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Michael Hendriks, Thorsten Punke and Ward van Beek joined The Data Center Professionals Network
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With PUE there seems to be an emerging standard metric for power usage of a data center. The calculation of the PUE is a problem. This is from my perspective due to (with all respect to involved parties) the immature market; bottom-up design, stove…
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Hi John the answer is quiet simple: It is maybe working if you follow all guidelines and instructions which are mentioned by some vendors or in standards such as TSB 155. In the real world, all channels have to be certified and tested including AN…
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Michiel van Blommestein

Cisco set to launch 'alternative to pseudo-wires'

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

Posted by Michiel van Blommestein on February 8, 2010 at 11:04am

Michiel van Blommestein

DC efficiency: what to count anyway?

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

Posted by Michiel van Blommestein on February 5, 2010 at 12:35pm

Rien Dijkstra

Shortage in power supply

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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Posted by Rien Dijkstra on February 5, 2010 at 9:14am

Michiel van Blommestein

Shrinking the DC even further

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

Posted by Michiel van Blommestein on February 4, 2010 at 12:30pm

 
 

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