Data Center Power and Cooling
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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Click here for the full ESG Research Report: 2010 IT Spending Intentions Survey.
Click here for the PowerPoint slide.
Click here for the full ESG Research Report: 2010 IT Spending Intentions Survey.
The current popularity of deduplication should not blind users to the fact that it is only a contributory factor to overall storage efficiency; in this respect, best practices demand that users understand different ‘dedupe’ tools and integrate them into their storage efficiency efforts. Nexsan’s combination of deduplication with its ‘Highly ...
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Click here for the full ESG Research Report: Global Green IT Priorities, November 2008.
Around this time, analysts at ESG pull together a ten point list of predictions for the coming year. One of my areas of coverage and of expertise is in the Data Center around power, cooling, reliability and economics. So what’s different this year from prior years?
Strengthening fundamental ...
Strengthening fundamental drivers will likely make 2010 materially different from previous years for the data center. These drivers include continued increases in the cost of power, lack of investment in new general-purpose facilities during the recent economic crisis, and the continued drive for higher density implementations. Poor-quality data centers will ...







