Uptime Data Center Tier Standards
What Tier Standard Does Your Data center Live up to? The Uptime data center tier standards are a standardized methodology used to determine availability in a facility. The Uptime Institute established the data center tier system, which offers companies a way to measure their performance and return on investment (ROI). The standards consist of … Детальніше
Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM)
Infrastructure Management of the Data Center: The Datacenter Game Changer Data Center Infrastructure Management is taking the industry by storm. It is predicted that by 2014, 60% of corporations will have implemented the use of DCIM; a huge leap from the mere 1% in 2010. With statistics like these, there is no question that … Детальніше
Data Center Security
Data Center Security: Let’s Get Physical… Let’s be honest, how secure is your data center? You’re initial thoughts might go something like “it’s ironclad, the Fort Knox of all data centers, nothing could possibly be more secure.” And virtually, yes, you’re ready for anything. You probably have firewalls, VPN gateways, intrusion detection systems, monitoring … Детальніше
Thermal Energy Storage Technology in Data Centers for Cooling Servers
How One Data Center is Using New Thermal Energy Storage Technology: Google Embraces Thermal Storage in Taiwan for Cooling Data Center As part of Google’s ongoing efforts to cut costs and save power in its custom-built data centers, it will cool the servers in its new Taiwanese computing facility using a technique known as thermal … Детальніше
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 … Детальніше
Зелені центри даних, що працюють на сонячних масивах
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 … Детальніше
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 … Детальніше
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, … Детальніше
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 … Детальніше
Server Handling Precautions and Procedure Suggestions
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 … Детальніше
