Raised Floor-A Quick Fix Solution or Not?

November 19, 2012 By

It is difficult to imagine a data center without cables and electrical wiring; it is the quintessential part of a data center. More or less, it is like the nervous system providing connectivity to the different parts in a data center. There has to be a way to deal with the installation of these cables unless you want your staff to trip over them.

Raised floor is one of the ways of effectively dealing with this kind of a situation. As the name suggests, a raised floor is an elevated platform in a data center constructed for the purpose of providing a passage for electrical and mechanical services. This is mostly done to avoid cluttering the floor with cables and wires.

The height of the raised floor can vary from 2 inches to 5 inches from the concrete floor depending on the data center requirements, and the height of the ceiling above the raised floor. According to the prescribed standards of construction, a ceiling has to be about 9 feet from the ground. There are many uses of a raised floor in a data center; cooling is one of the primary purposes. Perforated tiles can be installed to allow cool air from the air conditioning systems to reach the room.

Recently this technology has seen the dust. Data center operators believe that they can do away with raised floors while still retaining the operating efficiency of the data center. With the advent of technology, and inclusion of blade servers and high density server racks, heat within the rooms has elevated. Raised floor for cooling has ceased to help in this situation. It is difficult to limit the number of cables placed on raised floor without heating the place underneath.

Installation of raised floors is very expensive. Under floor maintenance adds to the menace while fire safety measures, lighting adds to the overhead costs. High density servers have become the flavor of recent data center development where multiple servers can be stacked in one rack. As a result, server racks have started to weigh a ton, and raised floors cannot withstand the weight. Raised floors may even succumb to the weight and collapse.

Cooling is no longer a serious issue. Raised floor for cooling has taken a back stand, and low level or localized cooling has gained popularity. Operators are using hot aisle and cold aisle configurations for eliminating localized heating. They also reduce the PUE, electricity and maintenance costs.

If raised floor is not being used, then there should be another way of dealing with cables. False ceiling or overhead cable management is gaining popularity as a replacement to raised floor. They provide lesser cooling disruption and fault location is easier. The only concern that lingers is accessibility.

Having said all that, raised floors are not going to be eliminated forever. They have their own advantages and disadvantages. Some companies find raised floor very suitable for all their cooling and management solutions. Some have adopted alternate ways of reducing PUE, and improving efficiency. In some cases, raised floors cannot be discarded just because they are old fashioned.

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COLOCATION DATA CENTER-BENEFITS

October 11, 2012 By

A colocation center is a type of facility where equipment space and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities house networking equipment of other firms and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers with a minimum of cost and complexity.

The amount of cooling equipment installed for a data center contributes to the identification of the center.

Colocation facilities have many special features:

  • Fire protection systems, as well as implementation of fire prevention programs in operations.
  • Smoke detectors are installed to provide early warning of a fire by detecting development of flame. This allows early detection; measures can be deployed to douse the fire.
  • Cabinets and racks are constructed for physical access over the customer’s equipment.
  • Air conditioning is used to control the temperature and humidity in the space.  The electrical equipment when overworked generates a lot of heat; unless the heat is removed, the ambient temperature will rise, resulting in electronic equipment malfunction. By controlling the space air temperature, the server components at the board level are kept within the manufacturer’s specified temperature/humidity range.
  • Air conditioning systems are few in case of the presence of windows, and ventilation.

SECURITY

Most colocation centers have high levels of security. They may even employ CCTV cameras.

Some colocation facilities require that employees escort customers, especially if the cabinets are not individually segregated for each customer. In other facilities, a PINcode or proximity card access system may allow customers access into the building or the cabinets are provided with unique locks and keys are handed over to the clients. Biometric security measures, such as fingerprint and voice recognition are also becoming more common in modern facilities.

POWER

Colocation facilities generally have generators that start automatically when power fails, usually running on diesel fuel.

Generators do not start instantaneously, so colocation facilities usually have battery backup systems. The operator of the facility provides large inverters to provide AC power from the batteries. In other cases, the customers may install smaller UPS in their racks.

Colocation facilities are sometimes connected to multiple sections of the power grid for additional reliability.

COOLING

The operator of a colocation facility generally provides air conditioning for the computer and telecommunications equipment in the building. The cooling system generally includes some degree of redundancy.

Data centers also have to comply with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Data centers are required to pass through a series of audits to ensure that the facility follows all the required standards.

