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  • Cloudwashing and Sorting Out the Confusion

    November 26th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    The explosion of cloud computing terminology and services has made it harder to differentiate between the many offerings and understand where the cloud begins and marketing ends. In this interview with Beet.tv, Forrester VP and Principal Analyst Frank Gillett discusses the trend toward “cloudwashing” and provides a broader context for understanding the proliferation of cloud-related offerings. This video runs about 3 minutes, 45 seconds.

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  • Panel: The Future of Cloud Computing

    November 21st, 2008 : Rich Miller

    The Web 2.0 Summit featured a panel on “The Future of Cloud Computing” that brought together Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff, VMWare CEO Paul Maritz, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch and Google Enterprise’s Dave Girouard. With Tim O’Reilly moderating, the panel discusses what cloud computing means to VMware, Adobe, Salesforce.com and Google Apps. This video runs about 11 minutes.

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  • Web 2.0 Panel on Cloud Computing

    November 11th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    How will cloud computing mold the future of the technology industry, and how can chief technology officers adapt to the shifting landscape? At last week’s Web 2.0 conference, Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media convened a conversation with Cisco Systems CTO Padmasree Warrior and HP CTO Shane Robison. This video runs about 40 minutes, but the discussion of cloud computing really begins at about the 16 minute mark, with Q&A following at about 32 minutes.

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  • Data Center Tour: Fortrust

    November 10th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    Denver colocation and disaster recovery specialist Fortrust recently completed a $30 million expansion of its data center, bringing its raised-floor colocation capacity to more than 48,000 square feet. In this video, Fortrust General Manager Rob McClary provides a tour of the company’s Denver data center, which features a 36-inch raised floor, which is for cooling only, with all network cabling running overhead. This video runs about 10 minutes, with an introduction by Anastasia Tubanos of WHIR TV.
     

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  • Art Zeile Discusses Plans for HostMySite.com

    October 27th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    Veterans of the data center industry will remember InFlow, the Denver-based chain of data centers that focused on second-tier markets, and was purchased by Sungard in late 2004. Former Inflow CEO Art Zeile is back in the Internet infrastructure business, being named CEO of HostMySite.com after its acquisition by Wachovia Capital. In a recent interview with Anastasia Tubanos from WHIR TV, Art talks about his career in the data center industry and what’s ahead for HostMySite.com.

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  • HP Discusses Data Center Automation

    October 16th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    At the recent Data Center World conference, we sat down with Kalyan Ramanathan, the Director of Product Marketing for HP Storage Automation. Kalyan discussed the growing complexity of the data center, the improtance of compliance and best practices, and the role that CMDB (configuration management database) and automation can play in addressing complexity challenges. Kalyan was part of the team at Opsware, the data center automation company acquired by HP in 2007. This video runs about 8 minutes.


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  • Scenes from Data Center World in Orlando

    October 13th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    Here’s a video featuring scenes from the exhibit floor at last week’s Data Center World Fall conference at the Orlando World Center Marriott, offering a look at many of the data center equipment and vendor booths. This video runs about 2 minutes.

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  • Eaton Discusses its 9395 1100 kVA UPS

    October 10th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    At this week’s Data Center World trade show in Orlando, Eaton Corp. introduced an 1100 kVA version of its Eaton 9395 UPS (uninterruptible power supply) system for data centers. In this video, Pedro Robredo, the product line manager for Eaton’s 3-phase power unit, discusses the features of the new UPS model. This video is about 2 minutes, 30 seconds. 

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  • A Look at The HP Oracle Database Machine

    September 30th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    HP and Oracle have teamed up on The HP Oracle Database Machine, a system designed to run large, multi-terabyte data warehouses and built around the Oracle Exadata Storage Server. In this video from last week’s Oracle OpenWorld, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison introduces the new product - which marks Oracle’s entry into the hardware market - with an assist from HP CEO Mark Hurd. This video runs about 4 minutes.

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  • Data Center Tour: Intel’s High-Density Retrofit

    September 26th, 2008 : Rich Miller

    Here’s an interesting data center retrofit: Intel Corp. converted one of its silicon chip fabrication facilities into a high-density data center, and has provided a video tour. Data center manager Tom Greenbaum describes the retrofit as he provides an overview of the facility, which is really three data centers in one: a traditional raised-floor area with a hot-aisle/cold-aisle design, a second section running ultra high-density (30 kW a cabinet) servers on a slab floor with a chimney system, and a third area housing a liquid-cooled supercomputer. This is a really interesting data center. The video runs about 6 minutes.



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