Tag: DATACENTER

Speaking at the O'Reilly Velocity conference, Facebook's Tom Cook presented a slide that puts Facebook's rapid user growth into perspective. Actual numbers were carefully omitted, but Data Center Knowledge performed some easy deduction to conclude that the top peak represents 60,000 servers. The plateau towards the end of 2009 represents 30,000 servers -- so they've installed 30,000 servers ...

A $300 Million dollar data center project to house IT operations for the state of Washington has come under fire by two state legislators as half-baked, inefficient and unsound. What's the alternative? Why, putting all of the state's data center operations "in the cloud", of course! Cue: Circus music, dancing children and an end to all of humanity's ills This is the part where the Big Brain ...

Welcome to Googleholic - your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! This edition covers: Google loses #2 spot on Alexa rankings Blueprint of Google's new data center in Harper's magazine Google Adwords makes changes to URL policy ...

This is more of an "offload" than a "download," but it's still a neat idea. Sun this week announced what they think is the future of data-centers: Project Blackbox. The basic idea is pretty simple. Instead of building data-centers in existing buildings, customers will be able to order prefab centers built into storage containers and delivered to a location of their choice pre-built and ready to ...