• Microsegmentation.  [Russ White]  [Dark Reading]
• EVPN with MPLS data plane in data centers.  [ipSpace]
• Planning for high-speed data center migration.  [DC Knowledge]
• Let’s pretend we run distributed storage over a thick yellow cable.   [ipSpace]
• Data centers everywhere via fibre.  [DC Knowledge]
• Data center networking challenges.  [DC Journal]
• Cross links in a spine and leaf.  [Russ White]
• Building DC fabrics with SPB.  [ipSpace, video]
• Network convergence: how it affects data centers.  [DC Journal]
• Do we need chassis switches anymore in the DC?  [DC Overlords]
• Meeting the many needs of data centre interconnect.  [GazettaByte]
• Spine and leaf fabrics: implicit or explicit compexity?  [ipSpace]
• Facebook building own fibre network to link data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook's split network backbone.  [Russ White]  [TheNextPlatform]
• MegaSwitch: an interesting new data center fabric.  [Russ White]  [MegaSwitch PDF]
• Overlays in DC fabrics.  [ipSpace, video]
• Why it's a good idea to clear your browser history and cookies.  [Graham Cluley]
• Why is online surveillance more repressive than ever -- NordVPN.  [Voxy]
• Why didn't we have leaf-and-spine fabrics decades ago?  [ipSpace]
• LinkedIn's data center design principles.  [Network Computing]  [Russ White]
• Leaf-and-spine networks vs fabric extenders.  [ipSpace]
• Building a Layer-2 DC fabric in 2016.  [ipSpace]
• Do you have a plan for when your ISP goes down?  [DC Journal]
• Ingress traffic flow in multi-DC deployments.  [ipSpace]
• Conducting a DR test.  [DC Journal]
• Scaling L3-only DC networks.  [ipSpace]
• Navigating the data center networking landscape.  [DC Knowledge]
• DC fabric segment routing use case.  [Russ White: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5]
• Optimise your data center: reduce the number of uplinks.  [ipSpace, video]
• Building WAN infrastructure for the cloud.  [Network Computing]
• Nokia’s new case for GPON shrinking data center footprints.  [DC Knowledge]
• DAC cables and modules at 50Gbps / 200Gbps.  [The Register]
• Inside Facebook networking.  [EtherealMind]
• Data center fabrics and SDN.  [ipSpace]
• 25GE data center deployment scenarios.  [Network Computing]
• The data center network of networks.  [EtherealMind]
• Data center interconnect design considerations.  [Network Computing]
• Using BGP in data center fabrics.  [ipSpace]
• Facebook shifts switch to 100G.  [EE Times]  [DC Knowledge]
• Anyone can now build Facbook's data center switch.  [DC Knowledge]
• All you need are two switches.  [ipSpace, presentation]  [ipSpace, text]
• Next-gen DC interconnect tech enables explosion of online video and cloud services.  [DC Knowledge]
• What happens when a data center switch fabric fails?  [ipSpace]
• Addressing the top five DCI challenges.  [DC Knowledge]
• Details on Google’s massive cloud infrastructure revealed.  [ExtremeTech]
• Why firewalls won't matter in a few years.  [EtherealMind]
• Design considerations for north/south flows in the data center.  [Lost In Transit]
• Design challenge: multiple data centers connected with slow links.  [ipSpace]
• How the network now defines the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook launches new Iowa data center with entirely new network architecture.  [DC Knowledge]  [TechCrunch]  [Gizmodo]
• Facebook's new data center is bad news for Cisco.  [Wired]
• Photo tour of FB's new Iowa data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook's next-gen fabric.  [ipSpace]
• All you need are two top-of-rack switches.  [ipSpace]
• The role of internet exchanges in the data center interconnect market.  [DC Knowledge]
• Evolving the data center network core.  [The Open Fabric]
• The power of port replication in the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cisco Nexus data center -- please help validate my design.  [Reddit]
• Juniper vs Cisco for DC/Core.  [Reddit]
• Is the data center "one network" or "connected smaller networks"?  [EtherealMind]
• Is hyperscale possible in networking?  [Network Computing]
• Cisco-threatening open switch coming from Facebook, Intel, and Broadcom.  [Ars Technica]
• Facebook's new "Wedge" Open Compute Project network switch.  [Reddit]  [Facebook]  [Business Insider]
• Wikipedia's Internet infrastructure.  [DC Knowledge]
• Data acceleration: a game changer for converged infrastructure.  [DC Knowledge]
• IPv6-only data centers: deployment guidelines.  [ipSpace]  [ipSpace Video]
• SNAT vs PBR for server load balancing.  [StackExchange]
• How much data center bandwidth do you really need?  [ipSpace]
• Design options in dual-stack data centers.  [ipSpace]  [ipSpace MP4]
• A closer look at data center high availability and service delivery.  [DC Knowledge]
• The software defined data center meets disaster recovery.  [DC Knowledge]
• Upgrading from 10GB/s to 40GB/s and beyond.  [DC Knowledge]
• Secure solutions for data center interconnect.  [DC Knowledge]
• Optimal solutions for data center connect (DCC).  [DC Knowledge]
• Data center networks are getting flatter and fitter.  [The Register]
• VM BPDU spoofing attack works quite nicely in HA clusters.  [ipSpace]
• Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links.  [Ars Technica]
• Consolidation: shrinking our way to Data Center 3.0.  [DC Knowledge]
• The world's biggest fibre LAN lives at a nuclear weapons research lab.  [Gizmodo]
• WAN routing in data centers with Layer 2 DCI.  [ipSpace]
• Making the case for DDoS protection.  [DC Knowledge]
• Why anti-DDoS services matter in today's business environment.  [DC Knowledge]
• Preventing a botnet attack on your data center.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Merchant silicon evolution, 40GigE arriving in 2015, and impact on data center design.  [EtherealMind]
  
• Global strategies: communications and network design considerations.   [DC Knowledge]
  
• Intra-spine links in leaf-and-spine fabrics.  [ipSpace]
• The migration path from 10G to 40G and beyond.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cisco's open networking fabric for data centers and clouds.  [Cisco]
  
• Scale your data center.  [Cisco]
• Long-distance vMotion, stretched HA clusters, and business needs.  [ipSpace]
• Network virtualisation: a next generation modular platform for the data center virtual network.  [Brad Hedlund]
• How Google and Facebook will make the leap to lightspeed.  [Wired]
  
• Five questions to ask about your 10GE data center.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Redundant data center Internet connectivity -- problem overview.  [ipSpace]
• Response: redundant data center Internet connectivity.  [EtherealMind]
• Redundant data center Internet connectivity -- high-level design.  [ipSpace]  [ipSpace]
  
• Extending the data center into the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• How to build a zero downtime data center network.  [DC Knowledge]
• Link aggregation with stackable data center top-of-rack switches.  [ipSpace]
• Building a data center network for 10GBe servers.  [DC Knowledge]
• WAN technologies help data centers grow and evolve.  [DC Knowledge]
• Data center modernisation: from smart data centers to enterprise smart grids.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• SDN technologies bring data centers closer together.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Prepare your network for hyperconvergence with WAN optimisation.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• IBM: nanophotonics will smash data center bottlenecks.  [ReadWriteWeb]  [DC Knowledge]
• Who needs 16 uplinks?  Welcome to the 10GE world!  [ipSpace]
• Large leaf-and-spine fabrics with Dell Force10 switches using 10GE uplinks.  [ipSpace]
• Stackable data center switches?  Do the math!  [ipSpace]
• Benefits of deploying SFP+ fibre vs 10GBase-T.  [DC Knowledge]
• Big data for CERN requires a bit network.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Basic introduction to leaf/spine data center networking fabric design.  [Brad Hedlund]
  
