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The TOP stories of 2009: September
Microsoft's Dublin data center gets official opening, Xerox buys Affiliated Computer Services for $6.3 billion, new networks to transform data centers


Build
Microsoft opens Dublin mega data center
5.4 MW site gets official start

Equinix to pump $100 million each into data centers in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley 
Greenfield investment

Data center provider raises $100 million
Investment Canadian by arranged

IBM to build modular data center for AAA
Project will allow client to consolidate from four data centers into one

Brazilian mining giant to centralize global data centers
World’s largest Iron ore firm signs HP to consolidate 43 data centers to three main sites

TV studio converted into data centre
Data halls evolve at the site that gave us the Eurovison Song Contest

U.S. government to slow data center build-out by leveraging more cloud services
Federal CIO announces new cloud-based service for agencies, outlines White House cloud vision


DCD FOCUS: Thompson Reuters embraces Virtualisation

Interxion officially announces Eur12 million Dublin data center investment
As exclusively revealed by DatacenterDynamics two weeks ago, Interxion is building a second Dublin site

Ontario data center to get $58 million expansion
Aecon Group joins forces with Turner Construction for 110,000 sq ft expansion

Five firms win contract to consolidate Australian government’s data centers
Project spurred by 2008 review, projecting consolidation to save $1 billion over next 15 years

Corporate
Xerox buys Affiliated Computer Services for $6.3 billion
Stock and cash deal for business process outsourcer and data center operator

Dell buys Perot Systems for $30 per share NASA to release RFP for data center consolidation contract in October
Services firm valued at $3.9 billion, but fate of Ross Perot Jr remains unclear

Technology
Higher- and faster-than-ever trading to transform data center networks 
NYSE Euronext’s Bach puts things in perspective

Dell stokes UPS market with 28 model launch
Amid its latest server announcement the company powers up


Tanuja Randery of Colt discusses her plans for the business with DatacenterdynamicsFOCUS

Unshielded copper cable fails tests with 10GBASE-T cards
Cabling manufacturer recommends using Augmented Cat 6 cabling instead

EPA to use Energy Usage Effectiveness to benchmark data center energy efficiency
Energy Star certification to be determined based on energy, rather than power

Film substrate solar cells used in new data center power system
Two Japanese firms develop new data center monitoring, cooling, power solutions

Emerson to release new data center rack PDU’s
Two of the three new products emphasize remote monitoring and controls

Trends
Outsourcing: Profiles & Trends
Power as a factor in outsourcing demand CA moves into power monitoring in the data center
Software giant unveils Tesco as a client for its ecoSoftware and extends functions into power system measurement


Padmasree Warrior of Cisco told us why we will all move to the Cloud

Few data center operators concerned with measuring and managing energy use
Less than 10 percent of respondents to Gartner survey consider “green procurement”

U.S. government awards contract to develop, implement federal cloud computing strategy
eGlobalTech wins contract to help federal CIO realize his vision

Asia
EMC to triple its investment in the Indian market
Vendor expands its Indian R&D and global serivce facilities

Links to other top stories from 2009: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, November, December.
 
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