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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
Exactly how much hope, energy, and willpower is there within each human life? At a time where thousands of our fellow humans are dying due to a magnitude of reasons— excuses, really, for incapable governments and inept leadership across the globe; the life stories of people like Abbas Karimi can deter our negative …
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MARCH 23, 2020 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
It has been a long time I haven’t had the chance to write a blog, now writing this in a time that the global pandemic, COVID-19, is testing humanity’s patience, as well as our applications and data center capabilities globally and …
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JUNE 27, 2017 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
The publication of this blog coincides with the Independence Day. Though this junction was not intended with strong emphasis, nevertheless the following should provide an aspirational insight for us to always maintain a certain level of independence on the global stage for both our businesses and our government…
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APRIL 25, 2017 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
Business owners and Technology stakeholders have never had a systematic and dynamic mechanism that provided a holistic end-result driven evaluation of the effectiveness of the vast and disparate array of information, applications, resources, technologies, processes, personnel, infrastructure, documentation, standards and governance that together, despite their …
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DECEMBER 9, 2016 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
Data center design, build, operation and ownership are entering a new era. It will not be long before those operators who failed to adapt, will perish by the virtue of their own making. Whether there will be more or less data centers, greater or fewer outsourcing, expansion of public or private clouds, larger or smaller …
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
Life is impossible without compromises. Data centers, like any other walk of life, are resolutions of a chain of compromises. Usually people believe that the main compromise in data centers is between cost and availability. It’s not that simple, unfortunately. To compromise, organizations typically undermine important measures in order to render maximized outputs for a given …
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AUGUST 1, 2016 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
Data centers are being built at a rapid pace beyond our comprehension. They are also transforming at a staggering speed. Sometimes having rules, guidelines and methodologies that are measurable and applicable are liberating. They are liberating in the sense that they provide a clear-cut approach and the necessary …
DATACENTER
MAY 9, 2016 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
The very pillar of capitalism is the open market system whereby supply is driven by demand – Econ101. This is when a group of so-called “elite” don’t sit and engineer what needs to be supplied to their liking. It is when the economic driver is the pull of demand, not the push of supply. But, what happens when demand is …
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FEBRUARY 18, 2016 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
When liberal economy and trade meant traveling between borders, creating the Russia’s Iron Curtain or Germany’s Berlin Wall seemed like a political remedy to safeguard certain sociopolitical hemispheres. But those latter policies and the erection of those barriers were proven disastrous to their citizens and the world around them.
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JANUARY 8, 2016 / BY MEHDI PARYAVI
The world as we know it is transforming into something of a different nature. A nature that is not natural by the benchmark of our predecessors. This transformation is changing the way we bond, work, interact, and live. If watching too much TV was of a topic of concern a few years ago, now …
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Often I am asked to provide the data center community my points of view to the whole data center ordeal. Obviously data center is a focal expertise of mine. But life is not all about one’s field of work. Our educational system, political arena, economic challenges, diverse cultures and norms within and around us, depict the very atmosphere we live in. So there is a lot to be said about the above and more. But let’s start with data centers and see where it takes us…
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