Come and join me August 16 for a panel discussion of “Do More Data Make DCIM More Effective in Designing and Managing Data Centers?” Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) has been given a lot of attention in the past few years. I think we are moving from “What is DCIM?” to “How do we deploy [...]
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Google Compute Engine: Infrastructure as a Service
As is well known, there are three types of cloud computing: software as a service (SaaS), such as Salesforce.com; platform as a service (PaaS), such as Google App Engine; and infrastructure as a service (IaaS), such as Amazon’s AWS. Google has been in the PaaS space but recently dived into IaaS. A great thing about [...]
Where Is IT Going and What Impact Will That Have On Data Centers?
At the recent DatacenterDynamics conference in San Francisco, the last session was a panel discussion on where IT is headed and the effects of that on data centers. Because my chair duty was over by then, it was the only session I could attend other than my own track. Because a lot is going on [...]
An IT Guy’s Take on ASHRAE’s Recent Guidelines for Data Center ICT Equipment
ASHARAE is a professional organization and according to their website: ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is a building technology society with more than 50,000 members worldwide. The Society and its members focus on building systems, energy efficiency, indoor air quality and sustainability within the industry. Through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education, ASHRAE shapes tomorrow’s [...]
What CIOs Need to Know about Cloud Computing
It is not too difficult to understand what public cloud is and why it is useful to have it. You outsource all the necessary computing and storage needs to somewhere else. On top of that, you pay only for what you use. And you use it as much as you want when you have a [...]
A Chat with Kevin Malik, CIO of IO Data Centers, on DCIM
Coming from IT, I find a data center a fascinating place where facilities and IT coexist, but they can use closer communication with each other. When I started to cover the data center segment some four years ago, people I met at data center conferences and meetings asked me if I was on the mechanical [...]
Gearman, Great Q. What Is IT?
By now open source software is even in corporate enterprises. Open source is a great way to make software available. Some companies make a commercial version of it to provide special support and care. But because it is open source, people can kick the tires before they commit to using it. After MySQL’s acquisition, many [...]
How to Cope with Dynamically Scaling SNS Applications—by Thuzi
Living in Silicon Valley is good. Within a 30-minute drive, I can go to many interesting meetings free or for a nominal charge. Speakers are topnotch, and many of them are movers and shakers in the technical fields that are shaping the market. Some regard social networking systems (SNS) as timewasters, but many others, like [...]
Some Basics of Cloud Computing in 10 Minutes
The recent Open Cloud Conference was a little different from other conferences on cloud computing. It was not big compared with other nationwide conferences, but it attracted a lot of technology geeks and practitioners of cloud computing. Most people were casually dressed (more relaxed than even standard Silicon Valley attire), and most of them were [...]
Open Source and Cloud
This week I attended the Open Cloud Conference at Silicon Valley Cloud Center in Sunnyvale. There were a lot of interesting sessions, and one was on the role of open source for cloud. As there was a debate during the conference on the relationship between open source cloud and open cloud, they are not exactly [...]
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