2013 Data Center Trends & Efficiency Survey

Data Center Trends Survey: ServerLIFT LLC conducted an anonymous survey at a large technology trade show in the USA to determine current data center trends and examine efficiency specific to data center equipment handling practices. Respondents were asked to complete a questionnaire consisting of 6 questions that related to the data center they worked in. … Læs mere
ServerLIFT® Interop 2013

ServerLIFT® – Exclusive Red Carpet Event at Interop Las Vegas 2013 With the success of our exclusive Red Carpet event, the launch of the SL-1000X® Powered ServerLIFT® and the premiere demo of our new front loading unit ServerLIFT® had a great time at Interop 2013 last week. We were also a proud sponsor of the NOC … Læs mere
IBM, Datacenter Design & ineffektivitet

Som så mange ting taget for givet, har datacentre en side for dem, som få mennesker kender til. IBMs indsigt i deres datacenteradministration og infrastruktur er på tværs af så interessant, forundrende og måske endda absurd. Datacenterdesign I henhold til IBM blev omkring 80% af datacentre oprettet inden dotcom-æraen. Med ... Læs mere
Colocation: hvornår man skal lukke serverrummet og åbne skyen

What exactly are Colocation Services? The common calling card of the Network Administrator of the past was to: “Keep your users close, keep your servers closer.” They would break into a sweat at the thought of hosting mission critical servers in another building, let alone another state or by another company entirely. However, except for … Læs mere
Futuristiske datacentereffektivitetsideer

Fem futuristiske datacentereffektivitetsideer 1. Bygning af et datacenter under en katedral Der er et væld af vittigheder, vi kunne lave om at opbygge et datacenter under en kirke, men vi skal passere. Atos datacenter effektivitet til et helt nyt niveau, Atos datacenter blev bygget inde i et tidligere bombeindgreb ... Læs mere
Effekt af strømforbrug (PUE)

Your Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) In 2007, The Green Grid published its very first white paper regarding energy efficiencies in data centers. “Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency” proposed the use of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Datacenter Efficiency (DCE), now Data center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE), as a means to enable data center … Læs mere
Getting More Out Of Your Servers with Virtualization

The Benefits of Virtualization At the simplest level, virtualization is a way to organize computing capacity. It addresses situations such as servers that run at a small fraction of their capacity, wasting power and resources. It helps handle the issue of physical desktop PCs and the resources that they consume in repairing and maintaining them, … Læs mere
The New Google Data Center in Finland

New Google Data Center in Hamina, Finland This week we decided to post a video about Google’s new data center build out in Hamina, Finland. This particular data center has created a lot of hype in the industry and we thought a lot of you would be interested learning more about this facility and how … Læs mere
Data Center Injury and Damage Statistics

May 2012 Data Center Injury and Damage Statistics Survey: An anonymous study was conducted to determine the number of data center injury and damage from dropped server equipment that occurs in data centers. Out of the 113 participants, 89 answered that they have worked or interfaced within a data center in the past five years. … Læs mere
ServerLIFT® Visits i/o’s Phoenix ONE Data Center

Phoenix ONE Data Center Tour: Recently some of the ServerLIFT® team had the opportunity to visit one of the world’s largest data centers! Lucky for us, i/o data centers calls Arizona home and it just so happens that their Phoenix ONE data center is one of the most technologically advanced facilities in the world. i/o … Læs mere