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The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in

The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in

By Tom Raftery on March 12, 2012

If you were going to build one of the world’s largest data centre’s you wouldn’t intuitively site it in the middle of the Nevada desert but that’s where Switch sited their SuperNAPs campus. I went on a tour of the data centre recently when in Las Vegas for IBM’s Pulse 2012 event. The data centre […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, datacenter, supernap, switch

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center

By Tom Raftery on April 7, 2011

Back in 2006 I was the co-founder of a Data Centre in Cork called Cork Internet eXchange. We decided, when building it out, that we would design and build it as a hyper energy-efficient data centre. At the time, I was also heavily involved in social media, so I had the crazy idea, well, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, Facebook, greenpeace, Open source, Pacific Power, prineville, renewables, unfriend coal

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!

By Tom Raftery on February 17, 2011

If you have been following this blog, you’ll know I have been profiling Data Center efficiency companies over the last few weeks. This week I take a look at Sentilla. I talked to Sentilla’s CTO and co-founder, Joe Polastre, the other day and Joe told me that Sentilla came out of Berkeley where they had […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged data center, data centre, data centre energy efficiency, data factories, datacenter, datacentre, energy efficiency, sentilla, virtualisation, virtualization, vm clutter, VMware

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption

By Tom Raftery on February 9, 2011

If you’ve been following this blog in the last couple of weeks you’ll have noticed that I have profiled a couple of data centre energy management companies – well, today it is the turn of Power Assure. The last time I talked to Power Assure was two years ago and they were still very early […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged bms, data center, Data Center Consolidation, data centre, datacenter, Dynamic Power Management, Dynamic Power Optimization, energy efficiency, NASA, pdu, power assure, tivoli, UPS | 1 Response

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