25/11/2010 - Efficient Data Center Design Can Lead to 300% Capacity Growth in 60% Less Space

Emerging trends in data center design mean that new data centers will be able to provide a 300 percent growth in capacity in 60 percent less space than existing data centers, according to Gartner. New data centers are being designed to be efficient in terms of power utilization, space allocation and capital expenditure.

19/08/2009 - BTI Receives Brocade Data Center Ready Status for Storage Networking Modules

BTI Systems has announced that the BTI 7000 Series has additional client services modules, verified by Brocade Communications Systems, as compatible with Brocade-based SAN infrastructure.

07/08/2009 - Texas Memory Systems Delivers Record 5-Million IOPS Flash-based SSD System

Texas Memory Systems launches the RamSan-6200 SSD System that offers up to 100 terabytes of Flash-based storage in a 40U rack configuration that can sustain a record 5 million input/outputs per second (IOPS) with 60 gigabytes per second throughput while using a little over 6 kilowatts of power.

30/07/2009 - Sohu Selects 3Com's H3C For Next-Generation Data Center

3Com is to build a next-generation data center for Sohu, one of China's premiere online community destinations.
Sohu made its decision after a two-month field test of 3Com's recently launched H3C data center solutions — including the S12500 Series core switch line and the S5800 Series 10-gigabit switch series.

17/07/2009 - Virident Appoints DeMartino to Focus on Web 2.0 Data Center Presence

Virident Systems has appointed industry veteran Bob DeMartino to drive the growth of its GreenCloud server platforms in Web 2.0 data centers.
DeMartino joins Virident from Sun Microsystems bringing over twenty years of sales and market development experience with both large, established enterprise and start-up technology firms.

03/07/2009 - China VoIP & Digital Telecom Virtualization Project Receives Governmental Funds

Jinan Yinquan Technology has announced that its data center virtualization technology project has received 500,000 yuan from Shandong Economic and Information Technology Committee.
Following the award, the wholly owned subsidiary of China VoIP & Digital Telecom said it is well positioned to take full advantage of the tremendous economic growth currently being experienced in China.

26/06/2009 - IT Execs Doubt Virtualization is Data Recovery Remedy

Separate backup data center locations are not being used by many companies to provide the complete data-recovery system, according to research.
Instead they are relying on failover to separate storage arrays and servers within the same physical building.

29/05/2009 - Online Data Backup Center Aims For Zero Carbon Footprint

A UK-based provider of online data backups is building a technically-advanced data center powered solely by renewable energy.
Located in North Wiltshire, WorldBackups has purchased a 2,600 sq. ft. ex-BT exchange where it will develop its own on-site renewable energy generation, passing on the reduced power costs to its customers.

29/05/2009 - PANDUIT Launches Fiber Optic System To Address Data Center Demands

PANDUIT has introduced next-generation, high-speed data transport capabilities for the data center.
The high performance, fiber optic system to connect server, storage, and network systems is aimed at meeting ever-increasing bandwidth and application requirements.

08/05/2009 - Rackable Systems Announces First Quarter Fiscal 2009 Financial Results

Rackable Systems this week announced its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009.
The ecological server and storage product provider reported Q1 revenue of USD $44.4 Million, up 14 percent sequentially, including delivery of two ICE Cube containerized data centers.

01/05/2009 - Vembu Launches Online Backup on Amazon Web Services

Vembu Technologies has made available for production StoreGrid Cloud AMI, an online backup "virtual appliance" on Amazon Web Services.
The company says that with the StoreGrid Cloud AMI and the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, it is now possible for service providers to offer a scalable, secure and highly redundant online backup service to their small and medium business (SMB) customers without any upfront capital investment in a data center.

24/04/2009 - EMC Unveils Virtual Data Centre With High End Storage

EMC Symmetric VMax is the latest breakthrough technology from EMC. It provides for a virtual data center with high end storage and scales up to 2 PB of usable protected capacity, writes Samantha Sai for storage.biz-news.
Unlike alternate arrays, it equips its customers with an ability to consolidate workloads with a comparatively small footprint.
These systems will be available immediately.

17/04/2009 - Cisco Reveals More Details On UCS Platform

Cisco has revealed more details on its Unified Computing System (UCS) for virtualized data centers a month after it was first announced.
Company executives used a live Internet TV broadcast to provide further insight into pricing, processing power and memory capacity.

02/04/2009 - Optimizing Virtualization On Single Architecture: Dell Announces ISCSI SAN Storage Arrays

Dell has announced that as part of its data center strategy it will focus on combining servers, storage and services optimized for virtualization in a single architecture.
As a step in this direction Dell has come out with a new series of EqualLogic iSCSI SAN with fast processors, more cache, additional Ethernet ports and support for solid state disc drives, writes Samantha Sai for storage.biz-news.

20/03/2009 - Cisco Transforms Data Center With UCS

Cisco has launched a mainstream data center computing platform - Unified Computing System (UCS) - that promises to seamlessly integrate processor, storage and network systems in a virtualised architecture.
The move pits the networking equipment market leader against the world's largest systems vendors, including HP, IBM, Dell, Fujitsu and others.

06/11/2008 - Interxion To Expand London Data Center

Carrier-neutral data center expert, Interxion, is to expand the capacity of its London City data center for the second time this year.
Growing customer demand for high power density infrastructure is behind the expansion.

09/09/2008 - Data Center Expertise Increasingly Valued

In Silicon Valley, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers have traditionally been regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
Now computer data center experts are being shown new respect, according to The New York Times, and the trend is set to continue.