Top 10 Ways to Avoid Downtime
Data center managers and operators know the looming threat of unnecessary downtime well. Despite technological advances in the IT infrastructure space, they are a common phenomenon. The Ponemon Institute placed the cost of a minute of downtime in the data center at $5,600 in 2010 and at $7,900 in 2013. That has now risen to an average of over $8,000 per minute. For the Fortune 100, the loss of unplanned downtime costs as much as $2.5 billion annually.
Best Practices for Data Center Equipment Handling
The vast majority of data centers still have plenty of room for efficiency gains. To mitigate the risk of injury and equipment damage, how IT equipment is handled in the data center really matters. We’ll demonstrate the high cost of using the wrong equipment and the wrong safety strategies in your enterprise, and why it’s […]
Best Practices for Moving IT Equipment
Well-prepared data center operators take the same approach to moving IT equipment as with every other data center activity: They use the right tools. This is how they mitigate the risk of equipment damage and employee injury, and realize benefits like boosted productivity, higher employee morale, and lower attrition. The question then becomes: “How do […]
Buying a Data Center Lifting Device
In the data center, having the right tools matters. A purpose-built Data Center Infrastructure Handling (DCIH) device to safely and efficiently move IT equipment is a best-practice purchase. Our guide will help you to find the perfect purchase for your needs.
The Data Center Safety Guidebook
What comes to mind when you are questioned regarding safety in the data center? Protection from hackers? Fire suppression, or guidelines for energized work? The typical safety plan is incomplete without physical safety and transportation/positioning/installation guidelines. Let us help you create safety initiatives that protect both staff and expensive machinery.
The Data Center Migration Guide
Older, less flexible data center infrastructure stifles innovation—and businesses run the risk of losing their competitive edge. IT leaders must anticipate and address the changes needed to meet the requirements of a rapidly growing digital business. Our Data Center Migration Guide will help you to move equipment safely and securely, and stay on budget.
The Data Center Consolidation Action Plan
Accelerating technologies challenge IT managers to constantly keep ahead—not as a just a function of their jobs, but as a function of their company’s survival. We will show you how to use a data center consolidation initiative to move efficiently and reduce costs.
Women in the Data Center
There are more women in the data center than ever before. “In 2015, women held 57% of all professional occupations, yet they held only 25% of all computing occupations,” according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT). The Bureau of Labor Statistics states that in 2016, women in the U.S. occupied only […]
Introducing the SL-1000X® Super-Duty ServerLIFT
ServerLIFT® is pleased to introduce the much anticipated SL-1000X® Super-Duty ServerLIFT, the latest addition to our server and IT hardware handling. With features specifically designed to enhance safety and efficiency, the SL-1000X® ServerLIFT represents the future of advanced data center lifting solutions. The SL-1000X® ServerLIFT is the only compact data center lift rated to lift […]
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 […]