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Article: Danger in the new data center; Bob Doherty, a leader in the Data Center Institute think tank, examines the health and well-being of the new data center.
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- Network World
- Article date:
- October 25, 2004
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Byline: BETH SCHULTZ
Planning the new data center means more than plotting out server consolidation and virtualization. It also means knowing the effect these have on overall data center design. Bob Doherty, a 30-year IT veteran, studies such issues for the Data Center Institute, a think tank run by AFCOM, an association for data center professionals. In an interview with Signature Series Editor Beth Schultz, Doherty describes what he calls the new data center's "physiology" - and explains why conditions might deteriorate quickly.
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