Thor Data Center - an Icelandic ISP which offers low carbon emission hosting options - has expanded its Reykjavik's data center facilities in conjunction with modular data center provider AST Modular. The expansion consists of additional 105 m2 of modular white space which will be cooled with AST Modular's NFC indirect free cooling technology. Thor's facilities are being built according to a modular approach and in several phases with the first one completed in 2009 and comprized of one 40' Containerized cata center with 17 IT racks.

The skyrocketing demand for storage and networking capabilities are putting in-house and hosted data centers under greater pressure than ever before. Willie O'Connell, EMEA technical director at CommScope, discusses what to consider when building or expanding a data center and how to prepare for the future.

Take a video tour of SGI’s ICE X - the world’s fastest distributed memory supercomputer technology.

  Latysis shows how its chiller platform has been built, and two of the planned five chiller units are deployed at its DC05 data center expansion in Chicago. The platform will provide 460 tons of cooling will be available on day one.

IBM PureSystems evangelist Tikiri Wanduragala explains how IBM’s PureSystems has been designed

The company behind the Pionen data center, Bahnhof, incorporates inflatable elements in its new bullet-proof modular data center in Sweden 

DCD Dallas 2012: The data center industry has changed and so have data center cooling requirements. Data Aire's Jeff Trower told us about these changes at DatacenterDynamics Converged Dallas 2012 and gave us a brief tour of Data Aire's in-row cooling unit for data centers he was showing at the conference.

Economization has changed the conversation about data center cooling. If the conversation started with the compressor before, today it starts with the economizer. This has greatly reduced the role of the mechanical chiller but has not put it on its way to extinction. Brian George, of Corgan, shared his thoughts on this and other trends with us at DatacenterDynamics Dallas 2012.

Take a virtual tour of CoSentry’s new Lenexa data center, which opened this week in the US. The tour provides a 3D walk-through of the facility's physical security, server suite construction, separated maintenance corridors, dual cooling systems and redundant power infrastructure. The data center will be used for colocation, cloud computing, compliance and managed services.

Lots of data center space was bought in Dallas in 2012, but not much was built. The demand, however, is there. While CyrusOne is building out new space, the market has plenty of room for more big builds, Rob Morris, of Cassidy Turley, says. On this and more, watch our interview with Morris, shot at DatacenterDynamics Converged in Dallas on 11 December 2012.

Cascade Creative Media recently posted this video showing what construction work taking place at Facebook's Lulea data center in Sweden looks like.   The footage was shot in October.   Lulea’s Mayor Karl Petersen says Facebook has been a boom for the town, in Sweden’s north. While the data center is yet to open, it has already seen a flood of inward investment.  

New research conducted by analyst firm IDC and commissioned by CA Technologies shows that 85% of respondents – working inside of the data center – feel issues with power, space or cooling capacity are contributing to delayed or aborted application rollouts.  We spoke with Chris Dickson, CA Technologies’ VP of Solution Sales at DCD Converged London to find out what this figure means. You can view the full report at www.ca.com/dcim-survey.

DCD Converged London: FOCUS speaks with Facebook’s director of site operations Tom Furlong and Director of Data Center Design, Construction and Facility Jay Park about rising standards in the data center, and Open Compute (how Facebook benefits from the project).

David Gauthier, Microsoft’s Director of Datacenter Architecture & Design Management has spent 13 years in the data center industry. Before that he wanted to be a videographer.   It has been a career of twists and turns, which somehow led to the software resilient data center, as Penny Jones discovered when she caught up with Gauthier at DatacenterDynamics London conference this week.

DCD Converged London: StruxureWare now comes with a colo offering and could soon be offered as a service, Schneider Electric’s VP of Enterprise Management and Software Soeren Brogaard Jensen says.

Schneider Electric’s Chris Rocca, Engineering Director, gets down to the data center’s DNA as Schneider encourages more operators to record what is inside the data center.   You can take part in the Genome Project and find out more information on the Genome Project website here.

DCD Converged London: Tom Furlong and Jay Park tell us more about operating in humid climates, raising server temperatures and more at DatacenterDynamics Converged London

Hitec Power Protection systems launched a new modular, kinetic UPS at DCD Singapore this year.   We caught up with Hitec’s Chris Dow prior to the event to find out why Singapore, with its economy driven by the mission-critical financial services market, is a strong market for Hitec. And how it has improved on previous models with this third-generation release to reach greater efficiencies and space and cost savings.