Some colocation data centers make use of renewable sources of fuel for generators and power systems. Solar lights can be used during the daytime; a measure to harness this form of energy saves a lot of overhead costs. Ultimately colocation centers are beneficial to businesses with a large computing operation database.

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Free-air cooling optimized servers

July 24, 2012 By

Depending upon the choice of processors, the newSupermicro Fat Twin 4U server  can operate at temperatures up to 117 F (47 C), allowing the servers to take advantage of free air cooling solutions in a wide range of environments.

 

Air cooling is a very primitive method employed in cooling systems. The use of this technology dates back to the invention of the fins used in modern day vehicles. They transfer heat to free air. The transfer of heat here occurs by radiation form of heat transfer, where the medium of transfer for heat is air. Generally when heat transfer occurs through radiation principle it involves electromagnetic rays hence the direction of absorbed heat can be altered by

using mirrors

 

The new Fat Twin is a high-density, eight node server solution, the design goals focused on delivering a highly capable server while improving Total Cost Ownership by focusing on power efficiency. Both performance per watt and performance per dollar considerations were applied throughout the design process. This resulted in changes to mother board designs, minimized power distribution losses, and minimization of parasitic issues, such as the power necessary to drive the server fans. Properly implemented, the Fat Twin is capable of reaching a PUE of below 1.1, according to Supermicro.

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The Fat Twin systems are highly configurable, fitting in a stand 10 inch rackmount. While there are standard configurations that optimize the PUE, energy efficiency, and density of the servers, the configuration options allow the customer to customize the fat twin to meet their specific needs.dar

The system nodes are all hot-swappable, can support up to 512 GB of memory, are available with both hardware and software RAID solutions, have built-in management capabilities via an onboard dedicated LAN port that supports IPMI 2.0, and a pair of GbE ports with an Intel i350 controller.

The standardized form factor and optimized components of the Fat Twin provide additional flexibility for datacenter operators, especially smaller facilities that are not interested in or appropriate for other high-0density solutions such as blade servers. Having some basic information about the efficiency potential of your servers simplifies energy efficiency planning for potential customers.

About Supermicro

Super Micro Computer, Inc. or Supermicro® (NASDAQ: SMCI), a global leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology and innovation is a premier provider of end-to-end green computing solutions for Enterprise IT, Datacenter, Cloud Computing, HPC and Embedded Systems worldwide. Supermicro’s advanced server Building Block Solutions® offers a vast array of modular, interoperable components for building energy-efficient, application-optimized, computing solutions. This broad line of products includes servers, blades, GPU systems, workstations, motherboards, chassis, power supplies, storage technologies, networking solutions and SuperRack® cabinets/accessories. Architecture innovations include Twin Architecture, SuperServer®, SuperBlade®, MicroCloud, Super Storage Bridge Bay (SBB), Double-Sided Storage™, Universal I/O (UIO) and WIO expansion technology all of which deliver unrivaled performance and value.

KEY TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS SUPERMICRO PROVIDE INCLUDE:

  • Application Optimized Server Solutions
  • Economical Power Efficiency and Thermal Management Systems
  • Flexible Expansion Capabilities – Universal I/O
  • Hybrid CPU + GPU Supercomputing Systems

 

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Calculating Data Center Cooling Requirements

May 28, 2012 By

Most electrical equipments generate heat. This must be taken care of, to prevent the equipment temperature from increasing to an intolerable level. For the most part of IT equipment and other equipment existent in a data center is air-cooled. Setting up a cooling system requires a considerate amount of understanding of the amount of heat produced by the equipment. This article explains how to estimate heat output from IT equipment and other devices in a data center such as UPS, for purposes of sizing air conditioning systems, lighting, and power backup.

With the implementation of scalable “pay as you use” uninterruptible power supply (UPS) design, it’s getting simpler to set up these systems.  As the needs of the data center grow they allow the data center manager to plainly add modules.  On the other hand, it is effortless to lose sight of the future electrical needs of the data center or data room inside a well-built provision. The power requests of the various elements may vary to a large extent from each other.  However, using simple rules it can be accurately calculated using the power requirements of the premeditated IT loads along with calculating the size of the electrical service, these elements can be used to calculate approximately the power output ability of a standby generator system. This can be done only if it is requested for the data center loads.

This article discusses some of the concerns to be taken into consideration in calculating the data center cooling requirements.

