Mid-market CIOs increasing Data Center Outsourcing

In contrast to the Gartner study (see previous post) that said only 9% of CIOs are considering increasing outsourcing to address buidget issues, here's a study that says mid0market CIOs are increasing their data center outsourcing and are, in the main, happy with the results.

Data center outsourcing increases; most happy with results

This increase in ouitsourcing, is matched on the supply side by hosting providers expanding their facilities.

Hot Weather Causes Last FM Outage

This is a pretty impressive chart. it shows the rise on temperature when the chillers failed in the datacenter that hosts lastfm.com (among others I assume).

Obviously all six chillers shouldn't have failed. It's a shame we can't do something with all that heat!


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Study Reveals Green Data Center Focus

Symantec have released their 2009 Green IT Report looking at the actions taken by data center managers to "green up" their operations.

Almost all are claiming they are doing something:

"Ninety-five percent reported that they are replacing old equipment with new energy efficient equipment, 94 percent that they are monitoring power consumption, 94 percent said they were adopting server virtualization, and 93 percent said they were implementing server consolidation."

The sceptic in me says that these are things they would be doing anyway in terms of being more productive and the normal equipment life cycle.

The non-sceptic points out that these things are the foundation of improving (or mitigating) effects on the environment.

What would be useful is an idea of how many are doing radical things rather than just replacing old equipment with new, or simply changing the light bulbs.

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Digital Realty Trust Buys Land in Virginia

This is in my back yard so it's certainly of interest.

DRT seem to know what they're doing, so this signals strong growth in data centers in the future.

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