Dan Tarkoff has been named vice president of sales, a new position within Middle Atlantic Products.
At Cisco Live, Schneider Electric announced plans to expand upon its existing relationship with Cisco to broaden its IT communications and data center energy management product offerings.
Heat dissipation is issue number one, but more-advanced access/security and software control are also coming as data centers push enclosures to their limits.
The comic duo Kip and Gary make a return in a new calendar from Communications Supply Corporation.
Courses are available for free and cover topics including Power over Ethernet, standardizing the data center, and raised-floor applications.
Association's leadership, including organizers of the Data Center World conference and expo, will remain in place.
Trends point to 40G switches being deployed much more quickly than their 1- and 10-G predecessors.
Latest report on projections and trends also says that more than three-fourths of data center traffic stays within the data center.
Study of six countries shows a 58:42 ratio for fiber and points to a growing trend of preterminated systems.
Blogger uncovers anomalies with direct attach copper assemblies and gets Cisco to admit they're against cables in the data center.
Among the numerical factolitos in the graphic: The amount of online commerce conducted over Cyber Weekend exceeded the entire economy of Bulgaria.
In a blog post, the company's technical marketing manager for enterprise data centers says the architecture is good for medium, large and mega data centers.
Grant Seiffert says we're aiming too low and should be aspiring to build a sustainable economy.
Upcoming presentation will address a range of PCIe-clustering issues critical to efficient enterprise data center server designs.
Author says the choice to go overhead instead of under-floor can produce energy savings of 24 percent.
Online presentation offered by the TIA Fiber Optics LAN Section features three technology experts.
Research from Dell'Oro Group says the market is moving toward fewer but larger equipment purchasers.
Article from cabling-product distributor Cableorganizer.com explains causes and preventions of the potentially harmful metal shards.
In a blog post, the company's technical director for the Asia-Pacific region questions the interest in and demand for a higher-speed twisted-pair specification over 7A.
Founded by InfoComm and CompTIA, the STEP Foundation fills a void not addressed by LEED and other 'green building' rating systems.
BICSI-002 recommends at least 63 percent cabinet-door perforation. But is more always better?
White paper from APC by Schneider Electric explains the 17 different types of economizer modes and compares their performance.
Upcoming Data Center Alliance event aims to provide a single source of information addressing today's most difficult data center challenges.
Obvius Solutions provides systems that can be used for smart metering, energy data info, load management and LEED rating achievement.
Emerson Network Power will be displaying its Trellis platform and presenting an executive speaking session addressing the next generation of data center infrastructure management systems.
Intertek set up eight different fiber-channel configurations using OM3 and OM4 fiber.
Rubicon's new Technical Services Group considers the mechanical, electrical, architectural, and energy requirements of data center projects.
How expensive can an unexpected power surge in the data center be? The State of Washington has found out.
10-GbE use in data centers, campuses and carrier networks led to sequential growth in 2Q11, according to Dell'Oro Group.
Building Information Modeling played a key role in a new NASA building achieving LEED Platinum status.
This is not the first time the VoIP provider has encountered network service difficulties.
Plaintiff Henry Gifford accused USGBC of false advertising and deceptive trade practices.
One-page paper from Siemon has a simple message: There are long-term risks associated with short-length data center cabling systems.
Between 2005 and 2010, electricity consumption by U.S. data centers increased 36 percent rather than doubling as the EPA had predicted.
Samsung Semiconductor and Dell will co-host the intensive one-day forum for senior IT executives.
New report analyzes key trends and drivers shaping the federal IT market as it undergoes technology and budget-driven transformations.
Test equipment will help define systems that ultimately could be deployed in data centers.
Emerson Network Power announced that its Liebert XDC refrigerant chiller is now available with the Liebert iCOM controls to improve monitoring and better manage cooling in the data center.
Dell says it is committed to maintaining and growing Force10’s data center channel program.
LightCounting says charging content providers for bandwidth-hungry apps like video may become necessary.
Amphenol says it intends "to fill a void in the marketplace" with its new Active SFP+ cable offering.
When it comes to making the most of a facility, why not examine the actions of the world's largest players?
In addition, Brocade's San Jose headquarters has been awarded the USGBC's LEED Gold certification.
Microsoft MVP expert delves into troubleshooting physical host server and memory issues encountered in virtualized data center environments.
San Diego's Enteracloud has announced itself as a provider of cloud computing services based on Microsoft's cloud platform, along with disaster recovery and colocation infrastructure services for enterprise level networks.
Routing, cooling and MACs are addressed in three online presentations.
As the partnership’s first project, Samsung has deployed RiT's PatchView IIM system in one of Korea’s largest convention and exhibition centers.
In 20 years as an employee-owned company, CPI has increased sales 1,000 percent and expanded to eight locations.
Hydrogen fuel cells will provide 64 hours of backup power to the data center in SCTE’s headquarters in Exton, PA.
The Tile-Gx 3000 series of data center integrated circuit (IC) chips includes a 100-core model optimized for use in cloud computing servers.
Company says the funds will go to further developing LAN-on-motherboard and Ethernet switching technology.
