Once you cut through the marketing chatter, which borders on incomprehensible, it is apparent that they are offering to use their 400, 000-square foot data center in Mahwah, NJ and another large center in the UK to provide co-lo services for trading firms and invite in application providers such as analytics.

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Rob Gardos, chief executive of GridApp Systems, a company that helps automate the deployment, configuration and management of databases, says that one large data center he encountered took 18 months to fully install an Oracle quarterly security patch across the enterprise.

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Intel also provides a product called Intel Data Center Manager (DCM) which allows software solution providers to manage power and thermals for large groups of servers.

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