DCD Converged Singapore: Makoto Honda, Chief Specialist of the Data Centre solution Engineering Group at Toshiba, speaks to FOCUS at DCD Converged Singapore about Toshiba’s latest developments in the data center cooling space.   The company plans to announce new modular cooling solutions in 2013 which will cover free-air cooling and use special lightweight materials for new solutions that can be used inside of the data center.

We caught up with Makoto Honda, Chief Specialist of the Data Centre solution Engineering Group at Toshiba to find out more about Toshiba’s latest modular cooling unit, redesigned as part of a play for the wider Asia Pacific market.   The solution, originally designed for the Japanese climate, was launched as part of pilot project for Singapore’s IDA and is now in use at the Nanyang Technological University, which helped co-develop the technology.   Honda spoke with us from DatacenterDynamic’s Singapore event held last month.

Facebook uses the open-source model to design data centers and hardware and to share some of its own design work. It does it through the Open Compute Project. Here's a look at one of its data centers, including coments from industry leaders.

Penny Jones speaks with Jones Lang LaSalle’s Engineering and Operations Solutions group lead Robert Timmermans about the challenges with getting the right staff for data center jobs in Singapore, and the wider ASEAN region.

Here’s a time-lapse animation of network health in the US northeast, the region affected most severely by Hurricane Sandy, over two days (October 29-30). Every square in the video below represents about 90 sq km of Earth surface. “Green” means at least 99.95% of networks in that area are available. “Red” means more than 5% of networks have been knocked out.

Senior VP of Virtustream Reuven Cohen hells us about what the company is doing to survive and thrive in today's competitive IaaS space.

NASA's Karen Petraska, service executive for computing services, NASA Office of the Chief Information Officer highlights NASA’s data center consolidation and improvement efforts, which focused on energy-efficiency and cloud computing as part of a larger federal data center consolidation initiative. This video was taken at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012, by the institute.

Emerson Network Power consolidated its data center environment. Here it details how it uses its own technology to ensure Tier III redundancy in its global facility, and its LEED certification for green construction. Emerson also uses a solar array to power some of its data center and monitoring to ensure consistent power supply.  

PG&E, renewable energy and data centers. Where is it all going?

VMware product marketing manager for networking and security solutions Matt Dreyer explains how VMware's newest version of vCloud - 5.1 - will bring add new automation capabilties for the network and security. vCloud 5.1 has been released as part of VMware's vision for the software-defined data center.

From low cost of natural gas to its product's total cost of ownership, Bloom Energy's future in the data center industry looks bright, says Peter Gross, the fuel-cell maker's VP of mission critical systems. We asked Gross what makes him think so at the DatacenterDynamics Converged conference in San Francisco in June 2012.

Web hosting company FortressITX’s executives discuss the future of web hosting touching on cloud, advancements in technology, VPS hosting and more in this candid roundtable set up. (Speakers are:  FortressITX COO Ross Brouse, FortressITX director of marketing Josh Ewin, FortressITX director of data center operations Salvatore Poliandro and FortressITX director of sales Brandon Hale.  

  How to raise seed capital for a data center colocation start-up? Is it even possible? Arman Khalili of Harbor Ridge Capital, which advises lower- and middle-market Internet infrastructure companies on financing growth, sheds some light on the way today’s capital markets are treating the “mom-and-pop shops” of the data center world.

The City and County of San Francisco’s technology department has been reimagining the way it delivers services to city workers and citizens, revamping applications, network and the underlying data center infrastructure. Some services have been delegated to commercial Software-as-a-Service providers. Gina Tomlinson, the city’s CTO, told us about the project at the DatacenterDynamics conference in San Francisco in July 2012.

IBM's Steve Sams tells DatacenterDynamics what it is most people do that leads to inefficient data centers and shares some conclusions of a recent customer study the company has done on efficiency.

Hear what the Data Center Infrastructure Management keynote panel at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 had to say about optimizing the data center. Panelists included representatives of SynapSense, RagingWire Data Centers and FieldView Solutions. The panel was moderated by Andy Lawrence, research director for data center technologies and eco-efficient IT at 451 Research.    

