DC Networks
- Rethinking BGP in the DC fabric. [Russ White: part 1, part 2, part 3]
- Eliminate east-west traffic hair-pinning. [Network Computing]
- Chasing CRC errors in a DC fabric. [ipSpace]
- Building secure L2 DC fabrics with Cisco Nexus. [ipSpace]
- Redundant server connectivity in L3-only fabrics. [ipSpace]
- What I've learned about scaling OSPF in DCs. [ipSpace]
- DC switch silicon evolves. [DC Knowledge]
- The impact of Tomahawk-4 in DC fabric designs. [ipSpace] [Elegant Network]
- You don't need IP renumbering for DR. [ipSpace]
- A short history of the spine and leaf. [NANOG YouTube]
- MPLS in DC fabrics. [NANOG YouTube]
- Demystifying DC CLOS networks. [NANOG YouTube]
- Real life data center meltdown. [ipSpace]
- How common are DC meltdowns? [ipSpace]
- What designs require BGP in the DC? [Packet Pushers]
- Disaggregated DC networks are now a reality. [DC Knowledge]
- Odd number of spines in leaf-and-spine fabrics. [ipSpace]
- Active-active DCs with VXLAN and EVPN. [ipSpace]
- Using MPLS+EVPN in the data center fabrics. [ipSpace]
- 400GE: tips for DC designers. [DC Journal, PDF]
- Leaf-and-spine fabric myths. [ipSpace: part 1, part 2, part 3]
- Implications of valley-free routing in DC networks. [ipSpace]
- DC networks are getting faster and smarter. [DC Knowledge]
- Do we need leaf-and-spine fabrics? [ipSpace]
- The year of 100GE in DC networks. [DC Knowledge]
- Active-active data centers. [Russ White] [NetCraftsmen]
- What DC operators need to know about migrating to 400GE. [DC Knowledge]
- Optics and the DC. [DC Journal] [Russ White]
- Transforming your DC with high-speed migration. [DC Journal]
- Avoid summarisation in leaf-and-spine fabrics. [ipSpace]
- Is OSPF or IS-IS good enough for my data centre? [ipSpace]
- DC design: installing a modern network. [Network Computing]
- DC interconnect and performance. [Russ White] [NetCraftsmen]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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
- How to plan a successful DC migration. [DC Knowledge]
- Reports of DC deaths are exaggerated. [Network Computing]
- Is the future both on and off premise? [EtherealMind]
- How a legacy DC with >1000 cabinets was transformed. [DC Knowledge]
- Think you want to build your own data center? [DC Knowledge]
- Breaking the DCIM paradigm: DC management in a digital world. [DC Knowledge]
- Creating the next-gen data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Guide to floor optimisation. [DC Knowledge]
- How to mitigate hidden security challenges lurking within data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- New approaches to physical security requires inside-out assessment. [DC Journal]
- Finding strength in numbers: the DC clustering effect. [DC Knowledge]
- Make DC monitoring more meaningful. [DC Journal]
- How to design a data center in a Norwegian fjord. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center physical realities in a software-defined world. [Network Computing]
- Be proactive in DC earthquake mitigation. [DC Knowledge]
- Most DC outages aren't caused by tech failure. [DC Knowledge]
- Perimeter security: strategies for data center protection. [DC Knowledge]
- Massive 6-storey data center in a Norwegian mine comes online. [DC Knowledge]
- Inside the new Facebook DC in Texas. [DC Knowledge] [Facebook]
- Optimise your DC infrastructure: [ipSpace]
- Virtualise the servers. [ipSpace]
- Ditch the legacy technologies. [ipSpace]
- Everything you wanted to know about Google data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Inside a Google data center. [Fstoppers] [YouTube]
- Top three disaster recovery mistakes. [Network Computing]
- Five tips for choosing your DC wisely. [DC Journal]
- Data centre locations: In the city or up the country? [DC Knowledge]
- Are you getting everything your data center design is meant to deliver? [DC Knowledge]
- Everything you wanted to know about Facebook data centers. [DC Knowledge, DC Knowledge]
- What Facebook has learnt from regularly shutting down entire data centers. [DC Knowledge] [Russ White]
- One DC standard to rule them all? [DC Knowledge]
- DC architecture lessons from Isaac Newton. [Network Computing]
- Data center security requires paranoia. [Network Computing]
- LinkedIn pushes own data center hardware standard. [DC Knowledge]
- Is parcel protocol right for your data transfer needs? [DC Knowledge]
