Improve Data Center Operations with Virtualization
Due to the fact that many servers are underutilized, virtualizing the data could be a way to create more space, increase efficiency and reduce energy costs.
2013 Data Center Trends & Efficiency Part III
Trade Show Study: ServerLIFT® LLC conducted an anonymous study at a large tech trade show to examine data center trends in 2013. As we continue to analyze this data, our findings uncover areas of efficiency and safety gains. Respondents participated in a questionnaire consisting of six questions related to their data centers. The participants were not asked for any personal information to encourage honesty and minimize bias, so we could offer the most accurate data center trends analysis . Data Center Trends Results: ServerLIFT® compared the method of moving data center equipment used to the average weight of rack-mounted equipment being installed to evaluate the safety of respondents’ data centers. […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, as well as the issues that arise when they fail or become infected by viruses. For users who travel, there are benefits as well since they are no longer chained to their desktop hardware. Virtualization Done Right Setting up a virtualized environment may be possible with existing IT hardware. A compatible server can run the […]
