In the Data Center: Is Safe, Safe Enough?
It may come as little surprise that at ServerLIFT headquarters, the majority of our conversations revolve around data center safety. It’s the reason we originally designed the ServerLIFT data center lift. No one had made anything like it before. We saw a clear need for a lift that could function effectively in the data center environment without putting anyone at risk.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
