Would you buy a car if you could only put one brand of gas in it? Think about how inconvenient and nerve wracking it would be if your gas gauge was hovering over “E” and you had to bypass the Shell station on the corner to find a Chevron.
This month we are running three different application stories. We usually like to include a mix of application and technical articles, but these three stories were compelling and not only presented different challenges
Nobody is surprised to hear that power and cooling are huge costs for running a data center. Twelve percent of the cost for running a data center is power according to Gartner.
Interviewing nice guys is hard work. They tend to be smart, ambitious, organized, and calculated, therefore they tend to be too prepared and too careful with disclosure, maintaining that shiny veneer.
In Part One, we discussed developing the program, and in Part Two we discussed site selection. This column addresses data center planning and the impact it has on total cost of ownership (TCO).