RRDC Adds Outside Air Cooling / On the outskirts of Denver, the Red Rocks Data Center (www.redrocksdatacenter.com) will now be cooled for more than 80 percent of the year by cool mountain air, after installing an air economizer that pulls in and filters outside air to cool customers' servers.
According to the company's Monday announcement, Morrison, Colorado-based RRDC, which provides managed IT infrastructure for colocatio ...
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Emerson Offers Efficiency Metric / Emerson Network Power (www.emerson.com), a business-critical continuity business, issued a new white paper on Tuesday that discusses how an industry-wide measure of data center efficiency is a crucial next step in addressing IT energy consumption.
The white paper, "Energy Logic: Calculating and Prioritizing Your Data Center IT Efficiency Actions," uses a placeholder metric to highlight the va ...
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The Planet Launches API / Dedicated and managed hosting provider The Planet (www.theplanet.com) announced on Tuesday the launch of a new application programming interface that will extend the management capabilities of Planet Alpha's dedicated hosting customers, particularly its reseller customer base.
According to The Planet's most recent announcement, the API will enable resellers to integrate features from the comp ...
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Amazon Launches CloudFront CDN / Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) has officially launched the public beta of CloudFront, a content delivery service that is integrated with other Amazon services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, fast transfer speeds and no commitments.
According to a company announcement Monday, CloudFront works seamlessly with Amazon's on-d ...
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FORTRUST Adds Security Services / Data center operator FORTRUST (www.fortrust.com) announced on Tuesday it has added a strong suite of information security services marketed as FORTRUST Managed Security Services, to its data center services portfolio which will be marketed as FORTRUST Managed Security Services.
The news follows the company's launch of its Fortrust Managed Services earlier this year, which enables customers to ...
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