As the summer heat manifests its hold on the northern hemisphere and the temperatures rise, many data centers will test the limits of their cooling systems
In my last column I wrote about my predictions for 2014. While it is all well and good to look ahead, I thought that before we raced too eagerly into the future, we should not forget the adage “Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them,” which in one form or another was attributed to Winston Churchill.
As our world becomes ever more data centric, the data center and the energy it uses seems to become a focal point of criticism for groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, as well as many others.
With the quest for ever greater performance and energy efficiency to meet the growing streaming video and exploding bandwidth mobile device market and the expected surge in bandwidth demand for the upcoming release of the 5G wireless mobile device market, wireless carriers have finally been working together to develop the CPUs needed to deliver the expanded services and mobile devices.
While it is all well and good to look ahead, I thought that before we raced too eagerly into the future, we should not forget the adage “Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them,” which in one form or another was attributed to Winston Churchill.
So here we are at the end of another year — by the time you read this you may have already completed your 2014 plans and budget requests (as well as your fallback budgets and plans).