DCIM Comes Of Age

The art of managing power and cooling with data center infrastructure management software.

November 18, 2015

For the past few years, the buzz in data center trade shows around data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software has been substantial — much of it hype, not reality.

Data Center Resilience

Proactive “What If?” simulation reduces downtime.

Sev Onyshkevych

August 5, 2015

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To make a data center truly resilient used to require significant hardware redundancy.

What’s At The Other End Of The Cloud?

The data often transcends the ether.

Sev Onyshkevych

July 1, 2015

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In the otherwise-forgettable movie, Sex Tape, starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel, the couple is in a car, talking about a risqué tape they had recorded, “It went up, it went up into the cloud … You can’t get it down from the cloud? … Nobody understands the cloud … it’s a mystery!”

The Case For DCIM

Monitoring helps keep your facility on track

Sev Onyshkevych

October 2, 2014

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Having been in the technology business for 30 years, I continue to be amazed when I come upon a data center with no centralized monitoring solution.

Keeping Your Cool With DCIM

Get a handle on thermal management.

Sev Onyshkevych

August 13, 2013

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One issue getting its fair share of media attention these days is the significant cost associated with IT infrastructure failure.

Keeping Your Cool With DCIM

While it doesn’t get the attention it deserves, a top reason for IT failure is caused by ineffective thermal management.

Sev Onyshkevych

May 1, 2013

One issue getting its fair share of media attention these days is the significant cost associated with IT infrastructure failure.

Data Center Efficiency… Survey Says!

Sev Onyshkevych

March 8, 2013

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It goes without saying that organizations are increasingly challenged to achieve effective and efficient data center implementations

On Demand This webinar will present the mechanical and electrical options for on-site energy storage for your mission critical environment. These options include grid-level battery storage, thermal energy storage, zero-net energy, solar, and critical power stored energy.

Powering Edge Data Centers

On Demand An edge data facility is still a data center. One still and must consider design, construction, and operational habits that result in high levels of system availability, maintainability, and resiliency. The disaggregation that edge poses will distribute compute and storage assets, and the challenge will be placing edge assets into sufficiently robust facilities or enclosures outside of traditional data centers where those local solutions can equally sustain those IT operations and systems.

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Mission Critical Magazine

2019 May/June

Mission Critical Magazine’s 2019 May/June issue takes a deep dive into controlling water damage in data centers, the art of balancing density, and using new data management tools to optimize network availability. In addition, our second annual Optimal Edge Supplement examines how far we’ve come and where we are going in edge computing.

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