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 [...]
Category: Data Centers Food for Thought Tags: Data Centers
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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Category: Data Centers Food for Thought Tags: Data Centers, Power and Cooling
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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Category: Food for Thought Tags: Cloud Computing
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 [...]
Category: Food for Thought Tags: Virtualization, VMware
by Dave Cappuccio | April 17, 2009 | Comments Off
This post is the first in a series of questions that need to be asked before embarking on a data center build project. How big is big enough? The first question asked is often the most difficult to answer, or the simplest. “It depends” might be valid for an analyst, but not when you’re potentially [...]
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Category: Data Centers Food for Thought Tags: Data Centers, Design
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 | 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
