Cisco Blog > Inside Cisco IT

6 Essential Data Center White Papers

November 30, 2011 at 10:00 am PST

I spoke at my son’s school for Career Day a couple of years ago.  I talked about my time as a newspaper reporter and basic news writing principles such as the five Ws, attribution and the inverted pyramid.  There’s a chance I’ll return this year to talk about being a Data Center manager, which has me pondering what Data Center basics to cover.

If you had to explain Data Center fundamentals to a newcomer, what would you talk about?  Availability?  Power density?  The fact that everything people do online is enabled by a Data Center somewhere?

Read More »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Rocket Slows: Data Center Power Growth Lessens

August 31, 2011 at 10:00 am PST

Interesting news for Data Center industry watchers:   growth in Data Center energy usage has apparently slowed.

Researcher John Koomey recently studied the issue at the request of The New York Times and determined that from 2005 to 2010 Data Centers worldwide increased energy usage by a little more than half (56 percent) while those in the United States increased usage by about one third (36 percent).

Read More »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,