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In this video, Emerson's Fred Stack provides an overview of the SmartAisle, a new enclosure system that combines cold-aisle containment, in-row cooling and management tools to offer data center managers greater control over temperature and energy use in their environments.

Microsoft To Cut Data Center Costs in Half

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 08:38 - From Data Center Knowledge

After years of investing up to $500 million in each data center project, Microsoft plans to spend about $250 million or less on each data center going forward. Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons said his goal is for Microsoft's data center network to be "incredibly scalable at awesome cost...

Live data center modernization: A nail-biting experience

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 08:12 - From Search Data Center

Modernizing a live data center with no downtime is no small task, but a data center colocation company managed the nail-biting task.

Roundup: SGI Sets Performance Mark, AboveNet

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 07:19 - From Data Center Knowledge

SGI's Altix ICE integrated blade cluster is the leading performer in SPEC benchmark tests for HPC, and AboveNet becomes cash flow positive as revenues from lit services surpass those for dark fiber.

EnerNOC takes an integrated approach to energy management

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 07:21 - From ZDNet

I've written about energy management company EnerNOC in the demand response sense, based on the work that it is doing to help companies with generating capacity reduce their grid dependency in peak demand situations. (As a reminder, here's my post about how EnerNOC is working with a New York-based data...

mattokeefe: @raykrueger yeah, maybe we could help fund Larry's next yacht

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 07:55 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: @raykrueger yeah, maybe we could help fund Larry's next yacht

Roundup: Telx, SoftLayer, 100GB Trial, GlobeNet

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 06:37 - From Data Center Knowledge

SoftLayer partners with Telx for connectivity and colo, 100 GB per second Ethernet test by Verizon (VZN) and Juniper (JNPR), GlobeNet and Alcatel-Lucent complete submarine cable linking U.S. and Latin America.

DatacenterDynamics New York - Thought leaders to challenge pre-conceptions of data center design and management and address the latest energy efficiency initiatives

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 04:08 - From Data Center Dynamics

New York’s largest gathering of data center professionals takes place on March 3rd at the Hilton New York

DatacenterDynamics welcomes more than 1,000 data center professionals to its 8th annual New York conference

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 04:08 - From Data Center Dynamics

This year's is a record number of attendees to the largest DCD event in the US

First Data names Forehand CEO; Capellas steps back

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 04:51 - From ZDNet

First Data, a leading e-commerce and payments player, named Joe Forehand as new CEO. Meanwhile, Michael Capellas will join buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts KKR as a senior advisor focused on technology. The CEO swap occurs on March 31. by Larry Dignan

APC Launches Data Center Efficiency Calculator

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 03:53 - From Data Center Dynamics

APC by Schneider Electric is offering a free online tool to help organisations see how various power and cooling designs can affect the efficiency and electrical cost of a typical data centre configuration

Cancer Research UK colocates with Interxion

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 03:53 - From Data Center Dynamics

Charity moves into supplier's London data center after comparing outsourcing and retrofit costs

What is IT’s role in ensuring energy efficiency in the data center?

Thu, 3/11/10 @ 00:06 - From INFRARATI

What has IT got to do with making sure that the data center power, energy usage, and utilities are managed cost-effectively? This question was posed on the Data Center Pulse group on LinkedIn. A wonderful discussion developed about why Facilities and IT should working closely together. With quotes like “As an IT guy, I aways assumed that if there was physical space in the room, then there was enough power and cooling.” Or “My CIO doesn’t see an electric bill because the facility folks can’t break it down to the room level (yet) so IS isn’t incentified to reduce cooling or electric costs.” Discussion about treating the data center as a system, getting the right information, monitoring IT equipment and how to translate that to communicate with building control systems (e.g. BACNET). The discussion shows there is still a big gap between the different folks that are working in a data center: facilities, the server, storage and network people who make their one choices and hardly aware of the impact of this choices for the other groups. Awareness of energy usage is just starting but ideas about what to do and who should do what is still hazy. This technical, process oriented, organizational, commercial interdependency is described in the chapter “Why Green IT is Hard - an Economic Perspective” in the coming book of the Greening IT Initiative. Energy efficiency in IT is a very interesting topic but there is still a lot of work to do to get things done.

