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WoW fans turn philanthropists by donating server blade auction proceeds to charity
Some swear by World of Warcraft as if it were like a religion or nation for them. That’s where the auctions of originals and firsts matter. In this case we have the server blades of the first server to house the World of Warcraft server. There are 2,000 server blades that will be up for…
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World’s business servers processed 9.57 zettabytes till date
Ever notice how looking closely into the working of things that play an important role in our day to day lives leaves us thoroughly amazed, like say, the food processing done at McDonalds and such? Well, here’s another one of those amazing events that took place three years ago, with just about all of us…
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Belkin introduces 19-inch Widescreen Rack with slimness and portability
If accessing your rack is a real boil then you need to get hold of Belkin’s latest. This brilliant rack controlling station is slim, has 19-inches of LCD widescreen to monitor your work and adds a keyboard so that you can take control of things as well. The screen has an adjustable rail design that…
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Cisco faces competition, finally, from Juniper’s QFabric tech
Cisco’s network solutions have done the world a load of good and are continuing to up their effort but their dominance as the world’s finest may not last long if Juniper live up to their tall claims. The relatively smaller company is now rivaling with a network solution that is faster, cheaper and simpler, as…
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Seagate introduce 2.5-inch Constellation.2, 1TB Enterprise Hard Drive
Seagate have unveiled their awesome new Server-specific, enterprise hard drive. The 2.5-inch storage device will have a total capacity of 1TB. Called the Constellation.2, the drive can be used by small to medium businesses as well as large enterprises that have dense data storage requirements. It can be used to store data in directed attached…
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Video – Inside the Google data center
Last week Google provided an inside view of its data centers at the Google Data Center Efficiency Summit. Its amazing how the search giant has surpassed all when it comes power efficiency and speed. The presentations included a video tour of a Google data center, which showcased the companys use of shipping containers to store…
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Would you still apply for the network admin job?
So when are you upgrading to Cat6? [Image via Spiegel]
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Server room at the most unlikeliest of places
Jen Frickell’s company had to shift from the second floor to the first as their suite’s lease had ended. Everything was relocated but there was a small problem, the server room built at the back of the office could not be relocated. So the server room had to stay on the second floor. Obviously, the…
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Data centers warming the planet
What do you think are the big internet companies doing when they say they are going green? One single Google search query consumes 2 to 8 watt-hours of energy. To put this on a scale, Google processes petabytes of information on a daily basis while indexing the web and doing other various things. If we…
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Hot Air Expelled from Data Centers to heat Swimming Pool
In a very innovative initiative to recycle the hot air generated from servers and communications equipment in an office, a new computer center in Switzerland is going to funnel the hot air next door to warm the local swimming pool. The town pool in Uitikon, Switzerland, outside Zurich, will be receiving the waste heat from…