Jason Schafer, of 451 Research, tells us what constitutes a truly modern data center and what doesn't in this interview conducted at the DatacenterDynamics New York 2012 conference.

Jeff Klaus, director of data center solutions, tells us about what Intel Data Center Manger does and about the company’s strategy around its data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution.

HP teamed with F5 last week to add automatic provisioning for the network, in an effort to make application management much easier through its Intelligent Management Center. It also introduced new security tools for the management of personal devices over wireless and wired networks.  

Airbus recently let visitor’s in to the HP facility in France that houses its supercomputing facility, used for high-end simulation designs for aircraft including the A350. HP delivered the POD from its old manufacturing facility in Scotland (PODs are now made in its Kutna Hora facility – for more click here).  

See how Green Mountain Data Centre, which announced its anchor tennant today, plans to go for the title of World's Greenest Data Center in this video posted by the company.

We thought we would revisit this video posted on youtube last year on Green Revolution Cooling’s liquid submersion cooling for servers cannot CarnJet.   GRC announced just this week it had installed the solution in CGTVeritas’ HPC environment.   This service video shows you how CGTVeritas is likey to service its machines – and warning, for those stuck to more traditional ideas, this video is not for the faint hearted.    

Google’s video goes into detail about its use of municipal waste water at its Georgia data center – just another innovation used by Google to reduce its environmental impact.   The company diverts 30% of treated wastewater from a nearby water treatment facility, treats the water and then uses it for its data center cooling system. This allows it to use recycled water for 100% of its cooling needs, according to Joe Kava, who explains more in this video.

Ebay’s Dean Nelson, also a member of industry organization Data Center Pulse, takes a closer look at discussions around new server efficiency metrics.  The Data Center pulse summit was held in conjunction with the Green Grid Technical Forum in San Jose, California, last week. A proposed server efficiency metric – also covered in detail in FOCUS magazine with a special piece by 1E last month – looks at how you measure “miles per gallon of transactions per watt in the data center”, according to Nelson.

Dell is pushing further into the networking space with “end-to-end” 10GbE support across its latest servers, storage and network products. It says the move, based on its purchase of Force10 Networks last year, is designed to help companies put more intelligence behind workloads, and enable the shift to cloud computing and virtualization.  

Extreme Networks' VP of Technology Shehzad Merchant discusses the future of networking, and innovation at Extreme, with FOCUS. Extreme Networks has been releasing upgrades to its BlackDiamond X8 modular Ethernet switch whcih Merchant says addresses many of the needs becoming apparent due to the rise of mobility and big data in IT.  

IBM launched its new security intelligence platform QRadar Security Intelligence, which takes more than 400 lives feeds to keep data center infrastructure, identity management, applications and data secure. It says its new release puts intelligence and security together.   Here Jack Danahy, of Advanced Security at IBM, explains what security intelligence means at IBM, and how this works in its new security product.  

Innovation is being taken seriously at HP, where the converged infrastructure is designed to lead to more agile, reliable infrastructure. Penny Jones caught up with Peter Ryan, HP's head for Networking, Storage and Servers in Europe, Middle East and Africa, at the Foxconn-run HP factory just outside of Prague, where HP's PODs and enterprise products are made, to find out what this means to HP's product line. You c an read more about the Foxconn factory, and innovation at HP in FOCUS 20, out March.

See IBM’s video on its contribution to the new Tulip Telecom data center in India, India’s largest and the world’s third largest data center. Read more about the project itself here.  

IDC’s Thomas Meyer looks at the businesses that succeed and those that don’t in regards to their data center to determine how the data center needs to be run in the year ahead. Meyer released his Whitepaper on  Winning strategies for the Data Center in 2012 at the Fujisu Forum in Munich last year. Hear waht he revealved about today's industry to Penny Jones at the event. 

  Schneider Electric’s global director for data center projects tony Day shows us around the company’s 500kw modular power solution on display at DatacenterDynamics London last year. Schneider Electric put real-life modules on display at the show’s technology park, which also contained modular solutions by IBM, Active Power and DigiPlex.  

Bull released its direct liquid cooled supercomputers, with enterprises moving into the supercomputing space in mind, late November. We caught up with Bull’s VP of Strategy Matthew  Foxton (right) and its UK sales and marketing director Andrew Carr to find out how Bull is going to convince the market the time is right to put water in the data center.   Foxton and Carr also talk us through Bull’s plans for meeting cloud computing demand and its roadmaps for the future.  

