“Power, Pollution and the Internet” may not be the headline you want to be associated with but it brought data centres to the front page of the New York Times on 22 September. As someone who has tried for a while without success to get his teenage children to appreciate just how interesting and valuable data centres are, and […]
Last week I posted a question in some LinkedIn data centre groups: “BMS vs DCIM: where do you draw the line?”. I wanted to get the user perspective on these systems, how they are used, who is responsible for them and what their relative values are. Contributions came in from vendors and consultants as well […]
A couple of nights ago I enjoyed watching one old rocker in the company of another, an expert in the genre. It was a fun night out – and got me thinking about the PUE of a rock concert! Imagine the scene: a data centre (the Hammersmith Appollo) with a main machine hall (the stalls + stage) and a […]
When asked how powerful the engine under the bonnet of its cars is, Rolls-Royce used to say only that it was “adequate”. And if you could afford to buy the car then the cost of filling it up should be of no consequence to you because, after all, it is not when you arrive but how […]
“No man should see how laws or sausages are made” – so goes the saying oft misattributed to Otto von Bismarck. This week it cropped up in the unlikely setting of the 451Group’s Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit in London. Perhaps the first time either the Iron Chancellor or sausages have been associated with data centres. So […]
I have just been looking at a survey run by The Green Grid – “How often do you measure PUE™/DCiE in your data center?”. The results indicate to me a problem that data centre operators need to address now. And that problem is – no automated meter reading. At the time of writing, approximately 500 people have […]
Implementing a data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) solution is usually portrayed as being very complicated. There are so many aspects to it (for example asset management, auto discovery, monitoring, dashboards, alerting, automations, and so on and on) that it is difficult to compare solutions. Implementing DCIM requires a lot of planning. It requires IT and […]
The start of a new year is a traditional time for taking stock. For data centre owners and operators that should include reviewing how you meter, monitor and manage energy. Saving on energy improves the bottom line – it is a business issue not just a technology one. Failure to address this is not only wasteful but irresponsible. It’s time do […]
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