NSA to build secretive data center in Utah

An intelligence official says the National Security Agency will build a secretive electronic data center at a National Guard camp in Utah.

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NC town raises offer for Apple data center site

A North Carolina community battered by manufacturing layoffs raised the offer for Apple Inc. to open its East Coast data center just 30 miles down the road from a similar Google Inc. server farm that opened last year.

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Yahoo to build data center near Buffalo

Internet giant Yahoo Inc. plans to open a data center in western New York.

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Sun Microsystems Unveils Data Center

Server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. has a novel twist on the data center: a portable version of the hulking outposts that house nothing but computers and equipment needed to store and process raw data.

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In what should be a larger news story than it is so far, Microsoft on Tuesday announced via its blog that they will suspend construction of their Windows Azure data center and re-locate to another state (right now the prevailing rumor is San Antonio, Texas).

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This may be old news to others, but I only learned about it just now, and I have to assume there are still people who haven't heard it yet, so:

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This would be good news. Let's see how long it takes the state and local governments to find a way to screw it up.

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The Cisco Unified Service Delivery solution unites the data center and the IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) in entirely new ways.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.

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The truth about many vaunted green IT initiatives is that they're just ROI-based business decisions wrapped in environmentally friendly packaging.

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1&1 Internet announced today that it is building a 107,000 square foot data center atop a former nuclear fuel facility in Hanau, Germany. 1&1 Internet, one of the largest web hosting companies in the world, says it plans to fill the facility with more than 100,000 web servers.

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Hundreds of millions of users access our services through the web, and this traffic requires lots of computers. We strive to offer great Internet services while taking our energy use very seriously.

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Amazon Web Services on Thursday said that it is developing a content delivery service that will allow Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Simple Storage System (S3) customers to deliver files upon demand quickly and efficiently.

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Recently on Newsvine, some people have said that Cloud Computing will not work and is still years away. This article shows that Cloud Computing is moving to the forefront of enterprise computing.

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'A NEW COMPUTER' In July, Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie hinted something could be up. "There's a new computer that is available up in the cloud, and it is going to be transformational in terms of how people write and build solutions," Ozzie said.

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Here's a great idea to put to your CIO: Why not run the company using a server operating system made by Mattel? It's the company behind Barbie and Hot Wheels (not to mention Tumblin' Monkeys), so it certainly knows a thing or two about toys.

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Steve Ballmer gets it. While he discusses a strategic interest in search, his head is really in the clouds; in the coming transformation many are calling cloud computing.

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To paraphrase (and mangle) StarTrek's famous tagline: Can Russia be the place where Internet companies boldly go looking for the final frontier of data centers? At least one blog thinks so, and it points to the massive hydroelectric power capacity on tap in Russia.

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Newsvine outage tonight

Tonight at 10PM PDT, Newsvine will be offline for about 20 minutes, followed by a few hours of "read-only" activity while we move our site to a new facility.

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Putting data centers on decommissioned ships and reusing hot water from cooling systems to fill the town swimming pool were among the wackier ideas floated at the Data Center Energy Summit on Thursday.

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IBM (NYSE: IBM) officially opened its "greenest" data center in North America today at its Boulder, Colo., site.

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Though the building alone covers a whopping 11 acres, you can't even see Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s new $550 million data center in the hills west of San Antonio until you're practically on top of it. But by that point, you can hardly see anything else.

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More exciting new technology from IBM - we're hip!

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Google's data infrastructure is massive and spread across the world.

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Microsoft has announced plans to build a data center in Irkutsk, one of the largest cities in Siberia. The facility will be able to hold 10,000 servers, according to Birger Steen, the head of Microsoft's Russian and CIS business unit.

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Google is already expanding the scope of its data center project in Lenoir, North Carolina, and may triple its total local investment to $1.8 billion. When Google announced the new data center in January, the project's price tag was $600 million.

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Sun was the Google of an earlier era.

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The 800-acre Oklahoma property is located in the Mid-America Industrial Park.

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The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. George Gilder on the dawning of the petabyte age.

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