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April 10, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 10, 2014

Data Centers and the Entertainment Industry is the Perfect Rom-Com

Data centers become increasingly important in the digital-entertainment age… Hollywood is the land of glitz and glamour, the ‘Home of the Stars’ and where the majority of movies and TV are created, produced and filmed. While data centers might not […]

April 8, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 8, 2014

Seattle to Use Data Center Power to Warm Buildings

Seattle has come up with a great way to use heat from data centers… Seattle, WA has come up with an ingenious idea to wipe away some of the carbon footprint that goes along with running a data center. Officials […]

April 4, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 4, 2014

NASA Goes Open-Source, Wants You To Build Your Own Moon Rover

I’ve always wanted to build my own satellite orbiting software… Space is vast, but the world of space exploration is about to get a lot more open…sourced. NASA has officially decided to release all of its software code for all […]

April 3, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 3, 2014

Long Live Servers: Why Peter Coffee and Gigaom Are Full of It

I applaud his gusto… Recently on Gigaom, Peter Coffee of Salesforce.com wrote an article entitled ‘RIP, the server. It’s time to breathe the air of cloud connection’. You can read it here. As a guy who writes wordy headlines and […]

April 2, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 2, 2014

DDoS Attack Map Shows Realtime Cyber-attacks

Ever want to see a visual map of cyber-attacks? Sure you do… We talk a little bit about security, keeping safe online and how to keep your data secure in the case of a threat. One of the major threats […]

April 2, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 2, 2014

Greenpeace Gives Out A Bunch of F’s for Data Center Energy Grades

Uh oh, these data centers’ parents are NOT going to be happy… Data centers are some of the biggest energy hogs, no doubt. Renewable, sustainable and green energies have been coming to the forefront of data center power grids recently, […]

April 1, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on April 1, 2014

Best April Fool’s Day Pranks 2014

Don’t believe everything you see. Today or ever. Mostly today, though… Today is April 1st, which means its April Fool’s Day, which means every thing you read on the Internet today is probably a lie. But at least they’re entertaining […]

March 31, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 31, 2014

What You Can Learn from Healthcare.gov’s Failures

Healthcare.gov went down this morning to the surprise of nobody… If you were one of the millions of people trying to sign up for healthcare under the ACA this morning, and you tried to use Healthcare.gov, you probably still haven’t […]

March 31, 2014

Published by The Colocation America Staff on March 31, 2014

Data Center Protest Raises Questions About Power

Protests about a data center in Newark might affect facility design in the future… A recent trend in data center construction and design for larger facilities is to implement on-site power generation—building what amounts to a small power plant that […]

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