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Telcos Can Learn from Datacenter Giants

When it comes to energy reporting, telcos have some lessons to learn from the more-established datacenter operators. Full Article

Arctic Facebook Datacenter Goes Live

Facebook's newest datacenter in Luleå, Sweden, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, went live this week.Full Article

Open Compute Project Tackles the Network

Open Compute Project president says something was missing, and that something was the connecting layer. Full Article

Put that Old Data in Cold Storage

Digital data creation is exploding faster than a YouTube viral video. With emerging markets joining the networked world and with the spectacular growth in stored data, there’s a new ...Full Article

Taking the Polar Plunge into the Node Pole

Nature doesn’t charge for air conditioning. That’s important for big tech companies who look to save their bottom line along with the environment as they build massive data centers ...Full Article

Intel’s New Atom S1200 Low-Power SoC Beats ARM To the 64-Bit Arena, But Can’t Handle Facebook Datacenter Workloads

At its announcement, Intel boasted that one of the 1200's 20 design wins even swapped out an ARM design for the new chip. The race for fledgling datacenter microserver market ...Full Article

In Defense of ICT’s Impact on Climate Change

From the New York Times article "Power, Pollution and the Internet" to Greenpeace's criticisms of the heavy use of carbon-emitting energy sources by Amazon and other cloud computing datacenters, ...Full Article

What Does It Really Mean To Be Green?

Author Brian Proffitt criticizes "greenwashing" in IT industry. Does lower energy consumption constitute green computing? What about the concepts of "sustainable" and zero carbon?Full Article