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Building a Data Center – Where to Begin?

by Dave Cappuccio  |  June 30, 2009  |  1 Comment

This post is response to a question from Allison relating to the series of questions that need to be asked before embarking on a data center build project. Where to begin? In my first post of this series Allison sent along a quick note with an interesting observation;  “I found this article very insightful, but [...]

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Building a New Data Center – How Much Energy Will I Need

by Dave Cappuccio  |  June 30, 2009  |  Comments Off

This post is the third in a series of questions that need to be asked before embarking on a data center build project. How much energy will I need? Great question.  Somebody always asks the obvious, especially when there is no way to definitively answer the question.  In the old days (you know, 8 or [...]

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Just a Thought; Will the Blinders on IT Enable Public Clouds?

by Dave Cappuccio  |  June 30, 2009  |  Comments Off

I’m thinking that, especially in IT, history has a habit of repeating itself. A friend and I were talking about the drivers and catalysts in IT the other day and the topic of Public Clouds came up.  He was convinced that the catalyst for the success of public cloud was going to be enterprise class [...]

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Just a Thought; Will VMware become the next Novell?

by Dave Cappuccio  |  June 30, 2009  |  34 Comments

I know, I know, the title alone can be misleading, but what I’m thinking here is a result of yet another trip down memory lane.   I was talking with a client at the IT Operations and Management conference this week and he was a huge VMware fan (as are many).  During the conversation he was [...]

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