What Does It Mean When A Lift Is “Designed Exclusively For Data Centers”?
Well, you start where you should start: by interviewing data center managers. You then design and build a machine whose size, functions, and ergonomics are perfect for data centers. How the machine moves, stays in place, is safe for the operator, makes it easy to remove, transport, and install with precision, and navigates today’s packed data centers. Then, as the years go by, you continue to listen to data center managers, finding out what their challenges are and figuring out how you can best meet them. Not just for the machines themselves, but their preferred buying process, shipping methods, and servicing options, and new accessories that will make things easier.
Who Can Help You Get The Right Data Center Lift?
A while back, we decided that we would take a different approach to “sales.” We put some of our best customer service people on the phones instead of “salespeople.” Their goal was simply to make it easier for our customers to buy, or even help them if ServerLIFT® wasn’t the perfect solution for them. We were so happy with the result. Revenue shot up, not only because we were helping the customers get exactly what they needed, but because their input helped us improve what we were doing. Our buyback and ability to service all types of data center lifts all came from this effort. It was a win-win for […]
Who Cares About Safety?
Everybody cares about safety, after one of your data center workers sustains an injury trying to lift a 300-pound server into a rack. And they definitely care about safety when that injury is accompanied by the worker dropping that expensive server because there was no data-center-specific lift available to remove, transport, and install that server. One drop can be very expensive, for the poor worker, the dinged up server, and the data center’s reputation.
Upgrade Your Lift
Do you have an old classic ServerLIFT® brand electric lift, or another lift that is not fit for data center use? Don’t worry! We have your back! Let us know what model lift you have and we will send you a quote to buy back your old lift and put the buyback credit toward the purchase of newer, more efficient, and safer lifting solution. Don’t forget to ask about our attachments and extended warranty options to get the most use out of your purchase.
What You Want? You Got It!
We confess! We literally love finding new ways to give our data center manager customers what they want. Need to figure out if our data center lifts can lift your equipment? Need to find a co-location company near you? Need a lift for super-heavy equipment? Need to load equipment into a bottom-rack position? About to embark on a very large migration? Trying to decide which type of lift to buy? Want to rent a lift, rather than buy one right now? Wish you could safely dispose of that lift you’re not using anymore—and recoup some of your cost? Want us to come out and service any kind of lift? Contact […]
Designed Specifically for Data Centers
There are companies that make warehouse lifts. They like to tout their lifts as appropriate for data centers. Too bad, because if you try to use one of those lifts in your narrow-aisle data center loaded with heavy and expensive servers, requiring pinpoint positioning and safe, one-operator use, you will see immediately that they are simply not up to the task. Only a lift that is designed specifically for safely and easily transporting, precisely positioning, installing, and removing your DC equipment can deliver on its promises, day in and day out. We are so glad we are still the only company making the only “designed for data centers only” lift.
The Babysitters Club
Wow. You won’t believe the call we just got. A regional colocation provider asked if we could expedite their recent data center lift order. They have one lift already, but at least five of their clients have been fighting like crazy over it! Okay – we’re going to do our best to move the delivery up…provided that everyone behaves and “plays nice”. We have a feeling an order for another 2-3 ServerLIFT® server-handling lifts might be coming in soon 😂.
Safety Overdrive
Even after spending nearly 20 years helping eliminate all unsafe, manual handling of rack-mounted IT equipment in data centers across the world, we are sometimes reminded that while buying ServerLIFT® lifting solutions is the easiest and safest data center decision, integrating them into the operations can take a lot of planning. Before buying and implementing our lifts, a prominent government contractor impressed us with their diligent safety procedures by having us submit a detailed Safety Plan for us to perform work at their site. Odd, we thought, since we are just providing them the tool that they will use. But kudos to them because their safety team was thinking ahead […]
One Data Center’s Trash is Another’s Treasure
Despite the continued growth of the IT industry, like any other, it also has businesses that reach end-of-life. That’s why we were happy to help buy back two ServerLIFT® SL-500X® powered lifts from a data center that was being decommissioned. As soon as we get the machines back to our facility, we’ll fully inspect, test, and refurbish these fantastic data center safety tools as certified pre-owned lifts for another facility that wants to give them a home. ServerLIFT® still has customers using their original SL500 Classic models that we shipped them nearly 20 years ago!
Client Sells Entire Team on ServerLIFT® データセンターの伸び
A long-time member of our user community told us recently how he worked in a data center overseas years ago, where they used our SL-350X® hand-crank model lifts. Fast forward to the present. He is now working for a company here in the United States, and they were lifting servers with a warehouse lift 😢. He informed his team that they were going to have OSHA problems and injuries if they didn’t get a ServerLIFT® brand data center lift ASAP. They arranged an onsite demo, and their team fell in love with the machine. Now everyone there likes to claim that they started the relationship between their company and ours. […]
