Microsoft has recently located one of their data centers in a barn. HP has tried putting a data center in a tent.
Apr 26
The number of servers an organization has in action is the currency of the new data economy. Here’s an interesting visualization at Gizmodo showing the huge number of servers that Google has compared to the relatively small number everyone else has.
Apr 15
Make Magazine has a few photos of two of the world’s coolest data centers. One of them is located in Sweeden and is housed in a Cold War era bunker. Check out the photos and article.
Apr 30
As part of the Stimulus Package, the Social Security Administration will be getting $500 million to replace its National Computing Center. The final bill might be closer to $800 million if the Social Security Administration gets its way. Their estimate includes the cost of the building, the infrastructure like power and cooling, the hardware, and the software).
Check out the full article at NetworkWorld.
Mar 21
When you’re sitting at your computer getting frustrated to the lack of functionality or crazy design of a particular website, just hop over to the Wayback Machine and see what that site looked like in 1997. We’ve come a long way since then.
The Internet Archive Wayback Machine has undertaken the job of archiving the entire internet all the way back to 1997, now totaling more than 85 billion web pages. The archive is launching a new data center setup next week. Read the full details in this ComputerWorld article.
