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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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Data Center Solutions: So, what's the Business Model?

April 16, 2012
There’s a part of me that understands and applauds Facebook’s purchase of Instagram. Instagram is cool! No doubt about it.


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Data Center Solutions: The Most Important Data Center Site Selection Driver

April 02, 2012
Someone recently said to me that no two data centers are alike.


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Data Center Solutions: Deja vu Bubbles?

March 12, 2012
I’m not an investment guru by any stretch of the imagination and I was as much asleep at the switch as my financial advisor in 2007 and 2008.


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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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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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Data Center Solutions: SOPA Soup

January 27, 2012
I have a high regard for those that create intellectual property as well as the protections created to encourage creativity and the remunerative incentive to create works of all kinds.


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Going Green for Fun & Profit!

January 19, 2012
Not that I want to spend time doing so, but I would bet that if one performed a search to find out what are the two most over used words related to data centers and technology over the past several years, those two would be “Cloud” and “Green.”


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Going Green for Fun and Profit

January 19, 2012
Not that I want to spend time doing so, but I would bet that if one performed a search to find out what are the two most over used words related to data centers and technology over the past several years, those two would be “Cloud” and “Green.”


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Data Center Solutions: Artistic Expression as Social Media

January 05, 2012
About a month ago, I read an article about Instagram (http://instagr.am/) a great mobile app that has attracted a lot of attention of late (OK, I must be a little slow on the uptake based on when the app was originally released).


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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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