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Michiel van Blommestein
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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…

Tagged: introductions

Replied Feb 1

 

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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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Every year, we hear much about what technologies are going to be 'hot' in the coming period. Most of those predictions miss the mark completely, either because it is based on hype, or a technology is suddenly overtaken by something much better. In a…
March 1
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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February 24
Darrell Reynolds commented on Michiel van Blommestein's blog post 'Joining IT and Facilities'
Being in the IT relocation industry, we are exposed to both sides of the house often. Several years ago, most moving was channeled through facilities groups. Lately, budget money for DC relocations is coming primarily through the IT folks. We are ev…
February 24
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Our American visitors might have heard this already, but last week Google has acquired federal approval for buying and, more importantly, selling energy in the United States. The company applied for this in December, and the Federal Energy Regulator…
February 22
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It doesn't really come as a surprise, but it is official now: Cisco and HP are partners no more. Reason for the break is that the networking giant wants to expand its business to all parts of the datacenter, not just the network. As Keith goodwin wr…
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I get to hear much about the death of journalism and my slim chances making a living out of my profession. So far, I am doing ok (although it is not always easy). In the same way, data center professionals could hear the same from their IT co-worker…
February 16

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Evaporative cooling in a nutshell

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

Posted on March 10, 2010 at 11:30pm —

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Cisco overdoes it again

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 so spectacularly that journalists are even more sceptical than before the press conference started. Instead, the focus switched to the fact that Cisco's hypervisor is Linux based, making the presenters sweat a little when questions came in about GPL… Continue

Posted on March 9, 2010 at 8:30pm —

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Novell buyout: coming storm in the IT world?

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

Posted on March 8, 2010 at 10:30pm —

Michiel van Blommestein

This Week's Round-up

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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Posted on March 5, 2010 at 10:46pm —

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