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Image Data Center Pulse Rapid Growth Reaches 1,000 Member Milestone Late last year I was working on an article and while conducting interviews I was made aware of a new data center group that had formed called Data Center Pulse. My initial reaction was don’t we have enough trade groups as it is? But after further review I noticed an important feature about this group and that it was focused on being an advocate for the data center professional. Its goal is simple and that is to influence the industry through end users. I must also mention that Data Center Pulse is a non-profit organization.
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IT
“Cracker” nabbed by Doctoral student Hackers belong to a culture all there own. A hacker in its purest definition is someone who solves problems and builds things in an environment that is free where individuals can share information. In the hacker culture there are boundaries and when a person uses his or her talent to break into comp... Read more...
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Yahoo announces it will no longer purchase carbon offsets Carbon offsets are controversial and if you are not familiar with what they are here is a brief explanation. A carbon offset represents a reduction in emissions in other projects to balance out the emissions you cannot reduce. Companies that are unable to reduce their own emissions can then purchase... Read more...
 
Design
US-DOE tough on itself for IT energy efficiency Do as I say and not as I do. Each of us has likely heard this statement from a parent or an adult when we were children. As adults or in business this statement can get a person in trouble. To avoid having this statement labeled on their record the US Department of Energy (DOE) conducted its own inv... Read more...
Press Releases
IDEAL Thermal Imager Helps Keep Server Rooms Up and Running IDEAL Industries Inc. a global leader in test and measurement technology, debuts its new HeatSeeker™ Thermal Imager, a low-cost, high performance camera that blends visible images with infra-red images to track down problems that threaten the continuous operation of  server rooms and data... Read more...
 

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batteryHistorically, the weakest link for power reliability in the data center has been battery failure. Charles O'Donnell, vice president of Monitoring and Professional Services for the Liebert Services business of Emerson Network Power, discusses the importance of battery maintenance and monitoring to ensure business-critical continuity...VIEW VIDEO
 
Learn more about Data Center Pulse - Introduction (Part 2)
Episode 2 This is the first episode of data center pulse (part 2). Hear from Dean Nelson and Mark Thiele the founders of DCP as they introduces the concept, explain why it was started and what they how to accomplish. Data Center Pulse is an exclusive group of datacenter owners and operators. ...VIEW VIDEO
 

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Who told you cannot install Blade Servers?
We are often discouraged when we here IT or facility managers say that they aren't considering blade servers because of their current operating environment.  We believe that in many cases, the environment can support blades servers but because of a lack of information, poor assumptions, misunderstandings between facilities and IT, statements by tradesman or consulting engineers, past finger pointing, etc. the idea of blade servers is put aside... READ BLOG
 
 
Best Practices - Tracking Circuit Data
Read the DCJ Forums and you will see an occasional question about asset tracking, configuration management, etc. and it is not difficult to see the benefits of good records.   The questions come from both an IT prospective and from a facilities prospective.  
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We all know that how you drive (tortoise vs. hare), where you drive (city, highway, mountains) and how many people you have in the car effects your gas mileage.  Further the two least efficient modes of operation are slowing down and idling at a red light.
 
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It is common practice, best practice if you will when companies lease or buy office space, to have an architect prepare a test fit.   A test fit is simply a quick, down and dirty floor plan that proves that one can fit the number of offices, work cubes, conference rooms, etc. into the lease space. 
 
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