Colocation: quando chiudere la sala server e aprire il cloud
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 … Leggi di più
Futuristic Data Center Efficiency Ideas
Five Futuristic Data Center Efficiency Ideas 1. Building a Data Center Under a Cathedral There are a ton of jokes we could make about building a data center under a church, but we’re gonna pass. Taking data center efficiency to a whole new level, the Atos data center was built inside a former bomb shelter … Leggi di più
Efficacia energetica (PUE)
Your Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) Nel 2007, The Green Grid ha pubblicato il suo primo white paper sull'efficienza energetica nei data center. "Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency" ha proposto l'uso di Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) e Datacenter Efficiency (DCE), ora Data center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE), come mezzo per abilitare il data center ... Leggi di più
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, … Leggi di più
