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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 [...]
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 [...]
Some people dream of being rich, happily married, or living forever. Regarding data center managers, they dream of the day when IT infrastructures will be more power efficient. OK, I’m exaggerating, but you get where I’m going with this. For years, IT managers have chased the dream of a data center that maximizes power while [...]
Sponsored by our furniture supplier, Office Furniture Partnership, the “Hugs From Home” program sends both fun and practical items to our troops all over the world. The FieldView team had a great time filling the plastic tubes OFP provided with unique treats to send to American military men and women. FieldView exceeded our donation goal [...]
It used to be so simple…data center managers were responsible for ensuring peak performance of their silo’d resources i.e. network, storage, server, and application domains. Jobs focused on ensuring each individual piece was up and running to achieve data center efficiency and power efficiency. But then something happened; information explosion, virtualization, automation and data center [...]
There’s no doubt about it, the universe is expanding. The digital universe, that is— with a sheer volume of unstructured information exploding. Floods of e-mails, documents, pictures and social media for both business and personal use are causing data centers to reach their breaking point. In its report, “The Digital Universe Decade – Are You [...]
There’s no doubt about it, the world of IT is changing. The rise of virtualization and cloud computing has spawned a whole new IT paradigm. With the promise of helping companies work smarter and faster, cloud computing is being adopted by companies worldwide to cut costs and drive new efficiencies. This new data center is [...]
In a November 2010 article about data center infrastructure management software, writer Derrick Harris of the popular tech site GigaOm said, “DCIM vendors have a compelling story to tell if data center operators are willing to listen.” I predict that in 2011, there will be more operators who are “all ears” when it comes to [...]
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