Inadequate/ limited space, power, and cooling capacity have led many data centers or organizations to be acquainted with capital and operating costs for their set ups. Data centers have become an increasing part of their financial plan over time. The lack of flexibility caused by obsolete, incompetent data centers has also begun to affect businessContinue Reading …
The Hot and Cold Passage
May 11, 2012 By
Server racks and relay racks are the storage cabinet. They are integral pieces of hardware equipments in a data center. A server rack is considered to house, protect and organize a variety of computer equipment. Keeping racks and relays cool is an essential undertaking, which require hot/cold aisles. A lot of energy is wasted whenContinue Reading …
What’s in my cabinet?
April 6, 2012 By
In the last few articles, I presented what is needed to be able to rely on an up-to-date inventory for better control of your data center. Whether you want to migrate or introduce one or multiple servers, many important parameters must be known before even considering a suitable position for them. It is a complexContinue Reading …
How Can a Room Affect Data Center Cooling?
March 14, 2012 By
As data centers are increasingly focusing on lowering their PUE, more and more questions are being raised on how to bring down power consumption in a data center. Since cooling takes up a considerably large percent of the total power supplied to any data center, studies are being undertaken all over the world to churnContinue Reading …
Smart Tips for Data Centre Builds to Reduce Risk
February 22, 2012 By
Companies and big organizations need suitable ways of acquiring and storing critical information which is important to the smooth running of their activities. A channel to obtain all this should be planned and implemented as soon as the need arises. The success of this is accomplished by taking chances whenever an opportunity is detected. RunningContinue Reading …
Long Distance Data Migration Across WAN for Data Center
February 15, 2012 By
Having an effective and efficient strategy for optimizing long distance data migration is essential for every data center. With the ever increasing demands for the IT needs of businesses it is also important for data centers to deliver data migration cost effectively especially when faced with the demands from remote office back up, outsourcing, dataContinue Reading …
Data Center Environment and Energy Thresholds
January 27, 2012 By
If you’re running a data center, there are certain environmental and energy thresholds you need to stay in line with. If you don’t have the proper operating environment, that not only drives your operating costs through the roof; it could very well cause irreparable damage to your servers. Further, if you’re using too much energy,Continue Reading …
Risks of Virtualization
January 25, 2012 By
Whether business are small or large are progressively spinning to virtualization technology in order to save cost and boost redundancies in case they face collapse. So the conventional security explanations are not enough to guard virtual machinery. The capability to generate dozens of virtual servers as files in a sole corporal server might engrave electricityContinue Reading …
Data Center Cable Management
January 24, 2012 By
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. So I will, for a change, keep my talking to a minimum and just ask you: How would you like to be the guy stuck under those cables in picture below? He would spend half his day untangling himself from those vines of cable wires, IContinue Reading …
The Inside Dirt on Raised Floors
January 23, 2012 By
Raised floors, as the name suggests, are elevated, hollow platforms that are built on top of the regular concrete floor. They are used to provide passage for electrical and mechanical services. This is mostly done to avoid littering the floor with wires and cables that are essential in a data center but you would ratherContinue Reading …
