If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Not sure how to subscribe to a RSS feed? Read Subscribing to blogs the easy way. Thanks for visiting!I enjoyed creating planet network management so much I thought I’d do it again this time centred around data centers. Friends, I give you [...]
Everybody knows that one of the biggest consumers of electricity in data centre is the air conditioning system. There are two main avenues for reducing the cost of air conditioning, either make the air conditioning system more efficient so that it consumes less electricity, or remove the requirement to use so much air conditioning in [...]
The classic problem with facilities people running the air-conditioning systems.
[via The Daily WTF]
David Cuthbertson of Square Mile Systems was kind enough to demonstrate his AssetGen software to myself and Denis last week.
Once the data has been inputed into a CMDB like AssetGen all sorts of very impressive reports can be generated very quickly.
Implementing a CMDB involves a heavy up front investment because you have to manually enter [...]
Intel have carried out a limited pilot to find out how a data centre would perform without the usual data centre environmental controls [PDF].
The top and bottom of it was that the servers, over a nine month test period performed as well whilst exposed to regular none air conditioned air and limited air filtration as [...]
Working in the server room and busting for a pee? You need to install a toilet where it’s convenient…yes folks somebody installed a server room so that you’ve got to go through the women’s toilet in order to enter the server room.
Just think of all of the time you’d save not having to walk all [...]
The folks over at Pingdom spotted some great data centre cabling art.
Courtesy of Digital:Slurp.
Courtesy of ChrisDag. Looks like something off Star Trek
Courtesy of mbm3290.
Courtesy of Jeff Newsom. I wish our cabling looked like this.
Courtesy of tim d. Don’t like the look of the power cable though!
And of course there are some downright scary ones. [...]
We expect two main trends to continue to drive business throughout 2008:
Convergence — a lot of people not normally associated with computers and communications are being drawn in, most notably electricians working in the building industry. With things getting sticky in the housing market, it is likely that a lot of electricians will be looking [...]
The most interesting thing about technology change are the odd juxtapositions it throws up. If you’d asked me a few years ago who would be the leader in cloud computing, I wouldn’t have predicted that it would be Amazon.
Sure Amazon know how to run very large websites. How did they go from e-commerce pioneer to [...]
Interesting what Amazon is up to…first with cloud storage then cloud computing and now cloud databases. Is the art of data centre management going to be concentrated into a few massive data centres?
We currently rent a single Sun box, running Linux oddly enough, in a data centre to run all of our websites and email. [...]
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