San Francisco replayed - where are all the clouds?
Hello sports fans. I have found more evidence, if it were needed, that data centers have become mainstream. I found myself in the UK watching cricket when up popped a TV ad for Dell cloud services...
View ArticleCliff Gauntlett - COO IXcellerate
Cliff Gauntlett, COO of IXcellerate, has passed away.Guy Wilner, CEO of IXcellerate said: "Cliff was a brilliant and very human person. It was his perseverance and creativity over a number of years...
View ArticleData Centers continue to go up – server sales continue to go down
Just back from the beach and first thing I notice is more large scale data center project announcements such as that from Ericsson and Digiplex.Add to Daily RSS: Add to Daily RSS read more
View ArticleElysium: Bad news for big data proponents
To the cinema to watch Elysium – the Sci Fi film set in the year 2154. It is a metaphor for how we live today based on the premise that in the future, the world’s mega rich will live on a disease free...
View ArticleHow much power to the rack does an IBM NeXtScale highly dense configuration...
Looking at the IBM NeXtScale server announcement – I’m still trying to find out the power provision requirement per rack for a fully stacked configuration.Add to Daily RSS: Add to Daily RSS read more
View ArticleCybersecurity company can monitor power use in search for anomalies
Darktrace –the name sounds like a spy novel – is a UK security company made up of people from ‘the cyber operations community’ or ex-spooks to you and me and ‘world class mathematicians’ from...
View ArticleDCD Converged London – just 14 days to go
There are exactly two weeks to go until DCD Converged London kicks off at the ExCel centre in London.The speaker line up includes the data center infrastructure leaders from Microsoft, ebay and...
View ArticleTalking with Gartner’s David Cappuccio – the man who brought us DCIM
Tomorrow I’m hosting a DCD Webinar and will have the pleasure of introducing Gartner Managing VP David Cappuccio.Add to Daily RSS: Add to Daily RSS read more
View ArticleHow I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Software…*
Back in June/July this year FOCUS magazine issue 30 provided in-depth coverage of the Software Defined Data Center.DCD Converged London, the UK’s largest data center industry event, runs over two days...
View ArticleFrom the device to the data center
The latest FOCUS magazine covers the full stack of data center operations.To reflect this the cover line reads: ‘From the device to the data center..’Add to Daily RSS: Add to Daily RSS read more
View ArticleFacebook wins mega data center award - here's the press announcement
Below is the press release listing the winners from last night's industry awards. For some pictures of the winners see http://www.twitter.com/dcdfocus. Facebook wins major award for innovation in its...
View ArticleChina’s No 'ICE’ Policy
We’ve been reading about a looming trade war between the EU and China and the US and China since late 2011.Fortunately in the intervening two years it hasn’t quite materialised with countries doing...
View Article‘Power costs hammering energy intensive industries’ – time to read the latest...
The latest edition of FOCUS magazine is available online today, the day the European Commission issued a report saying that european energy costs are far higher than those in the US and China....
View ArticleTelecoms and Financial Services Discussions, Denver and New York
Telecom Exchange West takes place on March 6th in Denver, Colorado and I’ll be representing DCDFOCUS by hosting a panel with Viawest, Foretrust, Coresite and Green House Data to discuss colocation...
View Article‘Net Neutrality is bullsh*t’ “Consumers are hostages to providers”
I witnessed an interesting kick-off debate at the Telecom Exchange West CEO discussion in Denver yesterday around the topic of Net Neutrality. It has long been argued that allowing any of the supply...
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