  Google’s Joe Kava caught up with FOCUS at DatacenterDynamics London to discuss PUE, renewable energy and how Google became a zero carbon company.

Emerson Network Power VP of Marketing for EMEA Emiliano Cevenini talks power, cooling and Emerson’s DCIM offering Trellis at DatacenterDynamics London event held 30 November and 1 December. Emerson as a vendor is evolving with demands including the increased need for software in the data center and scalability, according to Cevenini, who details how Emerson plans to stay abreast of change.

TelecityGroup COO Rob Coupland explains the company’s energy efficiency optimization across its entire European fleet of data centers, inspired not in small part by the UK CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme.

  Hear what Gartner VP & Distinguished Analyst Carl Claunch had to say about Cisco, HP, IBM and Oracle, and the changing data center vendor space, at the recent Gartner Data Center & IT Operations Summit in London last month. This video offers some interesting takes on the future vendor space, and what we can expect from acquisitions and mergers as competition heats up.

Locaweb, una de las principales empresas de hosting de Brasil, inaugura un nuevo data center de alta disponibilidad

After defeating the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, the technology behind Watson will now be applied to some of the world's most enticing challenges. Watch a breakdown of the match from Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and the IBM team members as they look toward the future. 

Geoffrey Fox gives an Overview of FutureGrid at the Big Data for Science workshop held at the Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University in July 2010.

AST CEO Henry Daunert takes this tour of the Thor data center in Reykjavik, Iceland. AST says Thor is its first fully loaded natural free cooling data center to achieve a maximum 1.14 PUE** during peak daytime hours and 1.07 PUE at night - measured from 100% of the total energy consumed by the data center. 

Alquist Consulting's Andrew Jones discusses the reasons that exist beyond carbon emissions which give rise to the need for the UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment Scheme (CRC).

Penny Jones talks with Hitachi Europe senior manager for business strategy for the Data Center Solutions Group Ian Blond about the demands in the data center. Blond cover current trends with modularity, how vendors are keeping up with demand and the legislation driving new developments in this space.

East and Southern Africa is the only region in the world not connected to the global broadband infrastructure. This 'missing link' explains why the region accounts for less than one percent of the world's bandwidth capacity. This video explores the need for better connectivity in Africa, a move that could also beneift its data center industry.

This world Economic Forum panel explores the challenges and need for technology development in the Middle East. During the panel Purdue University Prfessor and Diector of Discovery Park puts the data center forward as being integral to the area's development. Other panelists include: Peter C.

As the race to spread internet services across Kenya gathers pace, its government is urging the private sector players to share their infrastructure and technical knowledge, according to this report by NTVKenya. Prime Minister Raila Odinga argues that this will go a long way in addressing the pressing need for connection to the internet.

Google shows us how it uses its own water treatment plant at its data center in Belgium to help its data center run more efficiently.

See how Georgia medical records company ExamWorkds creates private cloud computing environment with Presidio, VMware, Cisco, NetApp and Emerson Liebert.

Video tour of Google’s first container based data center, which went into service in 2005.

Microsoft has published a video outlining key concepts for its Generation 4 Modular Data Center , which it unveiled in Dec 2008. Heres a look at the details of the new design, which relies on data center containers, modular pre-fabriacted electrical and mechanical infrastructure, and no chillers.

Dell's Data Center Solutions (DCS) group custom builds modular data centers for customers that blow the walls off of traditional containers. This video details how the new solution can be put together in different configurations to suit a clients needs.

Colt's new Modular Data Centres are manufactured in approved facilities using modern production line techniques geared to providing high quality and high specification data centre halls. They are available in upwards of 500m2 ‘building blocks’. Clients can choose to place them in one of Colt's own major data centres where they can be operated and managed by Colt. Colt can also install and commission the data centre at other locations.

This short video introduces HP's FlexDC, a flexible data center that reduces time and cost by allowing choices from a strictly defined "menu" of electrical and mechanical systems and type of construction.

Tour the HP Wynyard Data Center in the United Kingdom featuring an energy-efficient and sustainable design that incorporates recycled materials as well as harvested rainwater.

