Monday, December 31st, 2012

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1:00p	The Year in Review: Looking Back at 2012 Rows of networking equipment inside a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Google was featured in four of our Top 10 most popular articles of 2012. (Photo for Google by Connie Zhou) New Year’s Eve is upon us. As we bid farewell to 2012, here’s a look back at the stories, photos, deals and insights that made news at Data Center Knowledge during the year. Enjoy! The 10 Most Popular Data Center Articles of 2012 – It was an extraordinary year for the data center sector, as reflected in the stories that our readers found the most compelling in 2012. That included Data Center Knowledge’s coverage of major events (the Olympics), major disasters (Sandy), major outages, and major trends in designs. Even physics genius Dr. Stephen Hawking made a cameo. And then there was Google, which featured in four of the 10 most popular stories on DCK in 2012. Here’s a list of the top 10 stories of the year, ranked by page views. The Top 10 Data Center Images of 2012 - The data center is ready for its close up. In 2012 we saw a welcome focus on the hidden beauty of data center technology, Data Center Knowledge has been a pioneer in taking readers inside these amazing facilities with photo tours, as we’ve spent the last seven years bugging data center operators to share images with our readers. We continue the tradition with our Top 10 Data Center Images of 2012. The Year in Downtime: Top 10 Outages of 2012 - In a business built on uptime, outages make headlines. The major downtime incidents of 2012 illustrate the range of causes of outages – major disasters, equipment failures, software behaving badly, undetected Leap Year date issues, and human error. Here’s a look at our list of the Top 10 outages of 2012. The Year in M&A: The Top 10 Data Center Deals of 2012 - In the data center world, there are two factors that drive acquisitions: geography and technology. Deals can help providers enter new markets and expand their footprint, or help them keep pace in areas where technology is evolving rapidly. Not surprisingly, 2012 was a busy year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Here are 10 deals that capture the year in M&A. Top 5 Data Center Cartoons of 2012 – We thought that our readers might enjoy a re-cap of the antics of their favorite cartoon characters, Kip and Gary, and have a bit of a chuckle at the year’s best cartoons! Best of Industry Perspectives 2012: Cloud Computing – Our Industry Perspectives guest columnists offered good counsel on many aspects of cloud such as its impact on teams, business implications and best practices. Here’s our Top 12 picks of cloud columns for 2012. Best of Industry Perspectives 2012: Storage - For data center managers and teams, there was much discussion of storage, data protection and back up this year. Our Industry Perspectives guest columnists offered good counsel on many aspects of storage. Here’s our top picks of storage columns for 2012. (Comment on this)
1:30p	Trends for 2013: Growth of Virtual Private Suites Mike Maughan is a Product Manager for FuseApp and Marketing Director for C7 Data Centers. On the side, Mike writes on his industry site Colo & Cloud. MIKE MAUGHAN C7 Data Centers A virtual private suite is a physically and logically private cloud, whose hardware is owned and managed by the cloud provider, and leased to a single customer. This is a trend that has been developing in 2012 and expected to grow in 2013. I thought I’d gather some thoughts on this trend and share them with you. Wes Swenson, CEO of FuseApp and C7 Data Centers explains this trend: “As a data center provider, we’re used to seeing companies coming to us needing assistance with architecting a solution for their infrastructure,” said Swenson. “Now we’re seeing mid-sized companies who have embraced the cloud coming to us with the desire for better performance and lower costs. The virtual private suite is a perfect solution, and fits the multi-tenant data center model. The only difference is that we’re now buying the infrastructure and then leveraging our investments in space, power and connectivity to offer a low-cost solution.” Greg Rusu, General Manager of Zunicore, a division of PEER 1 Hosting confirmed this trend: “Over the last 2-3 months, we’ve had more and more mid-sized companies that started with Amazon or other cloud-only providers, bringing us entire system designs where each component (server or network appliance, its purpose, capacity, expected performance levels, bandwidth, latency, etc.) is very well thought through,” said Rusu. “These folks are asking ‘what do you have that will function in this design?’ sometimes irrespective of whether the component is virtual or physical. ” Several factors drive these companies to a virtual private suite solution, such as: Access to the hypervisor layer Desire to manage oversubscription rates of physical resources A mandate to lower costs A need for increased performance More control over infrastructure design The ability to get a low-cost, high-performing and scalable infrastructure solution is very appealing. Really small companies can’t afford it, and the large companies are already doing something similar.  Mid-sized businesses are the perfect fit, and multi-tenant data center providers with a business cloud offering are in a unique position to leverage their investments in infrastructure and expertise to provide the solution. Service providers should expect to see more of this need in the upcoming year. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process for information on participating. View previously published Industry Perspectives in our Knowledge Library. (Comment on this)

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