Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of November 21st

For your weekend reading, we present a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

Microsoft Intros Docker Command Line Interface for Windows – Until now, users could only manage Docker containers using a Linux machine or a virtualized Docker environment on a Windows machine.

AWS Docker Support is Major Leap Forward for Containers – Docker depends on standardization across the industry, and AWS support is a big step forward in the standardization process.

French Web Host Builds Bare Metal ARM Server Cloud – Online.net has designed its own cloud from the ground up, both hardware and software. And it’s not OpenStack.

Keystone to Turn Pa. Steel Mill Into Data Center Building – The steel mill, which will soon be converted into a data center building, was constructed over 60 years ago and was once the largest vertically integrated steel production site in the U.S.

Photo Tour: New Facebook Data Center in Iowa – Companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo design and build what are known as “web-scale” data centers. These are some of the most cutting edge facilities, both in terms of the IT architecture they house and energy efficiency of electrical and mechanical systems that support the hardware. They are also visually stunning.

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