7 Primary Advantages of Choosing ServerLIFT Data Center Lifts
In data centers, maximizing uptime is crucial. Ensuring servers remain online and operational is the key to keeping customers satisfied and preventing costly service disruptions. However, even a single misstep during the installation, removal, or transportation of heavy IT equipment can result in worker injuries, unplanned downtime, and costly damage. In addition to covering workers’ compensation and IT equipment replacements, all operations within the data center will be adversely affected. That’s why ServerLIFT server handling devices are excellent investments to ensure worker safety and operational uptime. Purpose-built for data center environments, ServerLIFT devices help data center staff move and install servers, switches, and other bulky IT equipment safely and efficiently. […]
How Data Center GPUs Have Changed The AI Playing Field
AI is transforming how data centers operate, the functions they need to support, and even the construction of data centers. At the heart of this shift lies GPU servers. While CPUs (central processing units) have traditionally been used for general-purpose processing, GPU-powered infrastructure is now crucial for AI training, inference, scientific computing, and processing large datasets. Below, we’ll investigate how and why GPUs are the processing solution for the AI revolution, and what this means for data centers. GPUs, AI, and Data Centers: What You Need to Know Before we dive in, let’s cover some basics. 1. What is a GPU? GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit. Originally, GPUs were […]
Promoting Safety, Sustainability, and Resilient Infrastructure in Hyperscale Data Centers
Leading hyperscale data centers prioritize more than just growth. To be successful, they must ensure the safety of personnel, equipment, and data, strive for sustainability, and build resilient infrastructure that can withstand disruptions. By leveraging a combination of AI, custom hardware, and continuous innovation, hyperscalers are shaping several important trends in modern data centers. These principles are applicable to data centers of all sizes. Safety and Security Life Safety Systems (With Redundancies) Fully redundant and independently powered safety systems are crucial. At a minimum, each facility should stock smoke detectors, emergency lighting, and fire suppressors. Fire suppression systems should be gas-based, such as those using FM-200 or NOVEC 1230. These […]
6 Ways AI Is Reshaping Data Center Networking
AI will require some significant data center networking changes in the near future. Data centers will need to adapt by upgrading infrastructure, bandwidth capabilities, and interconnectivity in ways we’ve never seen before. Here are six ways that AI will change data center networking. 1. Increased Network Traffic and Bandwidth Demand Within two to three years, experts say, AI-driven network traffic will outpace traditional cloud traffic and even big data applications. This growth could double the usual 20-30% traffic increase typically seen year-over-year. Similarly, the Dell’Oro Group has increased its forecast for high-speed Ethernet (HSE) by 30% because of AI demand. This impending “boom” means data centers will have to expand […]
6 Data Center Trends To Watch In 2025
What will 2025 bring to data centers? Plenty—especially for data centers moving into power-hungry fields such as AI and facilities planning for equipment upgrades, moves to new locations, or migrations soon. These are the data center trends to watch for in 2025. 1. Network capacity is more important than ever. High-capacity fiber network usage has skyrocketed over the past few years because of AI and the corresponding growth in data center demand. Existing fiber networks will become a scarce resource. Data centers laying new fiber networks may opt to install a built-in reservoir of additional network capacity in the form of dark fiber—fiber that’s dormant until it’s needed. Dark fiber […]
How ServerLIFT® Helps Data Centers Meet Facility Requirements
Data center managers must meet a wide variety of facility requirements that are dependent on the type of facility that they run, its size and its location. This is in addition to those requirements that are mandated by compliance standards and safety regulations among others. Handling data center equipment for changes, migrations or expansions touches on all of these and other requirements for DCMs. This is where server-handling equipment becomes critical to meeting those requirements. Moving, lifting and installing servers into data center racks via the use of data center lifts dictates the ability to quickly and efficiently configure software and deal with daily end-user demands. The first general requirement […]
Using Server Equipment to Increase OpEX Savings in the Data Center
While virtualization and monitoring technology has become the most effective way to increase data center efficiency and decrease operational costs, DCMs have to use every tool at their disposal to further increase OpEx saving margins. The ability to utilize server equipment to lower data center operational expenses has proven to be another way to provided various solutions that further that goal. Rack consolidation, high density patch panels and other high density solutions can increase operational efficiency exponentially, but when used in conjunction with server equipment they increase OpEx savings as well. For example, rack consolidation can reduce floor space while high-density patch panels can achieve double the port density in […]
Improving Data Center Efficiency with Advanced Server Equipment
Data center efficiency is a never-ending pursuit for DCMs where they must balance efficiency, availability, and flexibility to effectively manage the many data centers parts as well as the whole. These parts include a compilation of servers, storage, network systems, mechanical/electrical systems, applications and tools, governance procedures and staff. While DCIM and other monitoring tools are key to managing the physical space of the data center, advance server equipment such as technologically and mechanically advanced data center lifts are also foundational to that efficiency. One of the most common tasks in any data center facility is the physical handling of servers and other rack-mounted equipment. As equipment weight reaches dangerous […]
With Modular Data Centers on the Rise, DCMs Need Faster Server Equipment Setup to Keep Up… Here’s How.
While data center managers (DCM) certainly see the differing options for modular data centers as providing a means of faster deployment and space maximization at a lower cost, those attributes can come at a price all their own. Since these data center modules are typically removable, consideration needs to be given to installation and removal logistics. These logistics may include access for cranes, trucks, forklifts in many cases while data center lifts are often a part of every installation. This is particularly true where necessary free space and enough turning radius to bring a module in or take it out is a prime consideration. DCMs may have a number of […]
How DCM’s Can Improve Productivity by 200% or More
In order to vastly improve the productivity of data centers, DCMs are using application-based solutions as well as physical tools. On the application side, data center infrastructure management (DCIM) systems provide a unified, real-time picture of data center operations, enabling IT teams to match resources with demand. With hardware changes and servers a regular occurrence that can eat away at productivity, server-handling devices and server handling standards are crucial to enabling increased productivity. Today’s data centers are IT environments made up virtual machines, storage-area networks and cloud-based applications. While these approaches can streamline compute and monitoring operations, they still require a system that can enable overall management of all virtual […]
