2013 Data Center Efficiency & Trends Part II
Data Center Efficiency Survey ServerLIFT® LLC conducted an anonymous survey at a large technology trade show to determine data center efficiency specific to equipment handling practices. Respondents were asked to complete a questionnaire consisting of six questions that related to daily operations in their data center. All survey information was anonymous to encourage participant honesty … Citeste mai mult
2013 Data Center Trends & Efficiency Survey
Data Center Trends Survey: ServerLIFT LLC conducted an anonymous survey at a large technology trade show in the USA to determine current data center trends and examine efficiency specific to data center equipment handling practices. Respondents were asked to complete a questionnaire consisting of 6 questions that related to the data center they worked in. … Citeste mai mult
ServerLIFT® Interop 2013
ServerLIFT® – Exclusive Red Carpet Event at Interop Las Vegas 2013 With the success of our exclusive Red Carpet event, the launch of the SL-1000X® Powered ServerLIFT® and the premiere demo of our new front loading unit ServerLIFT® had a great time at Interop 2013 last week. We were also a proud sponsor of the NOC … Citeste mai mult
IBM, Data Center Design & Inefficiency
Like so many things taken for granted, data centers have a side to them that few people know of. IBM’s insight into their data center management and infrastructure comes across as interesting, puzzling and perhaps even absurd. Data Center Design According to IBM around 80% of data centers were created before the dotcom era. With … Citeste mai mult
Colocation: When to Shut Down the Server Room and Open up the Cloud
What exactly are Colocation Services? The common calling card of the Network Administrator of the past was to: “Keep your users close, keep your servers closer.” They would break into a sweat at the thought of hosting mission critical servers in another building, let alone another state or by another company entirely. However, except for … Citeste mai mult
Futuristic Data Center Efficiency Ideas
Five Futuristic Data Center Efficiency Ideas 1. Building a Data Center Under a Cathedral There are a ton of jokes we could make about building a data center under a church, but we’re gonna pass. Taking data center efficiency to a whole new level, the Atos data center was built inside a former bomb shelter … Citeste mai mult
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
Your Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) In 2007, The Green Grid published its very first white paper regarding energy efficiencies in data centers. “Green Grid Metrics: Describing Data Center Power Efficiency” proposed the use of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) and Datacenter Efficiency (DCE), now Data center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE), as a means to enable data center … Citeste mai mult
Getting More Out Of Your Servers with Virtualization
The Benefits of Virtualization At the simplest level, virtualization is a way to organize computing capacity. It addresses situations such as servers that run at a small fraction of their capacity, wasting power and resources. It helps handle the issue of physical desktop PCs and the resources that they consume in repairing and maintaining them, … Citeste mai mult
The New Google Data Center in Finland
New Google Data Center in Hamina, Finland This week we decided to post a video about Google’s new data center build out in Hamina, Finland. This particular data center has created a lot of hype in the industry and we thought a lot of you would be interested learning more about this facility and how … Citeste mai mult
Data Center Injury and Damage Statistics
May 2012 Data Center Injury and Damage Statistics Survey: An anonymous study was conducted to determine the number of data center injury and damage from dropped server equipment that occurs in data centers. Out of the 113 participants, 89 answered that they have worked or interfaced within a data center in the past five years. … Citeste mai mult
