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Measuring Datacenter Transformations

Wai-Kit — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:50:23 +0000

Most 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…

Syracuse University Data Centre goes Off The Grid

Wai-Kit — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:21:25 +0000

The latest news on the wire is that IBM has taken Syracuse University’s (SU) data centre off the electric grid. SU’s data center will be supported by tri-generation, which burns…

Ammonia – a more efficient energy source?

Wai-Kit — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:10:52 +0000

I read with interest the developments around using Ammonia as an alternative, cleaner, easier to transport and easier to store energy source. This reminds me of the movie Mad Max,…

Understanding Data Deduplication

Wai-Kit — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:08:50 +0000

As we look at the many ways to improve storage utilization, data deduplication often pops up as a potential technique. Data deduplication, or sometimes referred to as “intelligent compression” or…

What else can we talk about Data Center designs?

Wai-Kit — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:32:31 +0000

Larry Dignan wrote on his blog about Data Center design 101, but his knowledge about the data center essentially boils down to one word: Money. Larry attended two…

Speaking @ Jakarta

Wai-Kit — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:07:23 +0000

I’m scheduled to speak at a Sun briefing event entitled “Turn Obstacles into Opportunities” in Jakarta on Nov 24th. The agenda will be about achieving efficiency and maximizing ROA (Return…

Cityscape and Data Center floor

Wai-Kit — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:36:54 +0000

It has been almost four days since I last blogged. Have been busy with a client in Tokyo.

This photo is a view from my hotel room at Shibuya. On…

Sensors

Wai-Kit — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:13:23 +0000

Since I’m on the subject of facility, I might as well cover a few more points on data center facility, measurement and sensors. When I think about sensors, it reminded…

Accuracy of measurement sensors & Chiller Efficiency

Wai-Kit — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:48:09 +0000

I spent some time over the weekend reviewing ASHRAE’s latest document on Real-time Energy Consumption Measurements in Data Centers. It is quite a comprehensive book in explaining and…

An Elephant called Hadoop

Wai-Kit — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:36:53 +0000

One of the technology that is often being evaluated for HPC (High Performance Computing) or Cloud infrastructure is named after a stuffed elephant toy called Hadoop.