Data Center Knowledge – Microsofts James Hamilton has been collecting scaling stories for a while, and has shared a list of resources providing insider accounts of how the Web’s largest sites have managed their scalability challenges. The post focuses on Flickrs database architecture, but also provides links to similar [...] read more

Data Center Knowledge – HP today became the latest hardware vendor to launch a data center container product, the Performance Optimized Data Center (POD), which is housed in both 20-foot and 40-foot long shipping containers. HP is targeting the unit as a transitional data center solution for companies that need to quickly… read more

T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer – The unlimited power sucking days of the Internet may be nearing an end. Its not just SUVs and old incandescent light bulbs that are sending polar bears to a watery grave. Every one of us who publishes a Web site or operates an online business contributes a little to the rising fever of Mother Earth. But what can we do about it short of pulling the plug on the very technology that puts food on [...] read more