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IT Techs: Take Note of all Mergers and Acquisitions, For Your Own Good

It has been a hot summer on the tech front. The Dell-HP battle for 3PAR is still raging, Intel surprised everybody with their McAfee acquisition, and VMware and Citrix are very much in a buying mood as well.The chief question is: so what?Back when I was a journalist for Techworld, we were thinking about fazing out mergers and acquisition news in favour of practical tips for the workplace. Reason was very simple: IT Pros did not read (click on) stories about acquisitions. Somehow, they were not…See More
Sep 1, 2010
Michiel van Blommestein posted a blog post

Debunking the 'Community Benefit' Myth

How happy should a rural community be when a large corporation decides to build a data center there? Very happy, if we have to believe the local press. Large facility equals large investment equals jobs equals opportunities for the inhabitants, right?Not so, according to ZDNet's blogger David Chernicoff in a sharp clear post. The problem is that data centers tend to be designed in a way so…See More
Aug 30, 2010
Michiel van Blommestein posted a blog post

For your viewing pleasure: John Cleese

Just a quick post today before the weekend, and this one is based on something the Green Data Center Blog posted earlier today. John Cleese may be getting old, and I have seen him doing promotion for more than one tech company (so he is not the most independent of minds, so to speak). But in all honesty, the man is still a legend. The following clip is about creativity, but is…See More
Aug 28, 2010
Michiel van Blommestein commented on Michiel van Blommestein's blog post 'How Biofuel can Ruin your Availability'
"Thanks for your comment. Yes, I am aware of 'red diesel' and that this is used mostly in the Netherlands. However, I wonder how long this can still be legally used for data center gensets. Biofuel is getting more and more popular (not…"
Aug 28, 2010
Gijs Wuyts commented on Michiel van Blommestein's blog post 'How Biofuel can Ruin your Availability'
"Gensets are running mostly on heating fuel (stookolie- or mazout), which has no "bio"-composition in it's standard form. It's exactly the same product as commercial diesel, but with added colorant (red) and furfural for…"
Aug 27, 2010
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How Biofuel can Ruin your Availability

Big scare going around: more and more authorities are mandating biofuel for use in data center backup generators. While this is great in theory, it is less so in practice, as this article at Techtarget.To illustrate what is going on, let me tell you about my own experience with my car. I am driving a 1999 Toyota Diesel, which is the fuel the Dutch government hates the most (don't…See More
Aug 26, 2010
Michiel van Blommestein posted a blog post

How Biofuel can Ruin your Availability

Big scare going around: more and more authorities are mandating biofuel for use in data center backup generators. While this is great in theory, it is less so in practice, as this article at Techtarget.To illustrate what is going on, let me tell you about my own experience with my car. I am driving a 1999 Toyota Diesel, which is the fuel the Dutch government hates the most (don't…See More
Aug 26, 2010
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Microsoft Shows why the Cloud is still Flawed

Yesterday was a bad blue monday for customers of Microsoft's hosted business software in North America. A network failure disconnected them from their business productivity suites and hosted mail servers for over two hourse. To make matters worse, it happened at the start of the working day, when people actually DO read their mail and start planning the rest of the week."The outage was caused by a network issue that isnow fully resolved, and service has returned to normal. During theduration of…See More
Aug 24, 2010
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Tips for a Tidy Data Center?

I would be the worst data center manager in the world. The reason is very simple: I am very disorganised, and that is probably one of the worst traits to have when you are trying to run an IT facility. As I write this, paperwork is scattered all over my desk, there are countless of browser windows opened at the same time, and the cabling of my one desktop computer reminds me of the plate of spaghetti I ate today, If that is problematic for me, how hard would it be to organise a data…See More
Aug 23, 2010
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Aug 20, 2010
Michiel van Blommestein posted a blog post

Is AHSRAE overdoing it?

Nail, head, hammer, perfect strike? Or failing to hit the broad side of a barn? I just quickly wanted to point out to this article on the site of Data Center Journal. As the call for data center efficiency grows louder by more and more stakeholders (and even non-stakeholders), so does the call for regulation.The American Society of…See More
Aug 20, 2010
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New Brocade Facility Implements Own Innovation

Brocade has opened a new facility near their San Jose headquarters, reports DatacenterDynamics. And yes, it is all about drinking one's own poison. The vendor consolidated three R&D facilities into the new 5,000 sq ft data center, reducing physical footprint of its research labs by 30 percent and…See More
Aug 18, 2010
Michiel van Blommestein posted a blog post

New Brocade Facility Implements Own Innovation

Brocade has opened a new facility near their San Jose headquarters, reports DatacenterDynamics. And yes, it is all about drinking one's own poison. The vendor consolidated three R&D facilities into the new 5,000 sq ft data center, reducing physical footprint of its research labs by 30 percent and…See More
Aug 18, 2010
2 blogs by Michiel van Blommestein were featured
Aug 17, 2010
Michiel van Blommestein posted a blog post

Powering Servers with Waste Heat

Everybody here should know the concept of perpetual motion. Also, I can assume that it is known that this concept is purely hypothetical. That's too bad, because otherwise we might have had the perfect solution for data centers at hand: the perpetual motion of heat-to-electricity for servers, that again generate the heat.Applied Methodologies Inc. have explored this idea with a new design…See More
Aug 17, 2010
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Aug 13, 2010

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IT Techs: Take Note of all Mergers and Acquisitions, For Your Own Good

Posted on September 1, 2010 at 0:06 0 Comments

It has been a hot summer on the tech front. The Dell-HP battle for 3PAR is still raging, Intel surprised everybody with their McAfee acquisition, and VMware and Citrix are very much in a buying mood as well.



The chief question is: so what?



Back when I was a journalist for Techworld, we were thinking about fazing out mergers and acquisition news in favour of practical tips for the workplace. Reason was very simple: IT Pros did not read… Continue

Debunking the 'Community Benefit' Myth

Posted on August 30, 2010 at 22:30 0 Comments

How happy should a rural community be when a large corporation decides to build a data center there? Very happy, if we have to believe the local press. Large facility equals large investment equals jobs equals opportunities for the inhabitants, right?



Not so, according to ZDNet's blogger David Chernicoff in a sharp clear post. The problem is that data centers tend to be designed in a… Continue

For your viewing pleasure: John Cleese

Posted on August 28, 2010 at 1:00 0 Comments

Just a quick post today before the weekend, and this one is based on something the Green Data Center Blog posted earlier today.



John Cleese may be getting old, and I have seen him doing promotion for more than one tech company (so he is not the most independent of minds, so to speak). But in all honesty, the man is still a legend. The following clip is about creativity,… Continue

How Biofuel can Ruin your Availability

Posted on August 26, 2010 at 23:00 2 Comments

Big scare going around: more and more authorities are mandating biofuel for use in data center backup generators. While this is great in theory, it is less so in practice, as this article at Techtarget.



To illustrate what is going on, let me tell you about my own experience with my car. I am driving a 1999 Toyota Diesel, which is the fuel the Dutch government hates the most… Continue

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