What's the state of the modular market? Five years after the debut of the Blackbox, we look at who is using modular data centers, the potential market, and what the analysts foresee for the future of modular design.

Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the infrastructure that powers its social network, which now serves more than 845 million users a month around the globe. The company spent $606 million on servers, storage, network gear and data centers in 2011, and expects to spend another $500...

Cisco (CSCO) announced it has updated its switching portfolio with 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) and 40 GE capabilities, the next speed limits for networking. These new capabilities provide a holistic architectural approach across campus, data center and service provider environments.

SeaMicro has adapted its many-core server design to work with Intel Xeon micro servers, significantly expanding the type of workloads that can run on the company's low-energy servers.

The number of objects stored on Amazon Web Services' S3 storage service tripled in the 12-month period between the final quarters of 2010 and 2011. Amazon S3 now stores an amazing 762 billion objects.

IO's new factory serves as an assembly line for modular data centers, and the back-end of the company's effort to reshape the face of the data center market. We take a look inside.

Week in Review: Google spent $951 million on data centers in the fourth quarter, upgrading a landmark NYC data hub, Facebook dealing with tax issues in Oregon, NTT buys NetMagic to enter India market.

As DCIM continues to gain traction and funding, Intel is building a key role in this emerging business. While known primarily for processors, Intel's innovation extends to middleware like Data Center Manager, which captures real-time information on servers' energy use and temperature and packages...

60 Hudson Street, which has a grand history as a cornerstone in the development of America's communications infrastructure, is undergoing a complex upgrade of its power and cooling infrastructure to expand the data center space in the building.

Google invested nearly a billion dollars in its Internet infrastructure in the last quarter of 2011, recording capital expenditures (CapEx) of $951 million. The increase is likely tied to a significant expansion of the company's global data center network.