Last week we left off with Maxwell just about to escape from the backpack: “Time loses its reference points in such circumstances but I could tell the backpack was moving around and just as I was beginning to feel at one with the strawberry pepperoni mash-up, the bag...

Hey. Maxwell here. Maxwell Air, that is. But you can call me Max. Did you ever have one of those days? What kind of day, you might ask? Well, something like standing on a corner waiting for the light to change and then you go to step into the street and … poof … you...

How quick were you to answer that question? Is it the tenant? Is it the colocation or cloud provider? Or, does it all need to be spelled out in an SLA? If you picked one of those responses, you’re not wrong. But you may need some clarification. Over the past few years...

The concept of liquid cooling in data centers has grown immensely in popularity over the last few years. Much of this has been driven by claims that liquid cooling is up to 2,000-3,000 times better than air cooling and is the only way to efficiently cool data centers...

Ten months ago, when I started this project of producing a series on algorithms for managing or planning a data center’s mechanical infrastructure, my thinking was that I could demystify the mechanical plant by breaking it down into discrete elements and making the...