Cisco has become the latest major IT vendor to launch a containerized data center product. The networking giant’s new containerized data center comes in a standard 40-ft container housing 16 standard equipment racks, with capacity to support up to 25kW per rack.
Keith Siracuse, a product marketing engineer at Cisco, said that while the company is going to push customers hard to fill the containers with Cisco gear, the container is capable for supporting competing vendors’ products. “If a customer requires a certain thing in there, we’re going to work with …

Facebook has announced that it will share the design secrets behind its new energy-efficient data centre with rival companies.
The social network’s facility in Prineville, Oregon is said to use 38% less power than existing centres.
It hopes, by making the innovations public, to cut the amount of electricity the industry consumes.
Despite Facebook’s advances, some environmental groups have criticised the firm over its green credentials.
Working under the title Open Compute Project, Facebook will release specifications and mechanical drawings of the building and its servers.
“It’s time to stop treating data centres like Fight …

Hewlett Packard is constructing a NZ$60 million data centre in Auckland, New Zealand as part of the vendor’s billion dollar global rollout programme for HP data centres.
The 500m2 facility located outside of Auckland in Tuakau is expected to open in March 2012.
HP enterprise services country manager Gavin Greaves said the facility has a low risk of natural disaster, and runs multiple feeds for power, fibre-optic cable and water.
The company already has a data centre in Auckland, and is committed to build and lease another multimillion-dollar facility in Waikato.
More – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/10/hp_nz_data_centre/

Telehouse, a leading provider of global data centres and managed ICT services, today announced the opening of its new Datacentre in Istanbul/Turkey in partnership with local telecommunications/system integrator company Teknotel Telekomünikasyon.
‘Telehouse Istanbul’ in partnership with Teknotel Telekomünikasyon, will be operational from March 2011 and is Telehouse’s first datacentre operation in the region. The new carrier neutral data centre facility in Kozyatagı is located on the Asian side of Istanbul and is opened under the Telehouse brand and operated, supported and maintained by Teknotel to Telehouse’s stringent global operating standards.
Alper Selcuk, …

Datacentres will need to incorporate high-density power distribution within the next five years.
Analyst Gartner has predicted that by 2015, 50% of datacentres will have a high-density zone, up from fewer than 10% in 2010.
Even datacentres built within the past five years are designed to have a uniform energy distribution of around 2kW to 4kW per rack. With the increasing use of high-density blade systems, This design envelope is no longer sufficient, according to Gartner. It recommends datacentre managers plan for 10kW high-density blade systems.
“High-density zones are by far the best …

LUMISON, the Edinburgh-based internet services firm which was acquired by private equity investors in October last year, has bought an English rival for £22 million.
The company has acquired Blue Square Data in order to increase its share of the market to provide services like offsite storage and back-up, which its owners believe is set for dramatic growth.
Blue Square operates data centres in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire where it houses the IT systems of clients.
The centres market themselves on providing a secure home for the kit on which …

It’s a quiet morning in Santa Clara, but at the campus of a data center owned by CoreSite Realty, activity is humming. An enormous crane slowly moves steel beams behind a worker who explains that he and his team are working on a new, larger data center facility to replace the older, existing one.
A data center houses computer systems and Internet servers. Centers sell server services to anyone who needs a “host” for a website. CoreSite reported on its website that the expansion of its current data center would more …

Colocation facilities allow businesses to outsource their network infrastructure by housing network equipment externally. If those colocation facilities are inadequate, your business suffers from downtime, damaged hardware, and lost business. The hallmarks of a quality colocation facility are capacity and redundancy for every major system.
n+1 and the Difference between Capacity and Redundancy
Despite how common colocation facilities are, there are no industry standards, regulations, or rankings available for colocation facilities. The only way to identify a good data center or to recognize the quality of services is to determine for yourself …

When you think of relocating your hardware and systems to another agency keeping in mind the great advantages that you stand to see through such a move, there are points to consider regarding the data center that you are opting for as well. It is no wonder that the internet is a very important tool today, with each and every business requiring an online presence and operation. A co-location company can make it a very simple task for you to manage such systems efficiently.
Things To Consider With Co-Location
The most important …

Not all steps that improve the energy efficiency of your data center will boost performance in key metrics for measuring “green” data centers. An example: removing fans from servers, which actually has an adverse effect on Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), the leading metric for data center efficiency.

This dilemma was discussed in a new video from Microsoft featuring Dr. Dileep Bhandarkar, Chief Architect for Microsoft Global Foundation Services, which designs and builds Microsoft’s data centers. Bharkander discusses how Microsoft realized it was duplicating effort by using fans in both servers and …