mattokeefe: Today's memcache load test: >3Gbps, >250k txns/sec. Wow

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 21:29 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: Today's memcache load test: >3Gbps, >250k txns/sec. Wow

mattokeefe: #1 Google result for "Java history" now results in Page Not Found on Oracle's SDN. How ironic and sad.

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 21:46 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: #1 Google result for "Java history" now results in Page Not Found on Oracle's SDN. How ironic and sad.

mattokeefe: I just became the mayor of The Cloud on @foursquare!

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 21:23 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: I just became the mayor of The Cloud on @foursquare!

mattokeefe: I just became the mayor of /dev/null on @foursquare!

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 21:24 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: I just became the mayor of /dev/null on @foursquare!

mattokeefe: RT @ragskashyap: "Good Judgment Comes from Experience, but Experience Comes from Bad Judgment " - Mark Suster <- true, plus do RCAs

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 20:02 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @ragskashyap: "Good Judgment Comes from Experience, but Experience Comes from Bad Judgment " - Mark Suster <- true, plus do RCAs

mattokeefe: @techwhizbang you can get an expo pass + free session pass for Enterprise Cloud Adoption

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 19:52 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: @techwhizbang you can get an expo pass + free session pass for Enterprise Cloud Adoption

mattokeefe: @techwhizbang will be there mon-thu next week, but in vacation mode with my wife in the pm. Want to meet for lunch Wed?

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 19:50 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: @techwhizbang will be there mon-thu next week, but in vacation mode with my wife in the pm. Want to meet for lunch Wed?

mattokeefe: RT @alexzogh: One of the most brilliant defensive patents I've ever seen: http://ow.ly/1ghNr - a patent for the act of patent trolling.

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 18:20 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @alexzogh: One of the most brilliant defensive patents I've ever seen: http://ow.ly/1ghNr - a patent for the act of patent trolling.

CA buys Nimsoft to tap into the enterprise-light systems market

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 17:17 - From Search Data Center

CA has bought the streamlined systems management software vendor Nimsoft for $350 million.

Emerson rolls out new management tool; new cold-aisle containment product

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 16:01 - From Data Center Dynamics

Management tool enables capacity planning; containment system combined with iCOM

mattokeefe: San Jose,CA and Chicago are the same temp right now. Weird

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 16:31 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: San Jose,CA and Chicago are the same temp right now. Weird

Telx appoints former Savvis exec. as marketing chief

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 16:01 - From Data Center Dynamics

Hokamp joins Telx after decade with competing company

mattokeefe: RT @acroll: Natural Language Generation + 40,000 hip-hop lyrics = Stanford CS paper + NSFW lyrical awesomeness. http://bit.ly/aY5lAq

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 15:43 - From Senior Technology Architect

mattokeefe: RT @acroll: Natural Language Generation + 40,000 hip-hop lyrics = Stanford CS paper + NSFW lyrical awesomeness. http://bit.ly/aY5lAq

CA Buys NimSoft As Cloud Spree Continues

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 15:22 - From Data Center Knowledge

CA today continued its cloud computing buying spree, announcing that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire monitoring provider Nimsoft, Inc. for $350 million in cash. The deal follows CA’s recent acquisitions of Cassatt, NetQoS and Oblicore and the planned acquisition of 3Tera.

Will Energy Star servers give your business a positive ROI?

Wed, 3/10/10 @ 14:42 - From Search Data Center

Energy Star makes big claims about the cost savings and emissions reductions its Energy Star servers can bring, but calculating the actual ROI isn't always clear cut. This tip offers advice on measuring the real benefits of Energy Star servers in the data center.

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