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December 2009 News round up
google sets up power subsidiary, Green Touch promises power efficient networks, Data centre Leaders' Awards winners, The BBC's data center strategy

Strategy
BBC uses dedicated data center to serve Strictly Come Dancing on iPlayer
Exclusive: Solid State Disk memory used to cut latency for most popular content

Nasdaq extends data center deal with Verizon
Day to day management of US sites will sit with in house based supplier team

Google registers subsidiary as power utility
Company says it wants more flexibility in buying and selling renewable energy

Attack on corporate infrastructure leads to Google ultimatum to Chinese government
Company says it will stop censoring Google.cn search results or pull out of China completely

Build
General Dynamics opens data center to serve US Department of Homeland Security
Facility to process and store immigration and citizenship information

Dallas strained for data center space
Demand in the market is outpacing supply two-fold

HSBC drops plan to build £300 million data center in York
Bank says it will make better use of existing facilities instead

MITIE wins contract to expand Infinity’s London data center
Contractor to build out 100,000 square feet of data center space

HP signs large data center service contract with Konecranes
Contractor to host servers and other IT infrastructure of Finnish crane maker




Corporate
Savvis CEO quits
New role beckons

Cisco completes $2.9-billion Starent acquisition
Buyer places bets on growth in mobile Internet market

Sabey secures $100 mil investment from electricians’ unions; eyes new US markets
New venture to expand Sabey’s reach beyond Pacific Northwest

Syracuse University’s green data center project deploys Server Technology PDU’s
Facility to use half the power used at comparable facilities, with all power generated on-site


Awards
IBM Fellow Dr. Roger R. Schmidt collects Outstanding Contribution to the Industry Award
Cooling expert and industry stalwart is recognised for his technical leadership over 30 years

Datacentre Leaders’ Awards recognize sustainability, efficiency and true innovation across the industry
Update: Reactions from Microsoft and others to 3rd annual Datacenter Leaders’ Awards winners announced at a gala ceremony in London

Technology
Networking problem at Rackspace data center causes outage
Routing loop created during network integration of Dallas and Chicago data centers

CERN scientists use Platform solutions to manage massive cloud computing infrastructure
Solutions manage workloads on both physical and virtual servers

WesTrac orders IBM data center containers
Customer to use solution to expand capacity of a full data center

Raritan rolls out FIPS-certified KVM switch
Dominion KX II carries embedded encryption module



APC stacks Infrastruxture into IBM containers
Power and cooling component supply deal extended to portable data centers

Green Touch consortium promises super efficient networks
Bell Labs gathers partners to make comms networks '1,000 itmes more energy efficient'

US government to invest $47 million into data center energy efficiency research
Grant recipients include IBM, HP, Yahoo! and others

Links to other top stories from 2009: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November.
 
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