There has been a heated debate around the data center service provider business model: will large centralized data centers that pop up near major fiber hubs or distributed data centers that bring proximity and geographic flexibility dominate the future of the multi-tenant data center industry?
As an owner’s quality assurance program, commissioning verifies and documents that a new data center, including all of its systems and assemblies, meets project requirements.
Hardly a day goes by in my travels and discourses that I don’t encounter an IT pro new to an organization that discovers they’ve inherited some server, application, service, etc. that doesn’t make sense in its current implementation.
I’ve attended every single Symposium, including the very first one, where I met Uptime Institute’s late founder, Mr. Ken Brill at the Orlando Hyatt Airport nearly a decade ago.
When operating a data center, enterprises frequently look at the closely coupled costs of operating the facility — power, maintenance contracts, and sometimes staffing.
In honor of Earth Day, an overview of energy efficiency innovations in data centers.
April 22, 2014
On the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, the World Wide Web existed only in research labs, “texting” was something you wrote in a notebook and the closest thing to a data center was the public library.