Despite the batch of pretty good news I reported in my previous post about the trends we see in how data center managers are approaching energy efficiency from 2008 to 2009, there is some bad news. Isn't there always?But before we get too gloomy, it should be noted that much of the media, vendor, and customer discussion about energy efficiency over the past few years seems to have paid off in
Sunday, 31 May 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Measurement matters: survey finds improvements in data center energy efficiency, but...
Posted on 20:44 by Unknown
When we ran our 2008 Cassatt Data Center Energy Efficiency survey, the topic was really at the forefront of the industry conversation. Green IT was everywhere you looked. It was a perfect time to ask questions (and get some intriguing answers) about how data center managers were approaching their power issues.Fast-forward a year to 2009.As we planned out the questions for our 2nd annual Data
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Internal or external clouds? Both, say end users (or "Cloud computing data you won't hear about in Vegas")
Posted on 13:56 by Unknown
Some people have all the luck. Some get to spend the better part of a week in the gilded gaming halls of Vegas, staving off hundred-degree heat with extreme air conditioning, waving their slot machine credit vouchers in one hand and their free drinks in the other, while supposedly learning a thing or two about cloud computing.Ah, Vegas trade shows. The goal is to survive without leaving too much
Thursday, 7 May 2009
Why Star Trek can teach us a thing or two about internal cloud computing
Posted on 22:16 by Unknown
In honor of the opening of the new Star Trek (sort-of reboot) movie, the slightly whimsical blog topic for today is a bizarre little connection I noticed between what our Cassatt Data Center Dialog blog normally talks about and how the Starship Enterprise manages to "boldly go." Yes, even if you don't know a tribble from a warp core breach, I'm saying there just might be something to be learned
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