How much energy does storing data cost? How do data centers work? How many data centers do the world's most-trafficked websites require? This extensive infographic can clear it up.
Yesterday we heard about the Open Compute Project. Facebook's director of hardware design, Frank Frankovsky, tells us about part two of the social network’s plan to spur suppliers to build the products it needs.
The social network is hoping hardware companies will take a page from the software open source movement and collaborate to spur innovation. They might be disappointed.
GE announced this week that it is offering $520 million to buy Lineage Power Holdings, a company that sells data center and telecom power conversion gear.
The computer server industry may not sound like a hotbed for innovation to you, but SeaMicro thinks differently. It's just rocked the server world with a super-computer-like product that's smaller and more power-efficient than any rival's.
Nick Earle, SVP at Cisco, talks to me about what he's seeing happen inside the enterprise thanks to Web 2.0. Customization. Social networking. Changes to data centers and cloud computing. All that and more came up in this 30 minute interview. Earle is co-author of a book on this topic, too, called Mesh Collaboration.
