Data center provider CoreSite Realty has reworked its revolving credit facility, increasing its borrowing power $225 million to $355 million and changing the line from secured to unsecured. CoreSite, which operates a network of 14 data center in nine major U.S.…
Application development has a profound impact on data center efficiency and costs. New application deployments, releases of new versions, and maintenance updates all require more hardware, more facilities space and change management. As the owners of the processing power, it…
Data centers represent some of the most demanding performance technology in the communications infrastructure market. Choosing the right cabling and cable management system is one of the most important aspects of data center design. Reliability, in combination with extreme density,…
IBM announced a major advance in the ability to use light instead of electrical signals to transmit information for future computing. Referred to as Silicon Nanophotonics, the technology allows the integration of different optical components side by side with electrical circuits…
New company Enlogic launches a critical component in the fight against data centre energy waste. December 2012 – Worcester, UK – With rising energy costs, increasing IT complexity, and mounting pressure from government to restrict carbon emissions with tax penalties,…
As companies like VMware and Intel make acquisitions like Nicira and Virtutech and introduce new products, the notion of the software-defined data center is becoming more and more clear to the broader IT audience. According to Steve Herrod, CTO of…
Can instability in a foreign country disrupt your global network? That question is one again on the minds of the IT infrastructure community after Syria was disconnected from the Internet earlier this week. How hard is it to disconnect a…
Containment components include rack containment using rack-based chimneys, and aisle containment using end of row doors, aisle ceilings and overhead vertical wall systems. Chimneys affix to the hot air side of the rack, ducting hot air into a drop ceiling…
In selecting the right data center colocation, important considerations are the visibility and management tools available for the customer. Monitoring power consumption, having a DRready environment and truly partnering with the provider are vital consideration points in making the proper…
At the Data Center Jobs Board, we have a new job listing from Logicworks, which is seeking a Data Center Engineer in Piscataway, NJ. The Data Center Engineer is responsible for installing, configuring and maintaining server class hardware; installing, configuring and…