PCIe as a box-to-box interconnect for data centers using parallel optics will enable a wide variety of applications such as server, storage and GPGPU clustering.
VI Systems GmbH (VIS) demonstrated an optical link operating a serial transmission at a data rate of 12.5 Gbit/s over 1 km distance using Draka’s flagship MaxCap-OM4 (50/125 µm) multimode fiber.
Three more facilities earn the label, but one other chooses not to be listed for security reasons.
Existing data centers have to be upgraded for the stringent demands of virtualization, finds a study conducted by Brocade and McAfee.
Google’s message at its second data center efficiency summit was simple: green technology results are attainable by any IT manager.
Tour is designed to help Cisco VARs gain a deeper understanding of the current data center landscape and resulting opportunities.
Company says its row-based containment cooling system achieves ultra-efficient high-density cooling while keeping water lines off data center floor.
Spanning a geographic region from Atlanta to Vancouver, the seminar will be held in movie theaters and include a panel of subject-matter experts.
Based on information from data centers that had unplanned outages, the cost-per-minute average swells above $5,000.
Marketing alert: Commscope -- in collaboration with Rittal -- is now pitching its "Living Infrastructure" philosophy to data center operators.
EPA says few facilities have reported enough energy-use data even to be rated.
The company remains in the high-speed networking game with its SFP+ and 10GBase-T server adapters.
Data center tax deduction of up to $1.80 per square foot now available to owners or tenants of commercial buildings and designers of government-owned buildings who invest in Eaton's products.
Server problems in a data center located in Virginia left several companies offline for days.
The distributor has announced several key executive appointments within its sales and marketing department to help drive its continued growth.
Journalists were given a tour of the new facility's server room and cooling systems.
"Goodbye big iron and raised floors," is the mobile data center infrastructure provider's motto.
Preterminated OM4 assemblies support 40G beyond 800 meters - 5 times the standard-specified distance.
Construction costs, airflow and ceiling height are all considerations to take into account.
Market report says data center managers' 'copper mindset' is one factor holding back widespread AOC deployment.
Lee specializes in mission-critical data center services including remote monitoring command centers and on-site critical facility operations.
Industry veteran Chris Crosby has been appointed president and CEO of Data Center Systems, a provider of structured cabling infrastructure for data centers.
Analyst says we're just a couple years away from a time when most businesses will support a tablet-driven workforce.
Produced by Fluke Networks and available from Graybar, the guide offers a pictorial view of the many areas in a data center that require some form of testing.
Presentations will cover multimode-vs-singlemode as well as bend-insensitivity and high-density connectivity options.
FiberMedia invites applicants to tell their stories and request specific services.
Systimax 360 Ultra-high Density (UHD) Fiber Solution now incorporates multiple LC pass-through panels as well as splicing capabilities.
States were ranked based on their per-capita square footage of green buildings.
Servers, routers and other network equipment will be tested for heavy traffic and security attacks.
New reference materials from Emerson Network Power focus on critical need to address a wider range of environmental issues for greater data center efficiency.
Document from CommScope defines the nebulous term 'cloud computing' then ties it to another buzzword, virtualization.
Deputy Commissioner of the Social Security Administration decries an underfloor-cabling rat's nest.
40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet data center presentations will be delivered at upcoming Ethernet Technology Summit.
An online questionnaire asking about existing infrastructure is the basis for a data center cooling plan.
AOC revenue and volume will be fueled mainly by InfiniBand in commercial applications such as supercomputers for critical financial industry usage, according to IGI's 2011 Active Optical Cables Market Report.
DesignCon 2011 demonstration showcases breakthrough data center performance over backplane and cables.
New data center technology aims to speed up cloud adoption while lowering costs and environmental impact.
Strategic thinkers, analysts and practitioners to address "disruptive technologies" impacting the data center industry.
Verizon Communications is eyeing a 160-acre parcel of land 1 mile north of Laramie, Wyoming as a possible site for a massive data center.
GE has announced a $520 million offer for Lineage Power Holdings (Plano, TX), a specialist in data center AC-to-DC power conversion.
Companies also agree to work together to develop cables serving 25-Gbit/sec and higher data rates.
Seminars show how financial institutions added capacity, extended infrastructure life.
Available for download from Graybar, the guide discusses administration classes, identifiers and label durability.
Telehouse America has partnered with Future Tech Enterprises Inc. to offer the Data Center Anywhere service, which is guaranteed to be "fully rated, self contained, air and water tight, energy efficient, reusable and 'green'."
Infonetics Research says a new round of data center upgrades is underway, driven by virtualization, surging amounts of data, the growing need for storage, under-investment in 2009, and renewed life in the financial sector.
Services address communications, computing, control, security and power needs.
Carbon Usage Effectiveness (CUE) and the upcoming Water Usage Effectiveness (WUE) join the widely-used Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric.
More than $19 billion forecasted to be spent by 2014 on server hardware in support of virtual machine applications.
10 Gigabit Ethernet and data center switches continue to drive most of the revenue growth in the Ethernet Switch market, says Dell'Oro Group.
