If you’ve ever wanted to see how a single e-mail travels from your account to someone else’s, Google has you covered with its new “Story of Send” site. While the site appears to mostly be a push by Google to show off its green credentials, the site is still cool in that it shows the [...]

Looks like London data center employees are going to have a server slumber party during the Olympics this summer. Podtime has been brought on to supply sleeping tubes so workers can avoid the Olympics traffic… Tweet This Post

Energy management systems startup Vigilent has raised a $6.7 million round of funding to optimize energy efficiency at data centers using the power of “big data,” the company announced Tuesday morning… Tweet This Post

Facebook wasn’t kidding when it said it wanted to build better backends for the digital world — after sharing the plans for its customized data center, it’s looking to do the same with storage hardware… Tweet This Post

Apple just released its 2012 environmental report, detailing all the ways it’s conserving energy and working to make Mother Earth a slightly cleaner place. A highlight of that effort is clearly the company’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina… Tweet This Post

How do you sex up an input-output system that will blow away data center bottle necks? Have Verne Troyer announce it at a groovy DEMO party with drink serving go-go girls! Fusion-io, announced its autocommit memory system, which allows you to execute one billion input-output commands in a rack of around eight servers… Tweet This [...]

Here’s a prediction for 2012 you can bank on: the world’s data centers are going to be busy, just like they were in 2011. Emerson Network Power has put together an infographic on the State of the Data Center 2011… Tweet This Post

We’ve talked here before in ReadWriteWeb about the so-called “carrier cloud” concept being developed by Alcatel-Lucent. Think about the level of interconnectivity your enterprise data center would need to present voice and multimedia data to customers at carrier speed, while at the same time transferred to a cloud platform that’s scalable and easily provisioned… Tweet [...]

Better grab an umbrella, because it’s about to get real cloudy. A new study by Cisco estimates that global traffic generated by cloud computing services will increase a staggering 12 times by 2015 compared to cloud traffic in 2010, while data center traffic will increase at a less-showy-but-still-impressive four times traffic by 2015… Tweet This [...]

The question among both cloud computing consumers and supercomputer clients alike has been when the distinction between the little cloud and the big iron would disappear. Apparently that boundary evaporated several months ago… Tweet This Post

Not long ago at all, Oracle laid claim to building the systems that managed a majority of the world’s data. This year, the group making the same claim is a spinoff from Yahoo. The onset of Internet-size databases and cloud architectures brought about architectural quandaries about the nature of relational databases that no one had [...]

Fusion-io, a flash storage company, announced its latest product ioCache, a virtualization solution that ties into the company’s focus on data center efficiency. ioCache integrates flash memory and caching, or saving data in the background for later use, to free up otherwise redundant actions in servers… Tweet This Post