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How and Where is the World's Data Being Stored? [Infographic]
By Klint Finley / August 2, 2011 11:00 AM / 0 Comments

Data backup service Mozy (owned by EMC and managed by ReadWriteCloud sponsor VMware) is running an interesting infographic about data storage that looks into how much data there is

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Report on Cloud Computing's Environmental Benefits is Flawed says GreenMonk Analyst
By Klint Finley / July 22, 2011 8:45 AM / 0 Comments

This week the report Cloud Computing - The IT Solution for the 21st Century from the Carbon Disclosure Project has been making rounds in cloud computing circles. The report

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What it Takes to Power the Cloud [Infographic]
By Alex Williams / May 14, 2011 6:00 PM / 0 Comments

Our infographic to end the week is one of the better ones I've run across recently. It's about data centers, one of the more talked about topics in recent

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The Cloud and the Cost Impacts of its Massive Data Centers [Infographic]
By Alex Williams / April 30, 2011 8:00 PM / 0 Comments

The new data centers are far larger and more efficient than what is offered by enterprise hosting operations. That's something we hear a lot more about. It comes down

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Cloud Round-up: Apple Hires Microsoft Data Center Guru, Private Clouds Discredited and More
By Klint Finley / April 15, 2011 4:22 PM / 0 Comments

We try to tell you everything you need to know about the cloud here every week, but sometimes there's just too much news and analysis for us to give

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Facebook's Open Compute Project Means Infrastructure is Now a Commodity
By Klint Finley / April 7, 2011 4:45 PM / 3 Comments

As we reported earlier, Facebook open-sourced its data center specifications and practices today. The infrastructural details of Facebook's new Prineville, OR data center can now be found on the

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Why Amazon Web Services is Going to Japan: Apps, Social Gaming and the World Stage
By Alex Williams / March 2, 2011 2:30 PM / 1 Comments

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is opening a new data center in Tokyo, its fifth overall and second in Asia. The new AWS data center is noteworthy as we are seeing

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How to Avert a Data Center Staffing Crisis
By Klint Finley / January 27, 2011 9:20 AM / 0 Comments

Earlier this month we covered Gartner analyst David J. Cappuccio's concerns that a data center crisis is looming. This week we're seeing increased data center hiring. We talked to

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Touring Texas with the Bloggers Part 2: Smart Power Distribution, a Little Cloud History and More
By Klint Finley / January 13, 2011 8:00 PM / 0 Comments

This week I attended HP ISS Tech Day at Hewlett-Packard's Houston facility along with several other bloggers. In part one we talked a bit about the definition of cloud

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Weekly Poll: How Concerned Are You About Pollution in the Cloud?
By Alex Williams / November 24, 2010 3:30 PM / 3 Comments

The data center is the new factory of the digital age. And like any factory, it poses a paradox: A data center pollutes but it also powers the servers

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Cloud Computing is Good for the Environment. Really?
By Alex Williams / November 5, 2010 6:55 PM / 6 Comments

Greenpeace raised the heat several months ago when the organization lambasted data center operators for contributing to global warming. The organization has recently intensified criticism by targeting Facebook in campaigns

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From the Old to the New: Data Centers Rise Along the Columbia River
By Alex Williams / November 1, 2010 10:00 AM / 1 Comments

Amazon.com is buying more land in Oregon, showing again why the the Pacific Northwest is a choice region for companies such as Google, Facebook and T-Mobile to build data centers.

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Weekly Poll: Do We Need A Radically Different Data Center?
By Alex Williams / October 27, 2010 11:11 PM / 1 Comments

The Open Data Center Alliance launched today with the goal of making the modern data center more open, efficient and simpler to use. The group is developing a steering committee

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Data Centers Suited For Dr. Evil and Servers, Too
By Alex Williams / July 30, 2010 12:58 PM / 0 Comments

The architectural style of a data center is not what you would think as being unique. But data centers can have a certain style as illustrated in a recent post

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Weekly Poll: What Companies Will Be at the Top of the Cloud in the Next 5 Years
By Alex Williams / March 15, 2010 11:30 PM / 19 Comments

We take a look at the future of cloud computing services this week. We want to know: What companies do you think will be at the top of the cloud

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Weekly Poll: Is There A Place For Open-Source in the Data Center?
By Alex Williams / March 8, 2010 10:57 PM / 3 Comments

This week's poll is inspired our friends at CloudAve. Krishnan Subramanian wrote a post today about open-sourcing data center design. It's about time, isn't it? Subramanian best point comes down

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