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  • Green Computing Summit 2008: Going green is no longer optional

    Posted May 23, 2008 - 3:33 pm

    According to EPA, corporate and governmental data centers in metropolitain areas are already driving the power grid toward gridlock. By 2010, we could have 41 million servers in the US, with less than 10% utilization. Power consumption in data centers in the US could cost $7.4 billion by 2011, compared to $4.5 billion today. How did we get here?

  • Unix Tip: The perfect crash: Planning after the disaster

    Posted September 6, 2006 - 10:26 am

    Sadly, it is in the aftermath of a big network crash that some of us do our clearest thinking about what we should have done before the disaster struck. We might learn that, even with a powerful UPS, we can find ourselves in a situation in which a sudden loss of power leaves our computer center in the dark, our servers and networking equipment in unknown condition and us with a big problem to solve. How do we get our systems back online with some semblance of control and efficiency when we're not sure what we're starting with?
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