- Building a future-proof data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Overcoming the six main obstacles to DC performance. [DC Journal]
- Optimise your data center: ditch the legacy technologies. [ipSpace, video]
- Unexpected recovery might kill your data center. [ipSpace]
- Guide to Facebook’s open source data center hardware. [DC Knowledge]
- The 'smarter', software-defined data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Are software-defined data centers really a new idea? [DC Knowledge]
- Designing data centers for the future. [DC Knowledge]
- Robotic data center switch automates physical connections. [DC Knowledge]
- 7 biggest DC migration mistakes -- and how to avoid them. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center design -- which standards to follow? [DC Knowledge]
- Can you afford to reformat your data center? [ipSpace]
- Karl Brumund: building a small DC. [EtherealMind]
- Equinix doubles down in one of the Internet's most important locations. [DC Knowledge]
- The modern data center: challenges and innovations. [DC Knowledge]
- Designing active-active and DR data centers. [ipSpace]
- Six facts in high-availability data center design. [DC Knowledge]
- Mega data center design: what DuPont Fabros learned from building its biggest facility yet. [DC Knowledge]
- How to build a server room: back to basics. [The Register]
- Lack of procedure plagues DC industry. [DC Knowledge]
- Switch claims Reno site will be world’s largest data center. [DC Knowledge]
- DC consolication checklist. [DC Knowledge]
- Five data centres you can't live without. [The Register]
- Inside the Social Network's data center. [Russ White] [UCSD PDF]
- Data Center 2.0 -- the emerging trend in colocation. [DC Knowledge]
- Why data centers look the way they do. [DC Knowledge]
- Facebook sued: Data center designs 'nicked' for Open Compute. [The Register]
- Why you need to x-ray your data center. [ReadWriteWeb]
- Four steps to a successful data center migration. [DC Knowledge]
- Video tour of Google's South Carolina data center. [DC Knowledge] [YouTube]
- Data center design: five key areas of focus. [DC Knowledge]
- Security is key: five data center protection questions to keep your data safe. [DC Knowledge]
- How Facebook is hacking together a better data center. [Gizmodo]
- See what’s buried in the Swiss bunkers turned into secretive data centers. [Wired]
- Facebook turned off entire data center to test resiliency. [DC Knowledge]
- The last data center on Earth? The case for ‘As-a-Service’ everywhere. [Wired]
- The road to software-defined data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Software-defined data centers: what lies ahead? [DC Knowledge]
- The home data center: man cave for the Internet age. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center design: customization vs. personalization. [DC Knowledge]
- Redefining system architecture with data at the core. [DC Knowledge]
- Four big advantages of multi-tenant data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- The data centers of tomorrow will use the same tech our mobile phones do. [Wired]
- Google: from 112 servers to a $5B-plus quarterly data center bill. [DC Knowledge] [Google+]
- How to better align your data center’s physical infrastructure. [DC Knowledge]
- Deutsche Telekom touts new data center as ‘Fort Knox’ for German data. [DC Knowledge]
- 10 of the strangest data center outages. [DC Knowledge]
- Get the humans out of the data center. [DC Knowledge]
- On policy in the data center: the solution space. [Network Heresy]
- Building the part of Facebook no one ever sees. [Gizmodo]
- Survey: enterprise data centers fail more often than colos. [DC Knowledge]
- Five reasons modern data centers use environmental sensors. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center migragion -- critical lessons learnt. [DC Knowledge]
- Top 9 mistakes in data center planning. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center security lessones from Heartbleed and Target. [DC Knowledge]
- Why data centers are popping up in Iowa. [ReadWriteWeb]
- What will the data center of 2025 look like? [DC Knowledge]
- Creating next-gen visibility in the modern data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Equipping the next generation of data center professionals. [DC Knowledge]
- The software-defined data center: potential game changer. [Network Computing]
- 6 considerations in choosing a data colocation provider. [DC Knowledge]
