Infrastructure

Reducing Carbon Footprint in Data Centers

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon November 23, 2009in UncategorizedLeave a comment

The reduction in carbon footprint is starting to take hold with some companies. Carbon footprint is the measurement of greenhouse gasses (GHG) emitted. As we consider the impact on greenhouse gasses the environment, carbon footprint becomes a clear target. A…

Rackspace Data Center Outage: Cause for Concern or Time for a Change in Strategy?

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon July 6, 2009in Uncategorized1 Comment

Rackspace, a popular hosting provider in the cloud, suffered a significant outage on June 29, 2009. Apparently, a power interruption caused their Dallas (DFW-Grapevine) data center to go offline. Rackspace has posted a copy of the incident report here: http://www.rackspace.com/downloads/pdfs/DFWIncidentReport6-29-2009.pdf…

Importance of Private Clouds

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon May 17, 2009in Uncategorized2 Comments

First a quick primer on private vs. public clouds… Private clouds are, in many aspects, similar to their public big brothers. However, a private cloud is essentially a pooling of resources within an organization. The limit to the economies of…