As I write this it is early July, as we are about to move into the dog days of summer, anticipating the usual issues that seem to appear when cooling systems are pushed to their limits—and sometimes beyond.
Recognize the lyric from Kenny Rogers’s “The Gambler?” In it, Rogers sings about a gambler who shares a message about life with a fellow traveler. The gambler’s advice?
As a whole, society tends to treat employment changes like an infection. The closer you are to it the more likely you are to be affected. Yet change is not only inevitable, change is growth. Those who don’t grow, well, Darwinism takes its course.
ASHRAE’s 2011 Expanded Thermal Guidelines has caused a lot of controversy and confused many in the data center industry. Although ASHRAE released the information a year ago in May 2011, it is still highly debated and sometimes misinterpreted.
At a recent DCIM seminar hosted by nLyte Software, RF Code, and Server Technology, guest moderator Bruce Taylor, vice president of the Uptime Institute (part of the 451 Research Group) referenced the Institute’s 2012 Survey results
Starting a new law firm and speaking with cloud services vendors has brought my partner and me face-to-face with one of the realities of cloud data storage.