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Why Enterprises Will Force Down the Cost of Virtualization

Force it's such a strong word, but it definitely applies if my reasoning has any basis in reality.The point of this blog is to illustrate that regardless of the intrinsic value of any given tool in the...

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Is Public Cloud Computing Green – Or at least Greener than Traditional IT?

Unfortunately, there isn't a simple answer to the "Is Public Cloud Greener" question as the only real answer is "it depends".  At the core of the question is that assumption that because you're...

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Three Years Later

DCP was formed on September 8, 2009. It seems like only yesterday when we started this! Quite a bit has happened since that date. We have over 2200 core members in 66 countries representing over 1000...

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Center Pulse collaboration session of 2012 in conjunction with the Green...

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It's Time to Collaborate

In December of 2011 we hosted an exclusive Data Center Pulse collaboration session one day before we held the opening of the eBay Data Center, Project Mercury. The goal of this collaboration session...

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DCP 2012 Summit Results

On March 5, 2012 DCP members from as far away as Japan and Taiwan converged on the Doubletree hotel in San Jose, CA for an all day collaboration session with end user peers - The DCP 2012 Summit was...

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DCP 2012 Top 10

Have you ever wondered what is on the mind of Data Center End Users? Why they make the decisions they make? What problems they are trying to solve?  What keeps them up at night? Back in 2009, Data...

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DCP on panel @ EU Data Centre Forum on Financing, Investing & Real Estate...

Data Center Pulse (DCP) partnered with IMN’s ‘European Data Centre Forum on Financing, Investing & Real Estate Development’. The conference will be held April 24th and 25th 2012, London, UK. Jan...

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Is building a data center more sustainable than building a soccer field?

I fully expect controversy will be created by this blog especially amongst some of my awesome friends in the Sustainability/Green space and I am not actually advocating putting away the cleats and...

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Announcing eBay Inc.'s Renewable Energy RFQ

Back in March, I wrote about the 2012 Data Center Top 10, the current pulse of what is hot, interesting, challenging or emerging from the DCP community. “Renewable Power Options” came in at Number Five...

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No Man is an Island and neither is a Data Center

Is it safe to build a data center anywhere along the coast? Can you really protect the availability or accessibility of your systems in the face of hurricanes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters?...

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Server Power Consumption Cost Exceeds the Cost of the Server – SO WHAT!

Saying a modern server uses too much power is like saying a train uses more power than a horse drawn wagon. Of course it does, but it also does way more work. Let's not forget what's important to the...

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The green PUE monster

My fellow Datacenter Pulse (DCP) colleague Mark Thiele wrote a good article on the use of PUE in the datacenter industry. He basicly argues that you should look at the TCO of the datacenter and have a...

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Where is the open datacenter facility API ?

For some time the Datacenter Pulse top 10 has featured an item called ‘ Converged Infrastructure Intelligence‘. The 2012 presentation mentioned:Treat the DC infrastructure as an IT system; - Converge...

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Before you jump in to the DCIM hype...

  You’re ready to enter the great world of DCIM software and jump right into the hype ?Do you actually know what you need from a DCIM solution ? What are your functional requirements ?So before you...

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My Data Center Drives Faster Than Yours

I jumped on my data center the other day and rode into town for a beer at the local saloon. I tell you, these data centers keep getting bigger and faster every year. Did I confuse you? What does a data...

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DCIM - Its not about the tool; its about the implementation

 So you just finished your extensive purchase process and now the DCIM DVD is on your desk.Guess what; the real work just started…The DCIM solution you bought is just a tool, implementing it will...

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Google's BMS got hacked. Is your datacenter BMS next ?

A recent USA Congressional survey stated that power companies are targeted by cyber attacks 10.000x per month.After the 2010 discovery of the Stuxnet virus the North American Electric Reliability...

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Where is the rack density trend going ?

When debating capacity management in the datacenter the amount of watts consumed per rack is always a hot topic.Years ago we could get away with building datacenters that supported 1 or 2 kW per rack...

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TweetChat @ Hot Data Center Trends & Issues

Join DCP board members Tim Crawford (@tcrawford) and Mark Thiele (@mthiele10) for an engaging discussion on hot data center trends and issues. We're hosting a TweetChat on 6/20 at 10am Pacific...

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