Turkish mobile audio and data communications company Turkcell's Zihni Ugurbil, Infrastructure Operations Division Head speaks with DatacenterDynamics' Dan Scarborough about the current data center and networking challenges in Istanbul. Ugurbil was attending the DatacenterDynamics' global conference there in November.    

The company is expanding its data center in Madison, Wisconsin, with the goal of turning it into a 55,000-sq-ft 6MW facility. The video details what the facility is going to be like once the project is complete and why the company designed it the way it did.

Intel data center manager Leonid Shishlov gives a tour of the company

Cisco provides a detailed look at its newest data center in Allen, Texas. The facility is the first the company purpose-built for  itself. It features Cisco's own IT technology, including Unified Computing System, as well as cutting-edge design elements to maximize energy efficiency.

From the cooling plant to photovoltaic panels on the roof, Cisco provides an overview of the features that make its new Allen, Texas, data center energy efficient.

Google's director for operations Joe Kava explains how he got seawater to work as a cooling agent for Google's newest data center in Hamina, Finland.

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HP Taner Ayas, Datacenter Business Manager speaks with DatacenterDynamics' Karim Sayani about the segmentation and development of the Turkish datacenter sector. Taner Ayas was attending the DatacenterDynamics' global conference in November 2010. 

Turkcell's view on the industry: DCD Istanbul

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From biometrics-verified entry to hard-drive destruction, Google follows strict data center security policies. In this video, the company provides an overview of its key security practices.

On 15 March 2011, the UK Energy Bill was introduced into the House of Commons. The Energy Bill has been designed to provide for a step change in the provision of energy efficiency measures to homes and businesses, and make improvements to framework to enable and secure low carbon energy supplies and fair competition in the energy markets.

Intel's Xeon E7 product line has 25% more cores, more cache, more i/o memory and, according to Intel 40% more performance. Vice President for Intel's Architecture Group and Server CPU Division Rory McInerney explained the product to DatacenterDynamics.  

Orlando Health in Florida caters to more than two million people a year. It also carries out statutory teaching.  Data is crucial for the provision of care at the hospital and throughout its network. The data center team is required to provide a high level of support and the critical nature of its data means it has to be delivered timely, and in most cases, as real-time as possible

Silicon Valley startup Green Platform has developed a rack that significantly decreases the amount of vibration that affects the equipment it houses. The company says data center vibration can have an enormous impact on performance of disk-based storage

Bob Glavan, VP of data center operations with Server Farm Realty, gives DatacenterDynamics a detailed look at the company's new data center, currently under construction in Santa Clara, California

James Henry, senior managing director at the Bank Street Group, tells DatacenterDynamics that today

Dr. Francesco Pompei, a Harvard researcher and founder and CEO of Exergen Corporation, tells DatacenterDynamics how infrared sensors inside electrical panels can be used for real-time monitoring and for early warnings of upcoming power failures

Dan Woods, CTO and editor at CITO Research and a Forbes.com columnist, believes that the biggest driver for change in intelligence gathering habits come from the market place

Simon Lee, managing director at Sapience, describes the global data center investment movements for DatacenterDynamics. The discussion includes a view of the cloud computing space from an investors

Robert Waghorne, senior VP of European markets technology at Nasdaq OMX, shares with DatacenterDynamics Nasdaq

See Cisco's reversible fan module in its switch. You can rotate the fan so that the air flows either into or out of the switch ports depending on the configuration you require.

In this Q&A by the Uptime Institute, director of content and publications Matt Stansberry interviews Harkeeret Singh, Global Head of Energy for Technology Operations in Thomson Reuters and Advisory Board member of The Green Grid about the organization's new Data Center Maturity Model, announced at the recent Technical Forum.

Bernard Geoghagen, SVP of Colt Data Center Services speaks to Ambrose McNevin about Colt's Wildcard win at the Datacentre Leaders’ Awards 2010.

Lord Teverson, Member of the UK House of Lords and Inquiry co-chair talks with DatacenterDynamics about energy efficiency - an area he classifies as an untapped business opportunity.

In February 2011, The Green Grid announced it would be widening the scope of its mission to look beyond data center energy efficiency and into other areas that impact corporate sustainability, such as the electrical grid and energy consumption by office desktops. Mark Monroe, TGG's new executive director shared with DatacenterDynamics where the new mission may take the organization

Ambrose McNevin talks to Anjan Venkatrammani, Juniper Network's VP of Fabric and Switching Technologies on JuniperQfabric, Juniper

William Panian, data center facilities manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, tells us what the signs are of a need for a new data center. Panian also shares with us what PricewaterhouseCoopers

Sisters of Mercy Hospitals, based in St. Louis, Missouri, recently built a high-performance data center that could handle the high densities and constant availability required by cutting-edge digital imaging technology.

