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Data Centers | Why Open Source Hardware Is No Oxymoron
"It's time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club," said Jonathan Heiliger, "and demystify the way these things are built." It was April 2011, and Heiliger -- the man who oversaw all the...
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Data Centers | Welcome to IBM’s Supercomputer Waterworld of the Future
Computers are just too damned hot. It's becoming a real problem. But over in Poughkeepsie, NY, IBM is studying these server power problems. And you know what? It's seen it all before.
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Cloud | Amazon.com Goes Down, Takes Short Break From Retail Biz
Amazon hosted a new kind of online door-crasher sale on Thursday. That is to say, its front door crashed.
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Data Centers | Microsoft Jams Thousands of Servers Into Boxes, Building Out...
When Microsoft wants to quickly ramp up a new data center, it can move dirt, pour a foundation, and build one of the most boring buildings you’ve ever seen. Or it can load up a few of its...
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Software | Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to him. Every so often, Parikh will hear her...
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Cloud | Microsoft Bing Battles Bot Queries by the Billions
In October 2011, Microsoft's Bing search engine handled 2.7 billion search queries, enough to qualify as the number-three search engine in the U.S. But according to new research done by Microsoft and...
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Data Centers | The NFL Could Have Avoided a Super Bowl Blackout, Says Amazon...
The guy charged with keeping Amazon’s data centers up and running says that the NFL could have avoided its blackout black eye for the price of about two-and-a-half Super Bowl ads. James Hamilton, an...
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Data Centers | Facebook Hires Chef to Juggle 150,000 Machines
It's hard to even picture the 150,000 machines that run Facebook's online empire. But now imagine trying to load all 150,000 with each tiny piece of software they needed to serve up all those photos,...
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Cloud | Microsoft’s Data-Center Tab Tops $15 Billion
In 1989 Microsoft shipped its first version of its SQL Server database, bootstrapped a multimedia division and promoted a guy named Steve Ballmer to the role of senior vice president. It also built its...
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Data Centers | Why Amazon Hired a Car Mechanic to Run Its Cloud Empire
On a rainy Monday in August 2011, a 10-million-watt transformer exploded in northern Virginia, sending an enormous voltage spike across the power grid. The surge hit an Amazon data center in Ashburn,...
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Cloud | Return of the Borg: How Twitter Rebuilt Google’s Secret Weapon
As he was still trying to wrap his head around the enormity of Google's data center empire, John Wilkes went to work on the software system that orchestrates the whole thing. This software system is...
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Cloud | Data Centers Eye Second Raid on Your Cellphone
In 2010, Christos Kozyrakis spent a few weeks at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, and he continued to collaborate with Microsoft's researchers for several months after he left. What he...
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Storage | Apple and Facebook Flash Forward to Computer Memory of the Future
We don't know much about what goes on in Apple's data centers. But we do know is that Apple is spending mountains of money on a new breed of hardware device from a company called Fusion-io. As a public...
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Cloud | Did Microsoft Fry Its Cloud With an Air-Conditioner Update?
One of the great things about cloud computing is that you don’t have to worry about bumpy old software updates, except when they take down the entire cloud. That’s what happened on Tuesday when...
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Data Centers | This Data Center Comes With a Theater on Top
The stylish data center operators who brought you the underground bunker from outer space and the modular data center of the future are cooking up a new plan. This one involves a 120-year-old gas plant...
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Data Centers | Apple’s Data Centers Now 100 Percent Green (Or Something Like...
Apple’s data centers are now completely powered by renewable energy, according to Apple. The iCloud maker operates data centers in the Bay Area and Maiden North Carolina, and on Thursday, it announced...
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Cloud | Ex-NASA Tech Boss Crams Cloud Into Box
Chris Kemp isn't one to fall in line. As the chief information officer at the NASA Ames Research Center, Kemp spearheaded the creation of Nebula, a software platform that overhauled NASA's approach to...
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Cloud | How Google Remade the Computer Science Researcher
John Wilkes spent a year negotiating his move to Google, and when he finally agreed to join the company, he still didn't know what he'd be working on.
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Data Centers | Facebook Lets You Spy on Its Data Centers
If you walk into the lobby of the data center Facebook operates in the high desert in Prineville, Oregon, you'll find a flatscreen display on the wall where you can check the pulse of this massive...
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Data Centers | Google Hacks Power Regulators to Build Greener Grid
Google has figured out a brand new way to get cleaner power into old fashioned power grids. It’s hacking the regulators. The company has cooked up a plan with North Carolina’s Duke Energy to allow...
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