- How Facebook flipped the data centre hardware market. [The Register]
- New data center design drives efficiency gains for DuPont Fabros. [DC Knowledge]
- Professional labeling essential to data center security and audit compliance. [DC Knowledge]
- Facebook rethinks how it builds data centers: Lego or IKEA? [DC Knowledge]
- Google's first data center. [DC Knowledge] [Google+]
- Disasters and recoveries. [ipSpace: part 1, part 2]
- Converging the modern data center layers. [DC Knowledge]
- Five great ways to optimise your data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Google Glass: a vision for the future of DC maintenance. [DC Knowledge]
- Understanding and mitigating risk from DC threats. [DC Knowledge]
- Unifying the DC operations with true DCIM. [DC Knowledge]
- Tips for preventing data center outages. [Network Computing]
- 10 key considerations for a successful DCIM project. [DC Knowledge]
- AMS-IX opens Internet exchange in the New York market. [DC Knowledge]
- Want a unified data center? Don't forget to defrag the admins. [The Register]
- 7 attributes that help counter data center downtime. [DC Knowledge]
- DR site selection: factors and approach. [DC Knowledge]
- Next-generation data centers require next-generation security. [DC Knowledge]
- The importance of designing seismic certified data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- The pros and cons of underground data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- A guide to successful data center migration. [DC Knowledge]
- Five tips to help secure your data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Best practices for lifting and handling data center equipment. [DC Knowledge]
- Video: inefficient data center design. [DC Knowledge]
- From the ground up: building and efficient data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Cut DC costs and complexity by unifying and simplifying DCIM. [DC Knowledge]
- Defining the new data center operating system. [DC Knowledge]
- Infographic: overcoming data center barriers. [DC Knowledge]
- DCIM integration: are IT management tools enough? [DC Knowledge]
- A storm of servers: how the leap second led Facebook to build DCIM tools. [DC Knowledge]
- What the inside of an NSA data center looks like? [DC Knowledge]
- Five tips to boost your DC IQ. [DC Knowledge]
- In DR planning, don't neglect home site restoration. [DC Knowledge]
- Intel details new visions for the data center. [WSJ ATD] [WSJ]
- Learn to unlock the full business value of DCIM. [DC Knowledge]
- Important geographic and risk mitigation factors in selecting a data center site. [DC Knowledge]
- Using DCIM to create a common data center management approach. [DC Knowledge]
- LINX housing IT infrastructure in Interxion London. [DC Knowledge]
- Understanding the value and scope of data center commissioning. [DC Knowledge]
- Debunking the myths and fears of converged infrastructure. [DC Knowledge]
- Cisco's data center strategy takes a sharp turn toward applications. [Cisco]
- The changing data center landscape. [Juniper]
- The modern data center: an integrated world. [DC Knowledge]
- Aging infrastructure and evolving threats -- Data Center 2.0 is redefining security. [DC Knowledge]
- Modernising vs revolutionising. [DC Knowledge]
- Storm-proofing data centers for hurricanes and tornadoes. [DC Knowledge]
- Modernising vintage data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Inside Facebook's new Luleå data center. [DC Knowledge] [Ars Technica] [BBC News] [Engadget]
- The final phase of construction on a data center facility. [DC Knowledge]
- Is building a data center a sign of failure, not success? [ReadWriteWeb]
- The hidden beauty of the data center. [DC Knowledge] [DC Knowledge]
- The hidden cost of system sprawl. [DC Knowledge]
- The robot-driven data center of tomorrow. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center design for a mobile environment. [DC Knowledge]
- Understanding data center commissioning and its benefits. [DC Knowledge]
- Equinix unveils new crown jewel for Ashburn Campus. [DC Knowledge]
- Why data centers are shifting towards converged infrastructures. [DC Knowledge]
- The Facebook special: how Intel builds custom chips for giants of the web. [Wired]
- DCIM: inside the information bubble. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center designs for evolving hardware. [DC Knowledge]
