Greg Goode

Read all about it, carbon tax kills Data Centres!

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:00:00 GMT

Benjamin Franklin once said, "The only things certain in life are death and taxes”.

Currently, the hot topic of discussion in Australia is the Australian carbon tax. The ramifications of this tax are not yet fully understood and the various political parties and independents who are negotiating the framework are themselves divided, so it is anybody’s guess as to the detail.

Tags: cloud computing,data centre

Earthquakes and their implications for data centres in Australia

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:00:00 GMT

'Shaken, not stirred'. You may remember the line from a James Bond movie.

With our planet shaking and stirring up the ground across the globe, this phrase has taken on a whole new meaning.

What does this have to do with data centres?

Tags: data centre facilities,data centre

Can you afford to have data centre principles?

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:00:00 GMT

Principles are wonderful things.

All throughout the data centre industry there are design principles. They pepper reference guides, vendor documents and design standards.

These principles provide guidance that is rooted in fundamental truths and theorems, though they are not specifically tying data centre users to a specific design outcome.

Tags: data centre,energy efficiency

Copper is dead. Long live fibre in the data centre!

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:00:00 GMT

You've probably heard the expression: 'The king is dead. Long live the king.’ It announced the death of one monarch and the immediate enthronement of the new monarch.

This expression could easily be adapted to a current trend in data centres, namely physical data cabling connectivity.

I'm here to shout from the rooftops that 'Copper is dead. Long live fibre!'

Tags: data centre,telecommunications,technology

Dirty data — it's a question of origin

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Should the US data centre industry be afraid?

According to The Australian newspaper on 19 November 2010, leading climate change economist Nicholas Stern warns that climate change action countries will ban 'dirty' US exports.

Could data processed in a data centre somewhere in the US be considered a dirty export?

Tags: data centre,data centre facilities,sustainability

You can't afford to ignore energy efficiency in your data centre

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:00:00 GMT

If ever a word has lost its significance, it's the word 'green' when it's used to imply environmental sustainability and energy efficiency ... especially when it's applied to the data centre industry.

So, let's disregard 'green' and instead talk 'energy efficiency'. And, more specifically, let's talk about the cost of ignoring it.

Tags: data centre,energy efficiency,sustainability

Industry and government back green credentials for data centres

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Years ago, data centre users and data centre consultants would have considered an 'energy-efficient data centre' to be an oxymoron. Ditto 'ecologically-sustainable data centre'. Data centres were considered energy soaks, and their construction was more like a cold war bunker.

Tags: data centre,energy efficiency,sustainability

Dirty and cheap: the data centre's path to PUE nirvana

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Damn the laws of thermodynamics! There are power losses all over the data centre which contribute to poor energy utilisation. These losses present themselves as heat. If it wasn’t for energy losses we would have perpetual motion data centres.

Loss of energy in data centres has focused the minds of many in the industry, especially since the advent of the 21st century, high-density computing and our obsession with global warming. And out of the desire to produce the most energy-efficient data centre has come one profound acronym: PUE.

Tags: data centre,energy efficiency

Oh, what a tangled web

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:00:00 GMT

I happened to attend a debate presented by intelligence² titled Governments should not censor the internet. It was about governments’ role in censoring the internet (topical to us in Australia) to protect the ‘vunerable’ from content that is deemed too explicit or anti-social.

So, are data centres part of the problem, and do they have a part to play in ensuring the likes of you and I are kept safe from information that could corrupt us?

Tags: data centre,internet

Data centre users: beware of hot air

greg.goode@framegroup.com.au — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:00:00 GMT

Air. It's a wonderful thing. Little did 18th century researchers like Joseph Priestly (1733–1804) and Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (1743–1794), who investigated the properties of air, know it would become a cooling medium for information technology (IT) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Tags: data centre,cooling technology