Why Indirect Air Economization Is Your Smarter Choice Compared to Direct Air...
In my last post, I listed some common questions raised by data center designers and users when considering direct and indirect air economization. In fact, the core issues of those questions are about...
View Article6 Tools for Addressing Executive Order 13693
While Executive Order 13693 intends to plan federal sustainability for the next 10 years, we have only had about 10 months to digest the legislation. I say “only” because at the same time we are still...
View ArticleDeploying a Federal Prefabricated Data Center: Tools, Tips and TCO
If you have experience working in a government data center and read my last post on prefabricated solutions, you might have thought I exaggerated on the time it takes to get up and running — 12 to 16...
View ArticleDriving Towards Simpler Data Centers
The Open Compute Project has helped to open up some much needed dialogue within the data center industry. It is driving data center owners/managers toward simpler, more standardized, more efficient,...
View ArticleSo Will Prefab Cost Me More or Not?
There’s no question when it comes to prefabricated modular data centers, it offers real benefits in terms of speed of deployment, greater reliability, greater flexibility to scale, and improved...
View ArticleResistance is Futile: Comply with DCOI or Be Assimilated
Schneider Electric offers U.S. Federal government agencies guidance on how to comply with new federal data center mandates My team, the Data Center Science Center, has just written White Paper 250,...
View Article48VDC and the Quest for Improved Compute Performance
Last year I wrote a blog about open standards organizations like Open Compute Project (OCP) and Open19, and the power architectures that are emerging from these groups – specifically, the consolidation...
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