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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 [...]
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 [...]
Let’s cut to the chase. It’s no secret that the driving force behind Data Center Information Management (DCIM) is the need for complete visibility into a data center to better manage costs and capacity. But what does DCIM really mean? Far too many throw around the term without a full grasp of the acronym’s definition. [...]
Here’s something to noodle on: What if, each Monday for a month, you were to write down how many times you hear the words “Going Green” or “Green Revolution” in your day-to-day business. Well, given that Green IT is all the rage, I’m betting the amount of paper you’d use to keep track would upset [...]
It used to be so simple…data center managers come to work, monitor traffic, and handle downtime issues as needed. Sure, there were urgent pages in the middle of the night – but these teams were the experts and largely left to their own devices. But the rules of the game are changing: And there is [...]
Is there a blueprint for energy efficient data centers? Perhaps there’s some sort of roadmap companies can follow to make all their energy efficiency hopes and dreams come true. Given the ongoing challenges many are facing to meet data center optimization goals, the answer should be “no.” But Facebook would disagree. Recently, the company made [...]
It seems like everywhere you turn, someone is pitching you about the benefits of cloud computing. It drives efficiency…It saves money…You MUST migrate to the cloud or be left behind! I swear, even my grandmother is feeling the pressure of cloud migration—and she doesn’t even use the computer! Beyond the hype, we’re really talking about [...]
You can’t get away from it. Everywhere you turn, someone is touting the benefits of Green IT. In an ideal world (and it NEVER is), a green data center combines technology that stores, manages and disseminates information. The system is designed to achieve data center efficiency and power efficiency – ensuring all mechanical, lighting, electrical, [...]
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 [...]
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