Build the Immortal Data Center
Network World By following some simple best practices, you may be able to take your existing data center and retrofit it to last pretty much forever, says Gartner analyst David Cappuccio. The first step is to build up the density of your server racks. If your racks are at 50% or 60% capacity, then consider increasing the density to 80% or even 90%, he says. Increasing the density allows you to run your existing workloads on a smaller footprint and to create space for future growth.

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Inside a Google Data Center
CBS News For the first time ever, get an insider look into Google’s North Carolina data center as Google Senior Vice President Urs Holzle gives a tour of the facility. Check out the various techniques they have used to reduce their carbon footprint: non-renewable energy, water cooling, and increasing the temperature on the server floors.

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Cisco launches network convergence system to power the Internet of Everything

The system's programmability and virtualization capabilities enable service providers to accelerate the transition to software defined networking and network function virtualization.

Infosys and SAP join Open Data Center Alliance's steering committee

Senior executives from Infosys and SAP join ODCA board members from BMW, Capgemini, China Unicom and The Walt Disney Company to drive the strategic direction and output.

Rackspace launches Hong Kong’s first hybrid cloud powered By OpenStack

Hong Kong chosen as strategic hub due to increasing local demand for cloud services that improve flexibility, boost innovation, and reduce cost of deployment.

Dell appoints Anand Sankaran to lead infrastructure and cloud computing business

Dell has announced that Anand Sankaran, a 25-year industry leader, will join the company as president and global head of Dell Services’ Infrastructure and Cloud Computing line of business.

Microsoft goes big data with new Hadoop Azure service

Offered on Windows Azure as a platform as a service, Windows Azure HDInsight provides a copy of the Apache Hadoop data processing platform and associated tools.

Working Miracles in the Data Center
Raritan Identifying excess capacity, managing power consumption, simplifying hardware moves and changes—these are some of the miracles a data center infrastructure management tool can do.

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Old apps and hardware require more power and more resources to keep them going. But most data centers over five years old usually have tons of these lying around. A roadmap to ease them out of the system will free up power and resources substantially.

Dilbert and his colleagues get a call from the data center.

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