Lessons From President Obama's First CIO

Forbes.com (Nov 16 2011)

1. Containers got backing this week from Swedish designers and data centre nerds, says Peter Judge. How can they fail? Modular data centres, once seen as inefficient compared compared with bespoke buildings, have been rapidaly gaining acceptance. In fact, they now have endorsement from two sources almost the exact opposite of each other – hipsters and geeks. They have been simultenously adopted by a “cool” Swedish designer and been given the thumbs-up by that engaging bunch of anoraks and train-spotters, the Green Grid. A data centre fit for Mars? Modular Data Centres Stockholm is the brainchild of Jon Karlung, who designed the Bahnhof facility in Stockholm known as the “James Bond” data centre as it is designed to look like a spy’s lair. That was very much a bespoke system but Karlung has now been converted to the idea of modular. (Read Full Article)

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