Given Wall Street's insatiable need for computing power and the ever-increasing cost of energy, firms inevitably will deploy energy-efficient hardware and technology, such as virtualization. But to build data centers that will remain cost-effective for years to come, organizations including the NYSE and Citi also are focusing on how they power and cool their facilities.
Lately, NYSE Euronext has been thinking big. "Big," as in the length of three football fields -- the size of its new data center, located in Mahwah, N.J. The 400,000-square-foot facility is larger than a World War II aircraft carrier and includes room to expand for years after it becomes fully operational in the fourth quarter of 2010. As NYSE puts the finishing touches to the Mahwah facility, the exchange is simultaneously preparing to unveil another brand-new data center in Basildon, U.K., on the outskirts of London...
Melanie Rodier writes for Wall Street & Technology.
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