Is a 100% green datacenter practical, or even plausible?
100% renewable energy sounds great. But when you start to do the research the picture is much less clear.
Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter
David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.
David Chernicoff
With more than 20 years of published writings about technology, as well as industry stints as everything from a database developer to CTO, David Chernicoff has earned the term "veteran" in the technology world.
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As PCiE 3.0 becomes the datacenter server standard, storage vendors look forward to being able to make use of the increased bandwidth.
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Nordic European countries team up to test the feasibility of remote supercomputing
Dell provides Internet2 computing power & collaboration
Dell's cloud services make an early play on Internet2
HP Powers the AMD cloud
AMD works with partner HP to revamp their datacenter implementations and networking infrastructure
Microsoft datacenters: the fecal matter has hit the rotating blades
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