Archive for the 'Green Grid' Category

European Data Center Leaders to Gather at DCE 2010 (Web Host Industry Review)

March 8, 2010 — Event organizer BroadGroup announced on Monday that industry leaders in the European data center sector will gather at the sixth annual Data Centres Europe Conference and Awards, held April 22 to 23 at Sophia Antipolis near Nice, France.

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My PAC’s better than your POD. Or is it? (ZDNet)

Microsoft’s take on the future of the datacenter brings with it the danger of useful benchmarking metrics becoming meaningless marketing bullets. Understanding how complex systems work and interoperate is more than just a game of speeds and feeds. by David Chernicoff

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Another water project could divide the state (Los Angeles Times)

San Joaquin Valley farmers hope for $3.3-billion dam and reservoir at Temperance Flat, but they need help paying for it. Harvey Bailey was 11 when Friant Dam started spitting the San Joaquin River into an irrigation canal the size of a freeway.

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Group seeks to open source data-center design (CIO)

A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centers, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry.

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Open sourcing data centre design (TechWorld)

Group wants to pool engineering resources A new industry group is trying to apply open-source principles to the design and construction of data centres, which it says could accelerate the use of new technologies and increase competition in the industry.

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