Link Roundup: Data Center Edition

We hope you're enjoying the weekend! Enjoy a little Dilbert and check out the links we thought you'd like.

Data Center Articles:

• Data Center Don't: Unplug First, Ask Questions Later  - Sadly, this happens all the time. When your DCIM is based on a spreadsheet system, it's easy for incidents like this to happen. Check out JEM for Data Centers and see how we've addressed this challenge.
• Need Another Way to Show Off Your Cisco UCS? - Congratulations to Cisco, who recently announced their 10,000th UCS customer. 
• Virtualization Could Save Feds $30 Billion by 2015 - "Government IT departments at all levels are embracing virtualization, mainly for data center consolidation, survey finds. But they'll have to jump implementation hurdles."
• Intel Cloud Builders Guide:"The evolution of cloud computing has resulted in highly efficient and carefully optimized data centers with increased server density and capacity. It means there must be serious considerations made on energy consumption and other factors not as significant in the days of small data centers."

In the upcoming week, we'll have a new poll and talk about the debate around whether or not you should power down PCs.

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