• Interxion Building 7th Amsterdam Data Center

  European data center provider Interxion announced it is building its seventh Amsterdam data center, ABB selects Green Data Center in Switzerland, and Chinese content provider Tencent expands with Equinix.

• IBM and Bechtle Win $115 Million EU Contract

  IBM and Business Partner Bechtle AG have won a $115-million contract with the European Commission for System x and Flex Systems servers and services.

• ManageEngine Enters DCIM Arena By Adding Facilities Management

  ManageEngine has already established itself in IT management. The company has expanded into facilities management for a DCIM product that manages the entire data center infrastructure.

• HP Rolls Out New Converged Systems and Storage

  At the HP Discover event this week in Barcelona, HP (HPQ) outlined its vision for the data center of the future, with new hardware in its ConvergedSystem and ConvergedStorage portfolios.

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• Parameters to Consider for a Successful Data Center Design Project

  Data center design focuses on many aspects like Site selection, facility design, IT hardware, cooling, network, power distribution, and so forth, writes Prashant Baweja of Infosys Ltd. For a successful data center built project, few parameters needs to be kept at high priority and planned for…

• How long do disk drives last?

  How long do disk drives last? : The Backblaze guys are looking at their service—an online backup service—in an attempt to come up with numbers about disk failures rates, life expectancy, and other such answers to questions that everyone running a decently sized service needs to estimate and plan…

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• Redis Benchmark & Rackspace Performance VMs

  Redis Benchmark & Rackspace Performance VMs : This is quite interesting: using the benchmark of a NoSQL database (Redis) , and not the one you already own and offer hosting for , to brag about the performance of your hosting servers: I immediatley thought of using redis-benchmark to illustrate…

• An intro to HBase's Thrift interface

  If you've never used Thrift (with or without HBase), the two articles authored by Jesse Anderson and posted on Cloudera's blog will give you both a quick intro and How-to: Use the HBase Thrift Interface, Part 1 : setting up, getting the language bindings, and connecting; How-to: Use the HBase…