NetFlash: Server cooling: a hot topic

Now that the Memorial Day weekend has officially kicked off the hottest period of the year, let’s talk about heat. All those processors in all of your data center servers aren’t just sitting there – they’re pumping electrons like mad, turning billions of zeros into ones and back again. That generates a lot of heat, and for today’s supercharged chips, the heat can be dangerous. This week Network World looks at this problem and the swarm of innovative cooling solutions that have emerged lately. Plus, we zoom out to the server rooms themselves, where the technologies of the new data center are placing a heavier burden than ever on air conditioning. Big chill for chips http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0531toocool.html?net Users also taking steps to dial down server heat http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0531environmental.html?net

Now that the Memorial Day weekend has officially kicked off the hottest period of the year, let’s talk about heat. All those processors in all of your data center servers aren’t just sitting there – they’re pumping electrons like mad, turning billions of zeros into ones and back again. That generates a lot of heat, and for today’s supercharged chips, the heat can be dangerous. This week Network World looks at this problem and the swarm of innovative cooling solutions that have emerged lately. Plus, we zoom out to the server rooms themselves, where the technologies of the new data center are placing a heavier burden than ever on air conditioning.

Big chill for chips

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0531toocool.html?net

Users also taking steps to dial down server heat

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0531environmental.html?net

IT job changes afoot

If you’re worried about offshore outsourcing, don’t count on politicians to save your IT job. “They’re going to do nothing,” a corporate strategist said recently. Even so, the thing that will really cut into IT jobs isn’t outsourcing – it’s automation.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0531outsource.html?net

IBM’s deals highlight outsourcing

Recent outsourcing wins by IBM with companies such as Morgan Stanley, Shell Oil and Australian airline Qantas reflect the growth in the outsourcing market as companies look for ways to run their IT operations more efficiently, using both onshore and offshore resources.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0531outsourcing.html?net

NEC unit pleads guilty to defrauding schools

NEC-Business Network Solutions has pleaded guilty to defrauding a U.S. government program for school Internet connections, settling criminal and civil cases against the company through a $20.6 million plea agreement.

https://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0528nec.html?net

Today on Layer 8, still suffering from a 1982 case of Atari thumb

Brits rebuild WWII code-breaking Colossus; what to do if you hate your boss;  theaters outfitted with night vision to foil Potter pirates; and the winner of  our latest Weekly Caption Contest; all this and more today at your home for  not-just-networking news.

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