Datacenter responds to temperature changes

“Most people slow down as the weather gets hotter. Purdue University has applied that logic to its data center, developing software that can slow server activity as temperature rises. This technique recently allowed Purdue’s data center to continue operating during several cooling outages, throttling down server activity to prevent the room from overheating.”

Read more on [...]

Head in the Clouds, Cost under Control?

How to figure out what the cost implications (hopefully savings) of cloud computing are? There are as many different pricing models as there are players.

Price per service being not the sole decision criteria, is certainly very important. Most major players offer some sort of ROI calculator or cost analyzer. Here’s what Amazon and Microsoft provide.

Amazon [...]