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  • Dell IoT lab data center

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    Here is the final post in the series of four concerning Dell’s IoT lab in California. Product Technologist, Raja Tamilarasan gives an overview of the dedicated IoT data center for customers and explains how it can be used for local or remote access. Extra-credit reading Barton’s blog:  IoT lab: Dell Smart building demo Barton’s blog:  What…

  • DCS’s Chief Geek takes us on a tour of his mini Home Lab

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    Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group has some pretty colorful folks.  One of the more interesting members is Jimmy Pike, the man IDG New’s James Niccolai refered to as the “Willy Wonka of servers.”  Jimmy, the self-proclaimed “chief geek” of the DCS team is the consummate tinkerer whether that involves constructing a data center in…

  • Construction complete on Microsoft’s “Cloud Farm”

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    In Data Center Knowledge last week there was a short article, accompanied by a set of photos, that gave view into Microsoft’s very cool new “Cloud Farm” data center.  The design of the data center, which is located in Quincy Washington, was driven by Microsoft’s use of some ultra-cool modular data centers 🙂 .  It…

  • A Data Center that fits in the Overhead Bin

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    Jimmy Pike is the director of systems architecture for the Data Center Solutions group here at Dell and self-proclaimed “head geek.”   Using a tool case with its insides stripped out, part of an old inbox and a bunch of off the shelf components he has created the world’s first portable “data center.”   (All for the…