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Data Center Solutions: Cloudy Skies Ahead?

February 20, 2012
Last Tuesday, February 14, I briefly attended CloudConnect 2012 at Santa Clara Convention Center.


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Strolling Down Memory Lane

What's in your attic?
February 17, 2012
I had reason this morning to visit the attic and wound up taking a trip down memory lane.


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Consoli's RFP Project:See 3P Oh!

February 15, 2012
I have more years of selling to the Data Center Industry than I like to admit.


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Commentary by Carrie: Cloudy with a Chance of Lightning

February 13, 2012
With all the hype about clouds, 2011 was a year of education.


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Data Center Solutions: The Green Data Center Conference Highlights

February 13, 2012
The Green Data Center Conference 2012 hosted by the Global Strategic Management Institute took place on January 31 through February 2 in San Diego, California.


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Oergel's Vault: Vendor Dynamics - Working Together!

February 09, 2012
The past several years have had an interesting impact on the way people have worked together (or not) when it comes to coordinating for a project.


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Don't Reinvent the Wheel

Our new issue provides several such reminders
February 06, 2012
In Mission Critical’s Jan/Feb issue, Bruce Myatt (Zinc Whiskers, p. 22) provides a concrete example of the data center industry re-inventing the wheel.


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Sapient Pursuits: The Human Aspects of Mission Critical Operations

February 03, 2012
I see it as very significant – and worthy of examination, thought, and innovation – the fact that a myriad of studies discussing incidents/outages at mission critical sites point to human error as a major factor.


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Watt's It All About?: HVDC power for data-centres? Not for Europe, please?

February 03, 2012
There has been a lot of talk for time now about adopting DC power for data-centres to improve their energy efficiency and, recently, ABB has purchased the sole vendor and the marketing money has stirred the debate even further.


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From the Data Center Trenches: Understanding Mean Time between Failure in the Data Center

Part 2
January 30, 2012
In this blog I am going to finish the topic I started last week’s blog on understanding MTBF.


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Gilbane Company Event

The Gilbane Company hosted a wonderful event Monday at Bobby Vans, a wonderful restaurant just blocks from the Occupy Wall Street protests. Nor surprisingly, Gilbane put together a wonderful program that included presentations from Kfir Godrich of HP, Peter Miscovich of Jones Lang LaSalle, and ABB. All the parties had gathered to celebrate Steel ORCA, a new 300,000 sq ft data center in New Jersey that will run on 100 percent solar energy. Dave Crocker, the CEO of Steel Orca, Dennis Cronin, and other company execs were also on hand to tell the story.
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