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MAY 13, 2013

First - let me give you some amazing first-impressions: Switchs SuperNAP is all about design and function. But if you think about it, server racks should really be viewed as radiators (think about the radiator in your car). And thats what switch does with their T-scif (Thermal separate compartment in Facility).

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Fountainhead

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Those metrics were (and are) nice if what you care about are "basic" efficiencies of a data center -- simply how much power is getting to your servers relative to all of the other power being consumed by infrastructure systems (e.g. So, for example, you could have a fantastic PUE. Why 8 approaches? Fountainhead.

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Energy Data 113

Fountainhead

JUNE 2, 2009

As much as 3 years ago, the company was anticipating "virtualization sprawl", the need for automating VMs, the expectation that IT environments will have both physical and virtual machines, and the fact that "you shouldnt care what machines your software runs on, so long as you meet your SLA". Fountainhead.

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Data Center Load Balancer Virtualization Analysis 100

Fountainhead

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Because I’ve had a few years’ experience with this technology, I wanted to give a very brief explanation of the concept, and focus more on why it will be increasingly important. This blog is related to my 2009 installment on Fabric as an IT Enabler. What is IOV? skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

Converged Infrastructure: What it Is, and What it Isnt. But one thing that I sense I neglected was to define whats meant by converged infrastructure (BTW, Cisco terms it Unified Computing). Even more important, I also feel the need to highlight what converged infrastructure is not. Why splitting hairs in defining terms?

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