by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 7, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise |
Steve Denegri, author of The Data Center’s Green Direction Is A Dead End turned me onto an interesting Microsoft blog post. Titled Changing Data Center Behavior Based On Chargeback Metrics the post breaks down data center costs at Microsoft. The author,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, August 3, 2008 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Stepping beyond marketing green-washing, the folks at Wikibon have done something. Tomorrow morning they’ll announce, along with California-based PG&E, Conserve IT, . . . a first-of-its-kind service that accelerates the qualification of storage products for...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
Is the data center doomed? Or just the IT industry? That’s what the following article, by Steve Denegri – star industry financial analyst – asks. Steve’s thesis: the IT industry is entering a period of energy scarcity that, in other industries,...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, July 23, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise |
I’m at the SNIA Symposium this morning. Hence the short post. What is the impact of virtual machines on I/O? Engineers have spent decades optimizing the OS, drivers, caching, controllers and disks for specific workloads. Observed behavior such as locality of...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, July 20, 2008 | Architecture, Enterprise, Future Tech |
It isn’t clear how serious the enterprise storage vendors and and their customers are about reducing energy consumption. A server may have 4-8 cores, consuming 50 W when idle, attached to 8, 16 or even 24 drives each pulling 8 W at idle. High end it drives,...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, June 29, 2008 | Enterprise |
Sometime we forget how young the computer revolution is. The death 10 days ago of David Caminer, who led the application programming for the world’s first business computer, the Lyons Electronic Office (LEO) is a reminder. LEO performed its first business...
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