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Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community
Feb 1st
February 1, 2012 — A really interesting Monday post by Joe Brockmeier on ReadWriteWeb points out that open source giant Red Hat, while it declined to participate in the community around open source cloud computing platform OpenStack, citing problems with the governance model and, later, reservations about the activity of participants, has been quietly contributing to the project.
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Linux Vendor Red Hat Slips into the OpenStack Cloud Community
Telx to Open Flagship New Jersey Data Center in Q4 2012
Nov 18th
November 18, 2011 — Data center firm Telx announced on Thursday its plans to build a data center adjacent to its 100 Delawanna Avenue location in Clifton, New Jersey.
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Telx to Open Flagship New Jersey Data Center in Q4 2012
Digital Realty Trust to Integrate Open Compute Designs for Multi-tenant Data Centers
Nov 11th
November 11, 2011 — Data center developer Digital Realty Trust announced on Friday it has joined Facebook’s Open Compute project, where it is adapting its multi-tenant data center designs so that customers are able to choose certain elements of the Open Compute designs, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
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Digital Realty Trust to Integrate Open Compute Designs for Multi-tenant Data Centers
Facebooks Swedish Data Center to Showcase Architecture Design Work
Oct 28th
October 28, 2011 — In the same week that Facebook’s Open Compute Project formalized some of its organizational structure at its summit in New York City, the company announced plans for a data center in Lulea, Sweden that will showcase some of the design principles that helped found that project.
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Facebooks Swedish Data Center to Showcase Architecture Design Work
Open Compute Project Gets Organized at NYC Summit This Week
Oct 28th
October 28, 2011 — At the second Open Compute Summit, held this week in New York, the Open Compute Project, a kind of open data center architecture effort created by Facebook earlier this year, saw some official structure develop around the organization.
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Open Compute Project Gets Organized at NYC Summit This Week
Web Host Rackspace to Create OpenStack Foundation in 2012
Oct 7th
October 7, 2011 — Rackspace will form a stand-alone non-profit organization to be responsible for OpenStack in 2012, according to an OpenStack blog post on Wednesday. According to the post, the OpenStack Foundation will be responsible for Project Governance and ownership of the OpenStack trademark. This decision will push the development of open source cloud operating system OpenStack forward and marks a major milestone, according to Rackspace
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US Government Outlines More Aggressive Data Center Consolidation Strategy
Oct 7th
October 7, 2011 — The US government announced on Thursday that it has altered the criteria for data centers eligible for consolidation, and will close more data centers than initially planned, according to a report by GovTech. According to the report, chief information officer Steven VanRoekel said that by 2012, 472 data centers will be closed, a 27 percent increase over the 373 previously announced in July.
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US Government Outlines More Aggressive Data Center Consolidation Strategy
Digital Realty Trust Completes Data Center Expansion in Arizona
Sep 21st
September 21, 2011 — Data center operator Digital Realty Trust announced on Wednesday it has completed the expansion to its existing 293,000 square feet data center at 2121 S. Price Road in Chandler, Arizona. The expansion has added about 226,000 rentable square feet of data center space and 13 MW of additional power to meet customer demand in the Phoenix market
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Digital Realty Trust Completes Data Center Expansion in Arizona
Data Center BendBroadband Vault Deploys Multiple Green Practices
Sep 9th
September 9, 2011 — Data center operator BendBroadband Vault announced on Friday it has recently opened 30,000 square-foot BendBroadband Vault in Central Oregon is substantiating its claims for extreme energy efficiency, slashing energy consumption by an estimated 600kW compared to standard data centers.
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Data Center BendBroadband Vault Deploys Multiple Green Practices
Non-Profit New Zealand Computer Society to Develop Cloud Code of Practice
Sep 2nd
September 2, 2011 — Non-profit organization New Zealand Computer Society announced on Thursday its plans for the development of a Cloud Computing Code of Practice to inform the public about cloud computing issues. This announcement comes a day after New Zealand web hosting provider FlexiHost launched a NZ domain lookup and registration mobile app.
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Non-Profit New Zealand Computer Society to Develop Cloud Code of Practice