The Data Center Knowledge staff conducted video overviews and walk-throughs of each of the four pre-fabricated modular data centers on display at The Uptime Symposium last week, including products from Active Power, IO, Digital Realty and Schneider Electric.

The Week in Review: A strategic acquisition boosts Equinix, Apple leads data center charge into solar, modular economics are front and center at the Uptime Symposium, and Emerson launches its Trellis DCIM software.

Facebook 's IPO will be good news to many of Facebook's employees and investors. But it also is a positive development for the data center industry, providing Facebook with lots of capital and motivation to wield it in ways that satisfy Wall Street analysts and the company's investors. And that...

Apple is doubling the size of its already-huge solar array at its data center in North Carolina, buying another 100 acres of land to house a second large installation of solar panels. The company said the expansion, along with its plan to use fuel cells from Bloom Energy, will allow it to supply 60...

Are modular data centers cheaper to deploy than traditional raised-floor data center space? Usually. But it's complicated. That's the verdict from 451 Research which studies the economics of modular designs and detailed its findings this week at the Uptime Symposium.

About 1,700 data center professionals and vendors gathered this week for the seventh annual Uptime Institute Symposium at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif. For highlights, see our special photo feature.

Today Emerson Network Power released its Trellis software, the company’s big bet on data center infrastructure management (DCIM). The global availability of the first four software applications for Trellis culminates a two-year development period.

What would an aircraft carrier look like when it's covered with an array of solar panels? The 2 megawatt solar array atop the DuPont Fabros Technology data center in New Jersey will give you an idea.

The Week in Review: Data center racks get wider and taller, Open Compute Project shakes up the server supply chain, OpenStack networking project moving ahead, no health threat from Quincy generator cluster.

The diesel generators at a Microsoft's data center present no health threat to residents of Quincy, Washington, an independent board found this week, affirming a ruling by state officials.