Hurricane Sandy blasted dark clouds, high winds, and rain over the Northeast coast and left in its wake, not only a disaster but also an opportunity to assess the successes and failures of our disaster preparation, performance, and recovery.
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.
As data centers seek increased levels of availability and efficiency, they are turning to manufacturers and consultants to provide reliability and efficiency assessments.
In my most recent column, I noted that Solyndra made a solar product that could find application in the data center industry. To my surprise, Solyndra recently put itself into a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing Chinese competition as a significant factor.
Should data centers install photovoltaic (PV) solar arrays to provide electric power? The answer for some data centers is an unqualified “yes.” Companies and facilities that are planning to install, or have installed, PV systems to provide some portion of needed power include i/o Phoenix One, Google, AISO, Sonoma Mountain, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, BendBroadband Vault, DataScan Technologies, Facebook, and Intel.