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It’s Friday! We’ve made it to the end of the week. It’s time for our Friday caption contest. Take a moment to vote for the best caption.

Each Friday, Data Center Knowledge features a cartoon drawn by Diane Alber, our fav data center cartoonist, and our readers suggest funny captions. Please visit Diane’s website Kip and Gary for more of her data center humor.

The caption contest works like this: We provide the cartoon and you, our readers, submit the captions. We then choose finalists and the readers vote for their favorite funniest suggestion.

This week, we are voting. Scroll down and vote for the best caption for I <3 You cartoon. Thanks for voting!

For the previous cartoons on DCK, see our Humor Channel.

INetU will offer its full product portfolio of cloud and security services from its Seattle data center beginning in the spring of 2013.

Here’s a round up of noteworthy articles published by THE WHIR. Read the full story on thewhir.com:

Web Host INetU Adds Seattle Data Center to Boost Disaster Recovery

Headquartered in Allentown, PA, web hosting and cloud services provider INetU announced on Thursday that it has expanded its data center footprint to the West coast with the addition of a Seattle data center. The company, which has data centers on the East Coast and in Amsterdam, plans to provide customers its full product portfolio of cloud and security services from its Seattle data center starting in April, including its Gated Community Cloud service, private and hybrid clouds, and the INetU Security Suite.

Phoenix NAP Adds Dedicated Server Offering to Ashburn Data Center

Web hosting provider Phoenix NAP announced that its dedicated server offering, Secured Servers, is now available in its data center in Ashburn, Virginia.

Internap Survey Finds Organizations Want Cloud-like Control in Colo Environments

A new survey released by cloud, hosting and colocation provider Internap finds that IT organizations are looking for cloud-like visbility and control in their colocation environments. Internap says that the agility associated with cloud services will likely impact the way colocation services are managed and delivered over the next few years.

US Highest Spam Volume in the World: Eleven Email Security Report
A dubious honor goes to the United States being found the highest volume spam email in the world as compared to that of other countries. German email security provider Eleven released the Eleven Email Security Report February 2013, which signals the United States’ return to being the highest total spam volume in the world, followed by followed by India and Romania, respectively.

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One of the interesting facets of the open hardware movement is the potential to bring different approaches to common problems. We saw several different approaches to server chassis design at last week’s Open Compute Summit. An example can be seen in Dell’s latest generation of Open Compute hardware. On this video, Dell Solutions Architect Rafael Zamora demonstrates Dell’s C8000 Open Compute chassis (originally codenamed Zeus). Either 19 inches or 21 inches wide (Open Rack standard), it holds computational units and power units positioned vertically. The units are slotted in sleds and line up like “books on a shelf.” This enables either a single-wide or double-wide configuration and the ability to slide sleds out and “hot swap” drives, thus maintaining systems without powering down the entire server. Dell, which has a long relationship with Facebook, has been collaborating on the Open Compute project and working with Facebook since 2008. This video runs 5 minutes, 30 seconds.

For a comparison of other Open Compute designs, see our coverage of Facebook’s three-wide server design, and the rackmount designs from AMD and others.

For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.