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Don’t Change That Bat Channel

And Tune in Next Week for the Thrilling Conclusion
May 18, 2012
Some New York Rangers fans and Washington Capitals fans recently relearned an old lesson: Don’t leave a game before it is over


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Welcome to Symposium 2012

Four productive days in California
May 14, 2012
I just finished packing my bags for the Uptime Institute’s Symposium 2012.


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Commentary by Carrie: TIA releases 942-A – what it means to you in simple terms

May 14, 2012
TIA 942 was the first data center cabling standard in the U.S. Many countries either follow or at least use its guidance.


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Commentary by Carrie: Choosing a Vendor

With all things "equal" what is the deciding factor between vendors?
May 04, 2012
We have become commoditized in some of our purchasing decisions and very picky in others. Some companies sole source networking gear for instance, then buy the least expensive infrastructure to run it on, and open spec everything else with the least expensive winning the business.


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The Laidback West Coast

May 04, 2012
Some years ago, several conference organizers considered organizing discussion practices comparing west coast/east coast data center operations and practices.


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Sapient Pursuits: Mission Critical Organizational Culture

May 03, 2012
How do you know that your people are thinking risk mitigation when they perform tasks in the facility?


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Site Selection Makes All the Difference

April 30, 2012
Though data center operators talk in terms of reliability, Tier levels, energy efficiency, and cost, most often these conversations take a back seat to site selection.


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Data Center Solutions: Data Center Efficiency & Operations – It All Matters

April 30, 2012
I read an article in the marketing newsletter from WiredRE dated, April 20, 2012 titled, “It’s Criticality Dummy” basically citing that aspect of the data center as the most important driver for data center management and measurement.


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Watt's It All About?: Are Greenpeace trying to 'off-shore' large USA data-centres?

April 24, 2012
I have been digesting the latest vicious assault that Greenpeace has made on the data-centre industry - with their naming and shaming of the social-network operators and their, so called, ‘dirty data’.


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Doing Well by Doing Good

April 20, 2012
Conversations this week and last with Dave Schirmacher of Digital Realty Trust, Chris Crosby of Compass Datacenters, and Terry Rennaker of Skanska, among others, have convinced me of two things.


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Diane Alber takes a humorous view of data center operations in her comic strip Kip and Gary. In the comic strip, Kip and Gary navigate problems familiar to data center professionals. You can see more at http://kipandgary.com/blog/

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