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Power use effectiveness (PUE) is a metric created by TheGreenGrid.org to measure data center efficiency. Power use effectiveness (PUE) is a measurement method created by TheGreenGrid.org as a way of monitoring cooling and energy efficiencies within a data center. Even […]

Holiday Streaming Problems for Netflix and Amazon Unfortunately for most Netflix customers some holiday cheer was stripped away during a service interruption. What exactly caused Netlfix streaming services to go down? On Christmas Eve, Netflix experienced degraded performance and widespread […]

2013 is nearly upon us, and every online business should make a corporate New Year’s resolution: that they well seek and use the services of a premier data center. Every online business should make a corporate New Year’s resolution: that […]

Immersion cooling is an experimental cooling process that involves submerging a server inside a dielectric fluid: Earlier this year, engineers from 3M tested a new cooling method known as “immersion cooling”. This new technique submerges servers in dielectric fluid for […]

According to Q3 data center earning reports, the European data center market has signed 7 percent less contractual agreements than that in 2011. The overall tone of the market depicts that the European economy is experiencing a slow return to […]

Adapting new technology to an existing infrastructure is no easy task. This can be for a variety of reasons: software/hardware incapabilities, vendor restrictions and non-standardized networking applications make it difficult for users to shuffle data from one cloud environment to […]

The Colocation Industry has experienced excellent growth in the past five years. The success can be attributed to an increased percentage of services offered online. A recent report released by IBIS world has shown the Colocation Industry has experienced excellent […]

QTS, a data center based in Virginia has just announced the achievement of a Leed Gold Certification for its Richmond Data Center. QTS, a data center based in Virginia has just announced the achievement of a Leed Gold Certification for […]

Data Center Solutions: Fiber Optics Data centers are always prone to I/O bottlenecks, which is why companies are always trying to scale network connections. Fiber optics have been around since the early 1980s, when telephone companies demonstrated their potential to […]