2013 Data Center Efficiency & Trends Part II
Data Center Efficiency Survey ServerLIFT® LLC conducted an anonymous survey at a large technology trade show to determine data center efficiency specific to equipment handling practices. Respondents were asked to complete a questionnaire consisting of six questions that related to daily operations in their data center. All survey information was anonymous to encourage participant honesty and minimize bias. Trends: The data indicated that using ServerLIFT® products was far more efficient method of handling IT equipment than using generic warehouse lifts; translating into significant cost savings for data centers. For the purpose of this survey, data center efficiency was defined as the number of man-hours required to install a server in […]
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. All survey information was anonymous to encourage participant honesty and minimize bias. A total of 258 surveys were collected. To ensure data accuracy, incomplete surveys were discarded. A total of 9 surveys were discarded to leave a sample size of 249. ServerLIFT LLC will reveal the results of the survey in a multi-part series detailing […]
米国輸出入銀行の会長がServerLIFTを訪問®
Last Friday ServerLIFT® LLC was pleased to receive a visit from Fred. P Hochberg, Chairman of the US Export-Import Bank of the United States. The impromptu visit was scheduled after ServerLIFT® CEO had the opportunity to chat with Chairman Hochberg at the EX-IM Bank’s Small Business Global Access Forum at ASU Skysong where Chairman Hochberg was the key speaker. Senior Vice President of Congressional Affairs Scott P. Schloegel approached Mr. Zuckerman and expressed the interest of Chairman Hochberg in visiting ServerLIFT®’s facilities. The visit began with Mr. Zuckerman and Chairman Hochberg touring ServerLIFT®’s manufacturing facilities. After the operations tour Chairman Hochberg and Mr. Zuckerman convened with Vice President Schloegel and […]
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 as usual. We’d like to thank everyone who stopped by our booth, took our survey, participated in our prize giveaways and posed with the SL-1000X™, you made this event great.
CEOが米国の輸出入パネルに取り上げられる
On April 4th ServerLIFT® CEO Ray Zuckerman was featured as a speaker at the U.S. Export-Import Panel (EX-IM Bank) 2013 Annual Conference. Over 1,200 top leaders from government agencies, industry, financial solutions and think tanks came from 40 different countries to attend the two day event. Fred P. Hochberg, EX-IM Bank Chairman and President opened the conference with a welcoming speech emphasizing the EX-IM Bank’s accomplishments in successfully supporting the growth of exports and maintaining more than 255,000 U.S. jobs. Mr. Zuckerman spoke as one of four expert panelists on “They Did it – So Can You: Tips from Successful Small-Business Exporters”. During this conference session participants shared their best […]
Introducing the SL-1000X® Super-Duty ServerLIFT
ServerLIFT® is pleased to introduce the much anticipated SL-1000X® Super-Duty ServerLIFT, the latest addition to our server and IT hardware handling. With features specifically designed to enhance safety and efficiency, the SL-1000X® ServerLIFT represents the future of advanced data center lifting solutions. The SL-1000X® ServerLIFT is the only compact data center lift rated to lift 1000 lbs., offering unrivaled lifting capacity without compromising maneuverability. Designed with a slim 24” base and side-loading capabilities, this state-of-the-art device smoothly navigates the narrow confines of a data center and aligns IT equipment precisely to either side of even the narrowest aisles . ServerLIFT®’s exclusive gliding shelf slides 6” towards the rack, for seamless […]
IBM, Data Center Design & Inefficiency
Like so many things taken for granted, data centers have a side to them that few people know of. IBM’s insight into their data center management and infrastructure comes across as interesting, puzzling and perhaps even absurd. Data Center Design According to IBM around 80% of data centers were created before the dotcom era. With almost three fourths of the number of data centers built before 1985, they are in need of rebuilding. This affects the duties of those responsible for data center design and data center management today. We’ve come a long way from when Bill Gates remarked that 640K ought to be enough and looks like nothing’s enough […]
Colocation: When to Shut Down the Server Room and Open up the 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 the largest of corporations, the current trend is to move away from locally hosted servers and server farms to co-located data centers, also referred to as Managed Hosting Solutions. Many Network Administrators & Network Engineers feared that the advent of these remote hosting solutions would rule their jobs obsolete, but just the opposite is true […]
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 30 meters under the historic Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland. This concept isn’t new, as various other data centers have been built inside caves and bomb shelters deep underground to take advantage of the cooler temperatures and security benefits. Additionally, the Atos Data Center will be using the nearby sea water to cool its servers. […]
電力使用効率（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 operators to quickly estimate the energy efficiency of their data centers, compare the results against other data centers, and determine if any energy efficient improvements could be made. Since 2007 PUE has been massively adopted by the data center industry and is now used as a standard in measuring power usage. According to the Uptime […]
