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.
August 31@RachelDines by VanessaAlvarez1 I’m not at #VMworld, but @ChristianKane tells me Paul Maritz just said DR is one of the most important uses for cloud. Woot
In my most recent column, I noted that Solyndra made a solar product that could find application in the data center industry. To my surprise, Solyndra recently put itself into a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing Chinese competition as a significant factor.
A webinar I did for Mission Critical on August 22 inspired me to publish some FAQs about the subject of electrical safety. I included some questions asked by our audience during and after the event and many I have been asked over the years.
The resume. Thud. The very utterance of the word brings dread to the job seeker. What kind of masochist likes working on his resume?
Hiring authorities have the pleasure of writing … ugh … job descriptions! Second only to writing a resume in terms of dreadfulness, at least the need in the organization helps to define the task.
Designers of information technologies (IT) facilities today are challenged to keep up with several varieties of environments, some of which are mission critical and others that are not.
Will our growing reliance on all varieties of
digital information coupled with the recent extraordinary natural disasters,
deliberate assaults on IT infrastructure, and the increased obsolescence of the
electric grid lead to the perfect storm on steroids?
“Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.” This anonymous quote seems to describe the mission-critical industry and this column perfectly. Our industry is constantly reinventing itself, and today we find ourselves on the verge of arguably the largest change yet, moving to the cloud.
Should data centers install photovoltaic (PV) solar arrays to provide electric power? The answer for some data centers is an unqualified “yes.” Companies and facilities that are planning to install, or have installed, PV systems to provide some portion of needed power include i/o Phoenix One, Google, AISO, Sonoma Mountain, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, BendBroadband Vault, DataScan Technologies, Facebook, and Intel.