Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

Regular readers of this blog will know that we are strong advocates of container data centers as a step toward modular data center design and as a facility component for extremely dense data processing.¬† Earlier posts talked about 2008 as a breakout year for containers (it wasn’t) and containers used as facility components in cargo [...]

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Early news wires this morning report the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle at a $9.50 USD/share price.¬† While many of us were watching the dance between IBM and Sun over the past few months, this deal with Oracle leaves me scratching my head. Oracle’s Larry Ellison says, “The acquisition of Sun transforms the IT [...]

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Posted by Bob Landstrom The attention and interest in netbooks has been on the sharp increase over the past six months.  A recent post in IT Business Edge makes the claim that netbook sales can be credited with the resiliency the PC market has had through the recent recession. When one looks for the reasons [...]

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Data Center consolidation and Data Center outsourcing are top of mind for many CIO’s these days. Many companies have ’90s vintage IT facilities that not only do not have the availability to align with the Business‚Äô operating model but also are struggling to keep up with the power and cooling demands of contemporary computing systems. [...]

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