Datacenter of the Future

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

What does the data center of the future look like? Well, HP Labs built one to find new ways to cool machines while using less power. Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow & Director of HP Labs' Sustainable IT Ecosystem Laboratory, gives us a tour of the lab, which actually was used to render the first two Shrek movies.

Tags: Chandrakant Patel, datacenter, environmental, hplabs, it

 

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Hey, why not record your own video response on Youtube - and insert the url here.
Posted by Max (not verified) on January 8, 2009 6:53 PM

I think that I will email this video to all my friends. And I suppose you will find the competent people who will be able to develop this area of knowledge.

Posted by Zubin Wadia (not verified) on July 22, 2008 3:56 AM

Great interview Robert.

Some more thoughts here: http://zwadia.com/?p=10

Posted by Matt (not verified) on July 22, 2008 2:47 AM

this HP guy is a genius. As always, a really entertaining video!

P.S. LMMFAO @ 15:03 (or there abouts...) she totally got kicked out of the break-room cuz of the interview, huh? hehehe.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 21, 2008 5:50 AM

So umm, I loved the interview but the "tour" was lame.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 20, 2008 1:07 AM

This video segment doesn't actually include a tour of the lab (at least not visually) as implied. Is the description incorrect, or are you teasing us (e.g. a follow-on video is in the works)...

Posted by Emerson Seiti Takahashi (not verified) on July 19, 2008 1:18 PM

So HP is going to be a one stop shop after their aquisition of EDS and their advantage will be in the implementation of data centers.

Posted by Pete Steege (not verified) on July 18, 2008 7:41 PM

This is one sharp guy. Great discussion Robert! An amazingly holistic view of the issues from a "box" vendor.

Posted by Greer (not verified) on July 17, 2008 10:53 PM

Nice. The old school is the new school! Back to engineering! That is counter-intuitive to the IT organization of today.