Posts Tagged ‘datacentre’

Horribly expensive hardware

“So, do you use Cisco firewalls as well as routers?”, asks the client; “No, actually.” is our response. Why, you might ask? Surely if you are running over a thousand servers and managing hundreds of individual firewalls you must be using Cisco or some other branded “firewall appliance”? But why must we? What is so [...]

Getting value for Wattage

Power is becoming ever more of an issue for data centres, and the prices keep on going up – doubling in the last two years! Not only that, but the energy ends up as heat, which then has to be air-conditioned (add another 30% to the electricity bill), and then it all just wafts into [...]