As our world becomes ever more data centric, the data center and the energy it uses seems to become a focal point of criticism for groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, as well as many others.
A colocation data center can provide IT facilities equipment, rack space, connectivity, and environmental support facilities, including power, cooling, physical security, and physical storage.
In today’s data center landscape, facility managers seek to operate with reliable and energy efficient equipment that produces a low total cost of own-ership.
When Janna Bridges, Volusia County Schools data operations manager, first stepped into the district’s data center in Deland, FL, in 1998, she entered a room that contained one mainframe
Back in ancient Egypt, servants kept the Pharaohs cool by waving palm fronds over water-soaked reeds. A couple of thousand years later (on April 19, 2012, to be exact) Greenpeace activists in Seattle unfurled an 800-ft banner that read: