June 2010 Blog Posts (32)

What Data Centers and Household Appliances now have in Common

(picture courtesy of treehugger.com)

Yes, it is a fact now: your data center is now comparable to fridges, washing machines and microwaves. In what way?

No points if you guessed right: data centers can now earn the Energy Star label as well. It is not very easy though, as…

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Added by Michiel van Blommestein on June 8, 2010 at 22:05 — No Comments

Energy Star for Data Centers - It's a GOOD thing!

http://blog.modius.com/modiusblog/bid/37276/Energy-Star-for-Data-Centers-Finally-a-report-card…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on June 8, 2010 at 4:42 — No Comments

A Huge Test of Cloud Automation Tools

At long last. For some reason, the trade magazines refrained from doing a thorough test of cloud automation tools. But to make the cloud worthwhile, they are definitely needed. The marketplace was maturing slowly though, and only now the larger vendors are coming up with serious automation tools.

Smaller vendors have been showing their tricks though, and now Network World has finally picked it up and… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on June 7, 2010 at 22:56 — No Comments

Data Center Network Economics Blog

Data Center Network Economics addresses industry issues: router vendor cost control; building better business cases; ICO, not TCO; The Business Case for Selling Products to Governments and Not-for-Profits:

http://www.datacenterecon.com/DCNE_Blog.html

Added by Lisa Huff on June 7, 2010 at 16:00 — No Comments

GreeningIT

Free to download e-book: Greening IT: How Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society.

Data centers, cloud computing and much more, take a look at…

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Added by Rien Dijkstra on June 7, 2010 at 0:08 — No Comments

How much better can it get? Data Center Energy Efficiency

http://blog.modius.com/modiusblog/bid/37181/How-much-better-can-it-get-Data-Center-Energy-Efficiency

I was flipping through the 2007 report to congress issued by Jonathan Koomey ("Report to Congress…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on June 6, 2010 at 17:44 — No Comments

For Those of You Tired of Being Accused of Planet Killing

Short post today. Does it bother you that you as a data center professional keep on hearing that you're being part of the blackest, most polluting industry around? And that, consequently, you are one of those greedy 'suits' for whom 'green' is just a PR tool?

If that is the case, Mark Thiele (CEO of Data Center Pulse) has written a blog post just for you. Read it, and… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on June 4, 2010 at 23:38 — No Comments

Data Center Cooling has many components...

http://blog.modius.com/modiusblog/bid/37126/Data-Center-Cooling-has-many-components

Just read about a new innovative way to address the cooling requirements within the data center worthy of mention here. As no surprise, the data…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on June 4, 2010 at 15:23 — No Comments

Data Center Monitoring: Out-of-Band versus In-Band

http://blog.modius.com/modiusblog/bid/37058/Data-Center-Monitoring-Out-of-Band-versus-In-Band

There was a time where x86 hardware systems and the applications and operating systems chosen to be installed upon them were…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on June 4, 2010 at 15:22 — No Comments

Don't let the Smart Grid Dumb Down

Whether it is good for average consumers is one thing, but the upcoming smart grid (in the US, and probably later in Europe as well) is going to be an interesting development for data centers as well. Even so much that it is not a utility thing anymore, but mainly an IT thing. That is further reinvorced by the fact that Vint Cerf is a member of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP).

However, the smart grid has one serious problem which other IT project don't have to cope with,… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on June 3, 2010 at 23:14 — No Comments

Massive Takeover earns Digital Realty New Record

Digital Realty Trust is quickly becoming the Oracle of data center space. Apart from the discussion if that's a good thing or not, the fact is that DRT is on one heck of a buying spree. Just like Oracle, 'organical growth' is just not in their dictionary.

Now, the data center facility giant has made one big sweep by buying all five of the 365 Main facilities for the sum of… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on June 2, 2010 at 22:44 — No Comments

"Climate Change Regulation the new Y2K"

Mike Manos, the data center world's answer to Security's Bruce Schneier, has been doing his stuff now for a couple of months at Nokia. Techtarget interviewed him, asking him about what he sees as the biggest game changers in the industry.

The biggest game changer, according to him, is going to be climate change regulations, specifically the… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on June 1, 2010 at 23:44 — No Comments