Archive for May 24th, 2008

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Microsoft Blogger on Licencing

May 24, 2008

 

This is a great blog, from one of the licencing managers at Microsoft - Emma has made a good start on providing easy to understand articles on MS licencing in bite sized chunks.

It’s not everyone’s favourite topic, but we all have to do it :)

Useful for virtualisation people as there’s a whole section on it with pictures some further hilights (for me) on SPLA licencing, SQL and System Centre

Welcome Emma, keep up the good work - even if you are forced to adopt the American spelling of the word for your main job role like me ;)

Thanks to James for the original link.

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A Closer look at Green IT and Microsoft’s new Container Data Centre in Chicago

May 24, 2008

 

Link here - good visualisation about 10mins in of how their new Chicago data centre is laid out internally.

With virtualisation breaking the traditional hardware/OS ties; this is becoming an increasingly appealing way of managing commodity compute grid resources for large organisations. Mike makes some good points about the de-comissioning of servers on a large scale where you are adding 10’s of thousands on a regular basis - you need to take them out at some point too, and that’s time consuming. at this scale of operation It’s more efficient to make the the container and/or datacentre the field replaceable unit (as I discussed a while back) in this scenario.

Also interesting point that water consumption may be the next environmental touch paper for legislation and disclosure for IT shops.

Posted in Datacentre, Disaster Recovery, Fluid datacentre, Geeky, Grid, Virtual Disaster Recovery, Virtual Fabric, Virtual Grid, Virtualization, datacenter in a box, follow the comms, follow the power | No Comments »