Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)

Infrastructure Management of the Data Center: The Datacenter Game Changer Data Center Infrastructure Management is taking the industry by storm. It is predicted that by 2014, 60% of corporations will have implemented the use of DCIM; a huge leap from the mere 1% in 2010. With statistics like these, there is no question that … Lue lisää
Data Center Security

Data Center Security: Let’s Get Physical… Let’s be honest, how secure is your data center? You’re initial thoughts might go something like “it’s ironclad, the Fort Knox of all data centers, nothing could possibly be more secure.” And virtually, yes, you’re ready for anything. You probably have firewalls, VPN gateways, intrusion detection systems, monitoring … Lue lisää
Lämpöenergian varastointitekniikka jäähdytyspalvelimien datakeskuksissa

How One Data Center is Using New Thermal Energy Storage Technology: Google Embraces Thermal Storage in Taiwan for Cooling Data Center As part of Google’s ongoing efforts to cut costs and save power in its custom-built data centers, it will cool the servers in its new Taiwanese computing facility using a technique known as thermal … Lue lisää
Modulaariset datakeskuksen mallit, enemmän kuin vain trendi?

Modulaariset datakeskuksen mallit: Sunin Blackbox-datakeskuksen julkistamisesta on kulunut yli viisi vuotta, ja moduulirakenteet ovat tulossa synonyymeiksi teollisuudessa sekä korkean suorituskyvyn ja pilvipalvelujen kanssa. Palvelinten ajaminen lähetyskontteissa oli alun perin monien datakeskusteollisuuden markkinarako, joka rajoittui… Lue lisää
Vihreät tietokeskukset, jotka toimivat aurinkorakenteilla

A Green Data Center Powered by Solar Arrays: Is It Worth All the Hype? Solar power is quickly becoming the hot new topic for the green data center, and better data center operations. Nothing else quite shouts “I’m going green” like installing a couple hundred acres of solar panels next to your power hungry, coal … Lue lisää
Tietokeskuksen seisokit

How much is Data Center Network Downtime Costing You? True Costs of Bandwidth Connectivity Downtime: The old adage, you cannot manage what you don’t measure is particularly true when considering the cost of data center downtime. Until recently it was widely accepted and known by the data center community that the price of downtime was … Lue lisää
Data Center Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery in the Data Center: Natural Disasters are a fact of life. They come annually with little warning and exude an incredible brute force; demolishing anything and everything that crosses their path. These “acts of God” do not play favorites or care what they may be destroying in their wake. They are unpredictable, unreliable, … Lue lisää
Datacenter Disaster Recovery Plan: FireHost Avoids Disaster in Phoenix

Disaster Recovery Plan in the Datacenter: FireHost Chooses Phoenix to Evade the Storm One way datacenters are avoiding Mother Nature’s fury is by building in locations with low incidences of natural disasters. And that is exactly what FireHost chose to do when selecting the new home for their state-of-the art cloud hosting facility. Phoenix … Lue lisää
Palvelimen käsittelyyn liittyvät varotoimet ja menettelytapaehdotukset

Handling Servers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly There is no one way to lift and move a server. Sure some ways may be more effective, safer, and more efficient, but that doesn’t mean that they’re used. In fact it is completely normal for a data center to expect one or two of their … Lue lisää
2012 CRN Data Center 100

2012 CRN Data Center 100: The Who’s Who in the Data Center Industry Yearly UMB Channel publishes the CRN Data Center 100 list in its January edition of CRN Magazine. The annual publication features the top 100 vendors responsible for powering data centers with cutting-edge technologies that increase data center operational efficiency, performance and ROI, … Lue lisää