Big announcement coming up this week from Cisco. The network giant is set to unveil extensions for many of their switches and appliances (Nexus and Catalyst among others) which employ a new technology called Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV).

To be honest, I haven't heard of this technology yet. It is an addition to NX-OS, Cisco's switch operating system and adds new interconnect f… Continue

Running a data center is all about running as many machines as you want using as little resources as possible. That is the basis of 'Green IT' as well, although that is more of a marketing tool than something that managers actually use to determine if their DC is run in the right way. Efficiency counts as a business factor, but when are you being 'efficient'?

The Green Grid, a consortium of vendors including Microsoft, IBM, Intel and APC (… Continue

We maybe take electrical power supply to the data center for granted but the power transmission networks can be a bottle neck (a.k.a. Critical Areas for Transmission Congestion). But apart from studies in the U.S. are their other studies available for other parts of the world?

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I mentioned the containerised, portable datacenter in my post about Mike Manos. It so happens that HP has released an even smaller version of their Performance-Optimized Datacenter (POD) earlier this week.

The original… Continue