Since I started on the topic of consolidation and virtualization, here’s my take on server virtualization and the 8 things you should be aware of: (more…)
Archive for February, 2010
8 things you should know about Server Virtualization
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010Measuring Datacenter Transformations
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010Most people uses the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) as a metric to measure how efficient is their data center. However, increasingly, the DCiE (Datacenter Efficiency) metric is becoming more and more accepted as the metric of measurement.
Both metrics were proposed by the Green Grid in 2007, as a means to estimate the energy efficiency of their datacenters and to compare the results against other datacenters as well as to determine if any energy efficiency improvements need to be made. (more…)
White Goat?
Sunday, February 7th, 2010This is interesting … for US$100,600 per machine (White Goat), you will be able to take shredded office papers and turn them into a 40-sheet roll of toilet paper in 30 minutes. Here, have a look (and be amused) >
SAP bets on Software for Sustainability
Sunday, February 7th, 2010A recent article on CNET reported that SAP is trying to get ahead of the curve in environmental sustainability. An excerpt of it has been reproduced below.
What’s an enterprise software company doing getting into sustainability? After all, the environmental footprint from software production pales in comparison to resource-intensive industries such as power generation or even running data centers that deliver Web services such as search. (more…)
The Sustainability Consortium
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
It all started last July when Walmart announced it would begin surveying its suppliers on their environmental performance in order to one day rate the sustainability of its products. Since that landmark announcement, academics from the Arizona State University and University of Arkansas launched the Sustainability Consortium, a group representing government, NGO, academics and business interests that would develop the standards to be used to rate the sustainable attributes of products. Today, the consortium is made up of 26 Tier-I members and 6 Tier-II members (for clarity on the distinctions between Tier-I and Tier-II memberships and their costs, refer to the consortium’s application form). (more…)
What does Sustainability mean?
Thursday, February 4th, 2010There are probably many definitions of the term “sustainability”. Asks 10 different person and you’ll probably get 10 different answers.
One known definition of sustainability or sustainable development is by the World Commission on Environment and Development, from a 1987 UN conference, which defined sustainable developments as those that “meet present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs”. This definition provides an ideal premise, but however, it lacks in clarity on what specific human and environmental parameters to be used for modeling and measuring sustainable developments. (more…)
Goodbye www.sun.com
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Last week, some of my friends felt a sense of loss when they typed “www.sun.com” into their browsers and wound up on Oracle’s home page. Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems took all 9 months to complete – as long as conceiving and delivering a baby – but it did mark the end of an era.
Sun Microsystems, which was founded in 1982 by Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, Andreas Bechtolsheim, and Vinod Khosla, was once upon a time a leader in the computing world. During the Internet boom more than two decades ago, Sun made the servers which powered that boom. Those were the good old days. (more…)
