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Modius and RF Code Form Data Center Efficiency Partnership to Bring Wire-Free Environmental Monitoring to Modius OpenData Solution

Although this seems as 'just another product announcement', there is also some kind of trend going on about joining sensors (facilities) with IT-kit. As mentioned here however, that combination is no…

Tagged: schmidt, robert, rfcode, modius

Replied Mar 1

Monitoring Framework Needed?

Would be great, but all those vendors and all those different metrics.. every single one of them wants 'his' standard to be THE standard. Not to mention that we would be looking at a whole set here.…

Tagged: Data, center, IT, Green, Usage

Replied Feb 8

Introduce Yourself

Hello all. My name is Michiel, and as you might have read, I am the new editor for this site. The guys behind all this contacted DatacenterWorks, a Dutch magazine that (as the title gives away) focus…

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The big issue - even with NABERS - is how to rate and measure the performance of your datacenter. It is not easy to define the production of a datacenter. Maybe OpenDCME is a good initiative (http://www.opendcme.org/) to solve this problem.
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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 e…
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I remember when I attended a Cisco press conference two years ago, at CeBIT, when that company introduced the QuantumFlow based ASR 1000. I can't think of any other company that tried so hard to create a hype around a piece of hardware, overdoing it…
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Michiel van Blommestein replied to Robert Schmidt's discussion 'Modius and RF Code Form Data Center Efficiency Partnership to Bring Wire-Free Environmental Monitoring to Modius OpenData Solution'
Although this seems as 'just another product announcement', there is also some kind of trend going on about joining sensors (facilities) with IT-kit. As mentioned here however, that combination is not everywhere as etched in management as at some pl…
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Data center security: a harsh but needed reminder

Again a good example of how vital data centers are nowadays. A breach of data center security three years ago at the Swiss branch of banking conglomerate HSBC has sparked a tax row between Switzerland and France. Thousands of HSBC-clients who relied on the Swiss secrecy could face charges of tax dodging.

So what happened? In 2006 and 2007 a former French IT employee of the bank, Herve Falciani,… Continue

Posted on March 17, 2010 at 9:29pm —

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Microsoft Dynamic Data center guide: Get it while it's hot!

Microsoft last week released the beta of its Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide for what the Redmondians call the Dynamic Data Center. Basically, it is a guide of best practices on how to best implement their idea of 'the perfect data center' on technical and decision making levels. It offers a 5… Continue

Posted on March 16, 2010 at 9:30pm —

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Mainframe monopolist IBM smells the fake grass

One of the more effective ways to attack an opponent is by setting up a website aimed squarely at them, bathing it in a sauce of seriousness and masking the bitter taste of underhandedness with a pretense of promoting 'open debate'. Many politicians (especially American presidential hopefulls) have tripped over tactics like these used by their opponents.

IBM has been on the receiving end of something like this recently. The action is centered in India, where a… Continue

Posted on March 15, 2010 at 10:00pm —

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Novell buyout: coming storm in the IT world?


Rumours are going around that Novell is on the buying shortlist of the giants of IT. An investment firm has come forward, uncovering a war which might have large implications for the data center world

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Posted on March 12, 2010 at 9:39pm —

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