Hurricane Electric recently connected to over 2,000 IPv6 networks, an event featured in The WHIR. From the article: Colocation hosting and Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric announced on Thursday that it is the first Internet backbone to connect to over 2,000 IPv6 networks. This announcement comes a few months after Hurricane Electric added new POPs in Milano, Italy, and Vienna, Austria. Hurricane Electric says that research presented at the International Measurement Conference last year by the University of […]
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Future Facilities’ Sherman Ikemeto Writes about Lost Data Center Capacity for Data Center Knowledge
Future Facilities Sherman Ikemoto recently wrote an article for Data Center Knowledge entitled “A Forgotten Data Center Cost: Lost Capacity”. In the article, Sherman explains that “most data centers never achieve the capacity for which they were designed”. Often 30 percent or more of data center capacity is lost in operation. On a global scale, out of 15.5 GW of available data center capacity, a minimum of 4.65 GW is unusable. At industry averages, this […]
Datacenter Dynamics Features Hurricane Electric Customer Move
Datacenter Dynamics Focus recently featured Hurricane Electric in an article highlighting NanoTech’s move to HE’s Freemont 2 Data Center. From the Article: “Colocation and Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric announced that NanoTech Entertainment has chosen its Fremont 2 data center for the expansion of its online infrastructure. To prepare for the release of several upcoming cloud-based IPTV and mobile phone applications, NanoTech has signed a multi-year contract with Hurricane Electric.” Click here to read more.
Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong Pens a Piece for Data Center Knowledge on Carrier Grade NAT
Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong recently wrote an article for Data Center knowledge entitled “Carrier Grade NAT – A Look at the Tradeoffs”. In it, he writes that “The IETF defines Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) as large-scale Network Address Translation (NAT) implemented by a service provider. In most cases, CGN is implemented as a layer of IPv4-to-IPv4 NAT on top of the “traditional” NAT implemented at the subscriber side of the connection. There are significant challenges introduced […]
Bluestone Energy Services retrofit of zColo’s data centers featured in Mission Critical Magazine
Bluestone Energy’s retrofit of multiple zColo data centers in the U.S. was recently featured in an article in Mission Critcal Magazine. From the article: zColo, a Zayo Group Company, recently hired Bluestone Energy Services, LLC, a division of OpTerra Energy, to implement a comprehensive energy program at its Newark colocation facility at 165 Halsey St. At the 45,000-sq-ft data center, Bluestone Energy managed a comprehensive and holistic data center energy program that will reduce annual […]
Hurricane Electric article in Silicon Valley Business journal about funding for data-center expansion
Hurricane Electric was recently featured in article in the Silicon Valley Business Journal about their new expansion. From the article: A Fremont-based data-center company is beefing up its footprint thanks to $13 million in new financing. Hurricane Electric will use the funding, provided by Bank of the West, to expand one of its two Fremont data centers by 24,000 square feet. The build-out will provide new space for additional tenants as demand for data-center services continues […]
Hurricane Electric’s Mike Leber featured in Silicon Valley Business Journal
Hurricane Electric’s President Mike Leber was recently interviewed for the San Jose Business Journal in an article titled “Fremont’s Hurricane at the center of IP storm”. From the article: Over the next year, demand for more IP addresses is expected to explode as the number of computers, mobile devices and smart gadgets used worldwide rises above 1 trillion. One Silicon Valley data center is already prepared because it expanded its facility early. Fremont’s Hurricane Electric […]
Bluestone Energy featured in Today’s Facility Manager article about Stop and Shop’s energy conservation efforts
Bluestone was recently featured in an article about Stop and Shop’s energy conservation efforts. From the article: In 2008, Stop & Shop called upon the expertise of Bluestone Energy Services, based in Norwell, MA, to assist in company wide energy improvements. “The company helped us with numerous aspects of our projects, from conducting store surveys to performing turnkey installations,” says Macomber. “Bluestone has also helped us with completing applications for energy rebates and incentives.” Stop […]
Bluestone Energy’s Gabriel Andreson writes article for EDC Magazine about advantages of different Lighting Technologies
Bluestone Energy’s Director of Lighting Gabriel Andreson Recently wrote an article for Environmental Design and Construction magazine titled “An Aerial View of High Intensity Fluorescents vs. LEDs” in which he reviews the pros and cons of the two lighting technologies. From the article: The limitations of High Intensity Fluorescents and recent improvements in LED technology have caused LEDs to be a superior alternative in many cases. LED high bay fixtures generally use less energy than […]
Bluestone Energy’s President writes article for EDC Magazine about retrofit project at Colonnade Hotel
Bluestone Energy’s President Peter Fairbanks recently wrote an article for EDC Magazine about the Colonnade Hotel partnering with Bluestone Energy Services to implement hotel-wide energy efficiency upgrades. After its initial evaluation of the hotel, Bluestone Energy Services successfully secured a $465,000 incentive payment from NSTAR that enabled Bluestone to make numerous eco-friendly improvements to dated, inefficient or otherwise failing systems. First, Bluestone Energy installed a new efficient chiller with frictionless oil-free compressors. This state-of-the-art chiller […]
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