Issue 5, Aug/Sep 2009
FOCUS CONTENTS
CONTENTS Issue 5, Aug/Sep 2009
NEWS EDITORIAL US
UK & EUROPE
EMERGING MARKETS & ASIA
TECHNOLOGY FEATURES
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INDUSTRY & FINANCE 11 WHAT’S ON THE WEB 12 DCD SAILING CHALLENGE 12 ANALYSIS OUTAGES
Several high-profi le outages were reported in June and July. We examine the causes and the lessons learned
AVOIDING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE
Industry association Intellect calls for more data center investment to prepare for the economic upturn
DIGITAL BRITAIN 18
How should the UK government manage its data center strategy?
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INTERVIEW: TANUJA RANDERY, COLT
The recently appointed head of global business outlines her strategy
A PAINLESS GUIDE THROUGH THE CLOUD
15
Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s CTO, explains how to transition a data center for cloud computing
DCD SAN FRANCISCO 26
Bridging the schism between IT and Facilities – a panel discussion with some of the industry’s top names
NEWS FROM DCD SAN FRANCISCO
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Stonemont Financial works with Skanska on bringing capital investment to green data center construction
A warning is issued to US data center operators on carbon- related legislation
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Supply and cost of water in the data center is a growing concern for many, fi nds the latest DCD research
AWARDS DCD 2009 AWARDS
Open for entries. All the categories and details of the industry’s most prestigious awards
UPDATE POWER MANAGEMENT 41 Cisco’s Energywise Phase 2 COOLING
New market entrant, Google, ditches chillers; and news on the latest products
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A Californian county’s efforts at data center consolidation
EMERGING MARKETS 49
Green issues take a back seat as developing economies focus on growth
BUILD UPDATE
The latest data center construction projects
INDICES SKILLS
43 50 22
INTERVIEW: NEIL RASMUSSEN, SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC
20
Energy management: why regulations are good and how to make metrics more useful
DCD SAN FRANCISCO
Money saved, knowledge gained: reactions from DCD conference attendees
GREEN DATA CENTER COOLING
32
Don Beaty PE and John Lannie PE of DLB Associates analyse in detail the fundamentals of air and water cooling options for green data center operation
INDICES WATER
34
National Air Traffi c Control’s UPS deployment
IT ARCHITECTURE
How media giant Thomson Reuters deployed storage and server virtualisation
CONSOLIDATION 48 47 30 M&A 44
EMC and Data Domain, VMware and Terremark plus the other IT mergers
UPS 45
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Concerns are growing over the looming skills shortage
CONFIDENCE INDEX The industry is looking up
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