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Report: Facebook is Iowa's Mystery Data Center Prospect
— Will a huge data center like this one rise in Altoona, Iowa? Local sources say Facebook is the company behind Altoona's Project Catapult. This is a look at the Facebook data center in Forest City, North Carolina. (Photo: Rich Miller)
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Facebook Servers Get Hotter, But Run Fine in the South
— An aerial view of the new Facebook data center in Forest City, North Carolina. (Photo: Facebook). — Facebook has been able to cool its servers through the North Carolina summer using only fresh air and no mechanical refrigeration …
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Massive Flooding Damages Several NYC Data Centers
— Flooding from Hurricane Sandy has hobbled two data center buildings in Lower Manhattan, taking out diesel fuel pumps used to refuel generators.A third building at 121 Varick is also reported to be without power.
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Major Data Centers in Northeast Brace for Sandy
— Major data centers on the East Coast have emergency plans in place, and are preparing to ride out Hurricane Sandy and keep critical communications services online as the powerful storm lays siege to major population centers.
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After Amazon Outage, Rivals Seek to Capitalize
— An outage at Amazon Web Services affected some customers and sparked discussion about resiliency strategies and customer poaching efforts from cloud rivals. (Photo by BCP via Flickr. — Will Monday's downtime for some customers …
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The Olympian Infrastructure Challenge
— The view of the Olympic Stadium from Cisco House in London, an “executive experience” showcasing the company's technology. (Image: Cisco) — The 2012 Summer Olympics in London will be the most connected Games in history.
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Apple: Greenpeace's Cloud Math is Busted
— A view of the huge roof of the Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina. Apple said today that the facility will use 20 megawatts of power, far less than an estimate by Greenpeace. (Image: Apple). — Apple says it will use 20 megawatts …
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Apple Plans 20MW of Solar Power for iDataCenter
— The exterior of the Apple data center facility in Maiden, North Carolina (Source: Apple) — Apple has revealed new details about the operations of its huge data center in Maiden, North Carolina, including plans to build a 20-megawatt solar power facility to support its operations.
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Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm in Iowa
— An example of an array of 4.5 meter satellite dishes. Google is seeking permission to deploy an array of 4.5 meter satellite dishes near its data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Source: SETI Institute) — Google subsidiary Google Fiber …
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Google Spent $951 Million on Data Centers in 4Q
— Google invested nearly a billion dollars in its Internet infrastructure in the last quarter of 2011, recording capital expenditures (CapEx) of $951 million. Google's CapEx spending was about $271 million more than in the third quarter of 2011 …
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.