By Mark Knudson (Guest Blogger, Engineered Computer Rooms) In my years of working in and around mission-critical data centers, I’ve encountered customers with a wide range of power, cooling, and infrastructure efficiency needs. While each challenge and solution is different, one common denominator in recent years can be found in every solution: The ability to [...]
By Mark Knudson (Guest Blogger, Engineered Computer Rooms) When I began my career as an engineer, life was simpler. I started work at 8 am, went home sometime after 5 pm — and didn’t think of work until the next day. But the speed of business is changing with demands on response times going through [...]
With energy prices at all-time highs, a spotlight is being placed on powering today’s data center. Even The New York Times is getting in on the act. A recent article in The Times paints a pretty bleak picture: “Worldwide, the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of [...]
By Bob Zych (Guest Blogger) Manager Data Center Operations at Follett Higher Education Group Well, if you’re reading this blog, I guess I didn’t bore you too much in the Data Center Power Management blog In this blog, I would like to highlight some heating and cooling issues and get your thoughts as to your [...]
By Bob Zych (Guest Blogger) Manager Data Center Operations at Follett Higher Education Group I’m not a person that typically writes blogs. In fact, I have never written a blog before. I’m a 20-year IT veteran that has just as much experience on the facility side. I have my own UPS, generator and HVAC contractors [...]
According to AccuWeather.com,”The summer of 2012 is in the running for one of the top three hottest summers in the past 60 years, in the United States and southern Canada.” This gets meteorologists such as Steven A. Root, Certified Consulting Meteorologist and President and CEO of WeatherBank, Inc., pontificating in graphical splendor. Cast-in-point, Root computed [...]
The Uptime Institute released its second Data Center Industry Survey, focusing on results from a survey of 1,100 data center owners and operators from around the world. Of particular interest was this statement, “… the associated rising data center costs and investments will not be put on hold by economic downturns or market volatility.” In [...]
I would like to use this venue for a moment and expose readers to one of the best, documented case studies involving a global data center environment embracing Data Center Information Management (DCIM) tools — Mentor Graphics. I know what you are thinking, “This is bias.” Well, let me assure you, it is. But only [...]
The following is a reprint, by permission, of Dave O’Hara’s Blog which originally appeared on May 21, 2012 on “Green (Low Carbon) Data Center Blog.” Now you may assume you that the data center world is all built on science and facts. But, the Data Center World is no different than the rest of the [...]
By now, we are all familiar with the four-tier ranking system to determine data center reliability. However, for those of you not familiar or just need a quick refresher, here are the crib notes:
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