• Skip the transition: build IPv6-only data centers.  [ipSpace]
• Is layer-3 DCI safe?  [ipSpace]
  
• Don't use IPv6 RA on server LANs.  [ipSpace]
• Making the case for DDoS protection.  [DC Knowledge]
• Brocade's data center Ethernet strategy.  [EtherealMind]
• State of IPv6 in data center gear.  [ipSpace]
• Data center fabric presentations available online.  [ipSpace]
• QFabric behind the curtain: I was spot-on.  [ipSpace]
• High velocity trading rendered visceral.  [BoingBoing]  [BBC Podcasts]
• How to optimise Internet performance.  [DC Knowledge]
• Virtualisation of data centers: new options in the control and data planes.  [DC Knowledge]
• Big bandwidth: unlocking a new competitive advantage.  [WSJ ATD]
• Meeting security challenges in virtualised data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• How WAN optimisation can transform disaster recovery.  [DC Knowledge]
• Rethinking core economics of network growth.  [DC Knowledge]
• How the QFabric system enables a high-performance, scalable big data infrastructure.  [Juniper]
• Juniper updates QFabric for mid-sized data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• The fastest data center in the west world.  [Juniper]
• Cisco puts a virtual router in the clouds.  [The Register]  [DC Knowledge]
• High-speed trading: it's all about the nanoseconds.  [DC Knowledge]
• Network virtualisation.  [Network Heresy]
• IPv6-only data center.  [ipSpace]
• Architecting data center networks in the era of big data and cloud.  [Brad Hedlund]
• What is a virtual network?  It's not what you think it is.  [Wired]
• Exercises to keep your data center on its toes.  [The Register]
• Optical networks and low latency for data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Full mesh is the worst possible fabric architecture.  [ipSpace]
• Google, Amazon, and Microsoft swarm China for network gear.  [Wired]
• Using FC, FCoE or iSCSCI when deploying new gear in existing data center.  [ipSpace]
• Network convergence: challenges and solutions.  [DC Knowledge]
• MPLS/VPN in the data center?  Maybe not in the hypervisors.  [ipSpace]
• Super-secret Google builds servers in the dark.  [Wired]  [Gizmodo]
• Server naming conventions, revisited.  [DC Knowledge]
• The new data center geography.  [DC Knowledge]
• 5 best practices for data center migration.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• Microsoft network load balancing behind the scenes.  [ipSpace]
• The network's role in data center efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• Simplify the future by unifying the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• IP renumbering in disaster avoidance data center designs.  [ipSpace]
• Is your network WAN optimisation really helping?  [DC Knowledge]
• Tips for simplifying your cloud network.  [DC Knowledge]
• Defining "fabric" in the era of overlays.  [Network Heresy]
• VM-aware networking improves IAAS cloud scalability.  [ipSpace]
• Ethernet reaches for the hyper-scale cloud.  [The Register]
• What are 10 Gigabit ultra short reach (USR) optics?  [EtherealMind]
• More on 10GBase USR optics.  [EtherealMind]
• Data center fabric architectures -- almost there.  [IOS Hints]
• Hadoop network design challenge.  [Brad Hedlund]
• You can't sell multi-hop FCoE even though it's a consultant's dream.  [EtherealMind]
• Busting layer-2 data center interconnect myths.  [IOS Hints]
• Can network architectures break the speed limit?  [The Register]
• IPv6 adoption in the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Switch fabrics: I/O queues and buffers.  [EtherealMind]
• FCoE networking elements classification.  [IOS Hints]
• The battle for the converged data center network.  [DC Knowledge]
• Packet-Optical data center interconnect networks.  [DC Knowledge]
• Do we really want 100Gig Ethernet?  [The Register]
• What is the definition of a switch fabric?  [EtherealMind]
• Cisco's latest 'fabric'.  Really?  [Juniper]
• Data centers and IPv6: why it matters to you.  [DC Knowledge]
• High & low: performance and latency matter.  [DC Knowledge]
• On data center scale, OpenFlow, and SDN.  [Brad Hedlund]
• How many 10GE ports do you really need?  [EtherealMind]
• Distributed firewalls: how badly do you want to fail?  [IOS Hints]
• (V)Cloud architects, ever heard of MPLS?  [IOS Hints]
• MPLS/VPN in data center interconnect (DCI) designs.  [IOS Hints]
• When is a fabric not a fabric?  [Juniper]
• Comparing data center fabrics from Juniper, Brocade and Cisco.  [Etherealmind]
• Inverse virtualisation for Internet-scale applications.  [Brad Hedlund]
• Cisco launches two more IPv4-only data center products.  [IOS Hints]
• How would you use VPLS transport in L2 DCI?  [IOS Hints]
• FCoE:
• FCoMPLS -- attack of the zombies.  [IOS Hints]
• Why would FC/FCoE scale better than iSCSI?  [IOS Hints]
• FCoE between data centers?  Forget it!  [IOS Hints]
• FCoE, QCN and frame relay analogies.  [IOS Hints]
• Is FC switching bridging or routing?  [IOS Hints]
• So what part of Layer 3 don't they get?  [Juniper]
• The two roles of the data center network.  [Juniper]
• Here's now a datacentre network works.  [The Register]
• Futures review on 40 and 100 gigabit Ethernet.  [Etherealmind]
• DCI encryption.  [DC Knowledge]
• The next wave of network convergence.  [DC Knowledge]
• Ethernet adapts to many data center applications.  [Network World]
• Routed or switched access layers -- why not both?  [PacketLife]
• ATAoE for converged DC networks?  No way.  [IOS Hints]
• Google eyes ‘optical express’ for its network.  [DC Knowledge]
• How Google routes around outages.  [DC Knowledge]

Miscellaneous Articles

• Container security through segregation.  [ipSpace]
• Cloud users can't ignore GDPR requirements.  [IT Pro Today]
• The future is containerized.  [Scott Lowe]
• IPv6 and containers.  [Russ White]  [APNIC Blog]
• Kubernetes primer: key concepts and terms.  [Network Computing]
• How useful is microsegmentation?  [ipSpace]
• Is lift-and-shift a viable cloud migration strategy?  [Network Computing]
• Want to learn more about Docker and containers?  [ipSpace]
• Network performance in AWS: five factors.  [Network Computing]
• Connecting your DC to the cloud: Azure ExpressRoute and AWS Direct Connect.  [DC Knowledge]
• Keep these 3 things in mind when choosing a container technology.  [DC Knowledge]
• Software-defined data centers: VMware designs.  [Network Computing]
• Comparing cloud connectivity options.  [Network Computing]
• Designing container networking.  [ipSpace]  [Cumulus]
• Build a virtual DC in Azure.  [Adam Raffe]  [YouTube]
  
• AWS networking tutorial: getting started.  [Network Computing]
  
