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Thursday, Jun 24, 2010
Michael Bullock
TDS Unified Monitoring Service
Before virtualization, understanding the inter-dependencies in a typical network environment was fairly straightforward. A connected with B connected with C. With the proliferation of virtualization,... Read More
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Michael Bullock
AFCOM recently suveyed 436 member data center sites on eight of the hottest topics ranging from Greening and Data Center Consolidation to Performance Monitoring and Cyber Terrorism.
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Friday, Apr 30, 2010
Michael Bullock
Think IT and facilities operating in silos is last year's problem? In some cases, it may actually be getting worse.
Last year I wrote Four Reasons to Get Facilities and IT on the Same Page . At the time, I was surprised by how little IT... Read More
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Wednesday, Apr 7, 2010
Eric Kraieski
Markley Group Boston has invited over six thousand attendees from New England to their 2010 Data Center event at One Summer Street. TDS, Cisco, APC, Gilbane and some 60 other companies are sponsoring this event. Principal consultants from TDS... Read More
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Thursday, Mar 18, 2010
Michael Bullock
Computation Fluid Dynamics - Hot topic at Data Center World
Congrats to AFCOM for another fine event! More than 800 IT and facilities attendees converged in Opryland last week to learn the latest best practices for data center design and... Read More
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Monday, Feb 15, 2010
Eric Kraieski
Latest PUE Standards News from Green Grid The Green Grid recently announced agreement by global world governments on using PUE as the primary measurement of data center efficiency: "A group of global leaders met on February 2, 2010 to... Read More
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Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009
Michael Bullock
Welcome to the hybrid world. I've hardly been alone in my skepticism about cloud computing and my belief that public cloud computing for the enterprise is not ready for prime time. But I’m sensing a general global warming on the subject. And... Read More
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Friday, Dec 11, 2009
Michael Bullock
Let's you and I do a little math about the National Security Agency's planned $1.5 billion data center.
Reading about the National Security Agency’s (NSA's) plan to build a $1.5 billion cyber security data center (Information Week) at... Read More
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Tuesday, Oct 27, 2009
Michael Bullock
What you don't know can hurt you...
If you're in the market for new or additional data center space, I have some advice that can help you make better decisions, save money, and avoid some lurking pitfalls.
For example, a company found... Read More
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Friday, Oct 2, 2009
Michael Bullock
With data center operations, equipment maintenance, staffing and licenses consuming the lion's share of today's IT budgets, companies can gain a great deal by optimizing their current operations.
Given the current recessionary environment,... Read More
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Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009
Steve Gunderson
If you'll be moving your servers to a new location during the next couple of years, I have some advice for you: Before you buy more servers and storage systems from your current vendor, find out what impact a relocation will have on your warranty... Read More
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Thursday, Aug 6, 2009
Eric Kraieski
Openbravo is developing a new User Interface to be introduced with release 3.0 in late 2010. Follow the links below to get a sneak peak at these enhancements. View the Openbravo 3.0 Part 1 Design Concepts (Master Detail) tutorial below: ... Read More
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Monday, Jul 20, 2009
Michael Bullock
I’m going to stay away from the global warming and climate change debate; it looks (for now) like that train has left the station. Instead, I’d like to focus on the potential tax exposure created by "Cap and Trade” as it relates to the data center.... Read More
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Wednesday, Jul 8, 2009
Eric Kraieski
This is a "must read" for anyone who designs, builds, operates or maintains data centers.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed this 2007 Report to Congress on Data Center Energy Efficiency in response to Public... Read More
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Friday, Jun 26, 2009
Michael Bullock
Understanding and improving power usage effectiveness (PUE)
At a recent CIO / CFO conference, I saw why so many executives tune out when the topic turns to green IT and why they fail to make the "no-brainer" decisions that would immediately... Read More
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Thursday, Jun 18, 2009
Michael Bullock
In the U.S., it takes weeks to count ballots. Not in Iran. The answer must be cloud.
The recent Iranian election demonstrates the mind boggling power of cloud computing, social networking, and the role technology can play to improve the... Read More
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Thursday, Jun 4, 2009
Michael Bullock
I absolutely believe green is good. Unless it's being used in a misleading, manipulative or self-serving way.
I feel like the world is stuck in some kind of mash-up of the movies Wall Street and Groundhog Day . It’s an unsavory mix of... Read More
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Michael Bullock
Maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part but I really believed that the Berlin Wall between IT and facilities had been torn down a long time ago and that in corporate America these groups were generally aligned. Okay, maybe IT and facilities... Read More
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Tuesday, Apr 28, 2009
Emad Omar
Is it just me or did anyone else ROFL when they learned about the pending Snoracle merger? On one hand, you have a company (Sun) that pioneered and embraced open source (UNIX, Java and MySQL). On the other (Oracle), you have something more along... Read More
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Monday, Apr 6, 2009
Michael Bullock
With all the bad news about the economy, rising unemployment, corruption in high places and mind-boggling billion dollar bailouts, wouldn’t it be great to read about something positive once in a while? Taking the direct approach, I Googled... Read More
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Monday, Mar 23, 2009
Michael Bullock
The role of PUE, DCiE and new performance metrics
According to the EPA ’s 2007 report to Congress on server and data center energy efficiency,the two largest consumers of electricity in the data center are the support systems (50% of total) and... Read More
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Friday, Mar 6, 2009
Michael Bullock
Data centers are widely recognized as energy hogs. By 2011, they are expected to account for 3 percent of all U.S. electricity consumption, according to the EPA . Not surprisingly, the government has identified the data center as a great place to... Read More
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Monday, Mar 2, 2009
Eric Kraieski
Read Green Data Center Article View Green Data Center Slideshow In February, Network World published a nice piece on the Internap data center in Sommerville, MA. Here are the first few paragraphs:
"Companies looking for a green... Read More
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Thursday, Feb 26, 2009
Michael Bullock
I recently attended a ribbon cutting ceremony for Internap's newest data center in Boston. Besides receiving a $453,000 rebate for power efficiency from NSTAR (the largest NSTAR ever handed out), there were several other significant... Read More
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Friday, Feb 20, 2009
Michael Bullock
If you’re running out of power, cooling or physical space in your data centers, pay attention. Not to the snake oil hype promising to solve all your problems, but to the Power-Density Paradox. If you don’t, it could ensnare you in an unappetizing... Read More
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