IT management

A collection of 2 posts

13 Apr 2016 • 2 min read

Upcoming class: Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit

jgkoomey: Cern datacenter Photo credit: By Hugovanmeijeren (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons I’ve been struggling for years to convince executives in large enterprises to fix the incentive, reporting, and other structural problems in data centers. The folks in the data center know

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3 Jun 2015 • 2 min read

Our latest research on comatose servers

I’ve been working with Jon Taylor of Anthesis Group and Aaron Rallo of TSO Logic to compile data on servers in enterprises that are using electricity but generating no useful computing output (we call these comatose servers). Until now, it has been difficult to compile data on idle servers

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