Jeffrey Ross-Bain, principal at Ross-Bain Green Building and member of ASHRAE 189.1 committee shares with DatacenterDynamics the latest developments in designing green buildings, as well as implementing adequate monitoring and management tools to make buildings energy efficient

Gary Howard, data center architect at Intel, takes DatacenterDynamics through the data center vitals that can be collected inside the server. This data can then be used to schedule IT workloads based not only on CPU and I/O utilization but also on power and temperature readings, which can all be taken by the servers themselves

JouleX chairman and CEO Tom Noonan tells DatacenterDynamics what it is like to raise venture capital for a data center technology start-up in today

It is 2 am on a Saturday morning and you are asleep. You get a phone call, notifying you that the data center you are managing is down. Alistair Edwards, Americas data center manager at Nokia, tells us what the data center manager should and should not do following such a phone call.

Learn about Intel's investigation of air economizers to optimize power and cooling in their data centers. The proof of concept (PoC) test used 100% air exchange over a 10-month period with an extreme range in temperature, humidity and air quality. The result was an estimated data center power savings of 67 percent and a potential savings of USD 2.87 million for a 10-MW data center - oh and some pretty grubby servers.

Using advanced computing and emerging technology, IBM is building a natural language processing computer code-named Watson to compete in the game show Jeopardy. This video by IBM shows you how. 

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Telecity Group recently received the Datacenter Leaders Award 2010 for its efforts in improving data center efficiency.   Rob Coupland, the company's COO, explains how it implmented its new energy efficiency programs and created a new data center in Paris which puts all of its ideas into practice.  

Eric Schwartz, Equinix Europe President talks with Penny Jones about his role leading the company in a competitive environment, and the local challenges for Equinix Europe.

See how Skanska uses simulation for its construction for its data center builds

Bernard Geoghagen, VP Colt Data Center Services answers questions on why he took the opportunity to lead Colt’s data center business and the advantages of the pre-manufactured of the modular data center.

Eric Schwartz, Equinix Europe President talks with Penny Jones about his role at the company which saw him receive the Datacenter Leaders Award for Business Leader of the Year in 2010.

DatacenterDynamics speaks with CB Richard Ellis' Head of its Data Center Advisory Group Andrew Jay on its European data center trends for Q3 report.

Turkish mobile audio and data communications company Turkcell's Zihni Ugurbil, Infrastructure Operations Division Head speaks with DatacenterDynamics' Dan Scarborough about the current data center and networking challenges in Istanbul. Ugurbil was attending the DatacenterDynamics' global conference there in November.    

The chain reaction started by technological progress in electronic trading ends in the data center. James Dow, CTO at CSTechnology shares with DatacenterDynamics FOCUS the new challenges today's data center operators that serve the financial services industry face.

President of the Phoenix NAP data center Ian McClarty shares a quick vision of 2011 plans for the next generation facility. The carrier-neutral data center is expanding to make way for new cloud infrastructure. The data center itself officially opened in June 2010.

DatacenterDynamics' editor Penny Jones talks with Andrew Jones, managing director of the UK's Alquist Consulting about its new energy monitoring tool Celsius, which uses optical fiber to measure energy use in the data center. Alquist won 2010's DatacenterDynamics Leaders Award for Future Thinking and Design Concepts. 

An overview of Switch's SuperNAP data center campus in Las Vegas

Time-lapse video of roof assembly on top of the new Swiss National Supercomputing Center in Lugano

This video details Microsoft's fourth-generation modular data center design based on ITPACs

IBM's Steve Kenniston speaks with Polycom's Israel operations to find out how it used IBM's real-time compression to run a more efficient data center for data storage.

Bernie Oegema, data center consultant at IBM Canada, walks us through the new HPC data center outside of Toronto IBM designed for SciNet, a consortium charged with providing computing services to researchers at the University of Toronto and other institutions around the country.

