How to kill the datacenter business
With an environment that lends itself to significant green datacenter potential, Iceland's dreams of becoming a datacenter mecca seem to have run afoul of the governmental bureaucracy.
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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Micro PUE - TMI for the datacenter?
Energy efficiency metrics are a moving target for the datacenter, but the value of drilling down deeply and creating narrowly targeted metrics is really hard to define
After Facebook, what's next for Greenpeace?
Coal bad. Got it. But what about all the other energy sources used in the datacenter?
The Containerized Datacenter; at the end of its 15 minutes?
Was the containerized datacenter a good idea, or just an evolutionary deadend for the datacenter?
How does a new datacenter benefit the community?
IT people know what a datacenter is and just what it takes to keep one up and running. But what do the local communities (and their politicians) competing for these new datacenters think they are getting out of the deal?
Does Geothermal Cooling Make Sense for your Datacenter?
It's cold down in the basement. Why don't we keep our servers there?
Random freeze problem chills Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows 7
Seeing some odd behavior with your Windows Server 2008 R2 installation? There might well be a good reason for it.
Purdue experience shows value of out of the box datacenter thinking
An off the wall thought to use capabilities already at hand saves millions of compute hours at Purdue University
What the Dell 3Par deal means to the datacenter
Does the "one stop shopping" experience make sense to the datacenter buyer?
Green power means greener computing, but is it enough?
Does "green" change your purchasing decisions?