I spend a lot of time talking to business people about cloud computing, and one of the consistent questions I hear is: What’s the difference between VISI’s enterprise cloud platform and something like Amazon’s public cloud? It’s a question that…
Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming By: Rich Miller The Google data center in Belgium, which features no chillers and routes traffic to other facilities during hot spells. Raising the temperature in server racks can make a…
My latest Forrester CIO client visits tell me economic uncertainty is actually helping IT leaders accelerate plans for the future. Sounds counterintuitive, right? Perhaps it’s just because I started in Europe, where the hourly ups and downs of sovereign debt…
Data center management is a broad term. In many data centers, management can be split into two broad categories: Information technology Mission critical facilities Information technology is the management of everything in the racks: network, servers, storage, security appliances, operating…
In this info-rich post, Rich Miller (Data Center Knowledge) talks about there wheres and whys of proliferation of data centers in certain areas. His classification of data centers into three major categories is spot on. The first building at Facebook’s…
