Cloud Computing: Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 6

July 7, 2013 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from DataCenter Knowledge.  Author: Rich Miller.

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.  The Immersion Data Center: The New Frontier of High-Density Computing – Geoscience specialist CGG has filled an entire data center with tanks of servers submerged in a liquid coolant similar to mineral oil. Here’s a look at this unique data center in Houston and its implementation of immersion cooling technology from Green Revolution Cooling.

Rackspace Bringing Hybrid Cloud to CERN – Rackspace Hosting has been pushing the hybrid computing message, and CERN is kicking the tires. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, will be relying on Rackspace’s Open Hybrid Cloud to help it discover the origins of the universe…

Apple Planning Solar Farm in Reno – Apple is planning to build a solar farm next to its planned Reno, Nevada data center. The solar farm will eventually power the data center as well as provide power to the nearby community…

Read more from the source @ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/07/07/top-5-data-center-stories-week-of-july-6/