Last week I wrote about the 4 items to keep in mind when virtualizing a data center with respect to the effects on data center physical infrastructure (DCPI).
From the racks to the roof, the Open Compute Project “OCP” is trying to break the mold to improve and redesign everything we take for granted as “industry standard” in the data center world.
When I first heard the term mission control it was back in the early 1960s when I was a child captivated by the Apollo Space Program. The space program truly inspired me and is one of the reasons why I decided to go into engineering. Nothing at the time even came close to the scale and magnitude of NASA’s science/technology advances and discoveries.
Jonathon G. Koomey’s recently released and highly publicized report, “Growth in Data Center Electricity Use: 2005 to 2010” is nothing like other reports that have warned that power consumption in data centers is out of control. In the past five years, we have seen article after article extrapolating from an earlier Koomey publication and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Report to Congress, suggesting that total U.S. data center energy consumption is now at 3 to 5 percent or more of total U.S. use.
A few weeks, I blogged about Mission Critical’snew website, which was scheduled to launch in late September. Frankly, the old website was showing its age, and much of the back of the house system was just obsolete. The new system, by contrast, not only supports the new design but it also puts tools in our hands that allow us to add functionality.