グリーングリッド：無料の冷却のためのリソース
Free Air Cooling is Catching on in The Data Center Industry It seems that everyone in the data center industry these days is looking to find the most efficient and cheap way to run their facility. It makes sense when you think about it. Why spend more and narrow your profit margin, when you could be actively seeking ways to reduce the cost of keeping your server farm efficiently up and running. With reducing project budgets and more economic pressure, data center management are considering all savings opportunities and free cooling is one of them. Data center industry leaders are leading this trend. EBay is currently running their data […]
Data Center as a Service (DCaaS)
When and Why to Turn to a Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) Provider Data center as a service (DCaaS) is the provision of offsite physical data center infrastructure and facilities to clients, but does it benefit an organization or business more than having their own facility? Some companies find it more beneficial to lease a space and simply provide their own servers, switches and any other IT hardware needed to implement in the new location. What attracts many of their clients is the fact that oftentimes, the DCaaS provider will assist the client in customizing the space to accommodate unique needs, such as 10 Gigabit Ethernet fiber connectivity, high-density cooling or […]
Data Center Spotlight: Interxion, London
Spotlight Datacenter: Interxion, London Would you sleep at work? As England prepares for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, one company thinks they may have found an innovative way to beat the congestion that is about to clog London’s travel and road networks. Interxion, a colocation data center, located in the heart of the city, has come up with a solution that will ensure its tech staff will be available 24/7. What you ask is so ingenious that it can guarantee that employees will be at work on time, at all times? A hover craft to fly over the bumper to bumper traffic? A special car designated specially for Interxion employees […]
稼働時間データセンター層の標準
What Tier Standard Does Your Data center Live up to? The Uptime data center tier standards are a standardized methodology used to determine availability in a facility. The Uptime Institute established the data center tier system, which offers companies a way to measure their performance and return on investment (ROI). The standards consist of a four-tiered scale, with Tier 4 being the most robust. The Uptime Institute offers a certification process in order to address the issue of companies advertising inaccurate interpretations of the standards and offer certification that is unverified. The beginning stage of the certification process involves submitting data center design documents and having them reviewed by […]
データセンターインフラストラクチャ管理（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 DCIM is more than just an offshoot of the green IT initiative. Originally created to fill a need to understand and reduce energy consumption, DCIM has evolved into a solution that integrates IT physical infrastructure management, facilities management, and systems management, transforming how the IT ecosystem is seen and managed. A true DCIM solution is […]
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 systems, the whole nine-yards. No one will be manipulating their way into your network anytime soon. Your network is impenetrable! But what about your data centers physical security? Sure you’ve thought about it, set up some precautions, installed a few security features, made some regulations, some rules. You’re probably thinking you’re well protected. However, you […]
Thermal Energy Storage Technology in Data Centers for Cooling Servers
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 energy storage. The project is part of the company’s ongoing data center infrastructure expansion in Asia, which so far also includes a data center in Singapore, as well as one in Hong Kong. The company is investing more than US$900m into its Asian expansion. On its website, it said it needed to prepare for the […]
Modular Data Center Designs, More Than Just a Trend?
Modular Data center Designs: It’s been more than five years since the unveiling of Sun’s Blackbox data center and modular designs are becoming more synonymous in the industry and with high-performance and cloud computing. Running servers in shipping containers was initially viewed as a niche play by many in the data center industry, limited to mobile requirements, temporary capacity, or novel designs like cloud computing facilities. But with enterprise users such as: HP, Dell’s Data Center Solutions Group, and eBay, having publicly announced an adoption of modular data center design into their data centers, it’s been affirmed that this is definitely more than just a trend. With the massive growth […]
ソーラーアレイを搭載したグリーンデータセンター
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 guzzling data center. Few things are more capable of blatantly making you look like you’re environmentally conscious. In an age where everyone is trying to care about the planet, it seems that installing a solar array is the industries way of doing it. But how effective and efficient are these solar panels really? Apple, Facebook, […]
Data Center Downtime
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 both enormously high and incredibly significant, but there wasn’t’t really a way to measure the impact. Emerson Network Power, however, took it upon themselves to find and quantify an answer to the ever looming industry question; just how much is data center downtime costing you? In September 2010 a study commissioned by Emerson Network […]
