Tag: data centre
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The Internet of Things – trends for the telecoms, data centre, and utility industries
I gave the closing keynote at an event in Orlando last week on the topic of The Impact of the Internet of Things on Telcos, Data Centres, and Utilities. The slides by themselves can be a little hard to grok, so I’ll go through them below. I should note at the outset that while many…
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The Switch SuperNAP data centre – one of the most impressive I’ve been in
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…
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FaceBook open sources building an energy efficient data center
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, […]
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Sentilla thinks of data centers, as data factories!
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…
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Power Assure automates the reduction of data center power consumption
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…
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CIX on Intruders.tv
We held our Open Day in CIX a couple of weeks back. We invited local businesses to come in and have a look at the data centre infrastructure before we closed up all the ducts and hazardous areas. We also invited Intruders.tv to come along and film the event. They did and they published the…
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Views from the CIX mast
We are erecting a 24 metre mast outside our CIX data centre in Cork. I was curious to know what the visibility would be like for our mast’s customers (we will be renting out space on the mast) so yesterday when we had a cherry picker onsite I had the driver lift me 10 metres…