Compass Datacenters Completes First Data Center Facility In Raleigh-Durham
Compass Datacenters has completed construction and commissioning of its first data center facility in Durham, North Carolina, located within Research Triangle Park (RTP). The standalone data center...
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Movie Behavior
Note: Chris is out today, so today’s blog is written by me, Steve Flaig, VP of Marketing. Summer is almost here—at least in Texas—and I think we know what that means—summer blockbusters. Yes ladies and...
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Trading TCO for PUE? Part 2
By: Liam Newcombe As promised in part 1, this second part of the post examines the energy and environmental savings of the adiabatic cooling option tested for TCO in part 1 and compares it with some...
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Pardon My Hyperbole
Everyone exaggerates. The big one that got away gets bigger with every telling. That one yard plunge you made for a touchdown in high school now stands at 50 yards, and getting longer, and of course...
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Live Rock
The other day I was having my weekly staff meeting and we were talking about the usual staff meeting things: reviewing the sales funnel, updating project status, looking at the new marketing...
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Are You Asking the Right Questions: Whose Personnel
Trust is an issue that underpins many elements of our daily lives. If we trust a friend or co-worker, for example, we feel secure in the belief that they will treat us fairly and respect our interests....
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When You Wish Upon a Star
In case you haven’t noticed, it’s tradeshow time. Everywhere you look you see invitations for “fill in the blank” World, or a wrap up of another symposium or conference. This desire to congregate is...
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The Mysterious Allure of the Tchotchke
What would you do for a free T-shirt, squeezy ball or even a miniature flashlight? As almost any marketer will tell you–quite a lot actually. Think about it for a minute. Would you really have filled...
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Are You Asking the Right Questions: Is it an Open Platform?
For many years data center management has been based on a formula that would have pleased a medieval alchemist. Mix in equal parts software, spreadsheets and operator experience and, voilà, you have a...
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Detroit. The Data Center Capital of America
Life is good in Altoona, Iowa. With the coming of Facebook, servers will quickly outnumber the community’s 15,000 residents and the city is poised to become one of the country’s leading data center...
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Yes, It is Rude to Text at Dinner
I consider myself to be a man of few words. Note exactly taciturn, but not loquacious either. Despite my predilection toward using fewer words, rather than more, to express myself, I do like to stay...
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Why We Remember
“Freedom is not free” - Walter Hitchcock Col. USAF (Ret.) In the early morning hours of April 19, 1775 eight members of the Massachusetts militia lay dead after a brief skirmish with British troops...
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When Things Comes Together
I coach my son’s baseball team, and since the kids are only nine, what happens on the field often varies distinctly from what we work on in practice. Bases don’t get backed up, I’m not sure why we...
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The Large Print Giveth…
“Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance the promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”. Benjamin Franklin, 1789 In case...
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What’s in a Name?
So I’m sitting at the dentist’s office, and I happened to pick up the issue of People magazine that proclaimed Gwyneth Paltrow to be the most beautiful woman in the world—if your dentist is like mine...
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Data Center Inbreeding
Remember that movie Deliverance, where four regular guys go canoeing and run into some hard times with a few in-bred locals? Although that one guy could really play the banjo, it was pretty obvious...
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Some Out of the Box Thinking
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you know that I’m a big believer in looking outside of our industry to incorporate new ideas and techniques that can contribute to the development of better data...
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In Praise of Dads
Sunday is Father’s Day. If you didn’t know that, you’re not alone. Father’s Day just doesn’t seem to get degree of attention as its parental counterpart. Heck, Father’s Day doesn’t even get the...
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Your Government in Action
Good news. Three years into their five-year data center consolidation project the federal government just found out they had 3,000 more data centers than they originally thought. Boy, you just can’t...
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There’s Just No Pleasing Some People
Do you know anyone who, no matter what you do for them, it’s just not quite good enough? They really liked that sweater you bought them, but they would have loved it if you’d gotten it in that other...
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