Entries tagged with data center - TechNet Edge

datacenter 4.0

Adam Bomb — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:00:00 GMT

By now, hopefully most people have seen Mike Manos' blog post on our next generation of datacenters, and seen the concept video of what the new datacenters will look like.
After I saw the video, I had a lot of questions about how this all works - I mean, what if it snows? How do I know my data is secure? With all your equipment in an environmentally sealed container, what do you do when a piece of equipment inside the container fails?
I was able to sit down with Christian Belady and David Gauthier, two of the architects behind the modular data center vision, to ask them some of these questions. They answered all these and more, including their thoughts on some of the other initiatives that are coming out in the industry. good stuff!

update: David and Christian have started a blog at http://blogs.technet.com/msdatacenters

tear the roof off the datacenter

Adam Bomb — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:32:00 GMT

apparently, if you're air cooling your datacenter, having a roof just gets in the way. Mike Manos (who've we had on Edge in the past) recently published a post on his blog about the vision his team is working on for future datacenter design, and they also released a concept video of what these new centers look like.
this is cool stuff, and really changes perception on what it takes to deploy a datacenter.
It looks like others have noticed Mike's post, and have already chimed in with their thoughts.

System Center Announcements at TechEd Barcelona

Dave Morehouse — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:45:00 GMT

Jeff Wettlaufer sits with Brad Anderson, general manager in the Management Services Division, to talk about the current state of the System Center product suite, and touches on some key announcements at TechEd 2008 in Barcelona. A big theme: how System Center can help save organizations money in managing their IT infrastructure.