My article in DCD Focus: Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit
In September 2015, Data Center Dynamics published my article titled “Modernizing enterprise data centers for fun and profit”, which describes the rationale for my upcoming online class. The current incarnation of that class starts again May 2, 2016.
Here are the opening paragraphs of the DCD article:
Twenty first century data centers are the crown jewels of global business. No modern company can run without them, and they deliver business value vastly exceeding their costs. The big hyperscale computing companies (like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook) are the best in the industry at extracting that business value, but for many enterprises whose primary business is not computing, the story is more complicated.
If you work in such a company, you know that data centers are often strikingly inefficient. While they may still be profitable, their performance still falls far short of what is possible. And by “far short” I don’t mean by 10 or 20 percent, I mean by a factor of ten or more.
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The course will teach people how to bring their data centers into the twenty first century, turning them from cost centers into cost-reducing profit centers.
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