- The billion dollar data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- How to ensure your monitoring meets your needs. [DC Knowledge]
- DCK executive guide to data center design. [DC Knowledge]
- Designing for high availability and system failure. [DC Knowledge]
- Making robust data center design decisions. [DC Knowledge]
- Learn how DCIM can save you 30% in data center operations costs. [DC Knowledge]
- The importance of networking in data center TCO. [DC Knowledge]
- Converging the data center infrastructure: why and how. [DC Knowledge]
- The rise of the worker-friendly data center. [DC Knowledge]
- How to introduce modern architectures and best practice to the data center. [The Register]
- Cisco + Microsoft team to target the data center. [DC Knowledge] [Cisco]
- Cisco ports Nexus 1000V virtual switch to Microsoft's Hyper-V. [The Register]
- Installing a cloud services router 1000v in VMware ESXi 5.1. [CCIE Blog]
- Installing the cloud services router CSR1000v in VMware Fusion. [CCIE Blog]
- How can you save up to 30% in data center operation costs? [DC Knowledge]
- Managing the data center -- one rack at a time. [DC Knowledge]
- Five essential keys to success when relocating a data center. [DC Knowledge]
- DCK guide to modular data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Business justifications for a custom data center. [DC Knowledge]
- An in-depth guide for data center transformation. [DC Knowledge]
- Timelines and potential pitfalls of a custom data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Colocation communities are a match for cloud. [DC Knowledge]
- Are carrier hotels reliable enough? [DC Knowledge] [John Savageau]
- Inside ViaWest's Tier 4 data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Custom data centers: responsibilities of the stakeholders. [DC Knowledge]
- How Sandy has altered data center disaster planning. [DC Knowledge]
- A roadmap for data center transformation. [DC Knowledge]
- New eBay metrics help save millions in data center costs. [ReadWriteWeb]
- Video: how Facebook manages data centers at scale. [DC Knowledge]
- Understanding IT risks. [DC Knowledge]
- Microsoft joins Open Data Center Alliance. [DC Knowledge]
- 10 considerations in building a global data center strategy. [DC Knowledge]
- Whatever happened to High Availability? [DC Knowledge]
- A forgotten data center cost: lost capacity. [DC Knowledge]
- Navigating data center performance challenges with KPIs. [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
- Is your DR plan ready? Tips to help you weather the storm. [DC Knowledge]
- New approaches to data center consolidation. [DC Knowledge]
- Microsoft's evolving data center design. [DC Knowledge]
- Microsoft's $1 billion data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Transitioning to your own data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Video: what lurks beneath your raised floor? [DC Knowledge]
- Inside the Gozi bulletproof hosting facility. [Krebs]
- Creating data center strategies with global scale. [DC Knowledge]
- Decrease costs and gain a competitive advantage by improving DCIM. [DC Knowledge]
- Top five data center issues: DCIM to the rescue. [DC Knowledge]
- Disaster recovery is not business continuity. [DC Knowledge]
- North Carolina's data center corridor: from fibre to servers. [DC Knowledge]
- Don't let your data center be overtaken. [The Register]
- Why data center managers shouldn't feel threatened by colocation. [DC Knowledge]
- 2013: say goodbye to the traditional data center. [ReadWriteWeb]
- Timelapse of the NCI supercomputer being built. [HardOCP] [YouTube]
- Is the future of data centers small and distributed? [EtherealMind]
- Colocation decision checklist and best practices. [DC Knowledge]
- Inside Facebook's NC data center campus. [DC Knowledge]
- Colocation planning: environmental control and managment. [DC Knowledge]
- Video: Level 3's Omaha data center. [DC Knowledge] [YouTube]
- In Phoenix, the birth of a data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Colocation selection: analysing the workload. [DC Knowledge]
- Evaluating a colocation facility. [DC Knowledge]
- Colt wants to future-proof the data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Sandy's lessons about disaster recovery. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center maturity: training to make your data center more efficient. [DC Knowledge]
- Four reasons to build data center capacity off-site. [DC Knowledge]