• Virtualization in the WAN: where it's headed.  [Network Computing]
• Microsoft runs a simulation of the entire Azure network to prevent outages.  [DC Knowledge]
• 10 layers of Linux container security.  [Russ White]  [Open Source]
• Public cloud load balancer sandwich.  [Packet Pushers]
• Secure connectivity from Azure VNets to public services.  [Adam Raffe]
• Five key questions to ask before moving to the cloud.  [Network Computing]
• VMware on AWS - how it fits, thoughts on how to use it.  [Packet Pushers]
• Here's how the SDN that powers Azure works.  [DC Knowledge]
• Multi-cloud is a reality, not a strategy.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• 12 container fundamentals to know.  [Network Computing]
• Hyperconvergence in the network.  [Russ White]  [ECI Telecom]
• Is cloud moving too fast for security?  [Russ White]  [CSA]
• ACI - Azure Container Instances.  [Adam Raffe]
• Docker basics:
• Part 0: why should I care about containers and microservices?  [Russ White]  [TheNewStack]
• Getting our heads out of the cloud: why the edge matters.  [Network Computing]
• Why docker is so popular.  [DC Knowledge]
• The hidden dangers of cloud computing.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud vs colocation -- it's more complicated than you think.  [DC Journa]
• Nosy neighbours and cloud privacy.  [Russ White]  [Adrian Colyer]
• Containers: a primer for enterprise IT pros.  [Network Computing]
• Hyperconverged infrastructure: what companies should think.  [DC Journal]
• Should you go with AWS or Azure?  That may be the wrong question.  [DC Knowledge]
• Avoid falling into the hybrid cloud hype.  [Russ White]  [DC Journal]
• Networking in Azure.  [Russ White]  [Microsoft Azure]
• What is a hyperconverged infrastructure?  [ipSpace]
• Don't let security misconceptions cloud your judgement.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google Cloud and the network engineer.  [Network Computing]
• Three key things to rethink in an era of hyperconverged infrastructure.  [DC Knowledge]
• To YANG or not YANG, that is the question.  [ipSpace]
• IT automation: what to automate and when?  [DC Knowledge]
• Bare metal cloud.  [Russ White]  [The Next Platform]
• Who wins the three-way cloud battle? Google vs Azure vs AWS.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Why containers are crap.  [EtherealMind]
• Multi-host container networking.  [ipSpace, video]
• One third of AT&T's network is now virtualised.  [DC Knowledge]
• Six pitfalls of cloud assessments.  [DC Knowledge]
• Looking past the cloud computing era.  [EtherealMind]
• Docker networking options.  [ipSpace, video]
• L3 virtualisation and VRFs.  [ipSpace]
• Deploying network virtualization in the enterprise.  [Network Computing]
• Docker networking fundamentals.  [Network Computing]
• Basic Docker networking.  [ipSpace, video]
• Three great lies of cloud computing.  [Russ White]  [TheNextPlatform]
• Running BGP between virtual machine and ToR switch.  [ipSpace]
• Dissecting the DC: what can – and can’t – be moved to the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Successful private clouds aren't spoken about in public.  [EtherealMind]  [ipSpace]
• Server virtualisation slides.  [The Next Platform]
• STP on virtual switches.  [ipSpace]
• Hölzle: Google will be the Android in cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Five security best practices for cloud and virtualization platforms.  [DC Knowledge]
• Encryption is the only guarantee of data destruction in the cloud.  [Graham Cluley]
• AWT IoT vs Cisco Fog Computing -- Cloud vs Network IoT.  [EtherealMind]
• Building carrier-grade cloud infrastructure.  [ipSpace]
• Private and public clouds, and the mistakes you can make.  [ipSpace]
• Building network tools with Docker.  [NetworkStatic]
• SSL termination on virtual appliances -- another myth busted.  [ipSpace]
• Do you speak NFV? Time to go back to school and learn.  [The Register]
• Can virtual routers compete with physical hardware?  [ipSpace]
• There is no such thing as “the cloud,” it’s just somebody else’s computer.  [PocketNow]
• Learning by doing: orphaned DVS uplink.  [Network Inferno]
• Virtual appliances and shorter lifecycles.  [EtherealMind]
• Should I use a traditional firewall in a microsegmented environment?  [ipSpace]
• Should companies do most of their computing in the cloud?  [Schneier: part 1, part 2, part 3]
• Do we still need subnets in virtualised networks?  [ipSpace]
• Open platforms, open networks: the new IP.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Five tips for securing your cloud computing system.  [DC Knowledge]
• The 12 security questions you should ask your cloud provider.  [Collaborista]
• VMs compared.  [The Register]
• Hardware gateways in overlay virtual networks.  [ipSpace, video]
• How cloud has changed the data center architect.  [DC Knowledge]
• Purge all the firewall rules.  [Network Inferno: part 1, part 2]
• How do I get started with SDN and virtualisation?  [ipSpace]
• Google does cloud DNS, VPN, HTTPS load balancing.  [The Register]
• The pros and cons of Open Compute.  [The Register]
• Availability zones in overlay virtual networks.  [ipSpace, video]
• How Google avoids cloud downtime with VM migration.  [DC Knowledge]
• Overlay networking as a method to scale flow networking and handling.  [EtherealMind]
• Why hybrid cloud continues to grow: a look at real use-cases.  [DC Knowledge]
• Myths that refuse to die: scalability of overlay networking.  [ipSpace]
• Cisco puts elastic in the fabric.  [The Register]
• Telco heavyweights pass packets in NFV demo.  [The Register]
• The meaning of cloud.  [Pedro Marques]
• Why Cisco is warming to non-ACI data center SDN.  [DC Knowledge]
• What is the cloud, and where is it?  [Gizmodo]
• Combine physical and virtual appliances in a private cloud.  [ipSpace, case study]
• Scaling overlay networks: the problem.  [ipSpace, video]
• OVN brings networking function to OVS.  [Network Inferno]  [Network Heresy]  [Open vSwitch]
• Is converged infrastructure the future of cloud solutions?  [DC Knowledge]
• Living on the edge with Fog Computing.  [DC Knowledge]
• Implementing a zero-trust security architecture.  [Network Inferno]
• The ethics of cloud computing.  [DC Knowledge]
• Moving workloads to the cloud.  [ipSpace]  [CIO]
• Overlay virtual networks in software-defined data centers.  [ipSpace]
• Cloud automation: what you need to know and why it’s important.  [DC Knowledge]
• Use a disaster recovery project to build your new cloud.  [ipSpace]
• The network iceberg -- virtualisation.  [Network Static]
• How new types of DDoS affect the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud skills certification can add zeros to your pay cheque.  [The Register]
• Public vs private cloud? No debate for the savvy CIO.  [Wired]
• Three ways to use cloud as a service.  [Wired]
• Network programmability:
• Phase 1: the configured network.  [ipSpace]
• Phase 2: the provisioned network.  [ipSpace]
• Connecting virtual routers to the outside world.  [ipSpace]
• Geneve -- ecosystem support has arrived.  [Network Heresy]
• Finally: a virtual switch that supports BPDU Guard.  [ipSpace]
• Private cloud block architecture diagram.  [EtherealMind]
• Cloud protection: how to avoid emergency-related outages.  [DC Knowledge]
• Physical networks in the virtualized networking world.  [Network Heresy]
• Build a cloud in 3 easy steps.  [ipSpace]
• Virtual switch 101.  [ipSpace]
• Is cloud networking an oxymoron?  [NZ Herald]
• The cloud computing market could be much, much bigger than we thought.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• An introduction to Zero Trust virtualization-centric security.  [Brad Hedlund]
• Google open sources its secret weapon in cloud computing.  [Wired]
• Docker blasts into 1.0, throwing dust onto traditional hypervisors.  [The Register]  [TechCrunch]
• Google embraces Docker, the next big thing in cloud computing.  [Wired]
• Cloud computing is FAIL and here’s why.  [The Register]
• Understanding the world of cloud automation.  [DC Knowledge]
• The Internet is a cloud for networking.  [EtherealMind]
• The DCK guide to the as-a-service revolution.  [DC Knowledge]
• A potted history of cloud computing.  [The Register]
• Complex routing in Hyper-V network virtualisation.  [ipSpace]
• Is Open vSwitch control plane in-band or out-of-band?  [ipSpace]
• Does it make sense to build new clouds with overlay networks?  [ipSpace]
• Overlay virtual networking solutions overview.  [ipSpace]
• Overlay networking & VXLAN means MPLS in the data center is dead.  [EtherealMind]
• Death to vMotion.  [DC Overlords]
• Packet forwarding in Amazon VPC.  [ipSpace]
• Virtual packet forwarding in Hyper-V network virtualisation.  [ipSpace]
• Using cloud and virtualisation to deliver next-generation workloads.  [DC Knowledge]
• An update on using GRE tunnels with Open vSwitch.  [Scott Lowe]
• Public clouds won't be big in 2014, private clouds will – a contrarian view.  [EtherealMind]
• Network virtualisation and the end-to-end principle.  [Network Heresy]
• Can OpenStack be saved from itself?  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Security concerns not slowing public cloud adoption.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• The truth behind Microsoft Azure's global cloud mega-cock-up.  [The Register]
• Understanding cloud security, certificates, and compliance.  [DC Knowledge]
• How virtualisation creates cloud-ready security options.  [DC Knowledge]
• Don't leave network virtualisation to server admins.  [Network Computing]
• Havana see your bare metal: New OpenStack v8 clinches containerization.  [The Register]
• OpenStack adds F5 as member.  [The Register]
• Most 'cloud' traffic never sees the cloud.  [The Register]  [Cisco PDF]
• The power of a consumable data center network design.  [DC Knowledge]
• OpenStack Quantum (Neutron) plug-in: there can only be one.  [ipSpace]
• Cloud is a key-management pain: NIST.  [The Register]
• What are the benefits of enterprise-level virtualisation?  [Lifehacker]
• Cloud architecture: get it right first time.  [Network Computing]
• Cloud security panel at GigaOm structure, public private SDDC symposium.  [EtherealMind]
• Migrating a cold VM into a foreign subnet.  [ipSpace]
• Why is network virtualisation so hard?  [ipSpace]
• Extending Layer-2 connection into a cloud.  [ipSpace]
• Welcome to fog computing: extending the cloud to the edge.  [DC Knowledge]
• New technologies target OpenStack private clouds.  [Network Computing]
• Network virtualisation gets physical.  [Network Heresy]
• OpenStack faces 'irrelevance and death' without AWS compatibility.  [The Register]
• Software defined data centers and the blending of cultures.  [Network Janitor]
• Visibility, debugging, and network virtualisation.  [Network Heresy: part 1, part 2]
• Smart fabrics vs overlay virtual networks.  [ipSpace]
• What the HIPAA final rule means for data centers and cloud providers.  [DC Knowldge]
• Planning for a cloud-ready distributed storage infrastructure.  [DC Knowledge]
• What is a distributed firewall?  [Brad Hedlund]
• Virtualisation acceleration in the real world.  [DC Knowledge]
• Selling management on virtualised infrastructure.  [DC Knowledge]
• CIA spooks picked Amazon's "superior" cloud over IBM.  [The Register]
• Amazon's invasion of the CIA is a seismic shift in cloud computing.  [Wired]
• Network virtualisation and spaghetti wall.  [ipSpace]
• Woz explains how cloud computing is turning us into Soviet Russia.  [BGR]
• What is the software defined data center, and why is it important?  [WSJ ATD]
• The secret to OpenStack's success.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Dynamic routing with virtual appliances.  [ipSpace]
• Introduction to how overlay networking and tunnel fabrics work.  [EtherealMind]
• Amazon confirms CIA spook cloud contract.  [The Register]
• Facebook's first data center drenched in actual cloud.  [The Register]  [Gizmodo]
• Cloud computing driving data center automation.  [DC Knowledge]
• Network virtualisation at TOR switches?  Makes as much sense as IP-over-APPN.  [ipSpace]
• Cloud storage: yay or nay?  [Stuff]
• The evolution of the IT professional -- understanding the cloud's demands.  [DC Knowledge]
• Scale, SDN, and network virtualisation.  [Network Heresy]
• What is network virtualisation?  [Brad Hedlund]  [ipSpace]
• DoD cloud adoption helps US troops stay connected.  [DC Knowledge]
• Hyper-V 3.0 extensible virtual switch.  [ipSpace]
• Cloud jargon unwound: distinguishing SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Open Compute will begin building network switches.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook crashes into networking with open switch.  [The Register]  [Ars Technica]  [Wired]  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Server Guy's guide to virtual networks.  [ipSpace: PDF]
• Open vSwitch under the hood.  [ipSpace]
• Virtual firewall presentation from Troopers 13.  [ipSpace]  [ipSpace PDF]
• Resiliency of VM NIC firewalls.  [ipSpace]
• OpenStack: control freak is a platform, just like Android and iOS.  [The Register]
• Agility for the cloud with Juniper and OpenStack.  [Juniper]
• Designing for dependability in the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Quantifying the cloud: bringing the science back.  [DC Knowledge]
• Perspectives on cloud, data center and networks.  [DC Knowledge]
• How storage is shaping the cloud data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud-on-cloud computing.  [Wired]
• Public cloud will grow when experienced IT folks die.  [The Register]
• DaaS, MaaS & DRaaS: the next phase of cloud computing.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• 10 essential domains for moving to private cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Designing for dependability in the cloud.  [DC Knowledge part 1, part 2]
  
