Hurricane Electric, which operates a global IPv4 and IPv6 network and claims that its IPv6 network is the world’s largest, has added more Equinix data centers in Europe and Asia to its network. With recently established Points of Presence at Equinix facilities in Munich, Frankfurt and Hong Kong, Hurricane Electric’s network now spans 17 of the Redwood City, California-based colocation provider’s facilities. As more and more devices get connected to the Internet and the pool of IPv4 […]
Hurricane Electric‘s newest PoP is a second one with Digital Realty at their San Francisco facility, Digital 365 Main. From the article: Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric added a second Point-of-Presence (PoP) at Digital Realty Trust‘s 365 Main, implementing network expansion in a well-known colocation data center in San Francisco. The PoP adds Hurricane’s connectivity options in the Bay Area, including 10 and 100 gigabit Ethernet services. Hurricane operates two colocation data centers of its own in the Bay […]
Data Center Knowledge’s recent story, The Ten Most Common Cooling Mistakes Data Center Operators Make, featuring Upsite’s Lars Strong, has made their top five data center stories of the week. From the article: For your weekend reading, we present a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Geodesic Dome Makes Perfect Data Center Shell in Oregon – Used to build everything from a planetarium in post-WWI Germany to mobile […]
Data Center Knowledge has featured Lars Strong of Upsite Technologies for his expertise in airflow management. From the article: While data center operators are generally a lot better at cooling management than they were ten years ago, many facilities still face issues that prevent them from either using their full capacity or wasting energy. Lars Strong, senior engineer at Upsite Technologies, a data center cooling specialist, says the ultimate goal in airflow management is to have […]
Instor was recently featured by Data Center Knowledge for their partnership with Digital Realty. From the article: Instor, which provides infrastructure solutions for data center floors, has gotten on the list of Digital Realty Trust’s official contractors used to outfit data halls for its customers. Digital Realty Trust is one of the biggest data center providers in the world and the biggest wholesale data center provider in the world, and the deal is a huge win […]
Data Center Knowledge recently featured Hurricane Electric’s new San Francisco Point of Presence. From the article: Hurricane Electric, a Silicon Valley-based colocation and network connectivity services provider, has installed a Point of Presence (PoP) in a Telx data center at the Digital Realty Trust-owned facility at 200 Paul Avenue in San Francisco. The PoP gives Telx customers at the site access to an additional network provider and the ability to peer with Hurricane’s global network. The provider offers […]
Polargy was recently featured for their piece on containment by Data Center Knowledge in the Industry Perspective section. From the article: Who owns containment? No one. This is the problem. Hot- and cold-aisle containment is a data center best practice that is experiencing hyper-growth in adoption because of its large impact on energy efficiency and operating cost savings. Interestingly, there is still no clear ownership of containment within the enterprise, among industry trades or between […]
Data Center Knowledge recently featured the upcoming event, hosted by AdaptivCOOL, Paragon, RLE Technologies, and Upsite Technologies. From the article: Wine & Wisdom: Keeping The Up in Uptime BY COLLEEN MILLER ON MARCH 18, 2014 Wine & Wisdom: Keeping the “Up” in Uptime will be presented on Thursday, April 3 from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at The Wiley in Atlanta, Ga. This complimentary, educational data center seminar (featuring a wine tasting too!) will focus on uptime and efficiency […]
Upsite Technologies recently published a piece through Data Center Knowledge on “How to Prepare Your Data Center for 2014.” From the article: As 2013 draws to a close, demands continue as high as ever for increased data center efficiency, capacity, and reliability. Given this focus on improving computer room cooling efficiency and that the typical data center today has cooling capacity that is nearly four times the IT load, data centers could reduce their operating […]
Data center news site TelecomBloger recently featured Purkay Labs and their video on AUDIT-BUDDY, originally created by Data Center Knowledge at Data Center World Fall 2013. From the article: Visitors to the exhibition and conference Data Center World Fall 2013, which was recently held in Orlando, Florida (USA), had the opportunity to chat with the CEO and founder of Purkay Labs Parkayashtoy Indra. Recall that the vendor brought to market an interesting system for monitoring the […]