- Disaster recovery: boost confidence in your plans. [DC Knowledge]
- Where servers meet saunas: a visit to Google's Finland data center. [Wired]
- Google's data centers: an inside look. [Google Blog] [DC Knowledge] [NZ Herald] [ExtremeTech] [HardOCP] [Google] [Wired] [Stuff] [THG]
- Imperial Stormtrooper at Google's data center. [Gizmodo]
- Can your data center survive an earthquake? How to know your risk. [DC Knowledge]
- Colocation's changing distance factor. [DC Knowledge]
- Early warning systems: data center monitoring. [DC Knowledge]
- Inside the Oak Ridge supercomputing facility. [DC Knowledge]
- Video tour of an Equinix data center. [PacketLife]
- Modern data center classifications: which one is right for you? [DC Knowledge]
- Factors that lead to successful data center strategies. [DC Knowledge]
- Automating data center asset management: it's about time. [DC Knowledge]
- Calculating data center costs in virtual environments. [DC Knowledge]
- Goodbye silos -- the benefits of converged data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Decrease your costs by improving DCIM. [DC Knowledge]
- Guide to data center colocation. [DC Knowledge]
- Do you control your data center, or is it controlling you? [DC Knowledge]
- Density: more than a metric. [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
- 10 safety tips on electrocution for the network engineer. [EtherealMind]
- An Olympian infrastructure challenge. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center disaster preparedness: 6 assurances you should look for in a data center provider. [DC Knowledge]
- Key factors impacting TCO. [DC Knowledge]
- Integration of data center services and systems. [DC Knowledge]
- How Apple's North Carolina data center got built. [TUAW] [GigaOM: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4]
- Still no sign of data ships on the horizon. [DC Knowledge]
- Applying DCIM in colocation data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Rapid evacuation of a data center. [DC Knowledge] [Slashdot]
- Notes from the road: DCIM simplified. [DC Knowledge]
- Enabling data center and cloud service management. [DC Knowledge]
- What lies ahead for the future of DCIM? [DC Knowledge]
- Courting disaster: denial is NOT an option. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center governance. [DC Knowledge]
- Demand design: beyond 'keeping the lights on'. [DC Knowledge]
- DCIM yields return on investment. [DC Knowledge]
- How do I select a DCIM tool to fit my data center? [DC Knowledge]
- HP developing 'net-zero' data center concept. [DC Knowledge] [Geekzone] [Wired]
- The inside scoop on Facebook's data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- What functionality is important for DCIM solutions? [DC Knowledge]
- The Apple data center FAQ. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center real estate showing maturity. [DC Knowledge]
- Integrated approach to DCIM yields best results. [DC Knowledge]
- Why do I need DCIM? [DC Knowledge]
- A glimpse inside Google's data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center design models and trends. [DC Knowledge: part 1, part 2]
- UK data bunker features 12-ton blast door. [DC Knowledge]
- Comparing the efficiencies of fixed vs chassis switches. [Brad Hedlund]
- Are fixed switches more efficient than chassis ones? [ipSpace]
- Why flexibility in DCIM is so imporant. [DC Knowledge]
- Open Compute shakes up server supply chain. [DC Knowledge]
- Choosing a data center colocation site. [DC Knowledge]
- 6 questions for your next data center provider. [DC Knowledge]
- Coolest job in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center. [Ars Technica]
- The four trends driving the future of data center design. [DC Knowledge]
- Inside GoDaddy's Phoenix data center. [DC Knowledge] [DC Knowledge]
- Data centers will be manned by engineers sleeping in these pods during the Olympics. [Gizmodo] [Wired]
- Visa shows off data center "moat". [The Register]
- Understanding uptime and data center tier levels. [DC Knowledge]
- Scalable, virtualised, automated data center. [ipSpace]
- What's the true meaning of DCIM? [DC Knowledge]
- The build or buy decision is all about risk. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center build or buy: factors to consider. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center site selection factors. [DC Knowledge]