 Determining electrical power output of the system:

Data centers are sometimes a part of a building.  The steps in shaping the electrical capacity will lend a hand in calculating the requirements for that portion of the building devoted to the data center room.  The dissimilarity between the steady state power and the peak power is significant to determine power capacity requirements of data center. The total heat output of a system is the sum of the heat outputs of the components. The complete system consists of IT equipment, along with other equipments like UPS, Power Distribution, Air Conditioning Units, Lighting, and People involved. Luckily, the heat output rates of these equipments can be effortlessly calculated through simple means.

The heat produced by UPS and Power Distribution systems is steady across equipment brands and models and so they can be approximated without significant error. Lighting and people can also be easily calculated by means of standard values. Some of the parameters required to determine the cooling load for the complete system are easily obtainable values. They include the floor area in square feet, and the charged electrical system power.   Air conditioning divisions create a considerable amount of heat from fans and compressors. This heat is bushed out to the outside and does not generate a thermal load within the data center. However detract from the competence of the air conditioning system and is usually credited when the air conditioner is sized.

 Other heat producing equipments:

Natural heat such as sunlight through windows and heat conducted in from outside walls must also be taken into consideration. Most small data centers and network rooms lack walls or windows. On the other hand, for large data centers with walls or a roof out in the open to the outdoors, the extra heat that goes inside the data center must be removed by the air conditioning system. In case the data center has important wall or ceiling coverage to the outside in that case heating, Ventilation, an Air Conditioning adviser must pitch in. He will examine the utmost thermal stack and this should be added to the thermal requisite of the absolute system.

 Size of air conditioner:

Only after the cooling requirements are determined, it is feasible to size an air conditioning system. Some of the factors stated below must be taken into consideration for the sizing of the cooling load of the equipment. This also includes electrical power equipments. Some of them are:

  • The volume of the cooling load in the building
  • Excess sizing for upcoming requirements
  • Excess sizing to report for humidification impacts
  • Excess sizing that would  generate redundancy

The Watt loads of each of these issues can be summed up to establish the total thermal load in data center

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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 churn out the most power-efficient cooling systems.

coolingIn the process, some have even raised questions on the room specifications affecting data center cooling. Some of the frequently asked questions include:  does the height of the room affect cooling? Does a larger room bring down the cooling requirements? Does a circular room demand lesser cooling? How can one even go about determining in advance how much cooling a room needs? These are some of the questions I would like to address in this article.

First things first; no, a larger room does not imply lesser cooling. On the contrary, in a spacious room, heat gets evenly distributed. Admittedly, the hot spots or heat concentration in the room can be reduced if the equipments are more freely disturbed. This is not necessarily a positive point considering that in a large room, there is more air to be cooled. That implies that you need CRACs of higher capacity which will draw in more air and in turn, draw more power to cool the air. Also, the distance the air has to travel in order to get cooled increases in a large room; the fans have to draw more power to deliver heated air to CRAC.

It is often suggested that you arrange your equipments in a more compact setting. Hot spots can be eliminated by passing blasts of cold air to the affected area. Since you are concentrating on specific regions of the computer room that are more prone to temperature rise and not the entire room, you are bringing down the volume of air that has to be cooled to maintain the desired temperature. Thus, you are also cutting down on power for cooling costs.

If you cannot help but have a large computer room, you can try moving all the equipments to one part of the server room and block the rest of the room and remove perforated tiles and neatly close all floor openings from the blocked part of the room.

As far as possible, do try and avoid structures that can block air pathway or change the direction of airflow. In air blast techniques, cool air is concentrated on the hot spots. Any change in the direction of the air destroys the purpose of this technique. If your data center has a lot of obstructing structures, you have to find your way around the obstructions. In such cases, you can strongly consider looking into in-row cooling solutions. Since these units can be placed as close to the hot spot as possible, they are an ideal solution to cluttered environments. Alternatively, you can look into buying air-diffusers and return-air fan products.

High ceilings are usually preferred while considering space for a data center. The minimum floor to ceiling distance is 9 feet. Any addition to that height is always welcome as it gives the data center professional more space on the top to accommodate overhead cabling and also provides a pathway for heated air to the CRAC units. It also maintains enough space between the rack and the overhead sprinklers.

