The Technology Life

Best of Data Center Knowledge, January 2010
February 1st, 2010 : Rich Miller
The “Avatar” juggernaut continues to roll on, and interest in the blockbuster franchise clearly extends to the technology involved in its creation. For the second straight month, John Rath’s review of the specs for the Weta Digital data center powering the graphics rendering for “Avatar” was our most popular post in January. Other hot topics were Facebook’s announcement of its first company-built data center and performance issues at cloud computing services from Amazon, Salesforce.com and Rackspace. Here’s a look at the 10 most popular stories of January 2010, ranked by total page views:

The Data-Crunching Powerhouse Behind Avatar (Dec. 22)

The New Data Center Rack from … IKEA? (Jan. 21)

Amazon: We Don’t have Cloud Capacity Issues (Jan. 14)

Facebook to Build Its Own Data Centers (Jan. 20)

Iceland Gets Major Data Center Project (Jan. 18)

It’s Official: Facebook is Oregon’s ‘Company X’ (Jan. 21)

Will Google Energy Power Its Data Centers (Jan. 7)

Salesforce.com Hit By One-Hour Outage (Jan. 4)

Performance Problems for Rackspace Cloud (Jan. 14)

Fast-Growing Mozilla Adds Phoenix Data Center (Jan. 4)

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