Category Archives: Scalability

N Plus One is on hiatus

The N Plus One blog is currently on hiatus. We encourage you to visit other Uptime Institute and The 451 Group offerings at the following sites: Uptime Institute Blog – interviews, videos, news and commentary on issues of concern to … Continue reading

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US Navy fires a broadside at datacenter sprawl

Energy efficiency measures are one way to meet the rising costs from data center infrastructure. A lot of effort goes into analyzing heating and cooling alternatives, and innovative approaches to datacenter design, to make them as cost efficient as possible. … Continue reading

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A fun time to be a datacenter geek

Posted by Jason Schafer It’s ironic to an extent, if you think about it, that equipment and technology that undergoes such a fast refresh and obsolescence cycle resides in and is supported by a facility / platform that has historically … Continue reading

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The Line-up for Uptime’s IT Symposium on Data Center Efficiency and Green Enterprise IT

We haven’t by any means completed our work on this, but today we are formally unveiling the core line-up for our annual flagship conference on Data Center Efficiency and Green Enterprise IT. Please look out for more because this event is taking on a life of its own. Continue reading

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Welcome to N Plus One

Welcome to this, the first posting in the new 451 Group and Uptime Institute blog, N + 1. This blog will cover topics in which we have deep knowledge and interest, including data centers, eco-efficient IT, corporate energy management, cultural change in enterprise IT, and carbon legislation. These topics and more will be addressed at our upcoming Symposium 2010 (May 17-19, 2010; Hilton New York). Please make plans to join us! Continue reading

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