• Not ever cloud outage is created equal.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• As cloud wars heat up, server OEMs bet on OpenStack.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Five myths of cloud computing.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Colocation communities are a match for cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• How the data center has evolved to support the modern cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Amazon is building the CIA's new cloud computing system.  [Gizmodo]  [FCW]  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Virtualisation: the next frontier.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud computing's security pitfalls.  [BBC News]
• Compare cloud pricing versus private infrastructure.  [EtherealMind]
  
• Cloud haters: you too will be assimilated.  [HardOCP]  [ZDNet]
  
• Ericsson readies carrier-grade OpenStack for telcos and SPs.  [The Register]
  
• DDoS protection for hosting and cloud service providers.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Steps to protect your data center after virtualisation.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• OpenStack isn't our saviour from lock-in or support costs.  [EtherealMind]
  
• Beware of rogue clouds, warns Symantec.  [The Register]
  
• Expect to see more attacks on cloud services.  [Voxy]
• OpenCompute servers and the impact on networking.  [EtherealMind]
  
• Cloud security frameworks: security by design.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• OpenStack 101: what is OpenStack?  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Extending the data center into the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Glasshouse -- 'cloud' is no longer sufficient.  [DC Knowledge]
• Hyper-V network virtualisation (WNV/NVGRE): simply amazing.  [ipSpace]
• Building the foundation for private cloud infrastructure.  [DC Knowledge]
• It's not always sunny in cloud computing: a look at the risks.  [DC Knowledge]
• The biggest problem with each cloud storage service -- and how to fix them.  [Lifehacker]  [FixYa]
  
• The truth about virtualisation security.  [Juniper]
• Cloud computing -- why waiting might make sense.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Encryption in cloud computing.  [Schneier]  [NextGov]
• Virtual firewall taxonomy.  [ipSpace]
• What exactly are virtual firewalls?  [ipSpace]
  
• Firewalls in a small private cloud.  [ipSpace]
  
• Monitoring virtual data centers: how to avoid the virtual blind spot.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• The Pirate Bay moves to the cloud to avoid shutdown.  [BBC News]  [ExtremeTech]  [The Register]  [BoingBoing]  [HardOCP]  [TorrentFreak]  [Ars Technica]
• Understanding and controlling cloud sprawl.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Managing security in transitioning to the private cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cisco rolls up its own OpenStack distro.  [The Register]
• Tunneling for network virtualisation.  [Network Heresy]
  
