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The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in

The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in

By Tom Raftery on March 12, 2012

If you were going to build one of the world’s largest data centre’s you wouldn’t intuitively site it in the middle of the Nevada desert but that’s where Switch sited their SuperNAPs campus. I went on a tour of the data centre recently when in Las Vegas for IBM’s Pulse 2012 event. The data centre […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, datacenter, supernap, switch

Planetary-scale computing

Planetary-scale computing

By Phil Wainewright on February 6, 2012

If you really want to know how to build a cloud, look at how Google architects its data center infrastructure to produce economies of scale at a global level.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud Computing, data center, Finland, google

NoSQL is a Premature Optimization

NoSQL is a Premature Optimization

By Bob Warfield on July 24, 2011

There’s been a lot of back and forth lately from the NoSQL crowd around Michael Stonebreaker’s contention that reliance on relational technology and MySQL has trapped Facebook in a ‘fate worse than death.’   This was reported in a GigaOm post by Derrick Harris.  Harris reports in a later post that most of the reaction […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, data center, mySQL, NoSQL | 4 Responses

Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed

Carbon Disclosure Project’s emissions reduction claims for cloud computing are flawed

By Tom Raftery on July 21, 2011

The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is a not-for-profit organisation which takes in greenhouse gas emissions, water use and climate change strategy data from thousands of organisations globally. This data is voluntarily disclosed by these organisations and is CDP’s lifeblood. Yesterday the CDP launched a new study Cloud Computing – The IT Solution for the 21st […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Carbon Disclosure Project, Carbon emissions, Cloud Computing, data center, data center carbon emissions, emissions reduction, Energy, energy efficiency, epa, greenhouse gas emissions, Uncategorized

What to Do When Your Cloud is Down

What to Do When Your Cloud is Down

By Bob Warfield on April 21, 2011

As I write this, Amazon is having a major East Coast outage that has affected Heroku, Foursquare, Quora, Reddit and others.  Heroku’s status page is just the sound of a lost sheep bleating repeatedly for its mother in heavy fog.  What’s a poor sheep to do about this problem anyway?  After all, isn’t a Cloud-based […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Amazon Web Services, apple, Cloud, Cloud Computing, data center, heroku, Quattro Pro, Quora, Reddit, strategy | 1 Response

Give Me a Layer to Stand On, And I’ll Move You to the Cloud

Give Me a Layer to Stand On, And I’ll Move You to the Cloud

By Bob Warfield on April 14, 2011

Apologies to Archimedes, who is supposed to have said:
“Give me a place to stand and I’ll move the Earth.”
He was speaking of leverage and the idea that a great weight can be moved with very little force given the right amount of leverage. Leverage is what IT needs to make an orderly progression to the Cloud without having to expend too much force.

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged Cloud, Cloud Computing, data center, Google App Engine, Hewlett-Packard, ibm

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

By Tom Raftery on April 7, 2011

Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, Facebook, greenpeace, Open source, Pacific Power, prineville, renewables, unfriend coal

Any Hardware Company Not Investing Big in Cloud is Nuts

Any Hardware Company Not Investing Big in Cloud is Nuts

By Bob Warfield on April 7, 2011

If the Cloud is here to stay, and the trend to move apps into the Cloud is only going to get stronger, then any hardware or infrastructure company that doesn’t invest big in the Cloud is nuts. The problem these vendors face is “Cloud as disintermediator”.  Companies that buy into the Cloud are letting the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon Web Services, Cloud, Cloud Computing, data center, Dell, Hardware, ibm | 3 Responses

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

By Tom Raftery on February 17, 2011

If you have been following this blog, you’ll know I have been profiling Data Center efficiency companies over the last few weeks. This week I take a look at Sentilla. I talked to Sentilla’s CTO and co-founder, Joe Polastre, the other day and Joe told me that Sentilla came out of Berkeley where they had […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, data centre energy efficiency, data factories, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, sentilla, virtualisation, virtualization, vm clutter, VMware

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

By Tom Raftery on February 9, 2011

If you’ve been following this blog in the last couple of weeks you’ll have noticed that I have profiled a couple of data centre energy management companies – well, today it is the turn of Power Assure. The last time I talked to Power Assure was two years ago and they were still very early […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bms, data center, Data Center Consolidation, data centre, datacenter, Dynamic Power Management, Dynamic Power Optimization, energy efficiency, NASA, pdu, power assure, tivoli, UPS | 1 Response

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