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The green PUE monster
My fellow Datacenter Pulse (DCP) colleague Mark Thiele wrote a good article on the use of PUE in the datacenter industry. He basically argues that you should look at the TCO of the datacenter and have...
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Where is the open datacenter facility API ?
For some time the Datacenter Pulse top 10 has featured an item called ‘ Converged Infrastructure Intelligence‘. The 2012 presentation mentioned:Treat the DC infrastructure as an IT system; - Converge...
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Before you jump in to the DCIM hype...
You’re ready to enter the great world of DCIM software and jump right into the hype ?Do you actually know what you need from a DCIM solution ? What are your functional requirements ?So before you...
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DCIM - Its not about the tool; its about the implementation
So you just finished your extensive purchase process and now the DCIM DVD is on your desk.Guess what; the real work just started…The DCIM solution you bought is just a tool, implementing it will...
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Google's BMS got hacked. Is your datacenter BMS next ?
A recent USA Congressional survey stated that power companies are targeted by cyber attacks 10.000x per month.After the 2010 discovery of the Stuxnet virus the North American Electric Reliability...
View ArticleWhere is the rack density trend going ?
When debating capacity management in the datacenter the amount of watts consumed per rack is always a hot topic.Years ago we could get away with building datacenters that supported 1 or 2 kW per rack...
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The need for datacenter education in emerging countries.
I recently had the privilege to travel to some of the emerging datacenter countries like Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East, Africa and some of the Asian countries.While I was impressed with the...
View ArticleEE-IAAS – call to join IAAS energy research
The cloud market is hot. The IAAS market sees a lot of growth and new IAAS providers seem to entering the market on a daily basis. Enterprise IT shops are exploring the usage of public cloud solutions...
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My move to SDL
It’s the weekend before the holiday season and just like last year I find my self at an US airport making my way home… just in time for Christmas.Sitting at the airport lobby, listing Christmas songs,...
View ArticleGerman companies ask for Internet border patrol.
In the last year multiple companies started serving German customers out of Germany based datacenter locations.There seems to be a specifically strong sentiment around security & privacy with...
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