About two weeks ago, I mentioned the concept of 'Evaporative Cooling' in a blog post about the new Facebook data center, courtesy of Dutch magazine and DCP partner DatacenterWorks. This week the new issue came online, and it has a short article on evaporative cooling. It describes the variant built by Adsolair, and is written by account manager Frank Efdé of Menerga Klimaattechnologie. I translated the important part of t… Continue

I see Emerson Network Power in the data center sphere as I see Oracle in the IT-sphere. There are two things that make me connect those dots: once you get above a certain budget, both vendors are omnipresent in their respective fields, and both companies don't really believe in 'natural growth'. Both Oracle and Emerson buy whatever technology they need.

The most recent acquisition of Emerson Network Power is management vendor Avocent, for the whopping amount of 1,2 billion dollars. My f… Continue

Time to round up this week's list of blog posts.

10 'Dying' Data Center Technologies

Mike Karp of Ptak Noel and Associates has actually produced a list that I (more or less) can agree with. It is posted on the Enterprise Storage Forum.

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Normally, a software takeover has little effect on the data center world, as software functionality tends to be preserved and still work on the same hardware. However, if Novell gets bought, things might not be so simple.

Apparently, more than one party is interested in buying Novell, and now the hedge fund Elliott Associates have come forward and made an open offer to the Novell shareholders of one bill… Continue