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 […]
Data Center Disaster Recovery
Disaster Recovery in the Data Center: Natural Disasters are a fact of life. They come annually with little warning and exude an incredible brute force; demolishing anything and everything that crosses their path. These “acts of God” do not play favorites or care what they may be destroying in their wake. They are unpredictable, unreliable, and unchangeable. Just like you, I choose where to live, a company chooses where to locate their data center with some emphasis placed on the odds of a natural disaster occurring. And just like you and I, these companies may choose, or be forced, to build or relocate somewhere that has a higher likelihood for […]
Datacenter Disaster Recovery Plan: FireHost Avoids Disaster in Phoenix
Disaster Recovery Plan in the Datacenter: FireHost Chooses Phoenix to Evade the Storm One way datacenters are avoiding Mother Nature’s fury is by building in locations with low incidences of natural disasters. And that is exactly what FireHost chose to do when selecting the new home for their state-of-the art cloud hosting facility. Phoenix is widely considered to be one of the lowest risk cities in the United States due to the low incidence of natural disasters and catastrophes such as tornadoes, flooding and earthquakes. The FireHost Phoenix data center mirrors the innovative, secure cloud hosting environments already established in Dallas and London, and will allow customers an additional […]
サーバーの取り扱いに関する注意事項と手順の提案
Handling Servers: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly There is no one way to lift and move a server. Sure some ways may be more effective, safer, and more efficient, but that doesn’t mean that they’re used. In fact it is completely normal for a data center to expect one or two of their IT techs to lift and move around hundreds of pounds of equipment on a regular basis. Now try to imagine all of horrible scenarios that can occur when two people, who aren’t professional movers or body builders, attempt to lift a server… All of those terrible things that you just thought in your head have […]
2012 CRN Data Center 100
2012 CRN Data Center 100: The Who’s Who in the Data Center Industry Yearly UMB Channel publishes the CRN Data Center 100 list in its January edition of CRN Magazine. The annual publication features the top 100 vendors responsible for powering data centers with cutting-edge technologies that increase data center operational efficiency, performance and ROI, while reducing energy consumption and cost. From cloud hosting services, to virtual data center solutions, to sustainability, to data backup tools, this list has representatives from all aspects of the industry. Large or small, a data center requires a wide range of building blocks, brought together from a huge list of potential vendor options. And […]
X86 Server Watch; Intel E5-2600 Series Chips – Part 2
Trend Watch: X86 Server Take Over: Intel’s New E5-2600 Series Chips Part Two: Intel launched its long-awaited Xeon E5-2600 family this past Tuesday, March 6th 2012. The new server chip is built on Sandy Bridge micro-architecture and was created to be compatible with 2- and 4- socket servers. It promises new levels of performance along with a set of capabilities never-before-seen on mainstream x86 severs. The new processors will not only be the heart of servers and workstations, but will also power the next generation of storage and communication systems from leading vendors around the world. This is the first major industrial server equipment upgrade to the Xeon series since […]
X86 Intel Server Watch; Intel E5-2600シリーズチップ–パート1
Trend Watch: What is an X86 Server: Intel’s New E5-2600 Series Chips Part One: This week I’ll be writing a two part series on the trend watch for X86 Intel Servers. As I’m sure you’re wondering, I’m aware that X86 processors are not a new thing. Yes, I know they have been around for the past few years and have been working their way into the industries heart as the processor of choice. However, with Gartner’s year-on-year survey conclusions and Intel’s March 6th release of their new E5-2600 series chips, there are a ton of exciting things to note and talk about. So with that I give you part one […]