• Free, open-source VirtualBox lags behind VMware and Parallels.  [Ars Technica]
  
• Cisco grows its cloud and adds elastic core for carriers.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• OpenStack 1.0 specification available now.  [EtherealMind]  [Open Compute Project]
• OpenStack rolls out new features with Folsom.  [DC Knowledge]  [The Register]
• Infrastructure-as-code with OpenStack.  [DC Knowledge]
• OpenStack gets real.  [GigaOM]
• Private clouds will change IT jobs, not eliminate them.  [EtherealMind]  [Network Computing]
• How cloud computing's growth disrupts hardware and software vendors.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Creative ways to deliver cloud computing services.  [DC Knowledge]
• Security implications of virtualisation.  [Juniper]
• First look: Hyper-V 2012 targets VMware's air supply.  [Ars Technica]
• Nobody has any idea what the cloud is.  [Gizmodo]
• The "appliance" approach to big data and private cloud.  [Brad Hedlund]
• What happens to your life when the cloud disappears?  [Gizmodo]
• Low latency trading moves to the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Woz predicts "horrible problems" with cloud computing.  [HardOCP]  [news.com.au]
• Why Wozniak is right and wrong about the cloud.  [Wired]
• Delivering corporate networks to the cloud: is your network ready?  [DC Knowledge]
• What took so long?  The first open source private cloud software arrives.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Misconfigured network device caused Microsoft Azure cloud outage.  [DC Knowledge]
• Errant 'safety valve' caused Windows Azure outage.  [DC Knowledge]
• How cloud computing has shifted engineering hiring demands.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• At Amazon, SSD boosts cloud power for database apps.  [DC Knowledge]
• OpenStack cloud fluffer growing faster than Linux.  [The Register]
• Iceland's cheap, green cloud: how a tiny island could drive big changes.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• How to host your data for less in Iceland's green data centers.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• The cloud: what's holding you back?  [DC Knowledge]
• 5 reasons cloud computing is key to business success.  [DC Knowledge]
• Owning a cloud means learning to love the business.  [The Register]
• Understanding the cloud's effect on facilities teams.  [DC Knowledge]
• Are IT fears holding back cloud computing?  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Cisco puts a virtual router in the clouds.  [The Register]  [DC Knowledge]
• Cisco apologises for "lack of clarity" in Linksys privacy mess.  [WSJ ATD]  [ExtremeTech]  [ZDNet]  [The Register]  [Wired]
• Enabling data center and cloud service management.  [DC Knowledge]
• Seven cloud computing trends.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• Will the cloud's brand suffer from outages?  [Wired]
• Cloud SLAs: what you don't know can hurt you.  [Wired]
• Closer look: OpenStack OS for clouds.  [DC Knowledge]
• Nvidia unveils GPUs to power clouds.  [DC Knowledge]
• The cloud isn't cheap -- part four or five, I think.  [EtherealMind]
• Cloud computing networking presentations available online.  [ipSpace]
• Five mistakes to avoid when adopting the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Exposed: Apple's 'Area i51' - home of iCloud.  [Wired: article 1, article 2]
• The secret history of OpenStack, the free cloud software that's changing everything.  [Wired]
• New ways to disaster recovery using virtualisation.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• How green is the cloud?  [Wired]
• It's onward and upward with cloud security.  [DC Knowledge]
• OpenStack gains global traction.  [DC Knowledge]
• Designing scalable web applications.  [ipSpace]  [Scribd]
• The personal cloud: the future's here, but unevenly distributed.  [Wired]
• Small businesses harness the power of cloud computing.  [BBC News]
• Understanding enterprise cloud management.  [DC Knowledge]
• Eight fundamental truths about cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Let’s get real about the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Retaking the high ground in the cloud discussion.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud lessons & LeMans racing.  [DC Knowledge]
• Fundamental truths of enterprise cloud strategy.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud strategy, Pickett’s charge, and you.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud computing recipe: 1 part tech, 9 parts process.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud architecture & Henry Ford’s Model T.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud policy: where ideals meet reality - part 1.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud policy: where ideals meet reality - part 2.  [DC Knowledge]
• Bandwidth management, cloud & the 405 freeway.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud ecosystems, profitability, common sense & the new order.  [DC Knowledge]
• Deploying layer 4-7 network services in the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Ex-Akamai man: stop being faithful to your CDN.  [The Register]
• The bottom-up nature of cloud adoption.  [DC Knowledge]
• What's an "Open Cloud" anyway?  Red Hat says it's not VMware.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Video: the world of many clouds.  [DC Knowledge]
• FBI puts cloud providers on notice over security rules.  [Wired]
• Five reasons to own your cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• The great disk drive in the sky: how web giants are storing big -- and we mean big -- data.  [Ars Technica]
• Megaupload saga teaches painful lessons about cloud file storage.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Megaupload's demise: what happens to your files when a cloud service dies?  [ExtremeTech]
• Explainer: how can the US seize a "Hong Kong site" like Megaupload?  [Ars Technica]
• Piston releases private cloud based on OpenStack.  [DC Knowledge]
• Network optimisation through cloud architecture.  [DC Knowledge]
• What's really new about the cloud?  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Thought leaders examine cloud computing.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cloud data, ownership and government sponsored data theft.  [EtherealMind]
• Momentum builds around cloud computing code of practice.  [Geekzone]
• Cloud policy: where ideals meet reality.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• Next generation preps for cloud containers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Mobile network operators in the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Internap joins OpenStack cloud race for 'first'.  [The Register]
• Cloud architecture and Henry Ford's Model T.  [DC Knowledge]
• Let's get real about the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Know your cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Arbor Networks introduces Cloud Signalling; Telstra Clear first to join.  [Geekzone]
• The mobile cloud: what it is and why it matters.  [DC Knowledge]
• Optimising your data center for the cloud.  [DC Knowledge]
• Still not convinced the cloud is a risky place?  Here are some scary numbers to ponder.  [WSJ ATD]
• Amazon: networking error caused cloud outage.  [DC Knowledge]
• The EC2/EBS outage: what Amazon didn't tell you.  [EvilRouters]
• Amazon details last week's cloud failure, and apologises.  [WSJ ATD]
• Amazon: bad execution during planned upgrade caused outage.  [Network World]
• Amazon cloud fell from sky after botched network upgrade.  [The Register]
• Complex systems have complex failuers.  That's cloud computing.  [EtherealMind]
• The aftermath of Amazon's could outage.  [DC Knowledge]
• Security for public and private clouds.  [DC Knowledge]
• The wrong way to cloud-enable a data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Private clouds -- not just a cost and technology issue, its all about trust, the family jewels, corporate value, and identity.  [Loose Bolts]

