Data centers are still not being managed in the most optimal manner, analyst group IDC has warned, and the adoption of virtualisation has added yet another management wrinkle.

US gov. move to curtail proprietary trading may affect outcome of large bets stakeholders have placed on growth in the space. In the photo: Stanley Young, NYSE Euronext  

A major study by security stalwarts Symantec has uncovered a sizeable chunk of the global data center manager community feeling stressed by their workloads and saying their sites are suffering from poor planning.

As Q1 transactions are finalized, another firm likely to follow Facebook announcement

Space and power issues have led Dorset Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (DHFT) - a healthcare provider on England's south coast - to achieve tighter data center management without a full replacement by using virtualisation, allied with careful monitoring of power capacity.

State’s biggest IT service provider may have to stretch the limits of its remodeled data center

Company says the new facility, based on its dynamic infrastructure design principals, is a culmination of decades of experience it has had in building data centers around the world

Mega data centers planned in North Carolina, Quincy and Zurich, acquisitions get bigger as consolidation continues and data center put too close to rocket firing range

DatacenterDynamics welcomed 1,200 delegates to the UK's largest data center event

New capital funds build-outs, acquisitions, debt repayment

It boasts cheap energy, free and cheap cooling. The Invest in Sweden Agency has begun allocating resources to market the Nordic state as a good place to build data centers.

Provider in process of identifying root cause and pledges to follow through on SLA’s

While cheaper to buy, recycled water requires more chemical processing and big infrastructure investment

Unaffected by the rush to beef-up managed-services portfolios, CyrusOne remains focused on pure colocation

Competition in the space heats up with a new player's entry and growing industry interest

Gartner: no end in sight to the industry’s sorest spots

The lab’s data centers are quickly running out of room and government funding demands immediate deployments

IBM fellow Roger Schmidt PE, explains how the company used its own measurement and management technologies to drive costs down in its Poughkeepsie data center

Cisco IT bets heavily on virtualization and cloud computing as development and business units want more and more

EC2 executive says adjustments will be made to increase customer visibility into network traffic