Issue 9, April/May 10
FOCUS CONTENTS
CONTENTS Issue 9, April/May 2010
NEWS COMMENT US
UK & EUROPE APAC
LATAM INDUSTRY
TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS
GEORGIA GOES NUCLEAR
The US state of Georgia will be the location for the first new Nuclear power stations in decades – local data center operators give their reactions
SOLAR POWER
A huge solar array is being planned with the backing of public money
THE FUTURE OF DATA CENTER NETWORKS
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As virtualization of Data Centers takes hold, upgrading the network becomes paramount and facilities are starting to deploy 10Gb Ethernet Networks
FEATURES
HOW WILL THE NEXT GENERATION OF DATA CENTERS BE DEPLOYED? 19
Microsoft’s Kevin Timmons gave a world exclusive to attendees to DatacenterDynamics New York conference when he revealed that the firm’s next generation data centers would be designed and built
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based on pre-manufactured ITPACs (IT pre assembled components). And he challenged the industry to accept that the era of monolithic build was over and that in the future data centers would be based on a manufacturing supply chain model
DATACENTERDYNAMICS NEW YORK – MARKET PRESSURES
and run data centers we look at the record of previous attempts to consolidate
THE DATA CENTER SUPPLY CHAIN
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A panel of industry experts discusses why it is the CFO that is behind the demand for collocation and hosted services
SILICON VALLEY 24
Despite its troubles demand for data center space in California is improving
PUBLIC SECTOR
CONSOLIDATION PLANS IN THE UK PUBLIC SECTOR 25
Interview: UK Government CIO John Suffolk talks with DatacenterDynamicsFOCUS on how he will implement his consolidation strategy
HP WYNYARD: THE OFFICIAL OPENING
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Already the site for a major UK government department’s IT, we take a tour of the HP mega data center in the north of England and detail its unique cooling set up
CONSOLIDATION PLANS FOR US PUBLIC SECTOR DATA CENTERS
VIRTUALIZATION
Today’s data centers are not being managed for optimum efficiency and virtualization is adding another layer of complexity says analyst IDC
CLOUD 41
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has bet the company on the cloud
BUILD 42
Hong Kong Exchange and Clearing has found a site for its new data center
POWER 44
US Air Force palces $560m UPS order. UPS energy star rating comes closer
COOLING 29, 32
As the US Government CIO calls for a massive reduction in the number of government owned
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Celebrating 10 years in the Data Center Industry
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Facebook defends its design after Greenpeace attack. IBM goes on Youtube to talk about data center cooling
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DATACENTERDYNAMICS CONFERENCES
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Details of the forthcoming conferences from DatacenterDynamics including the public sector conference in Manchester, our first visits to Riyadh, Zurich and Brussels and our return to Paris
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Traditional IT channel players are investing heavily in the data center space. Who are the movers?
UPDATES IT
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Global server sales continue on the upward path
COOLING LIQUID COOLING
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Phil Tuma, a thermal application engineer at 3M proposes a new liquid immersion based solution for cooling servers
DCD FREE COOLING MAP 54
The location of the world’s leading data centers which are deploying free cooling technologies
INDICES 56, 57
DatacenterDynamics Research into attitudes to free cooling from across the world. Also The Green Gird free cooling maps for North America and Europe
COOLING
Emerson unveils new containment and air and fluid side economization solutions
POWER MANAGEMENT
Google backs research into component level power saving
CONNECTIVITY 50
Cisco unveils a new generation of network carrier routing system
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