• Battle of the Infinibands.  [Russ White]  [TNP]
• Infiniband quantum leap.  [Russ White]  [TNP]
• Server performance vs health.  [Network Computing]
• Routing on hosts deep dive.  [ipSpace, ipSpace MP4]
• The smart way to move virtual machines.  [DC Journal]
• Server storage I/O converged / hyper-converged overview.  [DC Journal]
• Microsoft's open source data center hardware.  [DC Knowledge]
• FSAN unveils roadmap plans.  [GazettaByte]
• SAN and NAS basics.  [Russ White]  [FlackBox]
• Serverless architecture pros and cons.  [Network Computing]
• Scale-out storage architectures.  [Network Computing]
• Networking advances that improve storage performance.  [Network Computing]
• Server virtualisation slides.  [The Next Platform]
• Fibre channel: what is it good for?  [DC Overlords]
• 2015: The year storage was rocked to its foundations.  [The Register]
• VSAN: as always, latency is the real killer.  [ipSpace]
• Google gives the world a peek at its secret servers.  [Engadget]  [Google Blog]
• Data centre disk use is spinning down – Wikibon report.  [The Register]
• At Facebook data centers, new protocol helps add servers faster.  [DC Knowledge]
• Snowden's NSA leaks have galvanised the storage world.  [The Register]
• A quick introduction to CoreOS.  [Scott Lowe]
• Part 1: introduction
• Part 2: etcd
• Part 3: fleet and docker
• IBM demos 154TB tape.  [The Register]
• Sony nanotechnicians invent magnetic tape that stores 148 Gb per square inch.  [The Register]
• Connecting legacy servers to overlay virtual networks.  [ipSpace]
• It's storage's holy grail: VSANs, PSANs and virtual silos.  [The Register]
• Will micro servers put blade servers out to pasture?  [Network Computing]
• SSDs: a guide to using flash in the data center.  [Network Computing]
• FCoE vs FC farce.  [DC Overlords]
• Redundant server-to-network connectivity.  [ipSpace]
• Facebook reveals 700TB of tiered RAM and flash power Graph Search.  [The Register]  [GigaOM]
• How Dropbox stores stuff for 200 million users.  [DC Knowledge]
• Storage disaggregation in the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Paradoxes of big data.  [Schneier]  [SSRN]
• Google strengthens compute engine with load balancing.  [DC Knowledge]
• Planning for a cloud-ready distributed storage infrastructure.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook explains how 'TAO' serves social workloads, data requests.  [ZDNet]  [The Register]
• Presto: Facebook reveals exabyte-scale query engine.  [The Register]
• Virtual appliance performance is becoming a non-issue.  [ipSpace]
• Google will track every task on ever data center server.  [The Register]
• How storage is shaping the cloud data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• As cloud wars heat up, server OEMs bet on OpenStack.  [DC Knowledge]
• Exposing the six myths of deduplication.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Does dedicated iSCSI infrastructure make sense?  [ipSpace]
  
• Behind Blue Waters: assembly of Cray XE6 blades.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• 6 tips for selecting HDD and SSD drives.  [DC Knowledge]
• 7 considerations for big data adoption.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Creating an effective data center warehouse strategy.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Hot and cold VM mobility.  [ipSpace]
  
• Facebook reveals plan for new archival data center.  [The Register]
• Who needs HP and Dell?  Facebook now designs all its own servers.  [Ars Technica]
• Big data: why it's not always that big, nor even that clever.  [The Register]
  
• Debugging Microsoft network load balancing.  [ipSpace]
  
• Facebook scales servers with retooled Chef.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Experiencing heavy server load?  Just slow down time.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Truly these are the golden years of storage.  [The Register]
• Google reveals tape-tastic data center in video.  [The Register]
• The taxonomy of exascalar.  [DC Knowledge]
• Hyve brings Facebook's servers to your racks.  [DC Knowledge]
• Has big data reached its moment of disillusionment?  [WSJ ATD]
  
• Video: servers stacked like books on a shelf.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Silicon photonics: the data center at light speed.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Facebook builds exabyte data centers for cold storage.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook shatters the computer server into tiny pieces.  [Wired]  [HardOCP]  [OCP]  [Engadget]  [DC Knowledge]  [ReadWriteWeb]  [The Register]
  
• OpenCompute servers and the impact on networking.  [EtherealMind]
• Solid state storage is taking over the data center -- slowly.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• This custom data center rack has 160 Mac Minis crammed inside of it.  [Gizmodo]
• What is big data?  [Gizmodo]
  
• Video: Facebook's next-generation servers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Beyond hardware: software defined storage.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• How Amazon followed Google into the world of secret servers.  [Wired]
• Peta, exa, yotta, and beyond: big data reaches cosmic proportions.  [ReadWriteWeb]
• Video: big thinkers on big data.  [DC Knowledge]  [YouTube]
• Video: peer research on big data analytics.  [DC Knowledge]  [YouTube]
  
• The sticking power of tape storage int he age of big data.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Unlock your capacity by unplugging your ghost servers.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Don't use IPv6 RA on server LANs.  [ipSpace]
• Why everyone -- not just geeks -- should care about big data.  [Wired]
• Dell's blade data-center-in-a-box better than HPs.  [The Register]
• The "appliance" approach to big data and private cloud.  [Brad Hedlund]
  
• Big data bites back -- how to handle those unwieldy digits.  [The Register]
• Sparse Data -- the next big thing is small.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google's Dremel makes big data look small.  [Wired]
• How big data became so big.  [NYT]
• Virtualisation of data centers: new options in the control and data planes.  [DC Knowledge]
• Hypervisor 101: understanding the virtualisation market.  [DC Knowledge]
• Big data: what do you think it is?  [ReadWriteWeb]
• VMware vs Microsoft: Ars OpenForum debates who's best at virtualisation.  [Ars Technica]
• At Amazon, SSD boosts cloud power for database apps.  [DC Knowledge]
• Meeting security challenges in virtualised data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Where in the world is Google building servers?  [Wired]
• Google set up 'raw' server service.  [BBC News]
• Facebook's new server, storage designs.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook's new windmill server design.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook's storage design prototype.  [DC Knowledge]
• HP unveils next phase in extreme low-energy server initiative.  [GeekZone]
• Server efficiency: aligning energy use with workloads.  [DC Knowledge]
• New DoS tool lets a single PC bring down an Apache server.  [Ars Technica]
• Storage: a secret weapon to lower TCO in the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Study: server failures don't rise along with the heat.  [DC Knowledge]
• Reducing server power consumption.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook: server management systems 'a big headache'.  [The Register]
• What will the servers of the future look like?  [DC Knowledge]
• Blade servers 101.  [DC Knowledge]
• Server virtualisation is not enough.  [The Register]
• Surprise -- Cisco's blade servers are number three in the market.  [WSJ ATD]
• A UNIX comparison -- HP, AIX and Solaris.  [DC Knowledge]
• Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon's scale-out storage solution.  [Ars Technica]
• SeaMicro servers power launch of Firefox 4.  [DC Knowledge]
• Video: SeaMicro's low-power servers.  [DC Knowledge]
• A visit to Silicon Valley’s hot new hardware company: hyper energy-efficient microserver maker SeaMicro.  [Scobleizer]
• The value of UNIX for mission-critical workloads.  [DC Knowledge]
• Digging deeper into Microsoft's server designs.  [DC Knowledge]
• Introduction to Ethernet storage.  [The Register]
• A look inside a microserver-powered data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Skype: overloaded servers caused ripple effect.  [DC Knowledge]
• Network ZEN -- storage traffic isn't so important.  [Etherealmind]
• Should a networking engineer care about servers and storage?  [Etherealmind]

