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More green data center DC power myths.

I’ve just been reading about the value of DC power in the data center. in this post, I’m going to correct some of the strange myths and egregious errors that are spread about DC power. Where do I start on th
The great data center power debate.

After commenting on the Navisite San Jose data center outage (original here), I had a number of different viewpoints presented to me on the data center power reliability subject. I thought I’d take a few minutes to expand on where I believe data centers are really going wrong. It used to be a tenet of data center operations that if the facility went down, someone’s head was going to ro
The green data center, no trade off required for reliability.

Today I was reading about the “trade off between reliability and efficiency” in the data center. I think it’s far from the truth that you have to give up one for the other. Part of the problem that causes this kind of misconception are obsolete classification systems, such as the Uptime Institute’s tiers (I’ve written before about my problems with that particular clas
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