Bob Worrall, Sun’s CIO wrote an article for Forbes called “Sun Microsystems’ IT Tips.” Here’s an excerpt about datacenter power reduction: Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Economically. Since the power consumption of data centers doubled between 2000 and 2005, it’s...

Tsamsoniw writes "Singapore-based Atlantis effects Corporation, which brings to the table tidal-turbine technology, is partnering with Scotland-based datacenter pioneer hyperspace Villages International) to construct a tidal-powered 150MW 'Blue Datacenter,' InfoWorld reports. If all goes to plan, th...

With the down economy and shift in the political climate, experts foresee green IT gaining momentum in '09 It's that time of year again to dust of the old crystal ball and put forth some predictions as to what 2009 holds for the world of green technology. Rather than leaving the speculation to mysel...

Barry Eggers and I teamed up again this year to make a few predictions about major trends to watch out for in Enterprise Infrastructure in 2009. But before we get into what we’re seeing in our crystal balls, we thought we should grade our 2008 Enterprise Infrastructure Predictions: 1. Flash-ba...

It's time for me to build out more space in one of my datacenters, and I'm having a hard time coming up with the "right" design. Do I put lots of small switches in the cabinets, and home run few cables (4 per cabinet) or do I put big switches in (core switches) and home run everything? Of ...

Network.com setup in Vegas, Thumper disk bay, green by Shawn Ferry As I expected it would, the fact that I used ZFS compression on our MySQL volume in my little OpenSolaris experiment struck a chord in the comments. I chose gzip-9 for our first pass for a few reasons: I wanted to see what the “...

Pimp My Drive by Richard and Barb There’s remarkably little information online about using MySQL on ZFS, successfully or not, so I did what any enterprising geek would do: Built a box, threw some data on it, and tossed it into production to see if it would sink or swim. I’m a Linux geek,...

The buzz around the web today was the outage of Amazon’s S3. It shows what websites are “doing it right”, and who fails. This is a great follow up to my “Reliability On The Grid” post the other day. Amazon S3 is cloud based computing. Essentially when you send them a fi...

There’s been a lot of discussion lately (in particular NYTimes, Data Center Knowledge) regarding both reliability of web applications which users are becoming more and more reliant on, as well as the security of such applications. It’s a pretty interesting topic considering there are so many thi...

There’s been a lot of discussion lately (in particular NYTimes, Data Center Knowledge) regarding both reliability of web applications which users are becoming more and more reliant on, as well as the security of such applications. It’s a pretty interesting topic considering there are so many thi...