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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

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… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on August 30, 2010 at 22:30 — No Comments

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,… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on August 28, 2010 at 1:00 — No Comments

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… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on August 26, 2010 at 23:00 — 2 Comments

Do Co-los & MSPs need Unified Monitoring & Measurement more than other Data Centers?

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Added by Robert Schmidt on August 25, 2010 at 16:18 — No Comments

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 is now fully resolved, and service has… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on August 24, 2010 at 22:07 — No Comments