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A Data Center That Mimics A Mansion
January 20, 2012: Rich Miller
A luxury homebuilder in Minnesota wants to build a data center that appears to be a mansion, allowing the commercial building to fit into a residential neighborhood. The facility would be used by FiberPop, a broadband content provider. Read More
Industry Perspectives: Blue Hawk, Online Tech
January 22nd, 2012 : Colleen Miller
Here's a look at the Industry Perspective thought leadership columns that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this week, including columns from Bruce Lichorowic of Blue Hawk Networks and Mike Klein of Online Tech. Read More
Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Jan. 21
January 21st, 2012 : Colleen Miller
The Week in Revew: Nemertes sees coming shortage of enterprise colo space, hosting firms join SOPA protest, a data center that looks like a mansion, Amazon releases cloud database, outage at Equinix impacts Zoho's apps. Read More
Equinix Outage Means Downtime for Zoho
January 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller
A power outage Friday morning in an Equinix data center in California caused downtime for a number of customers, most notably Zoho, which experienced hours of downtime for several of its web-based office applications. Read More
Friday Funny: Cartoon Caption Contest
January 20th, 2012 : Colleen Miller
Happy Friday, everyone! It’s the new year and our cartoon data center pros are thinking about New Year’s resolutions. Take a look and submit your caption. Read More
Piston Releases Private Cloud Based on OpenStack
January 20th, 2012 : Colleen Miller
Many industries must rely on private cloud to meet their security and compliance needs. Piston Cloud Computing release the first open source enterprise OS for private clouds based on OpenStack. Read More
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Industry Perspectives
AICPA Fumbles Audit Standards at the 5-Yard Line

MIKE KLEIN
Online Tech

19 Jan 2012 : Industry Perspectives
Audit standards for data centers are weak and poorly used, says Mike Klein of Online Tech. The new audit reports, SSAE 16, SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3, meant to substantiate data center merits, are leaving the entire market dazed and confused. Read More
Closing the Gaps in IT Management Tools

BRUCE LICHOROWIC
Blue Hawk Networks

17 Jan 2012 : Industry Perspectives
The need to streamline and provide cloud IT services, as well as extensive monitoring and management, remains and will grow, according to Bruce Lichorowic. CEO of San Jose, CA-based Blue Hawk Networks. Read More