I do want to wish all Mission Critical readers a great Memorial Day weekend and also remind you to take a moment to honor the troops who made it possible.
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.
Kevin Heslin, editor of Mission Critical, elicited some interesting opinions about the state of the data center industry from Cyrus Izzo in this short interview.
Discipline, rigor, experience, training, process driven procedures, and a culture of excellence—that’s what it takes to deliver continuous operations over the life of a critical facility.
Geist’s Racknet provides a single point of access for monitoring multiple aspects of a data center infrastructure, including temperature, humidity, power, and more.
In the Jan/Feb issue of Mission Critical, Zinc Whiskers focused on how the “cloud” operates as an automatically virtualized environment that creates very high power densities in processing areas.
In mid-February HP unveiled their new G8 generation servers. While the announcement contained the usual PR messages (new, improved, better, faster, smarter, etc.), it did highlight some interesting technologies that will presumably help improve the energy efficiency within the data center.