Links Catch-up

I've been pretty busy lately and not able to post many things on the blog. Well, as a result there was certainly a lot to catch up on. Here a number of links, notes and other items that I've been able to catch up on tonight:

• Plexus Systems, providers of the on-demand manufacturing performance system Plexus Online, announced a DR site; partnering with Netriplex in Asheville, N.C.

• Auto-Owners Insurance Group plans to build a $45 million, 96,000-square-foot data center in Michigan.

• Searchstorage.com has a nice article on data deduplication technologies and how it has replaced virtualization on TheInfoPro's hot technology index.

• It looks like data centers will continue to have problems because of Human error! :) I don't think it takes a study to prove that data center management can be stressful.

• An interesting post with some history of the making of data center management software company Racemi.

• Here is a nice slide show of the results of the Stanford University Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity May 2007 Survey.

• I have to learn to make my predictions when I think of them. I swear I pondered a post a month or so back that I thought Opsware would be acquired some time this year. Although this hasn't happened, it apparently is in the rumor mill for VMWare to make the acquisition. Maybe VMWare will acquire Racemi instead.

• ITIL adoption in the data center is still low, but interest high as discussed in this Eweek article. This is really too bad -- perhaps some of those human errors mentioned a few bullet points back could be eliminated through ITIL implemented procedures! As a side note, I recently came across a new IT Service Management software company that I am checking out: Lontra.

• Here is a good article on the colocation business model past, present and future.

• I have to mention (because it is an Iowa story) - Rich Miller's post on InfoBunker. Hi Jason!