Green Data Centers Powered by Solar Arrays
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 … Les mer
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 … Les mer
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, … Les mer
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 … Les mer
Forsiktighetsregler og forslag til prosedyrer for serverhåndtering
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 … Les mer
2012 CRN Data Center 100
2012 CRN Data Center 100: The Who's Who in the Data Center Industry Årlig UMB Channel publiserer CRN Data Center 100-listen i januarutgaven av CRN Magazine. Den årlige publikasjonen inneholder de 100 største leverandørene som er ansvarlige for å drive datasentre med avanserte teknologier som øker effektiviteten, ytelsen og avkastningen av datasenteret, ... Les mer
X86 Server Watch; Intel E5-2600 Series Chips - Del 2
Trend Watch: X86 Server Take Over: Intels New E5-2600 Series Chips Part Two: Intel lanserte sin etterlengtede Xeon E5-2600-familie denne tirsdag 6. mars 2012. Den nye serverbrikken er bygget på Sandy Bridge mikroarkitektur og ble opprettet for å være kompatibel med 2- og 4- socket-servere. Det lover nye prestasjonsnivåer sammen ... Les mer
X86 Intel Server Watch; Intel E5-2600-serien chips - del én
Trendklokke: Hva er en X86-server: Intels nye Chips i E5-2600-serien, del én: Denne uken skal jeg skrive en to-delers serie på trendklokken for X86 Intel-servere. Som jeg er sikker på at du lurer på, er jeg klar over at X86-prosessorer ikke er en ny ting. Ja, jeg vet at de har eksistert i løpet av ... Les mer
AFCOM DATA CENTER WORLD 2012
2012 AFCOM DATA CENTER WORLD: Premier Conference for Data Center & Facility Management Professionals Fra tid til annen kjører jeg over nyheter, produkter eller hendelser som er verdt å dele med bloggleserne våre. I dag kommer til å bli en av de dagene som lider noen andres horn. AFCOMs Datasenter verdenskonferanse og messe ... Les mer
Cloud Computing
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 … Les mer
