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Does your datacenter have the horsepower?
ZDNet Technology News (Mar 24 2010)
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In a blog post yesterday, Heather Clancy talked about her conversation with HP’s Ed Kettler and discussed a couple of points that he made which are important to consider in any datacenter decision matrix. While I don’t necessarily agree with everything Ed said, I do feel that his statements merit further discussion. Mr. Kettler makes the point that for HP’s new datacenter to achieve a high degree of energy efficiency, it is necessary that very specific and tightly controlled equipment and environmental controls need to be in place. Unsurprisingly, this means that in HP’s datacenters, this will require the use of HP equipment, since that is what their rack designs call for. (Read Full Article)
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