Nick Carr’s blog recently reported on the current trend to package servers in shipping containers.
In this case, Microsoft plan to put 220 (wow!) shipping containers into the first floor of a new data centre. The past reports I have seen on using shipping containers as a means…
As we all know, the cost of servers has fallen dramatically over the last few years.
Simple economics tells us that when prices fall, demand rises. Sure enough, data centres around the world are now running out of space, power, cooling or all three. If you can cope…
Earlier this year, I worked with some of our customers on the DST (daylight savings time) problem. In case you are lucky enough not to have heard about the DST issue, here’s a quick explanation: The US has brought forward the start of DST to the second Sunday of March…
