PUE Grows Up
With the new additions to the PUE metric the Green Grid has an effective tool for measuring energy efficiency of your datacenters
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.
Latest Posts
Introducing the Datacenter Appliance
Microsoft takes the IT appliance concept to a new level with the Azure private-cloud-in-a-container announcement.
Can AT&T's datacenter plans save the iPhone?
AT&T takes concrete steps to improve its network. So what does this mean to the iPhone?
Wikimedia's Datacenter Failures Should be Taken to Heart
Repeated downtime should be your first clue that there is a problem with your datacenter strategy
Standard makes network virtualization a trill
Virtualization of the network infrastruture is an important step in future-proofing the datacenter.
Cisco continues to enhance Data Center 3.0
Cisco continues to drive their vision of the datacenter while continuing to upgrade their bread and butter hardware offerings.
FaceTime WasteTime?
FaceTime users could potentially suck up valuable network bandwidth. But only if the technology is worth using.
Red Hat and Cisco Unify Virtualization; HP goes for the desktop.
While Cisco leverages Red Hat for the server market, HP takes Red Hat to the desktop.
New Datacenter Guidelines from BICSI
BICSI's guide to datacenter design best practices offers an overview and a starting point for major datacenter projects.
What's Your Datacenter IQ?
While the changes in datacenter technology are obvious to IT, how much of that imnformation has made it to the people responsible for the business processes? Agility and flexibility in the way that the datacenter can now respond to business requests can be an important differentiator.