In the current generation of the data center, you start monitoring network traffic.

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According to this 2002 article in Offshore, the Deepwater Horizon was set to be outfitted with a system called E-drill, which continuously beams data from rig operations to a monitoring center in Houston.

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The good news for CIOs is that a growing amount of vendor investment has been drawn to this market, which Gartner has named Data Center Infrastructure Management. nlyte software, for example, provides a modeling, monitoring, and management suite for understanding power and cooling in a data center and optimizing placement and configuration of racks and servers.

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"We're playing in a new neighborhood as far as global temperatures go, compared to even the late 20th century and especially the mid-20th century, " said Deke Arndt, head of monitoring for NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.

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