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Visa's data center with a moat
Visa's new data center, in an undisclosed location "somewhere on the eastern seaboard," is creating quite a stir for its purported fortifications and defenses. The company says the center can hold up
Best city for data centers is Sioux Falls, S.D.
Financial services companies looking to build a data center might want to consider Sioux Falls, S.D., reports Beth Bacheldor at ITworld. The mid-sized city is cold in the winter, relatively
Ways that greener data centers save money
If your company is looking for new ways to save money in 2012, the data center might be a good place to start. There is plenty of evidence to demonstrate that a greener data center can save not only
How to squeeze more life out of the data center
Back when the economy was rosy, a lot of organizations deployed data centers that they expected to run for maybe six to eight years before seeing a major refresh. But as uncertain times linger, CIOs
Va. earthquake shows little impact on data centers, cell networks
The biggest earthquake to strike Virginia in more than 100 years reverberated all the way to Maine and clogged up cell phone networks, but it doesn't appear to have had much of an impact on data
Latest guesstimates point to Google operating 900,000 servers
New data pertaining to innovations and industry best practices implemented by Google ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) in its data centers have shed new light on the number of servers operated by the company. Based on
Data center downtime can cost $5,000/minute
For every hour that your organization is subjected to a data center outage, it could be losing more than $300,000. The average cost of downtime to businesses is approximately $5,000 per minute,
When consolidating, start with a 'coalition of the willing'
State governments traditionally housed multiple, independent IT operations among their myriad agencies and departments, making them ripe test beds for IT consolidation. At the same time, state
Building data centers in fallout shelters and old mines
Former mines and Cold War-era nuclear bunkers are being transformed into data centers as companies seek safer locations for their information. These underground facilities are protected from the
Amazon apologizes for cloud outage, promises to do better
Amazon has revealed that the lengthy outage at its data center in Northern Virginia was the result of a network configuration error when performing a network capacity upgrade. It caused Amazon's
