In a world where Google, Amazon, and Facebook are designing their own servers and buying direct from Asian manufacturers, suppliers of all data center equipment are rightfully a little worried about their place in the future supply chain.
In the few months that I have been researching the network cabling market, I have heard a wide variety of perspectives and opinions about the pending introduction of the category 8 copper cable which will support 40Gb/s Ethernet.
It could be that you’re watching the Windows XP discussions with a minor bit of amusement, knowing that it’s still a whole year away before the same thing happens with Windows Server 2003.
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.
Twenty minutes into the conversation Stephen Madaffari, principal of Data Centers Delivered and HTS New York, was done. He got it. He’d been through it in his head already.
Putting together a Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) is not about recruiting ‘super-heroes’ – but a matter of balancing skills and exploiting learning opportunities.
In or around November 2006, I co-authored a white paper with Vali Sorell (vice president, Syska Hennessy Group) that calculated and compared the energy efficiency of cooling strategies employed in most data centers.