- Notes from the road: tearing down the silos. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center expansion: build or buy? [DC Knowledge]
- The Facebook data center project in Luleå. [DC Knowledge]
- How Cisco chooses data center locations. [DC Knowledge] [Cisco]
- Looking towards big, bold and broad data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Trends for 2012: data center design and operations. [DC Knowledge]
- World's data centers refuse to exit ice age. [Wired]
- Infographic: the ever-expanding data center. [ReadWriteWeb]
- GIF attached below: IS03103_Data-Center-Info-2011.gif
- The rise of the local data center. [ComputerWorld] [GeekZone]
- Global colocation: consolidation vs diversification. [DC Knowledge]
- Problems with Cat6A cables in data center. [EtherealMind]
- Rackspace: 'We want to be your OpenStack maniac'. [The Register]
- Lights-out data center? Why isn't everyone doing it? [Kip and Gary]
- Why Gigamon scares the crap out of me. [Evil Routers]
- Can open hardware transform the data center? [DC Knowledge]
- Video: Facebook's North Carolina data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Facebook to build massive Arctic data center in Sweden. [HardOCP] [Gizmodo] [THG UK] [Gizmodo] [DC Knowledge] [Coolest Gadgets]
- Facebook's Swedish data center will be subject to Snoop Law. [The Register]
- Video: 60 Hudson and the hidden Internet. [DC Knowledge]
- Microsoft data center design evolves in Iowa. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center fabric architectures (EuroNOG 2011). [IOS Hints]
- Data center design remains a key area of interest. [DC Knowledge]
- Discover the key to a more cost-effective data center. [Alcatel-Lucent]
- Data center connect solution. [Alcatel-Lucent]
- PDF attached below: HP-ALU_Cloud-Ready-Datacenter_EN_StraWhitePaper_RMK0591100801.pdf
- PDF attached below: HP-ALU_DCNC_solution-brief.pdf
- Rayburn: Akamai needs to evolve. [DC Knowledge] [Streaming Media Blog]
- Optimising data center design -- 7 best practices. [DC Knowledge]
- Video: Cisco's new Raleigh data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Gmail: greener than your email? [DC Knowledge]
- How the Skype deal can pay off for Microsoft. [DC Knowledge]
- Building cost-effective data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Just when you thought it was safe to enter the data center. [The Register]
- Video tour: Atlanta's 56 Marietta data center hub. [DC Knowledge]
- Building a greenfield data center. [IOS Hints]
- The 3 layers of data center management. [DC Knowledge]
- Google: at scale, everything breaks. [ZDNet]
- A look inside Amazon's data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Steve Jobs provides a look inside the iDataCenter. [DC Knowledge] [The Register]
- Video: Cisco's new data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Video: Google's data center best practices. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center fabric architectures. [IOS Hints]
- Video: inside Google's newest data center. [DC Knowledge] [Business Insider]
- How Facebook brings a new data center online. [GigaOM]
- Top 5 data center white papers. [DC Knowledge]
- Case Studies on Data Center Virtualization
- Power Monitoring for Modern Data Centers
- 2011 US Data Center Market Drivers
- Guide to Risk Mitigation for Financial Services
- Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
- Video: Google's data center security. [DC Knowledge] [WSJ ATD] [Business Insider] [The Register]
- Closer look: HP's Suwanee data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Photo tour of Facebook's new data center. [Scobleizer]
- Closer look: Next Generation Data's megasite. [DC Knowledge]
- Strategies to cut data center costs. [DC Knowledge]
- Facebook opens its server, data center designs. [DC Knowledge]
- Facebook unveils custom servers, facility design. [DC Knowledge]
- Open Compute project. [James Hamilton]
- Facebook open sources its servers and data centers. [GigaOM]
- Facebook's new data center: smarter, greener and doggone it, people like it. [WSJ ATD]
- Closer look: Facebook's Open Compute servers. [DC Knowledge]
- Building efficient data centers with the Open Compute project. [Facebook] [Facebook]
- Facebook's Open Compute project. [marco.org]
- Video: inside Facebook's server room. [DC Knowledge]
- Video: Facebook's 'penthouse' cooling system. [DC Knowledge]
- Video tour of Facebook's data center now up. [Scobleizer]
- Introduction to data center 3.0. [Network Janitor]
