At DataCenterDynamics New York
On Wednesday (March 3) I’ll be attending DataCenterDynamics New York conference at the New York Hilton. The DCD team says there are more than 1,000 people registered for the show, so it should be a busy event. I’ll be posting updates and observations throughout the day via our @datacenter channel on Twitter (be sure to follow us if you haven’t already).
Internap Expands in Silicon Valley, Houston
Internap Network Services (INAP) will expand its data center space in Silicon Valley and Houston, the company said today. The moves will help Internap continue a transition of its colocation footprint from partner facilities to company-controlled data center space. Internap said it will add 27,000 square feet of new space in Silicon Valley, where the company operates four data centers in San Jose, Calif.
TelecityGroup Adds Space in Frankfurt
TelecityGroup today announced plans to build approximately 4,000 square meters (43,000 square feet) of data centre capacity with 6 megawatts of customer power in Frankfurt, becoming the latest data center provider to announce an expansion in the European finance hub. This will be the second expansion for TelecityGroup’s Frankfurt facility in less than a year, as it added 1.5MW of power capacity last autumn
Roundup: Fujitsu’s New Super, Force 10, Ciena
Here’s a roundup of some of some of this week’s headlines from the data center and hosting industry: Fujitsu & Japan AEA Unveil Supercomputer. On Monday Fujitsu announced that it has completed joint development of a new supercomputer system with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). Clocking in at 186.1 teraflops , the new system is the fastest supercomputer in Japan, based on the November 2009 Top500 list of supercomputers. One of the systems in the supercomputer is a large-scale parallel computation unit, which uses Fujitsu’s latest blade server, PRIMERGY BX900, in a configuration of 2,134 nodes (4,268 CPUs, 17,072 cores) connected using the latest InfiniBand QDR high-speed interconnect technology. Using the LINPACK benchmark, the new system would place first among the Japanese entries posted and 19th in the world on the TOP500 list
Sentinel Plans Large NJ Data Center
Sentinel Data Centers and Russo Development have begun construction on a large multi-tenant data center facility in Somerset, New Jersey, the companies announced today.
Roundup: ReliaCloud, enStratus, HP, Intel
Here’s a roundup of some of some of this week’s headlines from the data center and hosting industry: ReliaCloud Offers enStratus Management Platform . Cloud provider ReliaCloud announced a new partnership with enStratus, a national cloud management platform that delivers governance for enterprise applications in the cloud. ReliaCloud is a product of Minnesota managed hosting and data center provider VISI
Who Are the Contenders for the Federal Cloud?
Which players figure to benefit if the U.S. government’s looming data center consolidation shifts large numbers of federal applications from in-house data centers to cloud computing platforms?
Feds Commence Huge Data Center Consolidation
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra tour the NASA Nebula cloud computing container last year. Kundra has announced plans for a major consolidation of 1,100 U.S.
Punked in the Data Center
How would you react if a visitor to your data center took out a pair of scissors and cut through an Ethernet cable? Even better: How would your company’s director of engineering react? The folks at Isilon Systems teamed with magician Scott Tokar to have some sport with Kiran Bhageshpur, Isilon’s director of engineering, who thinks he’s making a video promoting network attached storage
Liquid Computing Winding Down
Server vendor Liquid Computing is out of money and will wind down its business, the company’s chairman tells the Ottawa Citizen . The company historically specialized in the high performance computing market, but shifted its focus last year to try to sell to a broader market.
Align Your Data Center and Business Goals
Without a high-performance data center, business can quickly come to a grinding halt. No longer just a building full of systems, the data center is now the cornerstone for delivering the services that drive fundamental business operations
Carpathia, Citrix Launch Cloud Partnership
Earlier this week managed hosting provider Carpathia Hosting announced that it would partner with Citrix Systems to offer public and private cloud solutions for businesses and government agencies. Carpathia has built its InstantOn cloud service atop Citrix XenServer technology, and its using Citrix virtualization and networking technology more extensively in the company’s 12 data centers
Retiring A Data Center. With an Axe.
Dean Nelson of eBay uses an axe to retire the final server as the company powers down its oldest data center. The data center is built around the principle of perpetual uptime.
Emerson Data Center Earns LEED Gold Rating
Emerson Network Power has installed this 7,800 square foot solar array on the roof of its new St. Louis data center
Inside Herakles’ Sacramento Data Center
Herakles Data Center has been providing data center services in the Sacramento, Calif. market since 2001.
San Diego Colo Firm Castle Access Gets Funding
San Diego colocation and managed hosting provider Castle Access said Wednesday that it expcts to make additional investments in data center infrastructure and services after securing “multi-million dollar” equity financing. The company said additional details of the investment will be provided within the next 60 days. Piper Jaffray & Co
Earnings Roundup: iWeb, The Planet, Rackspace
Here’s a roundup of quarterly financial results announcements: iWeb Group first quarter 2010. Canadian provider of Internet hosting services and IT infrastructure iWeb Group announced first quarter 2010 financial results Monday. Revenues increased to $7.2 million, an adjusted EBITDA of $2.1 million was recorded and net income increased to $180,000 compared to the $1,248,000 loss reported a year ago
CA Acquires 3Tera in Cloud Management Play
3Tera , whose software helps companies deploy and manage cloud computing infrastructure, has been acquired by software giant CA, the companies announced today.
