America’s dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business, with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft.
Read more →The AFCOM association for data center management professionals on Tuesday unveiled the results of a survey of 436 data center sites, which found cyberterrorism to be an increasing concern, mainframe deployment to be on the decline, storage deployment to be on the rise, and “green” technologies to be definitely happening.
AFCOM members include 4,500 administrators from [...]
The memorable lyrics of Joni Mitchell’s hit song Big Yellow Taxi became a rallying cry for the environmental movement: “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.”
Almost 40 years later, the industry behind often vilified concrete structures such as parking lots and garages has joined the movement and now is a central player in [...]
Locally based Fortune Data Centers will open the second phase of its “green” data center here within six months. The expansion is underway because its first phase, completed early this year and containing 43,000 square feet of fully powered IT floor space in a 78,000 square foot building, is at 100% capacity, according to Fortune [...]
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The University of Massachusetts Medical School is building a $16 million data center at its South Street campus in Shrewsbury to replace two older data centers, according to school officials.
UMass Medical has two data centers. One that’s 20 years old and a second one that is about 10 years old. The two older data centers [...]
A new $280 million community at the University of California, Davis — already innovative for its plan to mix student and employee housing, retail space and a community college center — is breaking ground in more ways than one, thanks to an almost $2 million grant from the California Energy Commission.
The planners for West Village, [...]
LEED standard makes little dent overall, but L.L. Bean, Emerson say it changes approach
Most data centers have the ambience of bomb shelters, but not one built by retailer L.L. Bean.
The Freeport, Maine-based company made sure its new 18,000 square-foot data center had plenty of natural light and views of trees. It wanted something comfortable, conducive [...]
One look at the 15-story transfer student apartment building, nearing completion at the northwest corner of the University of California San Diego campus, should raise the ambitions of community college scholars to complete their education there.
There’s the billion-dollar view over Torrey Pines Golf Course and out to the Pacific. How about the granite countertops and [...]
A bunker mentality can be helpful for security, backup and business continuity
Computerworld – As Hurricane Ike bore down on Houston one Friday last September, the Continental Airlines’ flight operations center, located on the 14th floor of a glass-sided downtown high rise, suddenly went dark. For the airline’s pilots and flight crews, however, business proceeded [...]
Manufacturing and technology company Emerson opened its new $50 million state-of-the-art global data center today — a 35,000-square-foot facility that’s expected to be 31 percent more energy efficient than a standard facility.
With Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt on hand, the company conducted an opening ceremony at the St. Louis site, which [...]
