Post Tagged with: "Data Center Knowledge"

Data Center Knowledge announces “Network News: Hurricane Picks Zayo for 100G Backbone”

Data Center Knowledge recently noted Hurricane Electric’s work with Zayo Group in an piece discussing news within the network industry. From the article: Zayo selected by Hurricane Electric for 100G backbone.  Zayo Group announced that Hurricane Electric Internet Services has purchased 100G wavelength services on Zayo’s newly installed 100G routes. The upgraded routes include New York to Washington, D.C. and Chicago to Memphis. Hurricane Electric is connected to 60 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with […]

Read More

Future Facilities’ Sherman Ikemeto Writes about Lost Data Center Capacity for Data Center Knowledge

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 […]

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 […]

Read More

Hurricane Electric’s Mike Leber interviewed in Data Center Knowledge about $13M Data Center Expansion

Hurricane Electric’s President Mike Leber was recently interviewed for Data Center Knowledge about the company’s recent announcement to expand their Fremont 2 facility. From the article: Hurricane Electric, which operates the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, has secured $13 million in financing from Bank of the West to fund a major expansion of its data center in Fremont, Calif. The company will use the funds to build and outfit 24,000 square feet of data center […]

Read More

Polargy featured in Data Center Knowledge piece on their new Tool-Less Blanking Panels

Polargy recently was featured in Data Center Knowledge in an article about their new line of tool-less blanking panels. From the article: The panels’ “Hook-Swing-Snap” design enables installation and removal without tools, providing data center operators with improved flexibility in server rack maintenance. Installation consists simply of sliding a panel’s pivot pins into a rack’s mounting rail holes and snapping slide tabs at the opposite side of the panel into the opposing rail. A gasket […]

Read More

Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong writes an article for Data Center Knowledge on IPv6 Adpotion

Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong recently wrote an article for Data Center Knowledge on IPv6 Adoption in the Data Center. From the article: Most data center operators know that a failure to transition to IPv6 will eventually restrict access to connected resources and degrade communications efficiency. But one lesson of World IPv6 Day (held June 8, 2011) is that IPv6 adoption can bring immediate benefits in the form of improved network topologies and security today. In […]

Read More

Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine writes article for Data Center Knowledge about retrofit strategies for data centers

Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine writes article for Data Center Knowledge about retrofit strategies for data centers

Bluestone Energy’s Coy Stine, Director of Data Center Engineering, recently wrote about data center retrofit strategies in a piece for Data Center Knowledge. From the article: In these uncertain financial times, reducing data center operating costs has become a top corporate priority. Unfortunately, limited budgets often preclude efficiency initiatives that have high initial costs. An increasingly popular alternative approach involves leveraging technologies that improve the energy efficiency of existing equipment while minimizing up-front outlays and data-center […]

Read More