August 18, 2008 3:59 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
data center coolingJeremy Porter, Senior Internet Data Center Architect at data center and managed services provider Core NAP, has developed a very low-cost thermal monitoring system for the company’s newest data centers. Porter has bussed a system of low-voltage thermal sensors together over Cat5 cable. The...
August 14, 2008 9:28 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data Center Metrics,
DataCenter,
Green data centerUptime Institute executive director Ken Brill warned panelists at an online seminar today to be wary of very low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratios touted...
August 8, 2008 9:01 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
Data Center JobsThere has been a significant slump in the IT job market recently. InfoWorld (via Slashdot) is reporting...
July 31, 2008 4:41 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
data center cooling,
DataCenter,
Green data centerInternet search company Yahoo partnered with wireless data center monitoring startup Synapsense to tune its hot-aisle/cold-aisle configuration, implementing cold aisle containment strategies and...
July 24, 2008 3:36 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
DataCenter,
Green data centerBy way of Data Center Knowledge is this video on IBM's green expansion of its data center facility in Boulder, Colo. The video is of IBM's grand opening of the expansion last month. A...
July 23, 2008 9:39 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
capacity planning,
Container Data Center,
DataCenterThe HP Performance Optimized Data Center (POD) is essentially a me-too product, following on the heels of Sun's Project Black Box and Rackable's ICE cube. But a recent post from Gordon...
July 23, 2008 3:19 PM
Posted by: Matt Stansberry
capacity planning,
data center consolidation,
DataCenterOregon is facing a data center crisis. A recent audit found that the state botched a $63.6 million state data center consolidation. While the auditors turned up several flaws -- the biggest one seems to be that the new facility is already running out of room!
According to a recent
July 18, 2008 8:05 PM
Posted by: Mark Fontecchio
Batteries,
DataCenter,
Eaton,
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Eaton, one of the big data center UPS manufacturers, is offering a