TheStreet.com maintains more than a terabyte’s worth of data in various forms – articles, alert data, company data, and trad­ing data. While the online information service’s data store totals well into the terabyte range, the company’s data man­agers prefer to keep its data in a distributed format.
“We addressed the problem of having lots of lots [...]

Some of the major IT vendors have taken a new tact in competing for the heart and soul of the data center. They’re offering densely packed data centers-in-­a-box that literally can be rolled up to any corporate location. Could this be the answer to the burgeoning space and power requirements that are said to be [...]

Are data centers the new resource-draining ‘factories’ of the 21st century? It’s no secret that large data center operators such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon recently made strategic location decisions to position their lat­est data center construction projects within range of hydroelectric power, which is far cheaper and more abundant than traditional electricity from [...]