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World's First iPhone App for the Data Center Industry!

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Phone application to connect the data center industry. This appears to be the first dedicated iPhone App for the data center industry and brings further exposure to iPhone users worldwide of the content you, our members, add to the network.

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Added by DCPNet Admin on May 24, 2010 at 9:09 — 2 Comments

Uptime INstitue Symposium 2010

Having just returned from the Uptime event in NYC I have to admit I saw so very interesting advances in monitoring software. In fact it appears that the monitoring software is merging with asset management software to create and extremely versatile tool set for the data center and facility managers. By merging the two software applications the ability to perform capacity planning in a real time mode is now available. In addition to the capaicity planning I saw some great examples of… Continue

Added by Michael Balles on May 24, 2010 at 6:25 — 1 Comment

Uptime Institute Data Center Symposium in New York was amazing!

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Just got back from the Uptime Institute's latest data Center conference held in New York City. In a…

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Added by Robert Schmidt on May 22, 2010 at 2:12 — No Comments

The Ever Lasting IT-Facilities-Management Conflict

In the world of data centers, the IT department, the facilities department and general management seem to be constantly at odds with one another. Each one has different goals, and different ways of doing things. This article on data center journal is the most recent one exploring this theme. The article links back to many… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on May 21, 2010 at 18:30 — No Comments

The Future of the Data Center is not Green, but another Colour

Would this been posted to Data Center Knowledge about one-and-a-half month ago, I would have ignored it. But as it is not 1 April, this is way to good to pass up: HP have done a study about utilising cow manure as a source for power. The paper can be found here, and here is a video where Chandrakant Patel from HP… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on May 20, 2010 at 23:26 — No Comments

The Westmere and GPU's make a Push

This year was bound to be a year of server refreshes, and in short succession HP and IBM have done just that. Respectively the HP ProLiant ranges and IBM System x have had an overhaul to take their servers forward another two years or so.

In both cases, the most important upgrade is the processor. The start of this year saw the release of the new Westmere architecture by Intel, and the big three can't afford to let the processor slip by. Its six cores (although four cores are still an… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on May 19, 2010 at 21:49 — No Comments

Multi-tenancy explained

Sreedhar Kajeepeta, CTO of Computer Sciences Corp., has written an column for Computerworld explaining the concept of multi-tenancy.

That concept really isn't all that much. It just constitutes the core of the whole cloud computing model.

While I can reproduce the article briefly in my own words, I don't think that's necessary. It is a quick read, comprehensible and it offers some examples. You can read it… Continue

Added by Michiel van Blommestein on May 18, 2010 at 23:28 — No Comments

Has SAS70/SSAE16 audit become a requirement to increase your co-location business?

Added by keith harrell on May 17, 2010 at 6:14 — No Comments

Sentient Machines in the Data Center?

I'm pretty sure sentience implies self-awareness, which is not quite what this is about, but still. Data center systems that can anticipate their own…