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Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 1

In this pair of articles I will be dissecting the fundamentals of cooling and refrigeration from an IT engineering perspective, then going over the process of sizing a cooling system. As infrastructure engineers, we likely deal with the topic of cooling on occasion, and those occasions tend to be during a facility buildout/upgrade or outage […]

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Back to Basics: Cooling – Part 1

In this pair of articles I will be dissecting the fundamentals of cooling and refrigeration from an IT engineering perspective, then going over the process of sizing a cooling system. As infrastructure engineers, we likely deal with the topic of cooling on occasion, and those occasions tend to be during a facility buildout/upgrade or outage […]

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Breaking down the Ivory Tower part 1 – Vision

Network engineers and operators may often feel themselves at odds with network architects, who live in ivory towers and make pronouncements from on high about how a network should be set up, but aren’t actually responsible for making it work. Now for those that have listened to the Datanauts show on VCDX certification (at around […]

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Breaking down the Ivory Tower part 1 – Vision

Network engineers and operators may often feel themselves at odds with network architects, who live in ivory towers and make pronouncements from on high about how a network should be set up, but aren’t actually responsible for making it work. Now for those that have listened to the Datanauts show on VCDX certification (at around […]

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Power9, GPUs, FPGAs will have a profound effect on the data center

Last week brought us, in my opinion some of the biggest news that I’ve read recently. In a nutshell the news was that Google is working with Rackspace and IBM and that they have created an OpenPower Foundation. In a nutshell, they’re collaborating on open hardware designs based on the Power9 architecture from IBM and, at […]

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Power9, GPUs, FPGAs will have a profound effect on the data center

Last week brought us, in my opinion some of the biggest news that I’ve read recently. In a nutshell the news was that Google is working with Rackspace and IBM and that they have created an OpenPower Foundation. In essence, they’re collaborating on open hardware designs based on the Power9 architecture from IBM and, at the […]

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