What Would Rod Serling Think about a Modern Data Center?

Gotta wonder what good old Rod Serling would think if we resurrected him inside a modern data center. Surrounded by humming racks of Sun servers, he just might start narrating. I can hear him now, intoning ominously as the LEDs blinked all around, “I’m traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of my imagination. That’s a signpost up ahead …”Rod was great. He (of all people) came to mind when I was reading about Sun Solaris 10 virtualization. The people at Sun kinda asked for it when they decided a virtual environment created under Solaris 10 is a “Solaris Zone.” That’s a name right out of 50s-era, drive-in movie science fiction. Rod would love it!FWIW, a “Solaris Zone,” as defined by the dudes at Sun, is “A virtual environment that has security and application fault containment, and its own name space that can be tailored to the application that will run in it.” Put that on your signpost.  It’s right up ahead.  For more information, please visit www.electronicdatagirl.com

WSJ has really cool Google article

I was reading the Wall Street Journal today and came across an interesting articleabout Douglas Merrill, CIO of Google.  He’s got some cool stuff on security and scalability in the data center.  Take a look

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120578961450043169.html?mod=technology_featured_stories_hs

It’s Not Easy Being Green

as this article from the New Yorker about carbon footprint shows.   There are some very unexpected results, e.g. it’s better from a CO₂  standpoint for a UK resident to buy roses from far-off Kenya rather than nearby Holland, or a New Yorker to drink wine from Bordeaux rather than Napa. 

And the moral of the story?   The most effective way ever found for dealing with pollution is to create a trading market.  It’s often politically unappealing because it feels like letting people “pay to be bad.”  But if there were a market in greenhouse gases, environmental groups would have a far easier path to leverage: instead of using their relatively paltry budgets to lobby–which often amounts to a winner-take-all game that they lose–every dollar used to buy up a ton of “right to pollute” reduces supply (and therefore raises the cost) of emitting greenhouse gases.   This would have exactly the effect they want: putting pressure on businesses to stop polluting, and rainforest nations to stop allowing their forest to be razed.   But it requires getting past the “moral” aspects of environmentalism and into realpolitik.

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Eco responsibility – Does a green data center make a difference?

So all this hype, can it save money and make things easier for the data center.  I would love to hear some feedback on this topic becuase this is a battle I fight daily.

Taking my Virtualization powers into the Virtual World – That’s not all!

Hi guys and girls!  I’m spreading the word!  We have a lot of work to do to get our world’s data centers secure and lean.  I am solutions focused and know what works.

My web site is coming soon but take a look at my Technocrati profile!  It’s neat   TTFN

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Data Center Energy Costs Rising

The biggest drag for data centers these days is in power and cooling costs.  More equipment means hotter rooms and larger A/C bills.  As data grows, so do the power requirements needed to manage it.  IT guys need to be smart about the sustainable data center.

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