• Know the difference between three-phase and single-phase power.  [DC Knowledge]
• Energy efficient data centers.  [Russ White]  [DC Journal]
• Latest Microsoft data center design gets close to unity PUE.  [DC Knowledge]
• Performance indicator, Green Grid’s new data center metric explained.  [DC Knowledge]
• Why reliable power protection is critical for data center operators.  [DC Knowledge]
• Large UPS battery considerations.  [DC Journal]
• Facebook data centers: huge scale at low power density.  [DC Knowledge]
• Stop making a big stink about data center PUE.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook's new Fort Worth data center will be powered entirely by wind.  [Gizmodo]  [Facebook]
• How Microsoft got rid of big data center UPS.  [DC Knowledge]
• Why Your high-efficiency data center needs good PDUs.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google using machine learning to boost data center efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]  [Ars Technica]  [Engadget]  [Wired]  [The Register]
• Safeguarding equipment while reducing power consumption.  [DC Knowledge]
• Apple, Google, Facebook earn high marks from Greenpeace.  [DC Knowledge]
• The evolving PUE of containerised data centers.  [Network Computing]
• Ultra-green Europeans scorn Facebook's data centre blueprint.  [The Register]
• Taking a truly holistic view of data center efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• An overlooked problem: dynamic power variations.  [DC Knowledge]
• Augmenting power monitoring and control at data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Greenpeace to Facebook: 100% renewable is not green enough.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google powering Finnish server farm with Swedish wind farm.  [DC Knowledge]
• Are you suffering from PUE envy?  [DC Knowledge]
• Going off the grid: Delaware data center will generate its own power.  [DC Knowledge]
• Gaining more efficiency from power distribution within data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Design for efficient operational energy management.  [DC Knowledge]
• Microsoft: centralisation is driving energy efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook unveils live dashboard for PUE, water use.  [DC Knowledge]  [Wired]
• A model-based approach to data center energy management.  [DC Knowledge]
• Mapping a course to data center efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Visualising trends in "energy per operation".  [DC Knowledge]
• Take the heat from data centers' PUE pitch.  [The Register]
• Video: solving power connector confusion.  [Network Sherpa]  [YouTube]
• Are low PUE ratings hitting their limit?  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Data center efficiency: the past and the future.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Follow-the-moon scheduling to lower energy costs.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Retrofitting on-site power systems.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• The truth about dual power feeds.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google answers critics with wind power.  [Wired]  [The Register]
• Joyent uses Trellis to peer into app power use.  [DC Knowledge]
• Factors that impact data center energy efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• Energy efficiency: measuring a facility's power use.  [DC Knowledge]
• Power when you need it: parallel generators expand options.  [DC Knowledge]
• Greenpeace under fire again after regrading of Apple's data center energy plans.  [MacRumors]
• Energy efficiency in today's data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Debunking data center power myths.  [DC Knowledge]
• Impact of a data center's energy cost on TCO.  [DC Knowledge]
• Annals of bad luck: when primary, backup and second packup power fail.  [Ars Technica]
• Microsoft data plants will tap landfills, sewage for power.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook, eBay among uptime green IT winners.  [DC Knowledge]
• Greenpeace: Apple falling short of sourcing clean power.  [TUAW]  [MacRumors]  [AppleInsider]  [HardOCP]  [MotherJones]  [Gizmodo]
• Apple: Greenpeace's cloud math is busted.  [DC Knowledge]
• PUE is about efficiency, not performance or cost.  [DC Knowledge]
• Measuring to improve: comprehensive, real-world data center efficiency numbers.  [Google]  [DC Knowledge]
• Data center PUE -- what does it mean?  [DC Knowledge]
• Power monitoring for modern data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• To contain power costs, look at your servers.  [DC Knowledge]
• The network's role in data center efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• The importance of real-time power monitoring.  [DC Knowledge]
• Energy efficient trends for 2012.  [DC Knowledge]  [DC Knowledge]
• Data center energy efficiency guide.  [DC Knowledge]
• Going beyond PUE for data center efficiency.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• Circuit breaker guidelines for data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• PUE: where's the beef?  [DC Knowledge]
• Why Google needs to peep at the world's most efficient data center.  [Gizmodo] [The Register]
• Google's energy story: high efficiency, huge scale.  [DC Knowledge]  [Google]
• How Google's data centers use renewable energy.  [DC Knowledge]  [HardOCP]  [NYT]
• DCIM: creating a holistic and efficient data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• PUE 2 -- the sequel.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• Task force updates guidance on measuring PUE.  [DC Knowledge]
• Taking a bird's eye view of energy.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google: no 'secret sauce' in recipe for efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• Uptime Institute: the average PUE is 1.8.  [DC Knowledge]
• Video demo: how a rotary UPS works.  [DC Knowledge]
• Properly auditing data center power.  [DC Knowledge]
• Improving energy efficiency in data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Visualised: ring around the world of data center power usage.  [Engadget]
• Greenpeace seeks data center energy disclosure.  [DC Knowledge]
• PDF below: dirty-data-report-greenpeace.pdf
• Greenpeace: Apple's power 'dirty, dangerous'.  [DC Knowledge]
• JouleX: software for tracking energy use.  [DC Knowledge]
• Data centers gripped by power struggle.  [The Register]
• PUE: time to start grading the curve?  [DC Knowledge]
• Power considerations when siting data centers.  [DC Knowledge]

• Cooling systems for high-power-density data centers.  [DC Journal]
• Ten simple ways to fine-tune your data center cooling system.  [DC Knowledge]
• Impact of cooling and efficiency in modern data center design.  [DC Knowledge]
• How to reuse waste heat from data centers intelligently.  [DC Knowledge]
• Why you should never overlook under-rack airflow.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google redesigns data center cooling every 12 to 18 months.  [DC Knowledge]
• The problem of inefficient cooling in smaller data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Modular cooling system enables on-demand data center capacity.  [DC Knowledge]
• Keeping the airflow going in smaller data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• IBM wants to cool data centers with their own waste heat.  [ExtremeTech]
• Strategies for evaluating data center aisle containment.  [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
• Air circulation in data centers: rethinking your design.  [DC Knowledge]
• Top 5 reasons why environment sensors are in all modern data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Amazon using heat from its data centers to warm its new HQ.  [Gizmodo]
• Safely avoid overcooling your data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• NSA exploring use of mineral oil to cool its servers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Free cooling concepts for your data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• The 10 most common cooling mistakes data center operators make.  [DC Knowledge]
• Water-cooled solutions for high-density rack cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• How to save money and safely avoid overcooling your data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Environmental monitoring: you can't manage what you don't monitor.  [DC Knowledge]
• Data center optimisation: intelligent hot and cold aisle containment.  [DC Knowledge]
• NSA will cool its secret servers with waste water.  [DC Knowledge]  [Gizmodo]  [Network Computing]
• Challenges in using outside air economisers and how to overcome them.  [DC Knowledge]
• Verizon tries out alternative cooling methods.  [DC Knowledge]
• Top7 reasons data centers don't raise their thermostats.  [DC Knowledge]
• Giving attention to data center cold spots.  [DC Knowledge]
• Using airflow containment to reclaim power capacity.  [DC Knowledge]
• IBM robot maps data center temperature and humidity.  [DC Knowledge]
• The Azure Cloud, exposed to the azure sky.  [DC Knowledge]
• Better airflow creates opportunities to improve cooling capacity and reduce operating costs.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Keep your servers cool, and your business hot.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Water consciousness continues in the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook tests immersion cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• Granular fan control lowers cooling energy costs.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Retrofitting cold-aisle cocooning doesn't mean massive disruption.  [DC Knowledge]
• US DoD to cool servers with hot water.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Three steps to keeping your cool in cold weather months.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Data center containment provider due diligence.  [DC Knowledge]
• The evolution of Facebook's data center cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Data center containment components and considerations.  [DC Knowledge]
• Benefits of data center containment.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Facebook servers get hotter, but run fine in the south.  [DC Knowledge]  [Wired]
  
• Approaches to data center containment.  [DC Knowledge]
• Six steps to improve data center cooling efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Reclaim wasted cooling capacity.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Why you don't monitor DC temperature?  [Evil Routers]
  
