Tag Archives: server rack

February, 2010

• 12 February

  Instead of expanding outward, data centers build up

  With data center space in high demand lately, facilities are doing everything they can to expand. This now includes building upward, with providers switching from the conventional 42U server racks to nine-bart tall 58U racks– allowing 25% more servers to be placed in the same area. According to Hossein Fateh, …

July, 2009

• 16 July

  Prototype allows for creation of iPhone data center

  In June, a free piece of software called ServersMan launched that lets any iPhone or iPod Touch be used as a web server. Its maker, a Japanese company by the name of FreeBit, wants to go even further, unveiling a prototype today for an iPhone server rack. The rack holds …