2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

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    1. “ If I was starting a greenfield company, the data center would be the size of my bathroom — there wouldn't necessarily even be a server, maybe a series of switches and all my backoffice apps, my salesforce automation, my storage would be handled in the cloud. ”
      By Dave Nichols

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  1. Do BYO data centers make sense anymore?

    GigaOM (Dec 16 2011) Cloud Computing

    1. Do BYO data centers make sense anymore? In this era of cheap-and-reliable rent-a-data centers, does it make sense for a company to build a new data center on its own anymore? Amazon’s data center guru James Hamilton is pretty clear that he sees no reason for most companies to keep onstructing new data centers from scratch, but if they have a huge compute load and really have to, they should build way more capacity than they need and sell off the excess a la Amazon itself. While Hamilton has a vested interest in people moving their compute loads to Amazon’s infrastructure, his build big or don’t build at all mantra resonates with several other IT experts. The consensus: It makes sense for most companies to trust their data center needs to the real experts in data centers — the companies that build and run data centers as a business. More companies will start moving more ... (Read Full Article)

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