Saying that high ceiling guarantees power-efficient cooling is slightly far-fetched. It also depends on how the rest of the room is laid out. If the hot aisles and cold aisles are properly distanced, and a 36-inch hot aisle and a 48-inch cold aisle is provided, cooling costs can come down drastically. If hot aisles and cold aisles cannot be accommodated in the data center, it is strongly advised to have a high ceiling.

If you ensure that you stop hot air and cold air from mixing with one another, more than half you battle is won. The coolability of the room is always high when the room is rectangular in shape with very few obstructions. So if your designer wants to insert pillars in your data center or make a circular room for aesthetic purposes, you know what to say.

 

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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 rather not have your staff tripping over.

raised floorsThe height of the raised floor can vary from 2 inches to 4 inches from the concrete floor depending on the data center’s requirements and the height of the room above the raised floors. It is mandatory that the ceiling is at least 9 feet from the floor. One of the most popular uses of raised floor is cooling. One can get perforated tiles through which air from the CRAC can be directed and supplied to cool the room.

Drawbacks of Raised Floors

But this technology is outdated. Data centers have come to a conclusion that they can do away with raised floors and their operation efficiency still remains the same. Technology is not the same as it was a decade ago. With the arrival blade servers and high-density server racks, the power cables have got thicker. Raised floors have ceased to be very useful in this regard. There is a limitation to the number of cables that you can place without heating the space beneath the raised floors.

Installation of raised floors is expensive. Under-floor maintenance also adds to the expense. Fire sensors, lighting also add to the overhead costs. Also, as the high density servers are becoming more compact, more servers can be fit into the same rack. As a result, the racks have started to weigh a ton; most raised floors will not be able to withstand the weight. The raised floors can even collapse under the increased weight.

Alternative Solutions

Cooling is no longer a big issue. Data centers are now opting for row level cooling or localised cooling. By adopting airflow management techniques like hot aisle and cold aisle, localised heating can be resolved more effectively than raised floors. They also reduce the PUE of the data center and bring down the annual electricity costs.

As mentioned before, it is not advisable to have cables running all over the floor. If we eliminate raised floors, there has to be some way to deal with the cable layout. False ceiling or overhead cable management, as a solution to this problem, is gaining popularity. They provide lesser cooling disruption and fault location is relatively easier. But accessibility is, once again, a concern.

But…

Having said all that, raised floors are not going to be thrown out to the curb any time soon. The change is gradual; everybody is exploring alternative ways to reduce PUE and improve efficiency. In some data centers, raised floors act as the most effective and economic solution to cooling and cable management. In such cases, the idea of adopting it can’t be discarded just because it is old fashioned.

 

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TIA- 942 Provides Data Center Infrastructure Standards

January 17, 2012 By

Following established cabling standards have always ensured a safe and efficient operation of any device or industry. Not only do standards assist us in building cost effective systems, they also bring in a certain level of uniformity for all industries. They ensure proper design, installation and performance of the network and also enabled the industries to advance faster and further.

Data centers, until recently, did not have any established standards. Network administrators had to choose technologies and decipher how to properly implement them into an often-undersized space. In April 2005, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) came out with TIA-942 Telecommunications Infrastructure Standards for Data Centers, this being the first standard to successfully address data center infrastructure.

TIA- 942 standards talk of the following specifications:

  • Site space and layout
  • Cabling infrastructure
  • Tiered reliability
  • Power
  • Cooling

Site Space and Layout

While choosing space for a data center, one must keep possible future growth and changing environmental conditions in mind. The interior of the data center also should be designed with plenty of “white space” that can accommodate future racks on cooling devices. According to TIA-942 standards, the data center should include the following functional areas:

  • One or More Entrance Rooms:

The Entrance Room may be located either inside or outside the data processing room. The standard recommends locating the entrance room outside of the computer room for better security. If located within the computer room, the Entrance Room should be consolidated with the MDA.

  • Main Distribution Area

The MDA is a centrally located area that houses the main cross-connect as well as core routers and switches for LAN and SAN infrastructures along with a horizontal cross-connect for a nearby EDA. The standard requires at least one MDA and specifies installing separate racks for fiber, UTP, and coaxial cable in this location.

  • One or More Horizontal Distribution Areas

The HDA is a distribution point for horizontal cabling and houses cross-connects and active equipment for distributing cable to the equipment distribution area. TIA standards specify installing separate racks for fiber, UTP, and coaxial cable in this location. It also recommends locating switches and patch panels to minimize patch cord lengths and facilitate cable management.

