I can tell you I manage 2 data centres totalling 14,000 sq foot. first is 8k sqf and has 950kw, (completely utilised) and the second is 6k sq foot and has around 900kw (80% utilised).

I guess your figured are there or thereabouts.

This doesn't include cooling which is powered separately and managed by the host.

So i'g guess your figures are reasoably there or thereabouts. Worth noting that in our larger smaller DC, we have loads of power and no usable space, and in our bigger DC we have loads of usable space and no power.

its worth bearing in mind that although some devices are becoming more power efficient, the majority of kit is only ever utilised at 10% tops. so if all the kit was running full throttle, temperature might become an issue.

Alos, bear in mind that old, inefficent kit is still a bugger to remove when the unix guys love its reliability (i/m looking at you, RS/6000)

cRap

gOing bUst sOon

Kensington Lock?

Just realised, would be mighty handy if the tablet of choice could have a kensington lock slot.

well given you never got to play with the dell kit, here's my view.

I’m not sure what the C6220s is about. It is definitely better than the C6100 it replaced. They were a bitch to configure (10+ mins to boot to drac config mode drac per node = hours when you have 6 chassis to rig up) The C6100s i found poor MTBF issues as well, multiple motherboard swapouts particularly.

These (well the predecessor C6100) were designed by Dell at the behest of a rich client who wanted custom gear. The point being to squeeze as many nodes into a defined space as possible. I’ve never seen that these do that. You can get 16 blades into an M1000e encolosure, or 10u of space. I rack 3 chassis in a single 42u rack leaving 12u for airflow and patch panels. Thats a total of 48 servers in a single rack Cooling is never ever an issue on these, they have plenty of on board fans and even at the top of the rack they dont surpass about 30 degrees. However, the C6220s run much hotter. I had 10 of these in a dev rack recently (i.e. for a total of 40 nodes) , and the heat they were kicking out at the back of the reack was obscene. Alarming all over the shop, and anything above halfway up the rack was particularly bad. The only way we could get these running consistently was to place the kit in the first rack by the ACU so it gets more air than most racks.

Bear in mind as well that the Blade chassis includes (in my case) 4 ethernet switches and 2 San switches. Adding the equivalent switching in the rack is at least another 6-8u. Oh, and forgot to add there’s no sfp or san ports on the C6220s so they’re out of the question too.

obviously i cant compare on the Fat kit, but for our use, the 4nodes in a 2u space just doesn’t seem to do the job unless you have loads of cooling but not loads of space.

how do these compare against say the Dell C6220 which i guess would be the Dell equivalent?

Speed up UK release schedules and avoid the exclusive licences and i’m a rehabilitated freetarder

I’ve been known to dabble. I must say generally I buy the dvd when its on offer, rip it and never open it again. However, some stuff the release schedules are awful.

Game of Thrones as an example, probably the best show (in my eyes) to come out of the US in a few years. Season 3 is a few weeks away from transmission, but Season 2 is only just out this week on DVD in the UK. HBO don’t licence to Netflix or Lovefilm so there was no other way to watch it.

I’d happily just got a netflix style subscription if only there was a greater range. It feels to me like i need netflix and lovefilm just to get about half the market.

chrome is a dirty word word

Chrome is a dirty word word - but i like it.

i feel like Max Moseley at a Nazi Spankathon.

Allegedly

/filth

been out of stock again, but checked today and they're showing in stock and 1-2 week turnaround.

Placed my order before they disappear again!

Beware Finance industry figures!

As a contractor at a big bank, I would take the figures with a pinch of salt. My bank's IT is almost all outsourced, bar the desk monkeys. Every few years the bank decides that it has become over reliant on the contractors, hires a few middle men to "refresh the contractor pool" and manage these contractors. Inevitably the productivity halves overnight and then they have to take on a good few of the contractors they just got rid of.

So your advert for a Bank IT job might not be sector growth, so much as replacing staff (forced) turnover

Eye Spy with My Raspberry Pi

how good a deal is $25? i'll probably get one anyway, but when the pi itself is £25, is this steep? (i've no idea)

What happened to the link to the Hardware site?

Anyone notice the hardware link has disappeared? Up in the top right there's a link to Whitepapers and the Channel, Hardware also used to be there.

Can i assume the separate hardware page is being phased out? Recent articles like

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/04/ten_3d_printers/

i would usually expect to see on the hardware page.

Dear Ballmer

you can fanny around with home user channel all you want, but please stay the Fuck away from my poweredge.

Have a sibling working at HMV, poor chap. Jokes aside, the threat of redundancy is horrid. Best of luck to anyone out jobhunting.

I do think there is a place for a Retail CD / DVD on the High street. I just think they need to review their range. Drop the T-Shirts / Posters / Crap bog Books. Increase the back catalogue range.

Any planned purchases I do are online. I think if HMV offer the same Online range and pricing as Amazon et al, i'd happily shop there. (clearly, the in store range won't be as big, but definitely has room for improvement). In store purchases tend to be a lot more impulsive. I'll wander in for a mooch, then remember they only sell Beats Audio 'phones and Tulisa Contoshaglots albums. Then i'll wander back out.

Stop Press!

Dodgy Chinese company acts just like a dodgy Chinese company.

Come back Netbook

Couldn’t agree more with most of this.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a resurgence in Netbooks a few years down the line. Tablets are all well and good, they definitely have their place, but for so many applications, a keyboard and a few more ports is so mightily handy. Maybe a few years of people trying to do their accounts or proper photo editing on a tablet will remind them how handy a keyboard and trackpad can be. And I don’t need to worry about free disk space etc.

Just gotta hope my Acer Aspire does me until then.

Why don't they ever compete on price?

I have a small amount of Juniper kit in my Data Centres, some 8200's and 4500s. Given their tiny market share against Cisco, I'm always bemused why they don't price more agressively. We're in the process of upgrading to 10gig and the price differential is no negligible that it's hard to persuade all the die hard Cisco lovers to try something new.

in what way is this ultra?

Shitty cpu (atom, serious!?)

Shitty memory

shitty screen res

shitty price

shitty port availability

must do better

ultra seems to just mean SSD now. i'm gonna fish out my Pentium2, whack in a £40 SSD and sell it as an ultra.

No Eth, No HDMI, No sale

Fancy enough looking but these hybrids still feel like a jack of all trades gimmick.

No HDMI means no discerning media whore is gonna get it. And no ethernet port is gonna seriously affect its use as a business tool.

I'll have to stick to my £200 notebook for now...

There's loads of good ideas for its use in charitable environments, but even for free hardware, its the $2m a year running costs that blow it.

You got anywhere in mind for the place with plenty of solar energy? cos i'd love to the the solar panel rig that will support 861kw kit 24/7. The battery cost let alone the PV panels or the space needed etc...

i worry

about the sort of person who has time on xmas day to discuss SDD IOPS.

...back to the turkey...

As a buyer of switch gear in a data centre, i can attest to the "we like 10gig but we don't like 10gig prices" view.

A clumsy approach at the minute is teaming multiple gig connections and the switching is still the bottleneck in a lot of our vm arrays.

95% of my infrastructure is 1g switches. we'd love to upgrade the old distro / access layer 6500's but the capital outlay at the moment is crippling. Can't fault Cisco kit, but would like to see a bigger share for Juniper or any of the other minnows feeding the scraps. Hopefully this would lead to a bit of competition and a better deal for tech budgets.

poor iPhone 5 = 90%?

Enjoyed the summary, but the iPhone 5 gets the poorest comment of the whole article yet still records a 90% score?