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FBI Shuts Down An Entire Datacenter Crippling Dozens of Companies and Interfering With Citizen Access to 911
Source: PC World

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents have raided a Dallas ISP, knocking the company and almost 50 of its clients offline.

Google's Mythical Web Servers, Revealed!
Source: YouTube

It's long been known that Google builds its own web servers, enabling it to design the servers for peak performance and energy efficiency. At today's Google Data Center Energy Summit, the company put one of its custom servers on display.

Who's An Energy Hog In Datacenters?
Source: Forbes

The adage that "you can't get fired for buying IBM" is about to change. While companies will still buy from IBM and its competitors, they will soon be asking detailed questions about the energy-efficiency ratings of computer servers.

Servers Become Dell's Comeback Weapon
Source: Business Week

After a few troubled years, Dell is back on course and grabbing market share by being everything server More Articles and Seeds From blinkin

The Planet Outage – H1 Datacenter suffers fire and explosion
Source: www.thetechherald.com/

"The outage affected 9000 servers and 7500 customers. "This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured.

Equinix Sponsors 4th Data Centres Europe 2008
Source: Business Wire

Equinix, the global provider of carrier neutral data centres, and internet exchanges for the Enterprise, content companies and network services providers, is to act as Silver Sponsor for the forthcoming annual Data Centres Europe 2008 conference and expo.

Microsoft Building $500 Million Data Center
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Remember that huge data center being built on spec in Northlake, Illinois? Microsoft will be the tenant, according to local media reports.

Google Considering 2nd South Carolina Data Center
Source: datacenterknowledge.com

Google may yet build a second major data center project in South Carolina, but it won't happen this year, the company said Wednesday. Google announced in April that it will invest $600 million in a new data center in Goose Creek, South Carolina, just north of Charleston.

Google Already Supersizing Its New Data Centers
Source: Data Center Knowledge

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.

Equinix Closes Financing for Chicago Area Expansion
Source: Business Wire

Equinix continues to build large amounts of capacity with low cost capital.

Microsoft blesses Datacenter users with limitless OS copies
Source: The Register (UK)

As of Oct 1, Windows Server Datacenter Edition operating system customers will have the right to run "an unlimted number of virtualized Windows Server instances." This policy applies to licenses covering new servers and previous licenses upgraded with new version rights.

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