by Lars Strong | Sep 18, 2013 | Blog
The following post originally appeared on Jonathan G. Koomey’s Blog. My dear friend Ken Brill passed away on July 30th, and a few of his colleagues and I gathered with Ken’s family in Maine on August 17th of this year to celebrate his life. I’ve posted below...
by Lars Strong | Sep 11, 2013 | Blog
Each day Facebook processes 2.5 billion pieces of content and 500+ terabytes of data. Each hour Wal-Mart handles more than 1 million customer transactions and imports them into a 2.5 petabyte database. Each minute 48 hours of new video are uploaded to YouTube. While...
by Lars Strong | Sep 5, 2013 | Blog
The EnergyLok Cooling Science Seminar: Not your average AFM-101 Remember that first 100-level, introductory seminar you took in college? It fulfilled an uninteresting requirement, attendance was definitely optional, and the professor didn’t even know your name. But...
by Lars Strong | Aug 27, 2013 | Blog
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) is a widely used metric for evaluating the overall efficiency of data center infrastructure. In fact, PUE data reveals that the cooling infrastructure is the single largest consumer of data center power (typically around half), and...
by Lars Strong | Aug 20, 2013 | Blog
The Atlantic in August is the best place to be on a steamy hot day. But, as you paddle out lazily, trying to avoid exuberant children, you might experience an unpleasant shock to your system by floating into a patch of water that’s cloyingly warm, or a spot that drops...