If current trends continue unchecked, data center greenhouse gas emissions will quadruple by 2020, according to a joint study by the Uptime Institute and McKinsey & Company. The study, released today at the Uptime Symposium in Orlando, calls for a... Data Center Knowledge »
The data center industry should be all over this one. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a solicitation for up to $10 billion in Federal loan guarantees for renewable energy and efficiency projects. “Loan guarantees from the Department will... (posted on 6 Jul 2008 by Data Center Links)
Are leading Internet sites reliable enough? The New York Times examines web downtime today in a front-page story, which focuses on users' growing reliance upon web services. "Now the Web is an irreplaceable part of daily life, and Internet companies have... (posted on 6 Jul 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
Check out my fun paper called "Where the truth is: Logs and breach-disclosure laws" at ComputerWorld. I personally find the premise that logs help with breach notification mandates to be a perfect no-brainer, but it looks like some people consider it to... (posted on 3 Jul 2008 by Anton Chuvakin on Security)
Networkworld recently published an interesting article entitled “7 side effects of sloppy virtualization”. This title seems to indicate that the problems server virtualization might cause are solvable by being well prepared. Nevertheless, all seven... (posted on 3 Jul 2008 by 4sysops - For Windows Administrators)
Data center deals slowed in London in the first quarter of 2008, and as a result the total space leased in 2008 is not likely to match the robust growth levels seen in 2007, according to new data from CBRE's Technology Practice Group. CBRE said demand... (posted on 3 Jul 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)
A financial trading system has executed 1 million messages per second, establishing a new speed record. The landmark was announced jointly by Sun Microsystems and Intel, which designed a low-latency system for the Thomson Reuters Market Data System, a... (posted on 3 Jul 2008 by Data Center Knowledge)

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