by Dave Cappuccio | February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
Data Center managers are continually looking for methods to provide the resources to support the business, but at the most optimal costs. The mantra of “do more with less” is something IT has had to live with for years, and difficult economic times just sharpen the focus, especially towards capital budgets. The days of building [...]
Category: Data Centers Food for Thought Tags: Add new tag, Data Centers, GartnerDC, Tiers
by Dave Cappuccio | February 15, 2009 | Comments Off
Historically IT people have had a fairly straightforward task – keep the systems running and recover quickly when they fail. I say when, not if, because systems all fail at one time or another, no matter how well we plan. Now this is a far to simplistic view of the real world I agree, but [...]
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Category: Data Centers Tags: Infrastructure Technology
by Dave Cappuccio | February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment
Perhaps I’m being a bit cynical here, but after reading the well written blog post The Elephant in the Social Software Room from Craig Roth of Burton I decided to re-read it, substituting the arguments around social software with the arguments about allowing the use of Instant Messaging in corporations from 8 years ago, or even [...]
Category: Consumerization Social Software Tags: Social Software
by Dave Cappuccio | February 15, 2009 | 3 Comments
PUE and DCiE are not adequate methods to understand data center efficiencies – what’s needed is a Power to Performance Effectiveness index.
Category: Food for Thought Tags: Data Center, Metrics, Power and Cooling