- PDF attached below: Introduction to Data Center 3.0.pdf
- Requirements for building today's data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- To the Death Star: tour of LucasFilm's data center. [DC Knowledge] [All Things Digital]
- How Japan's data centers manage earthquakes. [DC Knowledge]
- Criminals, critters cause utility outages. [DC Knowledge] [Pingdom]
- Making data center design more people-friendly. [DC Knowledge]
- Fabric computing: Gartner's view for the future data center. [Juniper]
- Facebook's expansion: how big, how fast? [DC Knowledge]
- Intel's datacentre strategy. [DC Knowledge]
- The Swiss "Fort Knox" data center. [DC Knowledge] [Wired]
- Inside Cisco's new Texas data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Five simple rules for transforming your data center. [DC Knowledge]
- How to prevent downtime due to human error. [DC Knowledge]
- Google & Facebook: a tale of two data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Ten unique data center designs. [DC Knowledge]
- HP unveils "butterfly" data center design. [DC Knowledge]
- Capacity planning at Internet scale. [DC Knowledge]
- A day in the life of a Facebook engineer. [DC Knowledge]
- Google: how we're making the web faster. [DC Knowledge]
- Video view: Google’s data center technology. [DC Knowledge]
- Juniper's "3-2-1" data center architecture. [Juniper] [DC Knowledge]
- Level 3 refines its content delivery network. [DC Knowledge]
- Facebook amassing data center space. [DC Knowledge]
- The world's largest data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Earthquakes and data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Building mission critical data centers. [DC Knowledge]
- Avatar, Hollywood and the data center. [DC Knowledge]
- Data center density hits the wall. [Computer World]
- The data-crunching powerhouse behind "Avatar". [DC Knowledge]
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Network Virtualisation
- The next network professional. [NANOG YouTube]
- Some boring network engineering interview questions and how to replace them with smarter ones. [NANOG YouTube]
- VNFs and containers: heptagonal pegs and triangle holes. [ipSpace]
- Making the dream of NFV a reality. [DC Journal]
- A guide to the key elements of NFV usage. [GazettaByte]
- Network Function Virtualisation - NFV:
- How useful is microsegmentation? [ipSpace]
- Software-defined data centers: VMware designs. [Network Computing]
- Virtualization in the WAN: where it's headed. [Network Computing]
- Hyperconvergence in the network. [Russ White] [ECI Telecom]
- Hyperconverged infrastructure: what companies should think. [DC Journal]
- What is a hyperconverged infrastructure? [ipSpace]
- 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]
- One third of AT&T's network is now virtualised. [DC Knowledge]
- L3 virtualisation and VRFs. [ipSpace]
- Deploying network virtualization in the enterprise. [Network Computing]
- Running BGP between virtual machine and ToR switch. [ipSpace]
- Server virtualisation slides. [The Next Platform]
- STP on virtual switches. [ipSpace]
- 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]
- 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]
- Do we still need subnets in virtualised networks? [ipSpace]
- Open platforms, open networks: the new IP. [ReadWriteWeb]
- VMs compared. [The Register]
- Hardware gateways in overlay virtual networks. [ipSpace, video]
- Purge all the firewall rules. [Network Inferno: part 1, part 2]
- How do I get started with SDN and virtualisation? [ipSpace]
- The pros and cons of Open Compute. [The Register]
- Availability zones in overlay virtual networks. [ipSpace, video]
- Overlay networking as a method to scale flow networking and handling. [EtherealMind]
- 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]
- Why Cisco is warming to non-ACI data center SDN. [DC Knowledge]
- Scaling overlay networks: the problem. [ipSpace, video]
- OVN brings networking function to OVS. [Network Inferno] [Network Heresy] [Open vSwitch]
- Implementing a zero-trust security architecture. [Network Inferno]
- Overlay virtual networks in software-defined data centers. [ipSpace]
- The network iceberg -- virtualisation. [Network Static]
- 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]
- Physical networks in the virtualized networking world. [Network Heresy]
- Virtual switch 101. [ipSpace]
