Data Center Power and Cooling
Taking a page out of the Fast Food restaurant play book, HP is hoping to create and deliver modular, scalable data centers. In an attempt to overcome the costly and time consuming process of custom designing a data center to fit a specific need at a specific point in time, HP is ...
Published on Tuesday, July 13th, 2010 at 6:12 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
"A few years ago, it would have been unheard of to deploy, for example, Exchange [Server] on SATA drives," said Brian Garrett, vice president of the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab in Milford, Mass.
via SAS and SATA, solid-state storage lower data center power consumption.
Authors: Bob Laliberte | Brian Garrett |
Published on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 at 3:19 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
In order to assess data center facility consolidation and construction priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 515 North American and Western European senior IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations. All respondents were personally responsible for or familiar with ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte | Jennifer Gahm | John McKnight |
Worldwide, there has been a lot of focus in recent years on reducing the environmental impact of data centers. Green always comes at a cost, but once it is viewed as a long-term investment rather than as a quick return on investment (ROI), it can be a ...
I don’t normally plug press releases straight from vendors, but today I received an e-mail from Emily Wood at Google with a message that I agree with 100%. Cooling data centers is not just about refrigeration--there are lots of options, many of which we have written about ...
There are a lot of them around, data centres. A few of them are designed and operated very well and deliver great power usage efficiency. Some could do a bit better, perhaps an airside economiser or two, some hot or cold aisle containment, or maybe some DC power. ...
It’s always good to know that the world is changing and, hopefully, improving. So it was with interest that I heard that Kathrin Winkler – EMC’s Chief Sustainability Officer – participated earlier today at a hearing of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet. ...
Data Centre design is an evolutionary process and we can see the first signs of significant change in the latest sites. Co-generation, liquid cooling, cloud computing, high density are all likely to feature in the 2020 Data Centre. How are you placed with your existing Data Centre ...
If you have been following the storage business for a while, you will have noticed a few changes:
Introduction of Flash Memory components as Solid State Disks
Serial ATA (SATA) disks becoming popular and growing in capacity (2TB soon)
There are lots of other disk technologies around like Fibre Channel and ...
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