ServerLIFT® News | May 2023
Summer is right around the corner, and we’re all facing warmer temperatures during these hot months. The demand for energy will be greater, pushing power grids to their limits. In this month’s newsletter, we have some tips for making data centers more energy efficient. 1. Upgrade Powered Distribution Units For Reduced Energy Loss Smart power … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
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 … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
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 … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
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 … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
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 … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
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, … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
Client Sells Entire Team on ServerLIFT® ลิฟท์ศูนย์ข้อมูล
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 😢. … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
Supply Chain Crisis Effects On ServerLIFT® Products
The port delays and supply chain disruptions of the last couple of years had extended lead times for ServerLIFT® products (and many others) well beyond normal levels. Finally, those issues are starting to ease up which means we have been shipping out many more orders in shorter periods of time. While we’re not all the way … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
ServerLIFT® Helps Client Get Right Lift for Job
After delivering a couple of SL-500X® motorized lifts for a short-term rental, the project manager realized that some of the equipment they wanted to lift was heavier than the 500 lb load limit of the rental machines. They called us as soon as they received their lifts to inform us of their oversight. We quickly … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
Experts In Data Center Lift Service & Repair
Because data center lifts are mission-critical safety tools that are operational necessities, whenever a call comes in for service or repair, it’s our highest priority to get them fixed quickly. When a local data center called because six of their lifts were left outdoors, rusted and in disrepair, we dispatched one of our in-house production … อ่านเพิ่มเติม
