Equinix Is Productizing Flash Trading Computing Architecture


In his new book, Flash Boys, Michael Lewis directs his gleeful analytic spotlight on flash trading. True to form, Lewis tells a heroic story, in this case about how a team from Royal Bank of Canada...

Why Facebook, eBay Measure Power And Water Consumption In Their Data Centers


Cloud services companies like Facebook and eBay have a vested interest in making their data centers as energy-efficient and water-efficient as possible, not just because it makes for a good public...

Intel SDI: One Datacenter Architecture to Rule Them All?


I attended the Open Compute Summit last week in San Jose, where industry leaders in the scale-out datacenter industry gathered to discuss and attempt to get some kind of alignment on future...