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In This Issue: Bounce Houses | Cisco SFP-10G-SR | How to Calculate Power Consumption for Your Server Room | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – Bounce Houses
Happy Monday!
I can’t believe it’s already May, it seems like last month flew by. This weekend there wasn’t much activity to do. My kids went to a birthday party that had a bounce house… and all I can say is whoever invented the concept of the bounce house is a genius! The kids had a blast. According to Wikipedia the bounce house concept was created by an American engineer, John Scurlock. According to his family he was inspired by designing inflatable tent covers for tennis courts. That was back in 1958!
Other than that birthday party not much to report. I am getting over a sinus infection, and our van is getting in the process of getting repaired. I’m hoping to get it back in the next 3 to 4 weeks (apparently parts have been a bit delayed as with all car things). I hope you all have a great day and enjoy the first week of May!
Cris
Product Spotlights & Updates
The Cisco SFP-10G-SR module gives you a wide variety of 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity options for your data center, enterprise wiring closet, and service provider transport applications. The SFP-10G module boasts a variety of features and benefits, including being the industry’s smallest form factor, which results in the greatest density per chassis. The SFP-10G-SR is hot-swappable and can be switched out with ease. Cisco 10GBase-SR SFP+ modules also feature Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM) functionality, which allows you to monitor the signal strength, the temperature of the SFP, and the transceiver voltage.
Learning Center Article – How to Calculate Power Consumption for Your Server Room
When it comes to maintaining a server room, there are many balls to juggle. You have to constantly expand the capacity and throughput of the server systems. Demands only ever rise. At the same time, the space inside the room seems to perpetually shrink. Then, the ambient temperature rises, and you draw more and more power.
That last issue is the topic of discussion here. Power draw is one of the most limiting factors when it comes to operating servers and high-end networks. Eventually, you hit a ceiling and don’t have enough power for more expansion. So, as you continue to adapt and redesign your server room, you need to be able to keep track of power consumption. These tips will help you do that.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- The Supreme Court ruled that the City of Boston violated the Constitution when it refused to fly an explicitly Christian flag outside city hall. The court unanimously ruled that since the city government had allowed other citizens to use the flagpole to express a variety of messages, its rejection of the religious flag violated the freedom of speech.
- Shares of Amazon and Google parent Alphabet just closed out their steepest monthly drops since the 2008 financial crisis. The internet giants both reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results this week, hurt by a combination of macroeconomic factors, the war in Ukraine and tough comparisons to blowout numbers during the pandemic. Amazon tumbled 23.8% in April, its biggest decline since falling 25.4% in November 2008, the same month that Google plummeted 18.5%. Alphabet had its worst month since that time, dropping 18% in April.
- Dozens of civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol to both Russia-controlled and Ukraine-controlled territory after weeks under siege. Some have left the Azovstal steelworks, the last hold-out of Ukrainian troops in the strategically significant city. The United Nations confirmed that a “safe passage operation” had begun to evacuate the citizens on Saturday, and that it was involved alongside the Red Cross.
- Spirit Airlines rejected a $3.6 billion takeover offer from JetBlue Airways after determining it is not a superior proposal to its previous agreement to merge with Frontier Airlines. Under JetBlue’s proposal, Spirit shareholders would receive $33 in cash per common share, a 47% premium to the value of Frontier’s transaction as of April 29 and a 52% premium to Spirit’s stock price as of Feb. 4.