Data Center News and Analysis

Unix vs Wintel/DP: the cost/benefit issueZDNet (blog)There are about 160 physical servers in data center racks with recently purchased units averaging nearly $9400 - much of it in licensing. ...and more »...

Proactive Investors USA & CanadaEquinix Expands in TokyoMarketWatch (press release)Equinix operates two IBX data centers in Tokyo, TY1 and TY2, that are directly connected to each other by fiber. The company's carrier-neutral, ...Equinix to Build $63 Million IBX Data Center in Hong KongTrading M...

CBC.caDell Likely to Seek New Data-Storage Targets After 3Par LossBloombergDell and HP will likely continue to buy smaller companies to gain share in data centers and enter new markets, Abhey Lamba, an analyst at ISI Group in New ...Dell's enterprise challenge remains after 3ParThe Associated Pr...

TopNews Singapore (press release)Virginia lands Microsoft data centerBurlington Times NewsMecklenburg County Administrator Wayne Carter said Friday the county will reimburse 90 percent of the data center's personal property taxes for 20 years as ...Microsoft soon to claim the release of Data Cen...

Report: Data center coming to Kings Mountain - News follows other recent KM ...Trading Markets (press release)According to the CBJ, Infocrossing is buying the facility from Atlanta-based T5 Partners, a data center development company. Assistant County Manager Eddie ...and more »...

Enterprise Irregulars (blog)A Bolder, Brassier VMware Emerges From The CloudInformationWeek (blog)And they're all wary of VMware's widening ambitions and description of a future operating system for the data center, based on its own virtualization layer. ...VMware wants to own your data cent...

Bay-Area Digital Realty Trust Data Centers Save $6 to 10M in Power Costs AnnuallyWeb Host Industry Review(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Validating the effectiveness of its energy efficiency initiatives, wholesale data center ...and more »...

Biomass could fuel data centerColumbia Business TimesA coalition trying to bring a data center to northern Columbia is promoting the concept of burning biomass to generate some of its ......

OPM, GAO to review agencies' plans to consolidate data centersFederal TimesThe plans, aimed at reducing data center costs and energy consumption, are tied to the 2012 budget and will be reviewed by the Office of Management and ......

Layer 2 Data Center Interconnect optionsNetworkWorld.comFor more than 20 years we have been using Layer 3 connectivity powered by dynamic routing protocols to route traffic between data centers, but adoption of ......