06.05.07 Links

It's been a while since I have posted (again) -- this time I was on jury duty for a week! It was kind of nice to get away from my field and experience what lawyers and judges go through on a typical day. BTW: he was guilty ......... very, very guilty :)

Here are some links of interest I've come across in past days:

• IP in building automation systems is becoming a pretty hot topic. Check out these articles for some good discussion and news:

• The Changing Face of Infrastructure Monitoring
• GSA paves way for IT-based buildings

• Tivo for your data center (I like the analogy) - yet another excellent post from Chuck Hollis at EMC.
  

• Infrastructure databases - good article from SearchDataCenter.com
  

• Not everyone is jumping on the 'green data center' bandwagon.
  

• After reading this release -- I was curious : does Digital Realty Trust have any real competition (REIT's) in the Data Center industry?
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• IIJ Technology Chooses Opsware for End-to-End Data Center Automation

• "National Digital Medical Archive, Inc. (NDMA) announced the completion of an $11 million upgrade to its enterprise medical content communications infrastructure". I had to laugh when reading a bullet point they have -- it seemed straight out of a BS engine on the web I like...

"Enable enterprise aggregation and integration of medical information across heterogeneous and geographically dispersed environments"

• Verari Systems Secures over $20 Million
  

• El Paso targets the data center market. Jeeesh...I wonder where they got this idea? Hardly anyone in Texas targets data centers to come build there. :)