- An introduction to Zero Trust virtualization-centric security. [Brad Hedlund]
- The DCK guide to the as-a-service revolution. [DC Knowledge]
- Complex routing in Hyper-V network virtualisation. [ipSpace]
- Is Open vSwitch control plane in-band or out-of-band? [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]
- An update on using GRE tunnels with Open vSwitch. [Scott Lowe]
- Network virtualisation and the end-to-end principle. [Network Heresy]
- Can OpenStack be saved from itself? [ReadWriteWeb]
- Don't leave network virtualisation to server admins. [Network Computing]
- OpenStack adds F5 as member. [The Register]
- The power of a consumable data center network design. [DC Knowledge]
- OpenStack Quantum (Neutron) plug-in: there can only be one. [ipSpace]
- What are the benefits of enterprise-level virtualisation? [Lifehacker]
- Migrating a cold VM into a foreign subnet. [ipSpace]
- Why is network virtualisation so hard? [ipSpace]
- Network virtualisation gets physical. [Network Heresy]
- 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 is a distributed firewall? [Brad Hedlund]
- Virtualisation acceleration in the real world. [DC Knowledge]
- Selling management on virtualised infrastructure. [DC Knowledge]
- Network virtualisation and spaghetti wall. [ipSpace]
- 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]
- Network virtualisation at TOR switches? Makes as much sense as IP-over-APPN. [ipSpace]
- Scale, SDN, and network virtualisation. [Network Heresy]
- What is network virtualisation? [Brad Hedlund] [ipSpace]
- Hyper-V 3.0 extensible virtual switch. [ipSpace]
- Open Compute will begin building network switches. [DC Knowledge]
- 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]
- Virtualisation: the next frontier. [DC Knowledge]
- Ericsson readies carrier-grade OpenStack for telcos and SPs. [The Register]
- Steps to protect your data center after virtualisation. [DC Knowledge]
- OpenStack isn't our saviour from lock-in or support costs. [EtherealMind]
- OpenCompute servers and the impact on networking. [EtherealMind]
- OpenStack 101: what is OpenStack? [DC Knowledge]
- Hyper-V network virtualisation (WNV/NVGRE): simply amazing. [ipSpace]
- The truth about virtualisation security. [Juniper]
- Virtual firewall taxonomy. [ipSpace]
- What exactly are virtual firewalls? [ipSpace]
- Monitoring virtual data centers: how to avoid the virtual blind spot. [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]
- 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]
- Security implications of virtualisation. [Juniper]
- First look: Hyper-V 2012 targets VMware's air supply. [Ars Technica]
- New ways to disaster recovery using virtualisation. [ReadWriteWeb]
- OpenStack gains global traction. [DC Knowledge]
- Designing scalable web applications. [ipSpace] [Scribd]
- Ex-Akamai man: stop being faithful to your CDN. [The Register]
- The great disk drive in the sky: how web giants are storing big -- and we mean big -- data. [Ars Technica]
Servers and Storage
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
Power / Energy / PUE
- Basics of selecting rack-mount PDUs and power strips. [DC Knowledge]
- 3-phase PDU solutions. [Server Technology]
- The basics of selecting rack-mount PDUs and power strips. [DC Knowledge] [DC Knowledge]
- Advances in UPS Technology for critical IT applications. [Network Computing]
- How Microsoft is keeping its cloud more efficient than your data center. [DC Knowledge]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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 / Airflow / CRAC
- Airflow management basics: economics of containment systems. [DC Knowledge]
- DC airflow basics. [DC Knowledge]
- GRC guide to DC cooling. [DC Knowledge]
- Facebook’s new DC cooling design means it can build in more places. [DC Knowledge] [The Register]
- 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]
- 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]
Modular / Container-Based / POD-Based Data Centers
Rack- and Cabling-Related Articles
- Increasing port density in DCs. [DC Knowledge]
- Avoiding cabling trials and tribulations. [Network Computing]
- What you need to know about Cat6A cables. [No Jitter]
- I won't be making Cat8 cables. [EtherealMind]
- Factors to consider when cabling a data center. [DC Journal]
- 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]
- 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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