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Data center DC power: A greener shade of green
Over the past few weeks, I’ve posted extensively about using DC power to improve data center efficiency. In this post, I’ll be discussing some tips to make sure your data center DC power is as green as...
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The data center, Y2012, and Space Weather
I’ve just been reading about 2012 and the possibility of the threat of space weather to the data center. I’m going to expand on this a bit and also talk about how resiliency against space weather can...
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Greening the data center, the hard way.
Tonight I was reading about Facebook following Google’s lead in putting batteries in servers in the data center. This just goes to show you’re never to big to have or share a boneheaded idea. The idea...
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The great data center power debate.
After commenting on the Navisite San Jose data center outage (original here), I had a number of different viewpoints presented to me on the data center power reliability subject. I thought I’d take a...
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More green data center DC power myths.
I’ve just been reading about the value of DC power in the data center. in this post, I’m going to correct some of the strange myths and egregious errors that are spread about DC power. “But the...
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Friday data center tidbits.
First up today is yet another story about data center AC vs DC power efficiency, with the usual sprinkling of BS. Required cable size is based on voltage vs current, not whether the power is AC or DC....
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Lightning and the data center (GNAX goes boom).
Sounds like a bad sitcom, doesn’t it? I don’t think it’s close to what the folks who are affected by the lightning related GNAX data center outage are saying. This is one area that doesn’t get talked...
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Monday data center tidbits.
The “duh” award for most obvious statement of the day comes from this article about the next steps for green IT: “That capability could save energy because a computer that’s off, most experts agree, is...
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Monday data center tidbits. #cloudcomputing rants, #datacenter DC power
First up is reading a rant about losing data in “the cloud” and how cloud computing is unreliable. I’ve got two pieces of news: banks have been screwing up customer’s online accounts and transactions...
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Data center DC power, power backup runtime, and free air cooling, a greener...
I’ve written previously here about the green, energy saving benefits of DC power in the data center, the reliability follies of super short run time power backup, and, of course, the well recognized...
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