L.L. Bean builds green data center
L.L. Bean may be famous for its outdoor products, but now it’s also known for bringing the outdoors into computing. The New England clothing retailer recently finished work on an 18,000-square-foot...
View ArticleMicrosoft to build outdoor data center
In an effort to increase efficiency and reduce costs, IT companies will do anything to save a few pennies. Microsoft is ready to take things to a whole new level by building a data center with no...
View ArticleGoogle releases data center efficiency video
Last April, Google hosted the Efficient Data Center Summit, where bigwigs from the largest IT companies showed up to share tips for reducing resource usage, learn from one another, and share hugs and...
View ArticleSex in the data center?
The average data center technician is called to perform a number of duties. These include troubleshooting with customers, replacing system hardware, installing Linux kernel updates, and rebooting...
View ArticleFlood ravages Vodafone data center
This isn’t the first data center flood covered here at Internetblog, but most certainly the worst. In the video above, you can watch as several feet of water rush into Vodafone’s Istanbul data center...
View ArticleNew $29.5 million Fujitsu data center headed to China
Technology company Fujitsu has announced plans to open a $29.5 million data center in the Guangdong province of China. The firm is also currently building data centers in several other locales,...
View ArticleDon't expect European servers to get cheaper any time soon
As a general rule, European data center space is more expensive compared to the United States. Those hoping for cheaper server rates in Europe will be disappointed, however, as a recent report...
View ArticleWind turbine powers Illinois data center
Data centers suck a lot of juice, but in the case of one facility, the operator found a way to meet its power needs through wind. Starting in October, a small Illinois ISP began using a 40-meter (131...
View ArticleFind a data center with datacentermap.com
Datacentermap.com is a handy site that uses a Google Maps plugin to display the locations of nearly 1500 data centers in 65 countries around the world. It provides an interesting insight into our...
View ArticleThe coolest home server setup ever
Home servers are starting to become commonplace, but ever meet anyone with an entire data center in their house? In the video you see here, the owner has a home server room that contains a wide array...
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