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The Top Mistakes in Data Center Operations

Over at the Green Data Center Blog, Dave Ohara draws attention to a white paper by Lee Technologies that claims to point out the ten worst mistakes… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 23, 2010 at 23:23 — No Comments

Measuring Cooling, Step by Step

Short post today. Wesley Smith, Director of Operations for Tier IV facility FIBERWORLD, has written a short step-by-step guide on how to measure the effectiveness of your cooling. It is posted to Data Center Journal.

Frankly, it is kind of basic and most of it should be standard fare… Continue

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

Measuring Cooling Step by Step

Short post today. Wesley Smith, Director of Operations of Tier IV facility FIBERTOWN, has drawn up a little step-by-step list on determining how effective your cooling is. He did so for Data Center Journal.

Frankly, it is not very comprehensive while most of the points he mentions… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 22, 2010 at 22:52 — No Comments

A Small List of Fire Suppression Products

It is one of those systems that you hope you would never have any use for. And even if it shows its use, you curse the day that it was needed. I am, of course, writing about fire suppression systems.

If poorly chosen, the fire extinguisher can be more devastating than the fire itself. I mean, I would not like a sprinkler system hovering above my home pc, let alone that a manager would like one looming over his super critical servers.

Good thing there are lots of alternatives… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 21, 2010 at 23:04 — No Comments

Is the Crisis over for Data Centers? Survey Says...

...Not yet. That is basically what the annual Purchasing Survey Report conducted by TechTarget says. The survey is conducted last spring and has more than a thousand respondents, nearly all of them in the United States.

First the somewhat good news: even though a massive 20 percent of data center managers say they are facing budget cuts, that is down from 40 percent last year. 46 percent… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 20, 2010 at 23:19 — No Comments

OpenStack: The LAMP for the Cloud?

Today saw the official announcement of OpenStack, an open source cloud platform from Rackspace. It basically consists of two parts (for now that is): object storage and a compute pack.

For now, all we get is early code of the compute pack. But just in terms of potential impact, OpenStack could actually be quite significant as it is aimed at a very broad industry base and it is completely open. So my question would be: could OpenStack be for the cloud… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 20, 2010 at 0:19 — No Comments

List of Companies of the Network Members

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Added by DCPNet Admin on July 19, 2010 at 22:51 — No Comments

Finally: A Standard Way to Measure PUE

They waited for the hottest months of the season (that is, on the northern hemisphere), but a taskforce led by The Green Grid has finally laid out plans to come to a standard way to measure PUE. They have published their proposal in this white paper. As things stand, this is the proposal for stand alone data centers, not computer rooms… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 16, 2010 at 22:40 — No Comments

Colt's Modular Build

Ever since Microsoft popularised the concept, modular (or: containerised) data centers are very popular. While they might not be as efficient in the long run as a fully customised data center, the time saved makes it well worth it.

Beside Microsoft, more and more vendors are championing this design principle. IBM, HP and Google join the Redmond giant in embracing this idea, in which modules are just chucked inside an unused facility. They even claim nowadays that they can sport PUE's… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 15, 2010 at 22:30 — No Comments

THIS is What You Need to Earn an Energy Star

We have a winner. A month after the program came into effect, the first Energy Star has been granted to a facility. NetApp's RTP datacenter in North Carolina is the first that can slap the logo behind the reception desk.

This particular data center was opened a year ago, and is used by the storage vendor for R & D

The facility scored 99/100 points. Here are some of… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on July 14, 2010 at 22:00 — 1 Comment