  • Equipment Distribution Areas

Horizontal cables are typically terminated with patch panels in the EDA. The standard specifies installing racks and cabinets in an alternating pattern to create “hot” and “cold” aisles to dissipate heat from electronics.

  • Zone Distribution Areas

The ZDA is an optional interconnection point in the horizontal cabling between the HDA and EDA. Only one ZDA is allowed within a horizontal cabling run with a maximum of 288 connections. The ZDA cannot contain any cross-connects or active equipment.

  • Backbone and Horizontal Cabling

Backbone cabling provides connections between MDA, HDAs, and Entrance Rooms while horizontal cabling provides connections between HDAs, ZDA, and EDA. Each functional area must be arranged to prevent exceeding maximum cable lengths for both backbone and horizontal cabling.

CABLING INFRASTRUCTURE

TIA- 942 standards recommend

  • The use of laser-optimized 50μm multimode fiber for backbone cabling.
  • Installing the highest capacity media available for horizontal cabling to reduce the need for re-cabling in the future.
  • Maximum backbone and horizontal cabling distances based on the cabling media and applications to be supported in the data center.
  • 300m of backbone fiber optic cabling and 100m of horizontal copper cabling.

It provides several requirements and recommendations for cabling management.

  • The data center must be designed with separate racks and pathways for each media type, and power and communications cables must be placed in separate pathways.
  • Adequate space must be provided within and between racks and cabinets and in pathways for better cable management, bend radius protection, and access.

 

TIERED RELIABILITY

To provide a means for determining specific data center needs, the TIA-942 standards include an informative annex with data center availability tiers which describes detailed architectural, security, electrical, mechanical, and telecommunications recommendations.

Tier I – Basic: 99.671% Availability

• Single path for power and cooling distribution, no redundant components (N)

• May or may not have a raised floor, UPS, or generator

• Annual downtime of 28.8 hours

• Must be shut down completely for perform preventive maintenance

Tier 2 – Redundant Components: 99.741% Availability

• Single path for power and cooling disruption, includes redundant components (N+1)

• Includes raised floor, UPS, and generator

• Annual downtime of 22.0 hours

• Maintenance of power path and other parts of the infrastructure require a processing shutdown

Tier 3 – Concurrently Maintainable: 99.982% Availability

• Multiple power and cooling distribution paths but with only one path active, includes redundant components (N+1)

• Annual downtime of 1.6 hours

• Includes raised floor and sufficient capacity and distribution to carry load on one path while performing maintenance on the other.

Tier 4 – Fault Tolerant: 99.995% Availability

• Planned activity does not disrupt critical load and data center can sustain at least one worst-case unplanned event with no critical load impact

• Multiple active power and cooling distribution paths, includes redundant components (2 (N+1), i.e. 2 UPS each with N+1 redundancy)

• Annual downtime of 0.4 hours

 

POWER

Determining power requirements requires careful planning and is based on the desired reliability tier. It may include two or more power feeds from the utility, UPS, multiple circuits to systems and equipment, and on-site generators.

Estimating power needs involves determining the power required for all existing devices and for devices anticipated in the future. Power requirements must also be estimated for all support equipment such as UPS, generators, conditioning electronics, HVAC, lighting, etc.

COOLING

The standard incorporates specifications for encouraging airflow and reducing the amount of heat generated by equipments. It recommends the use of raised-floor system for more flexible cooling. The standard encourages hot and cold aisle arrangement.

The standard also suggests:

  • Increase airflow by blocking unnecessary air escapes and/or increasing the height of the raised floor
  • Spread equipment out over unused portions of the raised floor
  • Use open racks instead of cabinets, or use cabinets with mesh fronts and backs
  • Use perforated tiles with larger openings

 

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How High is High Enough?

January 9, 2012 By

Questions regarding methods of optimal cooling are limitless. What should be the size of my data center to ensure there are no hot spots? How should I align my racks to provide efficient cooling? How many CRAC units should I install? What method of airflow management should I adopt? How are raised floors helpful? I could go on and write a whole book just by listing the frequently asked question; but what I would like to address in this post is how ceiling height can affect data center cooling.

