rack in comment and analysis
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Reduce the rack load BT's server density does not exceed 3kW or 4kW per rack, a level where fresh air cooling is effective. Data centres are the nastiest, grizzliest hoggers of electricity in the known... [21 Sep 2007]
Data centre in a box
Comment The tightly integrated cooling units positioned between each rack contain water-cooled heat exchangers (to cool the hot air before it enters the next rack) and fans (to move the air around the container... [18 Jun 2007]
Q&A: Alex Burns, COO at AT&T Williams F1 team
Comment We have to have a rack of services in place in the garage to run the cars; to connect the cars up; to connect the data; to sort the data. As the COO of the AT&T Williams Formula One team, Alex Burns works in one of the... [15 Mar 2007]
Q&A: Cisco CEO John Chambers
Comment The networking giant finished last week trading near its 52-week low, even though it continues to rack up record sales and earnings. Does Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers know something about his company that continues to... [18 Apr 2005]
Radioactive: Ready or not, here comes mobile music
Comment While Vodafone and O2 have announced plans for a 500,000-track library, they currently only rack up a fraction of that, while iTunes has 800,000 different songs to download. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines reckons they... [14 Apr 2005]
Radioactive: Mobile operators' family secret - churn
Comment The subscriber numbers that 3 has managed to rack up have come largely off the back of bucket pricing for call minutes. 'I'm promiscuous, professional and sociable. This is not a lonely hearts ad but one of many ways... [09 Feb 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Itanium 2, managing LANs and the Info Pro
Comment This processor is targeting high density (blade and rack) deployments, perhaps looking to host entry-level systems at the edge of networks. There are some words that periodically turn up in news articles and vendor... [16 Sep 2003]
Video killed the revenue, sir
Comment They won't go all out in one month but maybe rack up a few thousand pounds of calls each month, quietly. A report this week that video conferencing facilities are vulnerable to fraud once again raises the question about... [26 Jun 2003]
Devil's Advocate: Microsoft - time to hide the profits?
Comment Yet somehow, if you simply leave it alone, it goes to rack and ruin. The software business is a funny one. The most successful companies get us to pay for virtually the same products again and again. Martin Brampton... [23 Jul 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Revenge of the mainframe
Comment The front panels look appealing, all neatly rack mounted, but there is usually a terrible mess of wires behind the back panel. Bringing order to all those little computers has driven the hosting centre paradigm - squash... [14 May 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Customer Rage Management
Comment It was not GNER's fault that Railtrack let lines go to rack and ruin, nor were they responsible for a Land Rover on the main line. In his latest challenge to assumed ebusiness wisdom, Martin Brampton, director at... [25 Sep 2001]
The Bloor Perpsective: Shell goes ASP, Compaq faces services challenge, passwords for the people
Comment Vendors such as Compaq have found a growing market for servers that will fit in 1U of rack space or even less. Its latest move is just one more step in that direction. The company last week stated that it proposes to use... [23 Jul 2001]
John Lamb's week: How will the UK government solve the IT skills crisis?
Comment From Monday businesses in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Austria will have the chance to bid for configured rack-mounted and entry-level Unix servers through the eBay auction site. The old time relational database... [09 Mar 2001]
Worth waiting for? Oftel seizes the initiative
Comment Larger, urban exchanges will prove popular not just because they reach more people per exchange, but because co-location rack rental costs are divided more ways. After it emerged that take up of co-location space in... [18 Jan 2001]
The good, the bad and the irrelevant: the network manager's challenge
Comment Does it really matter what print server is specified or indeed which 19-inch rack is used to mount hubs and switch? In a world of managed networks, application provision and service level agreements, walking around... [28 Jun 2000]
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