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Sherman Ikemoto

Sherman Ikemoto is director of Future Facilities North America.

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Tackling Overprovisioning in Enterprise Data Centers

It's not the cost of business

Sherman Ikemoto

February 10, 2020

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Many data center operators build redundancy and extra storage or computing power into their data centers just in case. Research from Future Facilities shows that data center operators build three data centers for every two they need.

Minimizing lost IT loading capacity through the virtual facility approach

Sherman Ikemoto

June 2, 2014

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The initial capital cost of a data center facility runs anywhere from $10 to $30 million per megawatt of IT capacity.

Driving Improvements for Efficient Data Center Cooling

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Richard Zbin named Mission Critical's 2019 Facility Manager of the Year

What Does a Future-Ready Data Center Look Like?

Mission Critical Magazine Announces the Top Tier Product Awards

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March 18, 2020

5G and Power - Distributed to the Edge

5G promises lightning-fast speeds, no lag time, and increased densities — a critical piece to make autonomous vehicles and smart cities a reality. So, why aren't cars driving themselves yet? The answer is that even though the technology needed to transmit the data exists, there’s not enough power to get it there. Integrating distributed power to high-speed communications and IT nodes seems like a logical fix to the problem.

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March 19, 2020

Portable A/Cs Steal the Data Center “Spot”light

Data centers of today are rapidly transforming into data centers of tomorrow. The industry is evolving at both ends of the spectrum as it continues to increase its physical footprint while simultaneously decreasing its carbon footprint. Some data center campuses consist of several extremely large facilities, but decentralized networks that utilize small, on-site server rooms are also growing in popularity. And although there are still a lot of questions surrounding edge computing, it’s certainly not going anyway anytime soon.

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Mission Critical Magazine

2020 January/February

In our first issue of the year, we reveal the 2019 Facility Manager of the Year winner. But that's not all — we also take a look at data center site selection, cybersecurity, and hyperscale network architecture as we explore the cloud.

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