Data centers as infrastructural in‐betweens:

Meteorology as Infrastructural Globalism

This chapter explores the history of a global governance institution, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), from its nineteenth-century origins through the beginnings of a planetary meteorological observing network, the WMO’s World Weather Watch (WWW), in the 1960s. This history illustrates a profoundly important transition from voluntarist internationalism, based on shared interests, to...

InfraWatch: Data Management of Large Systems for Monitoring Infrastructural Performance

This paper introduces a new project, InfraWatch, that demonstrates the many challenges that a large complex data analysis application has to offer in terms of data capture, management, analysis and reporting. The project is concerned with the intelligent monitoring and analysis of large infrastructural projects in the public domain, such as public roads, highways, tunnels and bridges. As a demo...

Critical Utility Infrastructural Resilience

The problem of security and dependability, or generically speaking, resilience [1] of Internet-oriented infrastructure systems, such as web server compounds, is reasonably well understood. Although it is not completely mastered (for example, denial of service is still a research subject), it is receiving adequate attention. However, such is not the case with the problem of resilience of critica...

Energy-Efficient Data Centers

Green Data Centers

The widely adoption of the novel Internet services of the last decade, e.g., web 2.0 services, cloud services, and cloud computing, modified the structure of the whole Internet ecosystem. Contrary to the earlier disperse structure, where each service had its own server to be operated on, the infrastructures of the current cloud services are highly centralized; numerous services are run by a sin...