September 2010 Blog Posts (5)

Understanding one's Competency

I would like to gathering questions from those in a managerial / senior engineering role in a Critical Facilities environment. Questions one would ask a technician who may be in the process of interviewing to determine background and experience in the building infrastructure arena.…

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Added by Frank Erceg on September 30, 2010 at 22:07 — No Comments

Invitation for partnership of our Data Centre Event in Hong Kong

As a technical and academic institution and our part of strategy, we are going to expand our network from Hong Kong to Great China and overseas.

We provide professional seminars to IT / Data Center Engineers / Facilities Managers. Our speakers are Chartered Engineers (CEng) who has more than 15 to 20 years practical experience in Data Centre engineering / facilities management / building services engineering / energy auditing. Some of them even possess solid…

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Added by Institute of DataCentre Engineer on September 27, 2010 at 9:19 — No Comments

Do I really need $1M to make my Data Center HVAC system smarter? ...

... Or is there a cheaper alternative?

The latest advent in data center cooling is intelligent networked HVAC systems. The HVAC systems are intelligently managed to allow remote sensors to provide feedback so that the HVAC…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on September 24, 2010 at 21:43 — No Comments

What You Really, Really Need: The Mother of all Data Center Monitors!

You may have asked yourself, “Why do I need another monitoring and reporting product if I already have five?” True, you most likely don’t need another monitoring product, but rather what you really, really need is a system to link these systems together.…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on September 1, 2010 at 1:00 — No Comments

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… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on September 1, 2010 at 0:06 — No Comments