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Small consulting and design firm emerges victorious from a group of six finalists. Victory was owed to ability to meet criteria while keeping the design simple

DCD Dallas 2010: Electrical-gear vendor PDI launched its containerized data center product called i-Con in November. The company’s CTO Tim Cortes explains why.

Green House Data has built a 100% wind powered facility north of Denver. The Tier I facility will be 10,000 sq ft at capacity and will offer colocation, managed hosting and cloud computing services running off a N+1 electrical power infrastructure that can provide 12.5kw to each data cabinet. It claims to be a carbon neutral facility.  This tour explain how the data center was built and what makes it highly energy efficient, reliable and carbon neutral.   

Michael Adams, VP for data and IT at AEG Power Solutions explains how the renewables player sees microgrids working for data center operators and how renewables can offer lower PUE for data centers outside of the grid.

APC Senior Vice President of Innovation Neil Rasmussen speaks to DCD editor Penny Jones on metrics,and how he believes that metrics can eventually become global.

DCD editor Penny Jones talks with APC by Schneider SVP of Innovation Neil Rasmussen following his talk at DCD London in which he argued that new physical demands could spell the end for traditional raised-floor cooling.

DCD's Penny Jones asks Eaton product marketing manager Stefan Coote about modularity in the data center, and how this has an affect on power provision.

The Green Grid President John Tuccillo talks with Penny Jones about the formation and globalization of The Green Grid's Metrics.

APC by Schneider Electric launched its new economizer cooling solution at DatacenterDynamic London this week. Penny Jones spoke with APC Director of Innovation John H Bean about the Ecobreeze.

Jon Viggo Gunnarsson, managing director of the recently opened Thor Data Center in Iceland, which counts Opera as a client, speaks with DCD Focus' Penny Jones. Thor Data Center runs on 100% renewable energy.

Following a year of new DatacenterDynamics events around Latin America, George Rockett talks to Fernando Garcia, VP of Latinamerica for APC by Schneider Electric, about the growth drivers in the region. This short interview was done at the DCD Mexico event on 28th October 2010.

From DPPE in Japan to new standardisation efforts in Mexico, national metrics are being developed around the world. We caught up with John Tuccillo, President of The Green Grid, to find out what the organization, which designed PUE, thinks about these new standards.

Nomura Research Institute Counselor Dr Takao Shiino explains the Data Center Performance Per Energy and how it should be viewed not only in Japan, but around the world.

Hitachi senior manager for business strategy of its European Data Center Solutions Group talks to Penny Jones about the European market. Hitachi recently rolled out power solutions to Telecity in the UK.

Managing director of the Australian Climate Exchange Tim Hanlen explains how emissions trading will work if introduced. 

Helsingin Energia talks about its data center which exploits heat generated from equipment for warming buildings and domestic water in Helsinki. The first solution utilizing this next generation concept was initiated by BaseN and implemented as a joint project with an advanced ICT service provider Academica Oy, which is a BaseN subsidiary and telecoms provider.

Set inside an old military bunker, The Bunker claims to be the UK's most secure data center, inside and out. It offers managed hosting, colocation and IT outsourcing just outside of London, as well as a range of high-end security options.This tour shows you what it looks like inside The Bunker.

This is a video of an engineering experiment conducted by embedded cooling company Corvalent. It cools a computer by completely submerging it in liquid. This liquid submersion cooling system is NOT using mineral oil, or any type of oil cooling. This experiment was done using a chemical made by 3M called Novec 7000. It has a low boiling point, and leaves no residue or any trace whatsoever behind on the motherboard. The board was equipped with an i3 processor, running at 100% load. 

John Manville , VP Cisco IT Network and Data Center Services talks about the three main components of the overall Cisco internal data center strategy : 1. Build the right capacity in the right place 2. Increase the reliability of the facilities 3. Transforming IT. Manville also about the Cisco IT cloud computing strategy, the lessons learned, and the benefits for the company.

Iceotope has developed what it says is a truly scalable, modular liquid cooling solution for modern rack-based server architectures. Using this technology, it says partners produce servers that are highly suited for deployment in enterprise data centres, high performance computing (HPC) facilities and cloud computing infrastructure.Here is a look at how this innovative solution works.

In February 2010, US startup Bloom Energy has launched a fuel cell technology that is says could have a big impact on anyone running a data center. Large customers are already lined up - it says the product will be seen in use in two years time. Its patented solid oxide fuel cell technology used for its Energy Server is a new class of distributed power generator it says produces clean, reliable and affordable electricity at the customer site.

