About Me section

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

As part of the move to Squarespace I used the default “about me” location and changed what I wrote.

In the past I had the “about” buried in the UI and gave a resume type of description.

After over three years of blogging on Green Data Centers I decided to change the description. Here is what is now up at about me.

In 2007 I started blogging on the Green Data Center topic. During these years, I have met great people who have a passion for greening the data center. Two guys at the top of the list are Mike Manos and Olivier Sanche. Both were clients and who have been become great friends. Unfortunately, Olivier is no longer with us and passed away suddenly at the age of 41.

Squarespace’s Green Data Center efforts

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

The Green Data Center blog, www.greenm3.com is now hosted on SquareSpace. My #1 reason for moving was for a better platform to create a new look for the blog which so far I like. I migrated my content over from TypePad which I’ll write another blog entry about that effort. For this post I want to write about Squarespace’s Green Data Center efforts.

First where is Squarespace? They are in NYC at Peer1 hosting.

PEER 1 hosts the Squarespace data center presence in New York City, providing solid connectivity and power resources. While being a PEER 1 customer, Squarespace's business has grown by 300 percent annually for the last three years and has signed on tens of thousands of subscribing customers.

New Data Center Construction in Pennsylvania?

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

A Data Center expert has shared his opinion that Pennsylvania is a great location to build a data center, but for some reason no one wants to build there. Data Center Dynamics covers a possible change with Bethlehem, PA giving permit approval.

City green-lights 300,000-sq-ft Pennsylvania build

Facility to be built for data center services firm

Published 11th February, 2011 by Yevgeniy Sverdlik

This week a US real-estate developer received an approval from local planning authorities to build a 300,000-sq-ft data center in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The city’s planning commission approved a preliminary site design on Thursday, according to a WFMZ report.

Danger of Repeating Signals without meaning

February 12, 2011 Dave Ohara

How many times does this situation remind you of challenges in your data center.

The danger of repeating signals

Kevin shares this great quote from the Count of Monte Cristo:

"I have been told," said the count, "that you do not always yourselves understand the signals you repeat."

"That is true, sir, and that is what I like best," said the man, smiling.

"Why do you like that best?"

"Because then I have no responsibility. I am a machine then, and nothing else, and so long as I work, nothing more is required of me."

China Telecom Supplier, Huawei discusses Green Data Center

February 11, 2011 Dave Ohara

China Telecom supplier discusses Huawei’s Green Data Center Solution. This post is in simplified Han and is translated by Google Translate.

Huawei proposed a "green Huawei, green communications, green world" strategy, to join the global ICT industry's most influential environmental organizations GeSI, together with other communications industry counterparts to discuss the impact of the global ICT industry's environmental strategy, the implementation of methods, techniques standards, public policy, play a greater role at the strategic level.
In the data center, Huawei proposed joint management of data center intelligence solutions, through the device level, the cabinet level, the full range of room-level, multi-level intelligent, automated monitoring and management, and gradually optimize the data center PUE, Lower Operating costs.