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David Chernicoff

David Chernicoff
With more than 20 years of published writings about technology, as well as industry stints as everything from a database developer to CTO, David Chernicoff has earned the term "veteran" in the technology world. Currently the principal of an independent consulting business and an active freelance writer, David has most recently been a Senior Contributing Editor for Windows IT Pro magazine, having also been the Lab Director for Windows NT Magazine, Technical Director of PC Week Labs, the author or co-author of a number of books on different versions of Windows, a plethora of eBooks on various technology topics, and of approximately 3000 magazine articles in print and on the web.

About Five Nines: The Next Gen Datacenter

David Chernicoff looks at technologies that impact data center users and operators, including server consolidation and virtualization, green IT, and the latest hardware advances.
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  • No Surprise: Green Sells

    By David Chernicoff | August 6, 2010, 9:09am PDT

    Green datacenters are the future. So does this come as a surprise?

  • Solar-powered datacenter?

    By David Chernicoff | August 5, 2010, 11:27am PDT

    Does a small, carbon neutral, datacenter have value?

  • VMware improves their virtualized application monitoring

    By David Chernicoff | August 4, 2010, 6:40am PDT

    Proactive management of virtualized applications is a key component of cloud success

  • Can FCoE replace iSCSI?

    By David Chernicoff | July 30, 2010, 12:59pm PDT

    Can Fiber Channel over Ethernet become your storage networking standard?

  • HP announces a containerized datacenter sale

    By David Chernicoff | July 29, 2010, 12:53pm PDT

    With the announcement of Purdue University’s purchase of an HP POD container some of the veil is pulled away from the container market.

  • Will HP's Butterfly have the desired Effect?

    By David Chernicoff | July 28, 2010, 11:59am PDT

    Hp’s new Butterfly Flexible DC hopes to change the way future datacenters are designed

  • Microsoft escalates the ARM race

    By David Chernicoff | July 23, 2010, 1:03pm PDT

    Why should Microsoft think small in regards to their ARM plans? There’s more at stake than the mobile computing market.

  • Does Open Source Matter in the Cloud?

    By David Chernicoff | July 21, 2010, 6:26am PDT

    Does an open source cloud infrastructure matter to you?

  • A different take on the datacenter container

    By David Chernicoff | July 19, 2010, 5:05am PDT

    Can datacenter container offerings from service providers be a more compelling offering than those from hardware vendors?

  • PUE Grows Up

    By David Chernicoff | July 16, 2010, 5:35am PDT

    With the new additions to the PUE metric the Green Grid has an effective tool for measuring energy efficiency of your datacenters

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