Archive for the 'Data Centre' Category

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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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One of the side effects of the recent RackSpace outage in their Dallas/Fort Worth data centre has been finding out just how quickly their data centre heats up when the air conditioning system fails.
Our backup generators kicked in instantaneously, but the transfer to backup power triggered the chillers to stop cycling and then to begin [...]

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Servers are getting faster and faster, consuming more and more power, producing more and more heat. Removing heat from the data centre uses even more power.
According to a November 2006 Gartner report, over 60% of total data centre power consumption is spent cooling the data centre environment.
Making the cooling system less power hungry would be [...]

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Facilities running the air-con in a datacentre has to be one of the classical IT anti-patterns. You’ve got your nice shiny datacentre, rows and rows of cabinets full to the brim with IT kit. Problem is, you don’t run the air conditioning, the facilities people do.
So what you say, the facilities people eat air-con [...]

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“Few have made the connection between IT efficiency and green compliance” so says Steve Nunn in The Green Room, BBC’s green issues series. But I’m not so sure. I have noticed a significant increase in awareness at least in the IT press of the need to reduce power costs particularly in the Datacentre environment, no [...]

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As promised in the Senturion announcement post, here is the link to the Senturion page. We’ve ordered the first batch and expect delivery next week.
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We are pleased to announce the Senturion rack temperature monitor. You’ve been asking for a rack mountable solution for a while and here it is.
Main highlights include:

1U 19″ rack mountable form factor, perfect for your data centre cabinets. Thin unit so it can be fitted behind other equipment to maximise your cabinet space;
Built-in temperature, humidity [...]

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