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Saving Power Can Cause Problems for Your Data Center
Today’s computer processors are designed to save power. But that wasn’t always the case. Technology once reserved for conserving juice on notebook computers has been incorporated into desktop computers and servers. While generally this has been a good development,... -
Turn Up the Heat in Your Data Center & Save Cold Hard Cash
In these energy conscious times, it’s not often recommended to raise the heat to save energy but that’s the latest wisdom being peddled to data center managers. That’s because allowing a data center to run hotter means less... -
Significantly Reduce Power Costs by Upgrading Your UPS.
Looking for ways to improve energy efficiency in your data center? You might want to take a closer look at your Uninterrupted Power Supply system. An inefficient UPS expels heat, and the more heat in your data center, the... -
Where should you locate your next data center?
Geography may have lost its luster among curriculum creators, but it remains an important consideration when planning a data center. After all, no business wants to locate such a critical component to its overall mission in a place where... -
Making sense out of turning your data center green.
At the end of this summer, Prentice Hall published Marty Poniatowski’s Foundations of Green IT, a book on designing energy efficient data centers. The volume is a comprehensive discussion of consolidation, virtualization, efficiency and ROI in the data center.... -
How to Decommissions Servers, Increase Data Center Space and Remain Compliant.
Just finished reading an article on practical steps data center managers can take to help free up much needed space in data centers. The article is good and offers many practical solutions concerning consolidating data, or eliminating unused... -
The Problem with Tape and eDiscovery
I just finished reading Christine Taylor’s blog entry “The Question of Tape” on her Byte and Switch blog. She raises a lot of great points, but my favorite part of the article was at the end when she said: -
It’s IT Conference Season Once Again.
B&L is gearing up for a couple of upcoming conferences in Florida. The first is the Miser User Group (MUG) Annual Conference in Winter Park, FL from May 1-6. In today’s tight economic climate, B&L can offer smaller, regional...