Now your computer can forecast your expansion for you!

Aperture Technologies has launched a data center management system called "Vista Capacity Management," that measures resource consumption and can forecast future infrastructure needs. The program let managers gain insight into and predict the consumption of power, cooling, space and other physical resources, according to Aperture's CEO Bill Clifford. "Our USP is the workflow engine where stuff is tracked from start to finish," he said.

For example, a user will be able to predict that the facility will run out of space or cooling capacity within two years, and that action - such building a new facilty- needs to be taken.

As a side note, SearchDataCenter.com just published an article earlier this month called "Data center facilities managers are from Venus, IT pros are from Mars," (best title EVER) about the miscommunication within centers.

Ok, now that I have lifted that weight off your shoulders, here's a couple expansion highlights:

¥ Peak 10 Inc., a data center and managed services company, is expanding its Raleigh, NC data center by 42,000 square feet, brining it to a total size of 70,000--the largest in the region.

¥ ViaWest announced that it has acquired a 10,000-square-foot data center in Salt Lake City, UT, nearly doubling its service capacity in Utah, and has added Vehix.com to its growing portfolio of Salt Lake City customers.

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Sources: TechJournal South, Computer World, Aperture, TMCnet, Search Data Center