Top 5 Myths about Google's Data Centers

Sentilla takes a look at how Google actually runs their data centers, investigates what applies and doesn't apply to enterprise data centers, and sets the record straight on what's behind Google's low PUE.

Top Google data center myths

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Are federal data centers complying with executive order 13514? The answer: Not really. http://bit.ly/d68P9C

Even the International Space Station has power and cooling problems!http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10833327

Monitoring is NOT management. Are you actually managing energy & performance or just monitoring?http://bit.ly/9301qm

Floating data centers next door to Sentilla in Redwood City, California? Oh my! http://bit.ly/cEmyTT

Data center outage at @Intuit due to power problems. !http://community.intuit.com/posts/intuit-service-update

Sentilla Co-Founder and CTO @polastre Won European CTO Award for Innovation in Data Centres. http://tinyurl.com/2vjfn8a

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Management vs Monitoring

Data_Centres_Europe_2010 Do you know the difference between monitoring tools and management tools?

Find out in this article that breaks down what each tool really does and provides a simple checklist for evaluating whether your tools provide management functionality.


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  • Sentilla Co-Founder Wins European CTO Award for Innovation in Data Centres

    Sentilla CTO Joe Polastre Presented with European CTO Award for Innovation in Data Centres at BroadGroup Data Centres Europe 2010

     

    REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 29, 2010 - Sentilla® Corporation, provider of demand-side energy management solutions for data centers, today announced that co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) Dr. Joe Polastre has been awarded the 2010 European CTO Award for Innovation in Data Centres by BroadGroup. Dr. Polastre accepted the award on behalf of Sentilla Corporation, which has developed the most valuable and innovative energy management solutions in the data center industry. In January 2009, Sentilla launched the Sentilla Energy Manager™, an award winning, novel, enterprise management platform that analyzes energy use down to application and equipment levels to create actionable profiles of an organization’s energy footprint. The resulting intelligence enables companies to reduce energy consumption, lower operating costs, decrease carbon emissions and extend the life of their data centers.


    The BroadGroup Data Centres Europe 2010 Awards are presented based upon the collective consideration of a panel of judges and are awarded to both individuals and companies that have demonstrated best-in-class, or, contributed significantly to the campaign of continuous improvement within the data center industry. The independent panel of judges was comprised of experts in the data center industry.