Latest data center news.
Data centers breathe easier with less oxygen, 03/16/07
As data centers become hotter and more dense with servers, a greater chance for fire exists. But there’s equipment on the market that applies a well-known method of halting fire: starving it of oxygen.
No worry open-source security products for your New Data Center, 03/19/07
Open source technologies already permeate most data centers, and their influence is spreading. However, data center managers who wouldn’t think twice about dropping a new Linux server into a rack feel very differently about building an open source firewall as the main barrier between their own network and the great unwashed. Security remains outside the open-source comfort zone.
You’re already using open source security, 03/19/07
Open source security is already in data centers, even if network executives think it isn’t. One common example is OpenSSL, an open source-library implementation of the SSL encryption standard with an accompanying set of tools and utilities.
Data center land grab: Get ready for the rush, 03/14/07
Call it the Data Center Land Grab of 2007. Big-name companies like Microsoft, Google and HSBC have already ponied up hundreds of millions of dollars this year to stake their claim to acres of land across the country, their first step toward building state-of-the-art, next-generation data centers.
