‘Data Centre-as-a-Service’ pioneer, ECL, has announced the launch of what it claims is the world’s first modular, sustainable, off-grid data centre that uses green hydrogen as its primary power source. The company further claims to be able to deliver data centres in one megawatt (MW) blocks that can achieve 99.9999 per cent uptime. ….. ….. While other data center providers have deployed hydrogen fuel cells as backup power supplies, and with some conducting trials of systems forecast for production delivery in three-to-five years, ECL asserts that it is the first provider to deliver a fully-green hydrogen-powered data centre. This leapfrog innovation is enabled by bringing together several disruptive technologies including green hydrogen-based power generation, battery energy storage and highly reliable power architecture without dependence on the utility grid. ….. ….. ECL also said that its cooling innovations enable much higher density-per-rack than traditional data centre providers, a strong benefit given the increasing per-server power consumption driven by accelerating chip and system density. Water created as a by-product of hydrogen-based power generation is used to cool ECL’s server racks, eliminating the need for external water sources. Combining this with proprietary rear door heat exchange technology results in lower Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratios than any other colocation data centre provider.
In this video, learn how Portworx provides high availability to your data rich application and how it does this by providing synchronous replication at the volume granular level.
In this article (Managing infrastructure with Terraform, CDKTF, and NixOS), the author provides a brief introduction to Terraform, CDKTF, and the Nix ecosystem. He will explain how to use Nix to access these tools within your shell, so we can quickly start using them.
The Cloudcast discusses platform engineering with the founder and CEO of RackN, Rob Hirschfeld. Starting around the 10-minute mark, the conversation covers the goals and best practices of platform engineering.
Topic 1 – Welcome back to the show, it was great to see you in person at events recently. What have you been focusing on the last couple of years?
Topic 2 – There’s been a lot of discussion about Platform Engineering over the last 6+ months. You’ve been around this space for a while. We’re trying to understand if PE is different from DevOps or SRE or Cloud Platform in the past, or an evolution. Is PE just a common platform maintained with reusable tools, regardless of the infrastructure?
Topic 3 – I’ve heard people say that Cloud Platform and Platform Engineering are colleagues. where one owns/operates the platform, and the other is the “product manager” to the application teams. Is this realistic?
Topic 4 – What does “good” look like for Platform Engineering? Is the goal a frictionless developer experience? Are developer consistency and efficiency valid goals? Are there KPIs or Metrics that “good” teams are striving towards?
Topic 5 – Any interesting technologies that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable?
Topic 6 – Any team dynamics that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable?
Google recently published a new documentation set on HashiCorp Terraform. It aims to “provide guidelines and recommendations for effective development with Terraform across multiple team members and work streams.”
The Linux Cluster 