Data Centre Moves – Phase 1
Phase 1 – Discovery Anyone who knows about Data Centres understands something of the complexity of moving services to a new site. Usually this needs to be done in a hurry, with no service disruption...
View ArticleData Centre Moves – Phase 2
Phase 2 – Design End State If we are not careful, data centre moves are seen as just another big IT cost, and a pretty open ended cost at that. Anyone with experience in this space knows that many...
View ArticleAsset Management is a Green Issue
During my time at BT I set the Data Centre team the challenge of getting Asset Management right, the team thought I was just being stupid and unreasonable but buckled down and with a bit of hard work...
View ArticleHow do I stop my DMX-4 falling through the floor?
Floor loading is a badly understood issue in Data Centers. Not just in the place where the equipment eventually ends up but also en-route from the loading bay to the final resting place. OK, so lets...
View ArticleAVIVA (aka Norwich Union) miss opportunity to Go Green
AVIVA (aka Norwich Union) is set to open its third data centre – Data Centre 3 (DC3) at the Broadlands Business Park near Norwich, UK this September. Although the site uses some modern design...
View ArticleGlassHouse Releases Reflector Tool
GlassHouse Technologies, a global provider of independent IT infrastructure consulting services, announced on the 5th August 2008 the release of Reflector, a proprietary tool for managing data center...
View ArticleHow many servers can you migrate in a weekend?
I got a question from a colleague Bill about data center migrations: What is a good range of number of servers that could be migrated over a weekend? I know there a bunch of qualifiers (e.g. new kit...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with Mark Shirman – CEO of Glasshouse Technologies
I recently met with Mark Shirman, CEO and Founder of Glasshouse Technologies and had the opportunity to get another exclusive Hot Aisle interview. Mark is uniquely placed to comment on the recent...
View ArticleVerari Systems Wins major Green Enterprise IT Award
I was delighted to hear today that my friends, David Wright (CEO) and David Driggers (CTO) at Verari Systems have been recognized for their great work on driving Data Center energy efficiency. For some...
View ArticleAvoiding Outages in the Enterprise Data Center
For some time I have been working on and thinking about a Data Center Efficiency Maturity Model to help us poor operational folks work out just how well or badly we are doing on a scale of one to five....
View ArticleI’ve just seen the future of Virtualization for SMEs
Cloud computing changes things, it makes administration and management of an X.86 environment easier and more automated. But until now the real goodies of VMWare’s product set, VMotion and VSphere have...
View ArticleEnterprise Data Migration Software
Next week I am in Marthas Vineyard visiting with my friend, colleague and fellow blogger Steve Duplessie of Enterprise Strategy Group. For a few weeks Steve has been telling me about an Enterprise...
View ArticleCloud soup
I posed the question about why readers of the hot aisle were running more than one hypervisor. An earlier poll had shown that 44% of respondants behave in a non-intuitive way and run two or more...
View ArticleLetting customers leave makes them want to stay
Google Docs now has a batch export facility for their documents created by the Data Liberation Front, a Google team setup to help customers leave. “Imagine you want to move out of your apartment. When...
View ArticleData Centre Dilemmas
I recently chaired a very interesting panel debate and discussion Hosted By BLADE Network Technologies in London. The panel was made up of: Harkeeret (Harqs) Singh, Global Head Data Centre Energy...
View ArticleThere is many a new tune played on an old fiddle
The problem with us old operations guys is that we have seen pretty much everything that is supposed to be new before, sometimes a generation or more ago. Makes us a bit cynical about innovation – so...
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