Data Center | Guest Opinion | Mike Frank Wednesday, October 19, 2011
According to a 2010 Gartner survey, some of the top challenges for large enterprises are data growth and scalability. Thirty percent of those surveyed had plans to build a new data center by the end of 2011 and more than half planned to expand capacity in their existing data center. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer Friday, June 10, 2011
The World’s Most Efficient Data Center was just announced in Las Vegas, the betting capital of the world, at the HP Discover 2011 conference. In the ongoing PUE wars, HP is betting that it has won the challenge, with its EcoPOD. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Like any popular movie, there is usually a sequel. It looks like the rise in popularity of the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric follows that same path. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Thursday, May 19, 2011
As the price of memory continues to fall and the number of processors on a chip increases, the way the IT industry thinks about building servers is slowly being transformed. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Mike Vizard Friday, May 6, 2011
Right at this moment no one is quite exactly sure how storage systems in the data center are going to exactly evolve. There are a multitude of competing standards attached to a raft of new and legacy technologies, such as Fibre Channel, InfiniBand and Ethernet, that all have to find some way to get along. Continue Reading »
In an unusual turn of events, the ASHRAE TC 9.9 committee announced that it has decided to disclose some of the key elements of the upcoming third edition now, rather than when it is finalized. Continue Reading »
Data Center | Blog Post | Julius Neudorfer Thursday, April 28, 2011
In light of the reaction to Facebook’s recent announcement of its new Prineville, Ore., data center, with its 1.07 power usage effectiveness (PUE) claim, which seems hyper-efficient (or perhaps just hyper), as well as many other very aggressive PUE claims, I thought we should all take a deep breath and see what is sometimes “overlooked” in many data centers' PUE calculations. Continue Reading »
