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R.A.I.D. is B.A.D.
If you think your data is protected against bit rot because it’s on a RAID array, think again. Bit rot is a real problem. All storage media is at risk. Magnetic media like discs and tapes can lose...
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Is IT’s future really in the cloud
It’s been said that the future of IT is in software and cloud computing but it is also forgotten that cloud computing software must run on physical hardware and ultimately on physical hardware located...
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Just how big is a Facebook datacenter?
Facebook is fast approaching the 1 billion users mark and perhaps the best way to appreciate just how big Facebook has become is to take a look at the company’s data center campus in Rutherford County...
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Best of the Web: Green datacenter and cloud computing news
Apple plans a solar array for its $1 billion datacenter Last spring, Apple’s 500,000 square feet (46,500 sqm) Project Dolphin datacenter, which is five times the size of its datacenter in Newark...
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Can your datacenter be green if it’s in a city?
You might be wondering whether or not to move your datacenter out of the city to the suburbs or completely out of an urban location – especially if you are trying to lower your carbon footprint and be...
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Time for new sustainability metrics?
Nicolas Dube, a datacenter efficiency strategist at HP, was recently the subject of a lengthy video interview where he gave an overview of new datacenter sustainability metrics in addition to Power...
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Best of the Web: Green datacenter and cloud computing news
Citigroup saves big on datacenter energy usage Despite the sluggish economy in many parts of the world, banks are investing in datacenters in order to save money. In fact, Citigroup’s datacenter...
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Is your disaster recovery plan good enough?
Jill Yaoz, the CEO of AFCOM, a non-partisan association for datacenter management with more than 4,500 members worldwide, has recently written an article for Forbes’ CIO Central blog that mentioned...
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Hot and cold: new approaches to heat management
Facebook building an Arctic datacenter Facebook is the latest technology company to announce plans for an Arctic datacenter. Specifically, Facebook will build a datacenter in Lulea (Sweden), which is...
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IT As Electricity: We need to start thinking differently
Cloud computing is the next step on our IT journey. It has tremendous potential, certainly when you consider the budgetary impact of the shift to the cloud. Companies are quickly discovering the...
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