Articles by Julius Neudorfer

New Tools from The Green Grid

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Friday, February 5, 2010

The Green Grid consortium has announced that it developing some shiny new tools to help data centers measure their energy efficiency using it’s now widely touted PUE metric. Continue Reading »

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How to Keep Energy Score

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Monday, February 1, 2010

Attention all manufacturers of energy monitoring systems -- start your sales force. Continue Reading »

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Get Ready for VEPA in the Data Center

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Last November the IEEE 802.1Qbg working group came together in Atlanta to present the latest developments for the Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA). Continue Reading »

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Feng Shui and the Art of the Data Center

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Thursday, January 14, 2010

I am in the midst of designing a new data center for a client and have been trying to balance the requirements of costs, space limitations, maximum number of cabinets and the flexibility to meet the rising and ever-changing power density of the IT equipment loads. Continue Reading »

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DOE Funds Data Center Efficiency Research

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy is awarding $47 million for 14 projects across the country "to support the development of new technologies that can improve Continue Reading »

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Do You Know Where Your Data Center Is?

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Tuesday, January 5, 2010

As we enter the second decade of the 21st century, the nature and direction of the entire computing landscape is morphing in a “virtual reality” like environment. Continue Reading »

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The Hot Aisle Predictions

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

As we wrap up the end of the first decade of the new millennium, I felt compelled to think about what the first year of the next decade might bring.

First, a quick look back. Continue Reading »

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Amazon and the Mis-Use of Power

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Wednesday, December 16, 2009

On Dec. 9,  Amazon’s EC2 North Virginia site experienced a power failure, which impacted "a minority of instances in one of our four Availability Zones in the US-EAST-1 Region." Continue Reading »

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The Art of Rackonomics - Part II

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

At the end of my previous “Rackonomics” post, I was about to see if I would remain as the consultant on a new pr Continue Reading »

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PUE: Cold Con-Fusion in the Data Center

Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer
Tuesday, December 8, 2009

PUE, DCiE and EUE and many more acronyms are all presumably standardized metrics used to measure and rank the energy efficiency of our data center infrastructure. Yet, these terms are used and Continue Reading »

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