Scenes from DataCenterDynamics DC
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Home Events Scenes from DataCenterDynamics DC Scenes from DataCenterDynamics DC September 2nd , 2010 Rich Miller This week’s DatacenterDynamics Washington DC 2010 conference focused on public sector data centers , which was a timely topic as the Obama administration’s effort to consolidate the federal government’s 1,100 data centers hits a key transition point this week . For a photo feature of key speakers and panels , see Scenes from DataCenterDynamics DC Slashdot It Add Your Comments Name required Email will not be published Website Comments required RESOURCE : LINKS DataCenterKnowledge Companies 365 Main APC Akamai Amazon Cisco CoreSite Digital Realty Trust Dupont Fabros Eaton Emerson Network Power Equinix EvoSwitch Facebook Fortrust Google Hewlett-Packard Horizon DCS Hosted Solutions
Home Featured Now Where Did I Put Those Tiny Servers Now Where Did I Put Those Tiny Servers September 2nd , 2010 Rich Miller A scale model of the Power House container from Active Power , which houses mechanical and electrical equipment to support either portable or traditional data . centers The expo floors at last year’s Gartner Data Center Conference featured the Battle of the Data Center Containers as the trade show floor was framed by three 40-foot containers from IBM , SGI and HP . But it’s not always easy lugging 30 to 40-ton containers around , and not all trade shows have space to accommodate them . To adapt , vendors are shrinking the container to fit on a . table-top At Tuesday’s DatacenterDynamics Washington DC event , both HP and Active Power displayed scale models of their
, Home Facebook Greenpeace , Facebook the Media Megaphone Greenpeace , Facebook the Media Megaphone September 1st , 2010 Rich Miller An architectural rendering of the new Facebook data center planned for Prineville , . Oregon None of the major facts have changed in the ongoing controversy in which Greenpeace International has objected to Facebook’s energy sourcing for its new data center in Oregon . But the environmental group managed to grab a fresh round of headlines today when a Greenpeace executive wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg restating its existing grievances . Greenpeace’s objection : Facebook’s new Oregon data center , which has been designed to be highly energy-efficient , will receive its power from a local utility that uses coal to generate the majority of its
: Home Cooling Back to the Future : IBM’s Liquid-Cooled Mainframe The Cooling Channel is brought to you by : Opengate Data Systems Back to the Future : IBM’s Liquid-Cooled Mainframe September 1st , 2010 Rich Miller For the first time since 1995, IBM has begun shipping a water-cooled mainframe as noted over at ComputerWorld Big Blue will now offer a version of its huge zEnterprise mainframe , which was introduced in July that uses a water-cooled heat . exchanger Whenever data center managers debate liquid cooling and they do it’s noted that IBM once used water to cool its mainframes , with relatively little resistance from end users . It’s actually kind of back to the future , 8221 IBM distinguished engineer Jim Porell told Patrick Thibodeau , noting that the water-cooled zEnterprise 196
DataCenterKnowledge’s Rich Miller wrote a good post on Google’s Chris Malone presentation at Uptime Institute in Apr 2009, and Daniel Costello’s calling for a Data Center Glasnost. Microsoft, Google and Data Center Glasnost April 16th, 2009 : Rich Miller Chris...
Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login The Recent Data Center Outage in Virginia Wednesday , September 01, 2010 4:44 AM View Comments Usually data center and IT news coming out of Virginia is pretty positive construction , jobs , that kind of thing . This past week , though , a major outage in a facility used by the state to house servers for government services has crippled important agencies like the Department of Motor Vehicles , and the situation doesn’t look like it’s improving too . quickly It’s getting a little grim , in fact , with the governor now requiring that an inquiry be made and an outside agency determine whether the contractor whose facility suffered the outage owes the
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Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Dell’s New Open Data Center Image Saturday , August 28, 2010 7:16 PM View Comments The Register makes a very good and pretty funny point about Dell’s recent reinvention . With all their recent acquisitions here in the general San Francisco Bay Area , Dell is developing a decidedly West Coast . flair Between buying Scalent , Ocarina Networks , and KACE , all Bay Area Silicon Valley-based companies , it looks like Dell is definitely making progress towards a new conception of data . centers One of the most admirable things about Dell right now is devotion to an open system in which all kinds of third-party components can be used with Dell’s systems .
Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login The World’s Greenest Data Center Thursday , August 26, 2010 4:55 AM View Comments First of all , its nickname is Merlin . Second , it’s supposed to be the greenest data center extant . These factors place CapGemini’s newest venture high on the list of coolest data centers as well as . greenest So , say the industry average PUE is about 2.5 Merlin’s is just 1.08. The Reuters news article doesn’t go into as much detail as one could wish about how exactly this exemplary PUE is sustained , but it does discuss the cooling technique which is a part of it all , and more information is available at ZDNet The data center was built in a recycled facility , a
Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Purdue’s Solution to Overheating Data Centers Tuesday , August 24, 2010 3:31 AM View Comments Apparently simply slowing down IT equipment in the data center solves the problem of the equipment overheating in all this summer . heat Outages at universities can be especially catastrophic since some research projects that their facilities are working on may require continuous processing , and an outage can completely reset the whole . affair Cooling in these facilities is pretty reliable , but in the intensive summer heat many data centers are at risk , especially as global warming heats things . up The technique Purdue specialists have developed to take
: . Home Blog Services Knowledge Base FAQ Migration FAQ Data Center Terms FAQ Testimonials Partners Newsletters About Us Contact Us Press Login Data Center Energy Management : Sensors vs . Software Saturday , August 21, 2010 10:24 PM View Comments Interestingly , Viridity Software , based in Massachusetts , reckons it can provide a more affordable solution to data center energy management than the typical use of sensors . The startup has raised 8 million in funding to market this software-based management system they’ve . developed The software would cost just 500 per rack to implement , and would provide important information about server performance and power usage , so data center operators can sort out which servers are using more energy than they ought to be and which are being