As promised, at the Data Center Professional Network we want to feature you, the community members from time to time. Our very first interview for the Data Center Professional Network takes us to the United States. Austin, Texas, to be more exact. Harold Gilchrist has been a member since last March.…



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Every once in a while, someone comes up with a neat little marketing gimmick. It always is commercial as hell, and gets old really quickly. But it will get a smile on your face the first time you see it.



Our network manager today added a nice little video to the site coming from Isilon Systems, a NAS storage firm. In it, some chap gets what appears to be a tour from an... enthusiastic... IT guy in the Isilon data center. The guest then pulls something off, and the reaction of the IT… Continue

Save More, Use Less, and Earn the ENERGY STAR

Did you know that a building or manufacturing plant can earn the ENERGY STAR label just like your refrigerator? An ENERGY STAR qualified facility meets strict energy performance standards set by EPA and uses less energy, is less expensive to operate, and causes fewer greenhouse gas emissions than its peers. Energy use in commercial buildings and manufacturing plants accounts for nearly half of all energy…

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Global research by Sterling Commerce reveals that IT managers are wary about the IT vendor landscape and are re-thinking their B2B integration strategies to make the most of opportunities as we come out of the recession. While the majority of the 600 senior IT decision makers questioned (78%) believe the recession is at least half over, 41% are re-thinking their B2B integration strategy due to uncertainty in the B2B integration vendor landscape.



Just over…

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I'll keep this short: they had Mike Manos, they had Dr. Bob Sullivan and in the ongoing series of interviewing some of the data center world's most influential minds, TechTarget adds another big name to the list. This time,… Continue

The IT industry has focused a tremendous amount of attention to the concept of 'GREEN' over the past 5 years. Many of the players, both IT vendors and consumers of IT gear alike have created GREEN Officers or Sustainability Czars, and even whole organizations that focus on 'greening' a company or a product strategy. Green is timely and exciting and…

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Our Dutch partners have published a new issue of DatacenterWorks, their magazine aimed at people like, well, you. As most of you know, it is in Dutch and therefore unfortunately not very intelligible for the most of you. However, this month's cover story is rather interesting. It features a new computerroom for MTV, which serves the broadcasts in a large part of Europe.



So what is so special about it? Two things. Firstly, the whole room was built in a mere 2 months, which is very fast… Continue

No regular post today, but a small announcement. A while back I had the idea of interviewing members of this network and putting the results on this page. Well, recently I finally followed up the idea and began to send some mails. The reason is that we are just that: a community. And getting to know

each other is part of that. Don't worry, everyone who is not interested

is still free to lurk away here.



Some of you have already replied, so I am happy to tell you that as of… Continue

When Red Hat acquired KVM, it was either going to be a top or a flop. When they did that, VMware and Microsoft were battling each in a sometimes embarrassing competition of 'who has the biggest'. Citrix is barely hanging on, while other competitors just could not keep up in the years of these virtualisation war.



Everything depended on Red Hat finding some kind of niche for the KVM technology. It seems they found it:… Continue

It seems that TechTarget are on a roll when it comes to interviewing industry heavyweights. A week ago, they spoke to Mike Manos. This week, they got hold of 'Dr. Bob' Sullivan, the man who stood at the cradle of the hot aisle/cold aisle cold aisle design almost twenty years ago.



Now hot/cool aisling is almost standard, even though mr. Sullivan is frustrated about the fact that not all new… Continue