CyrusOne Buys 22 Acres in Austin for Data Center Expansion

CyrusOne, a Houston-based data center operator, looks like it’s set to expand further in Austin. The company has announced the purchase of 22 acres in the MetCenter business park in Austin. The company currently has a 54,000 square foot data center there. Last year, CyrusOne bought 54 acres in San Antonio and Houston and it […]

The Open Compute Project helps data centers save energy and increase efficiency

By L.A. Lorek Data centers gobble up energy. But some of the smartest minds in the information technology industry want to change that. They are meeting in San Antonio today and tomorrow to rethink the old ways of putting together servers, power and cooling units and the rest of the guts of data centers to […]

Calxeda’s chips save data centers energy and space

By SUSAN LAHEY Special contributor to Silicon Hills News As startup stories go, Calxeda’s is pretty dramatic: Mobile tech expert Barry Evans cooks up the idea of trading energy gobbling data server chips with small, efficient mobile phone chips that only need a tenth the power. They’re built to conserve energy when their hardware is […]

HP uses Calxeda’s technology to power its servers

Calxeda introduced its high-performance low power semiconductors Tuesday to power Hewlett Packard’s servers. The Austin-based start-up held an event in Palo Alto to introduce its new products along with its partner HP. But in its hometown, employees, customers, analysts and others gathered to watch a live stream broadcast of the event and to celebrate. They […]

The PC market is growing, says Michael Dell at Dell World

The PC market is alive and well. “We don’t see PCs going away at all,” Michael Dell said Wednesday afternoon, during a question and answer session at a Dell World press and analysts event in Austin. “There are a billion and a half PCs in the world and that seems to me like a pretty […]