As I mention in my last post, we are bringing one of our nearly 50,000 lbs facility modules to the Uptime Institute Symposium being held in just a few days… Read more »
Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 Next Week
May 9, 2012
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In anticipation of the Uptime Institute Symposium next week, Matt Tavares and I put together a short video of the things we are most excited about and the main reasons… Read more »
Conspiracy Theories and Facts: AC versus DC update
April 17, 2012
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I thought it might be worthwhile to give an update regarding the ongoing debate of AC versus DC in data centers since I posted my last blog on January 30th…. Read more »
Great Hoaxes: Bigfoot, UFO’s, and DC vs. AC efficiency studies
January 30, 2012
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It’s remarkable that we continue to see what I consider pseudo-scientific ‘studies’ claiming that DC distribution is significantly more efficient than AC distribution in data centers. These ‘studies’ make the… Read more »
Where do metrics end and intelligent humans begin?
December 8, 2011
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I’m all for metrics, but at some point the need for an actual breathing human to interpret the metric is as important as the metric itself. PUE, WUE, ERE, DCcE… Read more »
Tech Vault Gartner Data Center 2011
December 1, 2011
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Next Monday I will be introducing Jay Fayette from Tech Vault at the Gartner Data Center Conference being held in Las Vegas. In anticipation of that event I wanted to… Read more »
Why data center management tools need to be more like social networks and less like the IRS
November 7, 2011
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I recently presented at the Gartner Symposium and during my preparation for the presentation I revisited some of the concepts I discussed in my “Where is the data in data… Read more »
Sporks Part II: How many tools do you need to manage a data center?
October 25, 2011
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In one of my recent blogs, I compared sporks (I HATE SPORKS!) and woodworking tools as an analogy to data center management software. You can find a link to that… Read more »
Pushing the Data Center Boundary Blog: Cloud Computing – Is it really just 80′s outsourcing by another name?
October 17, 2011
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Is it possible to be suffocated by a cloud? Because the hype around cloud computing is starting to make me feel like I’m suffocating. It seems that for the… Read more »
Pushing the Data Center Boundary Blog: Comparing Data Center Management Software with Sporks
October 10, 2011
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Sporks are awful – bad at being a spoon and bad at being a fork. I think there’s a good argument to say that many datacenter management software packages are… Read more »