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AFCOM DATA CENTER WORLD 2012

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2012 AFCOM DATA CENTER WORLD: The Premier Conference for Data Center & Facilities Management Professionals From time to time I run across news, products, or events that are worth sharing with our blog readers Today is going to be one of those days that toot someone else’s horn. AFCOMs Data Center World Conference and Tradeshow is definitely something worth sharing and if you haven’t heard about it yet, I’ll fill you in below. In only a few short days hundreds of data center facilities and data center professionals will be flocking to Las Vegas, Nevada to attend one of the largest industry events in the country. Data Center World, sponsored […]

Cloud Computing

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Seeing Through The Cloud If you feel anything like I do, you probably feel bombarded by the IT world’s buzz phrase du jour, “cloud computing” and you, like me, have probably noticed that there is more than one definition for cloud computing being thrown around right now. With the number of ideas floating around the industry, it is no wonder that consumers are confused as to what exactly a “cloud” even is. Where things begin to get iffy is when “the cloud” evolves from just the cliched metaphor for the internet, into “cloud computing”, a giant fuzzy new frontier of uncertain meaning. To make things even more confusing is the […]

データセンタースポットライト：EBay – Project Mercury

Spotlight Data center: EBay – Project Mercury Why Phoenix? Why would anyone build a data center in the middle of a desert that reaches temperatures of up to 119F°? And how in the world are they going to cool it efficiently? I know these were the first questions that popped into my mind when I first heard about EBay’s new Project Mercury data center, and my guess is you were probably thinking the same things. EBay is currently in the midst of a major overhaul; moving away from renting and leasing facilities and into owning their own, maximizing their ability to better control efficiency. With the consolidation of 11 data […]

Data Center Relocation and Server Installs Project Plan

Server Farm Installs When you think of server farm, small data center comes to mind regardless of the size of your data center, there is always a need for ideas to scale with the times. Here is an idea for a Server Installation Project Plan for raised floor installs to server support. It’s time to take your old outdated pig servers to the slaughter house and get those fast bull servers ready for install! Maybe your server farm is relocating, expanding, refreshing, or maintaining, and now you’re faced with the task of having to manage a data center relocation and installs for heavy, awkward, expensive enterprise servers. The task in […]

Server Refresh Cycles

Server Refresh Cycles – 3 Tips Evaluate The Cost of a Server Upgrade: Implementing a server refresh cycle can be a costly task, but it is important for a company to ask themselves if they can afford not to refresh the servers in the coming year? According to Intel, delaying a server refresh cycle can actually cost more than refreshing at the appropriate time. When evaluating the costs of their own refresh cycles, Intel found that delaying their server refresh strategy by even one year would increase their operating costs by $19 million. This delay causes increases in the maintenance costs incurred by the need to increase the older server’s […]

Best Practices for Protecting Server Hardware

Server Hardware and Networking Equipment Physical network security covers server hardware and network infrastructure equipment, and the mission critical data that is stored and transmitted in these devices. The devices and their data are subject to various threats such as intrusion, theft, disaster, damage and loss, and a set of data center best practices is needed to keep everything running smoothly. Data center administrators should consider the following best practices when physically securing and protecting their network and server hardware in the data center: Protecting Your Server Hardware 1) Secure Physical Access. Gaining physical access to a server provides direct access to hard drives and sensitive data. Server access should […]

Handle Enterprise Servers Safely in Data Centers

Are you handle enterprise servers safely in data centers? As innovation continues to power technology, enterprise servers are becoming more powerful and consuming less energy and space. These advancements have the potential to solve many of the most challenging issues that administrators face in planning and managing the data center. In a previous blog entry, we discussed the benefits of blades server systems—particularly the conservation of space, which allows for a greater number of servers to be centrally managed by being placed into one chassis. However, through this progression, the hardware and servers are more condense packed, thus a lot heavier and harder to handle. This introduces a another challenge […]