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Saturday, March 2nd, 2013
- Lists of The World’s Largest Data Centers and Who Has the Most Servers?
- Our Data Center FAQs offering detailed look at the Internet infrastructures driving Google, Facebook and Apple.
- Data centers built under mountains, and in former shopping malls, military bunkers and particle accelerators. One day perhaps there may be a data center the moon.
- For thought leadership, top industry executives and engineers are sharing their viewpoints in our Industry Perspectives section. Read recent columns or contribute your own perspective.
- The DCK White Paper Library is an increasingly popular resource for education about the latest trends and topics in the data center.
- Two key resources for industry professionals are the Data Center Jobs Board, and our listing of Data Center Conferences.
- Check out our guides to Data Center Energy Efficiency and Data Center Strategies.
- If you’re interested in publicly held companies in this sector, check out our Data Center Investor channel for performance updates on data center stocks. For tracking individual stocks, you can use the “Companies” link in our navigation bar, or just type the company’s ticker symbol into our search box.
- If cool videos of data center tours are what you seek, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
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| 1:30p | Top 5 Data Center Stories: Week of March 2
For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Intel Enters the Hadoop Software Market – The market for Hadoop software continues to attract new players. Intel (INTC) announced the availability of its Distribution for Apache Hadoop, including new management tools. More than 20 partners announced support for Intel’s Hadoop offering, including Cisco, Red Hat, Cray and Supermicro. Windows Azure Cloud Crashed by Expired SSL Certificate – So how did an expired SSL certificate crash the Windows Azure storage cloud computing platform Friday and Saturday? It’s an expensive question for Microsoft, which will be offering customer credits for the outage. GM Plans $258 Million Data Center in Michigan - General Motors is hoping to build a $258 million data center at a research facility it owns in Milford, Michigan. The company is seeking tax abatements for the project at the Milford Proving Ground, which would feature a 100,000 square foot data center and employ about 20 workers. Equinix to Sell $1.5 Billion in Notes to Fund Construction, Acquisitions – Colocation provider Equinix plans to sell up to $1.5 billion in senior notes, and will use some of the money to build new data centers and fund acquisitions, the company said Thursday. The offering shows that the data center industry’s strongest players continue to use their financial strength to enter new markets and boost their competitive position. Vantage Lines Up 1 Megawatt Lease in Santa Clara - Vantage Data Centers has signed a new long-term customer lease for a 1 megawatt data hall on its campus in Santa Clara, California, the company said this week. The deal continues the busy pace of leasing in Santa Clara, the hub of data center activity in Silicon Valley. Stay current on Data Center Knowledge’s data center news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. |
| 3:00p | 10,000 Data Center Articles in the DCK Archives
This week I posted our 10,000th article since Data Center Knowledge was launched in 2005. As the industry has grown, the pace of the news has picked up as well. In 2012 alone DCK brought you more than 1,800 stories about the data center industry. There’s much more to come, as we continue to expand our coverage to track the data center’s central role in the Internet economy. These 10,000 news stories provide a thorough history of the data center industry over the past seven years. It’s all accessible through our search box at the top right corner of every page. If you need to research a company, trend or market, you’ll likely find a reference in our archives. You can also stay current on our latest headlines by subscribing to our new and improved daily e-mail updates or by RSS. Here are some other resources that might be of interest: You can also follow DCK on Twitter (@datacenter), our Facebook page, on Google+ or connect on LinkedIn. |
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