• Ten cooling solutions to support high-density servers.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Halting airflow leaks in data centers with aisle containment.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• How much containment is enough?  [DC Knowledge]
• Airflow is important -- terminology is key.  [EtherealMind]  [Network Sherpa]
  
• Improving cooling systems efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• What are the impacts of server airflow leakage in data centers?  [DC Knowledge]
• Intel is cooling entire servers by submerging them in oil.  [Gizmodo]  [Hexus]
• Data center water use moves to the forefront.  [DC Knowledge]
• Large scale water cooling system chills Europe's fastest supercomputer and warms its operators.  [Gizmodo]
• Hot water cooling? Three projects making it work.  [DC Knowledge]
• Study: server failures don't rise along with the heat.  [DC Knowledge]
• Airflow impedance: the silent enemy of data center cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• Power dense data centers seek thermal controls.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google embraces thermal storage in Taiwan.  [DC Knowledge]  [Wired]
• Smart data center design for more effective cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• Video: Dell's fresh air data center solution.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google flushes heat from data center with toilet water.  [Ars Technica]
• Preventing IT equipment overheating in winter.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google's new data center is an abandoned paper mill in Finland.  [Gizmodo]
• Norway's fjord-cooled data center.  [DC Knowledge]  [Gizmodo]  [Coolest Gadgets]
• In Norway, fjord keeps financial data cool.  [DC Knowledge]
• New from Intel: the data center sauna.  [DC Knowledge]  [HardOCP]  [Intel]
• Focus on fans deliver cost savings on cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• Video: cooling a data center with ground water.  [DC Knowledge]
• The cost of data center cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook: 85 degrees in the 'cold' aisle.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook cools new data center with hot southern air.  [DC Knowledge]  [Engadget]
• Facebook auto-cools servers with air pressure sensors.  [Wired]
• Facebook revises its data center cooling system.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook's servers stay warm en route to Arctic Circle.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook will ice backup data in 'sub-zero' building.  [Wired]
• A rare look inside Facebook's Oregon data center.  [GogaOM]
• Video: solving big problems with HPC & water cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• Chiller-less data center is Google's top performer.  [DC Knowledge]
• Airflow issues: silent enemy of efficient cooling.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cooling: comfort or precision?  [DC Knowledge]
• Air cooled data centers are hot!  [The Register]
• Selecting the right airflow containment solution.  [DC Knowledge]
• Energy efficiency guide: aisle containment.  [DC Knowledge]
• Microsoft eliminates server fans despite PUE hit.  [DC Knowledge]
• DeepGreen: Swiss lake-cooled data center.  [DC Knowledge]  [JH Blog]
• The data center temperature debate.  [DC Knowledge]

• Understanding the types of prefabricated modular data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Understanding and evaluating containerized and modular data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• A day in the life of a modular data center factory.  [DC Knowledge]
• How Facebook's new Swedish data center is like your Ikea bed.  [Wired]  [The Register]
• Pre-fabrication: a new way of architecting data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• The evolving PUE of containerised data centers.  [Network Computing]
• Four things colos should consider when evaluating modular construction solutions.  [DC Knowledge]
• Schneider Electric unveils prefab data centers.  [Network Computing]  [DC Knowledge]
• Inside a BladeRoom.  [DC Knowledge: article 1, article 2, article 3]
• Modular data center due diligence.  [DC Knowledge]
• The modular data center market.  [DC Knowledge]
• Why consider a modular data center?  [DC Knowledge]
• What is a modular data center?  [DC Knowledge]
• Digital Reality powers up its POD architecture.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Going modular in Iceland to slash BMW's costs and carbon.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• What are the pros and cons of modular deployments?  [DC Knowledge]
  
• Four myths of the container data center market.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• IO receives first ever modular UL certification.  [DC Knowledge]
• Top 10 reasons modular data centers are not containers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Is Apple going modular at its North Carolina iDataCenter?  [DC Knowledge]
• Apple erects 'tactical' data center with own 'man traps'.  [Wired]
• Visualising the modular design difference.  [DC Knowledge]  [Ada's Journey Blog]
• Modular data centers: is anyone buying?  [Wired]
• The state of the modular data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Inside IO's modular data center assembly line.  [DC Knowledge]
• DCK guide to modular data centers: due diligence.  [DC Knowledge]
• Airbus deploys modular data center.  [DC Knowledge]  [The Register]  [Geekzone]
• Video: Dell's latest modular data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• James Bond meets the modular data center.  [DC Knowledge]
• Video: walk-through of the HP EcoPOD module.  [DC Knowledge]
• Video: what does 'modular' mean?  [DC Knowledge]
• POD Architecture 2.0 -- Prefabricated data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Colt adds flexibility to its modular designs.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cisco delivers containerised data center.  [Cisco]
• Cisco rolls out its data center containers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cisco rolls out data center pods.  [The Register]
• Closer look: Cisco's new container.  [DC Knowledge]
• Can containers remake the data center geography?  [DC Knowledge]
• HP moves beyond the container.  [DC Knowledge]
• eBay pursues modular data centers.  [DC Knowledge]
• Google patents "tower of containers'.  [DC Knowledge]
• Two-phase modular cooling for the data center.  [DC Knowledge]

Rack- and Cabling-Related Articles

• Network cabling.  [ipCisco]
• Rethink DC cabling to improve energy efficiency.  [DC Knowledge]
• Five trends in data center cabling.  [DC Journal]
• Network cabling primer.  [Network Computing]
• LinkedIn finds friends to join its 'Open19' data centre standards effort.  [The Register]
• Overcoming data center cabling challenges.  [Russ White]  [DC Journal]
• Google gives Facebook’s Open Rack a 48V makeover.  [DC Knowledge]
• Intel releases rack scale design to Open Source.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cable management: tackling tangles.  [Network Computing]
• The Register guide to cabling.  [The Register]
• What is the correct way to diagram a Patch Panel?  [StackExchange]
• Will Cat8 cabling force a topology change in the data center?  [DC Knowledge]
• Rack best practices?  [Reddit]
• Rack cabling.  [Reddit]
• How is rack cable management done in dense POPs?  [Reddit]
• Patch panel problem.  [StackExchange]
• Cable pathways: a data center design guide and best practices.  [DC Knowledge]
• Intel continues to rethink the rack of the future.  [DC Knowledge]
• What's the difference between these Ethernet cables?  [Lifehacker]
• Meet the future of data center rack technologies.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• The 'Symphony of Cables' at Equinix.  [DC Knowledge]
• Cable management decisions in the data center.  [DC Knowledge]
  
• This custom data center rack has 160 Mac Minis crammed inside of it.  [Gizmodo]
  
• Physical security: rack security and protection.  [DC Knowledge]
• Boost rack densities without racking your brain.  [DC Knowledge]
• Open rack design guide is released.  [DC Knowledge]
• PDF attached below: Open_Compute_Project_Open_Rack_Design_Guide_v0-5.pdf
• Top 20 practical cabling tips for network engineers.  [EtherealMind: part 1, part 2]
• Size differences -- Cat5 and Cat6 cable bundles.  [EtherealMind]
• Problems with Cat6A cables in data center.  [EtherealMind]
• Facebook's open rack revealed.  [DC Knowledge]
• Data center racks getting taller, wider, deeper.  [DC Knowledge]
• Facebook unfriends 19-inch data center racks.  [The Register]
• Video: cabling a rack at SoftLayer.  [DC Knowledge]
• Rack hygiene.  [DC Knowledge]
• How Facebook tames high-density racks.  [DC Knowledge]

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