The data center skills of the future – lessons from Raspberry Pi
I don’t know if it is the recent success of the movie but I have heard the brand Lego bandied about a lot lately. Jay Park used it to describe Facebook’s new pre-fab way of designing data centers...
View ArticleFOCUS 34: Dealing with the Cumulonimbus of change
Auteur: Penny JonesHmmm. I could easily write an intro for our latest edition – out now - that I am sure I have done before. And maybe even by accident I have already done it more than once. It would...
View ArticleHow one entrepreneur went from a server in a bedroom to a full-blown data...
You can tell instantly that 27-year-old Adam Smith is a driven man. He eagerly tells you that during a working day, which usually includes weekends, he is often labouring over his data center dream...
View ArticleIn praise of raised floor
Auteur: Chris CrosbyIf you’re a parent you know that the leading zeitgeist amongst the educational community is bullying. More specifically, anti-bullying since whom, other than that sixth grader who...
View Article5G mobile CPU enables software defined micro data centers
Auteur: Julius NeudorferWith the quest for ever greater performance and energy efficiency to meet the growing streaming video and exploding bandwidth mobile device market and the expected surge in...
View ArticleHow Luleå is catering to a new data center market
Today I posted the first part of our special look at Facebook in Luleå – where it recently completed its first lare data center and is changing its blueprint for its second build so it can work to the...
View ArticleShaking up skills, and more in FOCUS 35, out now
Niall McEntegart, Facebook’s head of data center operations for EMEA, used to design power supplies. He then moved on to software development then production and finally operations. His background is a...
View ArticleFacebook: The human impact of data centers
US states are fighting over them, but what really is the economic impact that comes with having a data center in your territory? Yesterday Facebook released a report constructed with ECONorthwest which...
View ArticleWatson and the software-defined data center
The future for the software-defined data center (SDDC) lies in cognitive computing – an environment that allows systems to learn and solve data center challenges without human intervention. At least...
View ArticleWill the CCAs provide a shot in the arm for the colo market?
Auteur: Ben DhesiNow that the Datacenter Climate Change Agreement (CCA) has been given approval by the Department of Energy and Climate Change what does it mean for the industry? A CCA is a voluntary...
View ArticleDoes the data center industry need a capacity god?
Auteur: Penny JonesThe divide between facilities and IT teams within the data center created some lively debate this week at DatacenterDynamics Converged Santa Clara. This time the conversation was...
View ArticleWhy you can’t put APAC in a cloud-shaped box
Figures highlighting Asia Pacific cloud adoption have seemed quite mixed over the last year – both for levels of demand and levels of adoption, as viewed by service providers and end users.Add to Daily...
View ArticleFOCUS 36: How data is redefining the industry and our lives
Guy Churchwood started his technical career working for an accounting firm on Fleet Street spinning tapes. “I was backup admin. No one cared about me. I was completely irrelevant. I sat on my printer...
View ArticleBeware of moving parts
Auteur: Chris CrosbyMy marketing guy was discussing his golf swing the other day. He said that it had “more moving parts than the average car engine”. In case you are wondering, this is not a good...
View ArticleHow Severn Trent Water is being smart about data
For Myron Hyrcyk, UK water utility Severn Trent Water’s CIO, being smart about data means taking a whole new perspective to the way technology works.“Many will step into this phase [of big data] and...
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