Considerations to think about in Cloud Data Centers is how Jim and Peter kicked off their presentation of what a cloud data center is. Jim made an interesting point that RagingWire stopped using the Tier rating system in its data centers as it confused the users.  RagingWire’s focus is illustrated in the following slide where [...]

Now that more and more enterprises are starting to get some cloud experience under their belts, attention is starting to shift from getting the technology to work to building an optimal cloud experience. The primary fear of cloud providers and their platform suppliers is that failure to reasonably duplicate traditional data center performance will eventually [...]

KEVIN DEAN Interxion Cloud computing is widely acknowledged as the major force driving IT into the future. International Data Corporation (IDC) has predicted that spending on cloud services is set to increase from $16.2 billion in 2008 to $42 billion by 2012. (1) But as the cloud revolution continues, companies need to consider how they’re [...]

At Tuesday’s Green:Net 09 conference, Jonathan Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University shared his research on the amount of electricity used by data centers. K. In this talk, Jonathan makes a key point that often gets lost in discussions of IT energy efficiency. “The biggest environmental story is not the actual electricity [...]