If a computer can do something new, Google data centers can be doing it this afternoon.
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For decades, businesses have labored to deploy complex, high-performance data centers to power their enterprise applications.
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As the Internet expands and data centers multiply, networking hardware is only getting more power-hungry.
Many will claim that designing data centers for failure prevention and uptime assurance is cost-prohibitive.
IBMers periodically hold firmwide "Jams"--online brainstorming sessions on topics ranging from data centers to translation software.
Businesses today have many reasons to host data centers, virtualized or otherwise, in disparate locales.
However, before deploying new equipment in data centers, companies look for several critical features.
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The company is planning data centers in Reno, Nevada, and Newark, California, according to the report.
"We'll sell servers to private data centers and to hosted data centers as well, " he says.
"It's still unusual to see eight autonomous data centers making a single system, " he said.
Equinix invests in redundant batteries and diesel generators to keep its data centers online.
Logic argues that increased data center efficiency would reduce the need for new data centers.
By effectively managing its energy costs, Google can save a bundle on powering its data centers.
There are multiple reasons why companies put data centers in certain places, said Tazbaz.
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Many companies, including Facebook, use third-party multicustomer data centers as well as their own.
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Do those data centers have the level of physical security necessary to protect your data?
At current growth rates data centers will consume 3% of global electricity supply by 2010.
Worse, software is moving away from data centers in client-server configurations tied to PCs.
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The federal government plans to close 800 data centers by 2015, 137 of them in 2011.
Digital storage is a key component in the build out and management of on-line data centers.
Thanks to cloud and virtualization, data centers will be even busier places than they have been.
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Says no question that we will be spending on capital investments (including data centers).
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Videos are cached in all sorts of data centers around the globe, to serve people quickly.
That made it more practical in corporate data centers, which run a lot of older software.
F5 has also entered the Internet firewall market, which is aimed at protecting data centers.
It also meant that some of its data centers were not as well protected as others.
This meant CloudFlare could avoid filling up data centers with cabinets of hard drives.
At the end of 2012, the Federal Government will have closed over 472 data centers.
Its success has persuaded big banks and other companies to embrace the low-cost wave and rebuild their data centers.
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