If not deployed properly, today’s whiz-bang network management tools wind up making more work for network admins rather than saving them time and reducing their overload. Wait, labor saving devices don’t save labor? Not really, at least when it comes to freeing up time for more important or rewarding activities. It’s not unlike the “labor… Continue reading More Work For Admins: When Labor-Saving Management Tools Don’T Ease Workloads
Category: Data Center
Equinix’s Fix For High Power Bills? Hotter Data Centers
Data-center giant Equinix has found a low-tech solution to high data-center electric bills: turn up the thermostat. Guidance from the American Society of Heat, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recommends a temperature range for data-center servers from 59°F (15°C) to as high as 89°F (31.6°C). Equinix is looking at setting the temperature at 80°F… Continue reading Equinix’s Fix For High Power Bills? Hotter Data Centers
Meta Considers Liquid To Cool Its Hard Drives
A joint effort by immersion cooling firm Iceotope and Meta, the parent company of Facebook, found cooling hard drives with a dielectric liquid is safe and a more effective means of cooling than using fans. Hyperscalers like Meta deploy thousands of HDDs in their data centers, and while the heat given off on an individual… Continue reading Meta Considers Liquid To Cool Its Hard Drives
What Is Sase? A Cloud Service That Marries Sd-Wan With Security
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. First outlined by Gartner in 2019, SASE (pronounced “sassy”) has quickly evolved from a niche, security-first SD-WAN alternative into… Continue reading What Is Sase? A Cloud Service That Marries Sd-Wan With Security
Intel Xeons To Offer On-Demand Special Functionality
Intel has a new program called Intel On Demand that will allow customers of its new Xeon Scalable Processors to unlock specialty processing engines for an extra fee. Intel has not disclosed what it will cost to access the On Demand features, which are activated through Intel Software Defined Silicon (SDSi), a newly added function… Continue reading Intel Xeons To Offer On-Demand Special Functionality
Gartner: What To Do To Make Data Centers More Sustainable
Just a few weeks ago Gartner analysts said that sustainability and issues around it would transcend all of the strategic technology trends for 2023. This week at its IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference Gartner described how corporate data centers might make sustainability a practical reality. “IT leaders must avoid wasting value through the… Continue reading Gartner: What To Do To Make Data Centers More Sustainable
Converting Numbers On Linux Among Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, And Binary
Encrypted data / hexadecimal code” itemprop=”contentUrl” /> You might not be challenged very often to convert numbers from one numbering system to another but, when you are, you can do it with either of two fairly easy commands on the Linux command line. Converting in your head can be taxing, especially for longer numbers. While… Continue reading Converting Numbers On Linux Among Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, And Binary
Linux Bash Tips: Many Ways To Loop Using Bash
The bash shell provides a superb functionality when it comes to writing scripts. This includes many ways to loop through a pile of data so that you can get a lot done with one running of a script. Whether you’re looping through a large group of numeric values, days of the week, usernames, words, files,… Continue reading Linux Bash Tips: Many Ways To Loop Using Bash
Commands For Finding Out If Compressed Linux Files Are The Same
Compressed Linux files are helpful because they save disk space, but what should you do when you have a series of compressed files and want to determine if any are duplicates? The zdiff and zcmp commands can help. To begin, if a directory contains two files like those below, it’s easy to tell just from… Continue reading Commands For Finding Out If Compressed Linux Files Are The Same
Seagate Introduces Hdds As Fast As Ssds
Thanks to some engineering wizardry involving existing technologies, Seagate has introduced a new line of hard disk drives that can match the throughput of a solid state drive. The drives are part of Seagate’s Mach.2 line, called Exos 2X18. This is the second generation of the Mach.2, coming in 16TB and 18TB capacity and support… Continue reading Seagate Introduces Hdds As Fast As Ssds