Issue 14, February/March
FOCUS CONTENTS
NEWS COMMENT
A special technology insert to DatacenterDynamicsFOCUS
EU 6 APAC
8 LATAM
MID EAST/AFRICA TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY
POWER
How prepared are you for the power-provisioning challenges that lie ahead? In this special insert, free with FOCUS, we look at the new technologies on the block and the tried and tested models that are innovating for today’s data center environment
NEWS FOCUS
AUSTRALIAN FLOODS 15 How preparation kept data centers in Brisbane above water
SILICON ROUNDABOUT 16
Data center operators sniffed out the UK’s newest tech hub long before the start-ups got there
NEW YORK SPECIAL
MONEY WELL PLACED 18 The investment drivers that are making Wall St keep an eye on data center operators
HEY BIG SPENDER 20
What data centers have to do to become Wall St darlings
THE FAST LANE TO FIBER 22
The interelations between the stock market and speed - a walk down memory lane
PROFILE VERIZON’S CLOUD
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Verizon has aggressive plans for cloud computing, which heavily involve NY data center space
FEATURE
HOW CLOUDS GO GREEN 34 How a containerized data center at Notre Dame University is providing life outside of the box
INDIA’S DATA CENTER DETERMINATION
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Power security, connectivity uptime and real estate costs can all be overcome in India with the right knowledge, according to experts talking at our upcoming Mumbai event
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CONTENTS Issue 14, February/March 2011 WHERE BIGGER IS BETTER 28
NORTH AMERICA
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Why size means everything when it comes to surviving mergers and acquisitions in the NY colo market
THE PROOF IS IN THE PURCHASE
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Rumours don’t last long in NY, where the market acts fast. Hear about some of the biggest real estate deals in recent times in the NY colo market
DCD AWARDS SPECIAL
OUR AMAZING 2010 AWARD WINNERS
This year’s winners are green, lean and keen when it comes to innovation. See Europe’s cream of the data center crop with our coverage of winners of 2010’s European DatacenterDynamics Leaders’ Awards inside
UPDATES CONNECTIVITY
POWER 58
Overcoming 40 and 100Gb Ethernet challenges
60
APC’s Neil Rasmussen takes us through the difference between Watts and Volt-Amps
DCD ONLINE 62
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NO MORE BUNNY HOPS 64
Read what our DatacenterDynamics CTO Stephen Worn has to say about the data center challenges in 2011
DATACENTERDYNAMICS CONFERENCE NEWS
68
From Mumbai to Atlanta, Shenzen to New York, see the latest details on our global series of events
COMMENT CLOUD FORMATIONS 70
Cloud is changing the colo view of applications
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Celebrating 10 years in the Data Center Industry
www.datacenterdynamics.com 3 41 62 41
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