Andrew Hitchings from the UK Environment Agency provides an overview of the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC). (Note this video was posted before recent changes to the financing of the regulations.) The CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme aims to secure savings and drive profits through energy efficiency. CRC is a mandatory scheme that applies to public and private sector organisations.   

See how HP ensures its Tulsa Data Center standards and processes reinforce a zero outage approach in delivering technology services for its clients and customers. 

Alex Yost, Vice President and Business Line Executive for IBM System x and BladeCenter, and John Oldham, Brocade Global Sales Executive, discuss the Brocade 8470 Switch Module for IBM BladeCenter and Brocade 1007 Converged Network Adapter (CNA) for IBM BladeCenter - the first fully converged embedded 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch module and CNA designed specifically for IBM BladeCenter server environments.

  Wade Vinson, of HP Power and Cooling, talks about HP's POD Works and why he thinks the multi-million dollor POD manufacturing facility should be the way you build you next data center.  

Intel's data center 'dude' explains how it uses cloud computing, Xeon, and high performance computing in the data center, in particular, how you can provision high performance computing workloads from the data center to the cloud.

IBM Research Triangle Park received LEED gold status recently. The data center has been designed to support new compute models such as cloud computing. The data center will ultimately total 100,000 square feet. IBM owns or operates more than 450 data centers worldwide.

Opened in 2009, NetApp's data center located at the NetApp technology center in Research Triangle Park earned the US Environmental Protection Agency's prestigious Energy Star in July this year. It was the first data center to achieve this distinction from the Us EPA. This is a tour of the site.

A short film about US data center build company Stream's newbuild in Texas for a private customer.

Equinix's recently opened its fourth state-of-the-art data center facility in Frankfurt. See the video tour of the site created by Equinix below.

Chris Whitney of HP Labs explains the goals for HP Labs Singapore: ambitious projects that fundamentally re-examine data center and application design principles...exploring the future of the cloud

Brocade and Dell executives discuss a strategic partnership to deliver open, standards-based data center architecture solutions to Dells entire customer base, all the way from enterprise customers to SMBs, in Asia Pacific.

Key takeaways from series of CIO roundtables that Cisco's Dylan Morison participated in cities across Australia.

Hypothetical discussion between a cloud consultant and his client. It's a joke that may or may not have any connection with reality so don't take it too seriously. Inspired by "social media expert" skit.

Mr. T saves the I.T. world from corporate zombies, a cold-hearted consultant, and dumb disk arrays!

Emerson's new corporate data center, located at the company's St. Louis headquarters, is a state-of-the-art, energy-efficient facility designed to support the company's initiative to consolidate its global network comprised of more than 100 data centers worldwide into four facilities. The data center showcases a full array of innovative power, cooling and monitoring technologies from Emerson Network Power.

EDF Energy anticipates business benefits and savings in excess of

0.8 billion Internet users worldwide. 10 billion Google searches a month. What does it all mean for the cloud? It changes the demands of information technology and see what that means for the growth of data centers. A great video from AMDs marketing group!

Phil Nail, Founder and CTO of AISO.net, talks about the company's goal to be an off-the-grid data center. Since fully deploying its virtual infrastructure, AISO has seen a 70% decrease in energy usage.

See how the transformational data center at the new Siemens headquarters in Beijing cuts energy consumption by 60 percent.

Intel IT's Data Center Strategy is on track to create $650M of value for Intel. In this video, Intel IT shares some details about this strategy, including key results, strategies and innovations in the areas of facilities, compute, networking, and storage.

Global energy management specialist Schneider Electric has developed a dedicated solution for Next Generation Data Limited, the owners of NGD Europe, to specify and install all the infrastructure equipment for the new mega data centre.

Hear how Intel IT is increasing DC facility efficiency through innovative designs and approaches to reduce power consumption.

IBM today announced the opening of a new data center that has been designed to support new compute models like cloud computing, to help clients from around the world operate smarter businesses, organizations and cities. The data center will ultimately total 100,000 square feet at IBMs Research Triangle Park (RTP) campus and is part of a $360 million investment by the corporation to build the new data center in North Carolina. IBM owns or operates more than 450 data centers worldwide.