Yes, the height of the room does play a vital role in effective heat disposal. But the ceiling height majorly depends on how well the data center planning is done. If the designer has spared his attention to proper detailing of the hot and cold aisles, then even a 9 feet high ceiling, which is the minimum requirement for a data center, is more than sufficient. If not, then increasing the height of the room will help in providing a better and low resistance path to the hot air returning to CRAC. Some data center experts also suggest that the CRAC returns be raised to at least two feet below the ceiling so that it is easier to collect the hottest air.

A higher ceiling is highly advantageous in case of a cooling system failure. It is believed that a higher ceiling height increases the cold air volume, thus reducing the rate of temperature increase. This will give enough time for the operator to fix the cooling system or make alternate arrangements to bring down the room temperature before the systems start shutting down due to high temperature. Although there seems to be no significant impact of a higher ceiling in a cold- aisle containment, the effects of a high ceiling in a hot- aisle containment are still being studied.

Of course, one has to keep in mind that a high ceiling is not an alternative or a replacement option to airflow management. It just provides a helping hand in cooling the data centers.

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Why is a Data Center Important for Business?

November 21, 2011 By

Over the last 40 years, business’ growth and technological advancement have goaded each other towards further advancement. With every new business requirement, technology has stepped up to provide an apt solution. Large amounts of money invested in new hardware and software has resulted in an information technology (IT) infrastructure that gave a company a competitive advantage over its contemporaries. Hence over the years companies that have been most successful in sustaining growth are those that have taken advantage of new innovations while reducing cost, complexity, and overcapacity.

Data Centers have been around since the dawn of the first computer. Specialized workspace and experts for operation made them special. In 1989, Kodak became the first major corporation in the United States to outsource a significant part of its IT department. It outsourced its data center operations, desktop management, and network, as well as voice networks. At that time, outsourcing a strategic asset such as the IT department to third-party providers was unheard of. Despite much skepticism, Kodak soon became a role model on how to plan and implement an outsourcing relationship. It was not until after 1990 that Data Centers became a popular all in one processing house for a larger number of corporations and even individuals.

Less or No Infrastructure Costs:

When the services of a Data Center are availed of, there is no need for investment in infrastructure. The Data Center provider charges the client for the services rendered. Additional equipment can be added on request and customized within short intervals. If infrastructure costs increase disproportionately when compared to total spending, saving capital on hardware can certainly be a major cost saving factor for most small and even major corporations.

Uninterrupted Power Supply:

Data Centers have a power supply system built never to fail. Usually in case of a general power outage a battery bank will provide power till the diesel generators kick in. This ensures almost no interruption in power supply! No interruptions in power supply would mean higher server uptime.

Security

Security is one of the most essential features a client would require in a Data Center. All physical access is controlled completely. Identities may be confirmed via biometrics and all activities are video-logged. Entry to the premises is restricted each client is provided a dedicated space with the required security levels.

 Safety

Most modern day Data Centers are located specifically at locations where environmental hazards are rare. Precautions are taken against flooding. The temperature is controlled at all times and additional cooling can be requested when necessary. Most Data Centers have a dedicated power supply line; this ensures less number of electrical spikes and harmonics in the connection. All in all, utmost care is taken for the physical safety of the client’s equipment.

Processing and Storage:

With new multicore processors in the market today, at a Data Center the processing speed can be increased in a matter of hours! Additional storage can also be added as per the requirement. Customized hardware can be availed of and all this at a price lower than that of the actual equipment.

Multiple IP Providers

High speed Internet is critical for e-commerce. Considering the reach that most online businesses require in the world today, multiple IP providers all located at one location prove to be very beneficial rather than subscribing for individual connections. There is saving of capital in simply renting the connection for a certain period of time rather than purchasing a dedicated line.

Bandwidth:

As an online business progresses the bar for requirement of bandwidth increases radically. We-based ordering, product registration, web based marketing, video ads, audio conferencing, video and audio collaboration are all bandwidth exhaustive applications.  Data Centers are well equipped to handle this need at all times.

World Class Systems:

A Data Center will always be equipped with the latest hardware. This feature ensures that the client always gets the best-in class service. The capital to update hardware on a regular basis is a lot more than to rent services at a Data Center. Additionally smaller hardware can be installed on request; this ensures that the client is either on par or always a step ahead of a competitor.

Availing services of a Data Center can reduce hardware costs, labor, network load to name a few. There is major saving in expendable resources like electricity and cooling systems. The pros of using a Data Center are many, the cons hardly exist! A good Data Center service can take a business to a whole new level. Spare your wallet, subscribe to a Data Center.

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