Roundup: Hibernia, Telx, Lexent, VeriSign
Here’s a roundup of some of some of this week’s headlines from the data center and hosting industry: Switch & Data adds Hibernia Financial Network. Switch and Data (SDXC) announced that Hibernia Atlantic’s Global Financial Network (GFN) has become part of their GeoReach Program in North Bergen, New Jersey. Built for the demanding requirements of the financial community Hibernia’s GFN provides a global fiber network dedicated to capital markets across the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Pacific Rim. “As a part of Switch and Data’s GeoReach Program, we will be able to provide further connectivity throughout North America and Europe from Switch and Data’s New York EcoCenter in North Bergen,” said Joe Hilt, Vice President of Sales, North America for Hibernia Atlantic GFN. GeoReach participants have engineered optimum paths from Switch and Data’s Financial EcoCenters to each of the regional liquidity providers to satisfy the requirements of the most latency-sensitive infrastructures. In November 2009 Equinix announced that Hibernia Atlantic was expanding its GFN into the Equinix New York-2 and New York-4 data centers in New Jersey. Switch and Data announced fourth quarter and full year 2009 financial results last week and confirmed that the Equinix merger is expected to close in the second quarter of 2010
Selling Hosting in a Sophisticated Market
James MacDougall is a sales leader who has sold hosting strategically and managed hosting sales teams throughout the United States for more than a decade. His leadership, both in the US military as well as corporate America, has resulted in numerous awards for both himself and his teams. JAMES MacDOUGALL No part of a hosting organization is unimportant
A look at the dashboard for Nimsoft NMS Unified Monitoring. CA today continued its cloud computing buying spree, announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire monitoring provider Nimsoft, Inc.
Amazon Web Services has quietly passed an interesting benchmark: the company’s S3 storage service now hosts more than 100 billion objects. This factoid was noted this morning at Data Center World, when keynote speaker Brian Lillie of Equinix said that Amazon now is hosting 102 billion objects in S3 (Simple Storage Service)
The mobile revolution is coming. and the world’s infrastructure isn’t ready yet.
Microsoft had one of its data center containers on display at the University of Washington Thursday as CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to students about his vision for cloud computing. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today emphasized that “when it comes to the cloud, we are all in.” He shared that message first in a speech at the University of Washington, later in an all-staff email , and also in a major ad campaign the company is launching today. Most of Ballmer’s talk focused on the end-user experience of cloud computing services.
Can cloud computing survive the hype? As the buzz surrounding cloud computing gets ever louder, how can customers locate the signal amidst the noise? In this presentation, Lew Moorman of Rackspace begins by addressing the hype. ”I think everyone is tired of the cloud,” says Moorman, President, Cloud and Chief Strategy Officer at Rackspace
On Wednesday (March 3) I’ll be attending DataCenterDynamics New York conference at the New York Hilton. The DCD team says there are more than 1,000 people registered for the show, so it should be a busy event. I’ll be posting updates and observations throughout the day via our @datacenter channel on Twitter (be sure to follow us if you haven’t already).
Internap Network Services (INAP) will expand its data center space in Silicon Valley and Houston, the company said today. The moves will help Internap continue a transition of its colocation footprint from partner facilities to company-controlled data center space. Internap said it will add 27,000 square feet of new space in Silicon Valley, where the company operates four data centers in San Jose, Calif.
TelecityGroup today announced plans to build approximately 4,000 square meters (43,000 square feet) of data centre capacity with 6 megawatts of customer power in Frankfurt, becoming the latest data center provider to announce an expansion in the European finance hub. This will be the second expansion for TelecityGroup’s Frankfurt facility in less than a year, as it added 1.5MW of power capacity last autumn
Here’s a roundup of some of some of this week’s headlines from the data center and hosting industry: Fujitsu & Japan AEA Unveil Supercomputer. On Monday Fujitsu announced that it has completed joint development of a new supercomputer system with the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). Clocking in at 186.1 teraflops , the new system is the fastest supercomputer in Japan, based on the November 2009 Top500 list of supercomputers. One of the systems in the supercomputer is a large-scale parallel computation unit, which uses Fujitsu’s latest blade server, PRIMERGY BX900, in a configuration of 2,134 nodes (4,268 CPUs, 17,072 cores) connected using the latest InfiniBand QDR high-speed interconnect technology. Using the LINPACK benchmark, the new system would place first among the Japanese entries posted and 19th in the world on the TOP500 list
Competitive pricing industry wide requires that data center providers find smart and creative ways to keep power costs low. Here are five approaches that can help.
