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News

• Power and Cooling in the Age of the 'Hypescale' Data Center

  With Intelligent Foundation, Emerson Power claims it delivers a more efficient, reliable, scalable and secure data center.

• Facebook-Led Open Compute Project Tackles Network Switches

  Speaking at Interop today, Open Compute Project Chairman and President Frank Frankovsky announces plans for a new open source project to develop a specification and a reference box for an open, OS-agnostic switch.

• Wisconsin blizzard vs. data center: How Marquette won

  Marquette University's IT department deployed unified communications tools to improve collaboration among faculty and staff - IT staff collaboration wasn't the priority. But as it turned out, Microsoft's Lync suite of voice, videoconferencing and instant messaging tools proved to be IT's life raft during a snowstorm-related data center calamity.

• VMware's private cloud computing vision

  VMware wants people to be able to access enterprise applications with the same ease and flexibility they enjoy from Facebook and Gmail. That is, on any device, without a thought about where the service originated.