This Week: Data center cooling heats up

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Published by Search390.com  June 14, 2004 >> Receive this e-mail as text  >> About this e-mail   In this Issue >> From the editor: From the editor: Data center cooling heats up >> Featured Topic: Data Center Decisions Redux >> Expert Technical Advice: Dave Jones, Sine Nomine Associates >> Site Highlights: Web enable your data XML white paper Vendor webcast  From the Editor: by Edward Hurley, Editor I am about to take the plunge. After years of torture and torment, I am going to finally give in to my baser instincts. I am going to buy an air conditioner. You see I have weathered years of hot and humid summers without an AC. In the past, I could take it but I recently moved to a third floor apartment. The place makes a sauna seem downright balmy. I have sweated enough. I am sick of waking up dripping with perspiration. My apartment will soon be filled with the buzz of an AC spewing out conditioned, cool air. So why am I blabbing on about sweating? I can see a parallel in the mainframe world. For me, cooling is a matter of comfort but for computers it's a necessity. I am preparing to take a hit on my electric bill because of an AC. But companies that scrap their mainframes in favor of smaller servers may not realize their electricity and cooling costs may go up exponentially. For example, a company may replace a mainframe with 250 Intel-based boxes. The thinking is it will save so much on licensing, staffing costs, etc. But just two of those boxes, in some cases, can generate as much heat as a mainframe. All of a sudden, cooling becomes a much bigger (i.e. expensive) problem. The problem is many companies don't take cooling into consideration when designing a data center. They find out it's a problem after the fact. "Heating and cooling issues are killing us," said Steve Memenga, manager of infrastructure services, Bank of Montreal at the Data Center Decisions conference earlier this month. Overheating was such an issue at one point, he said, the company had to bring in portable fans and rig them into the data center. So is cooling a major issue for you? Do you feel a pinch when electricity prices go up? If so, please take this week's poll on the subject. Click here. Please send any stories you have about keeping your data center cool. Click here. Thanks!  Featured Topic: Data Center Decisions Redux by the editors of Search390.com Earlier this month, data center experts descended on Chicago for Data Center Decisions. If you missed the conference, you are in luck. We have collected a wide variety of news stories from the event. Read more about this topic  Expert Technical Advice: Featured Expert Dave Jones, VM system and application programmer, Sine Nomine Associates Categories:VM system and application programming Dave Jones is a member of the technical staff at Sine Nomine Associates, an Ashburn, VA-based network and IT infrastructure consulting organization. He has over 15 years experience in both VM system and application programming on VM/SP, VM/ESA and z/VM systems. He has helped bring several VM-based commercial products to market and he is the author of the VM SNTP Version 4 network timeserver, VM/TimeServ. He has extensive experience with Rexx and CMS Pipelines, HLASM, PL/I and PL/X. He was also part of the team that wrote the "VM/ESA Network Computing with Java and NetRexx" Redbook, published in November 1998. View all Daves answers This Week: In the forums >> A Search390.com user posted this question in our developer forum: Added NOPASSWORD and NOOIDCARD to batch job UserIDs, making them PROTECTED. Will this stop any inactive (longer than 30 days) UserIDs from becoming REVOKED? Do you have a response? If so, post it here. Tip of the Week: The editors of Search390.com have collected the most popular COBOL related expert responses just for you. 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