ServerLIFT® recently partnered with the University of Alaska to improve safety and efficiency in the data center by donating a brand new ServerLIFT® [SL-500C] server handling lift.
ServerLIFT®‘s Director of Sales, Steve Bashkin says, “The donation will enable this small team to make significant progress. While serving major clients, the University of Alaska is run by a professional staff. Up until now, they’ve been forced to complete projects with the help of an inadequate, warped data center lift. This team will now complete their assignments on time and move their heaviest equipment quickly, without additional problems.”
“For the first time, we will be agile enough to complete installs with just one operator on shift,” says University of Alaska’s Derek Ward, Manager, Office of IT – Data Center Operations. “We have faced a reduction in resources, specifically staffing. We are very grateful for this assistance from ServerLIFT® and their donation.”
Ward first got in touch with Bashkin and the ServerLIFT® team at the Data Center World Conference in Texas. “I didn’t even know that a lift existed until that first conversation,” notes Ward. “This reliable, pristine data center lift will allow us to execute installs across all shifts and meet important delivery goals.”
Det største datacenter i Alaska er en 12 tusind kvadratmeter stor facilitet beliggende på universitetet i Alaska campus. Det blev bygget i 1993 og huser 110+ stativer og betjener klienter over hele staten, herunder Alaska Satellite Facility, Alaska Earthquake Center og Alaska Volcano Observatory sammen med flere tilknyttede universiteter i Alaska.
Indtil for nylig har transport, placering, installation og fjernelse af servere været vanskeligt for dette lille datacenterhold. En kombination af få personale, utilstrækkeligt løfteudstyr og manuel løft skabte et datacentermiljø, hvor projekter blev forsinket, og operatører og servere var i fare for kvæstelser. Brug af en gammel manuelt assisteret løfteindretning, der maxede ud på 400 pund, betød, at der var behov for flere operatører og farlig fysisk anstrengelse til hver bevægelse. Derudover var liftplatformen, de brugte, ikke længere stabil.
(Original pressemeddelelse findes på PRWeb.)
