (INXN) welcomes European cloud partnership.

Riverbed Technology (RVBD) announced that it is evolving its Steelhead product family with CX and EX products and introduced a new architectural approach called edge virtual server infrastructure (edge-VSI).

Fison-io (FIO) selected by inFrame designs, Raritan updates its dcTrack data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software, CommVault unveils new features for Simpana software.

Now's the time to move forward with plans for your own internal, private cloud, writes Kent Christensen of Datalink. He posits that the benefits include agility, flexibility and lowered costs.

Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the infrastructure that powers its social network, which now serves more than 845 million users a month around the globe. The company spent $606 million on servers, storage, network gear and data centers in 2011, and expects to spend another $500...

Cisco (CSCO) announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE capabilities, the next speed limits for networking. These new capabilities provide a holistic architectural approach across campus, data center and service provider environments.

At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Midtronics, which is seeking a Channel Sales Manager in Willowbrook, Illinois.

DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) and IO reported this week that they have competed SSAE 16 audits of their data center facilities.

Level 3 Communications (LVLT) will provide live, high definition (HD) television broadcast video services to NBC for Super Bowl XLVI Sunday, using Level 3’s Vyvx VenueNet+ technology.

Is Sealand still operating a functional hosting facility? The leader of the offshore "data haven" says they still have servers hosted there, but doesn;t comment on stories suggesting Wikileaks may host its servers there.

Data center news in January included a unique "mansion-mimicking" data center design, the federal government's closure of facilities and Facebook's investment in its data center in Oregon, among other news. Here's our round-up of the top 10 data center stories of the month.

Carpathia Hosting says it has "no immediate plans" to delete data on servers operated by the Megaupload file sharing service, and will provide advance notice before any deletions take place.