According to the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), less than half the power used by a typical data center powers its IT equipment. The other half is used to support infrastructure that includes cooling systems, uninterruptible power supply inefficiencies, power distribution losses, and lighting.
Stopping the presses at the Chicago Sun Timesled to the rise of a one-of-a-kind mission critical powerhouse on Chicago’s South Side. The 317,000-sq-ft legacy printing facility is now a robust colocation data center, featuring low latency, high reliability, and redundant infrastructure that swaps the written word for digital content — a real sign of the times.
What’s holding you back from having a world-class data center? If your challenges include outdated or inefficient cooling systems, then the answer could be easier and less expensive than you might think.
The digital word is growing at a frantic pace. Ninety percent of our information was created in the past decade and that information largely lives on the internet.
Even after decades of collective efforts to simplify data center management, many IT and facilities teams still feel that they are struggling just to keep up with the rapid rates of change and staggering growth.
This is not just another article about power usage effectiveness (PUE) and how to measure or improve it. Just when you thought you were a responsible, efficiency conscious data center manager and were comfortable with your data center’s PUE, ASHRAE’s proposed new 90.4 standard may be about to move your cheese. Are you prepared to prove your power usage effectiveness (PUE)of your facility to the local building inspector?
For the past several years, Emerson Network Power has been evangelizing the value of collecting and analyzing the incredible amounts of data created by data center systems to improve the performance of those individual systems and the entire data center.
I’m a big fan of convenience and I bet you are too. What’s not to love? I think if you’re honest, you’ll agree that the quest for convenience is a determining factor in most of the decisions that we make on a regular basis.
The IT infrastructure market faces massive disruption — both today and for the foreseeable future. Digital transformation presents significant challenges and opportunities that will surely separate leaders from laggards in 2016.
Over the last year I have been writing about the new role of the CIO. Columns have included such topics as program roll outs, TCO and cloud, metadata, the role of the CIO driving profits, and technology innovation.
All too often security is discussed primarily in the context of threats that come from the outside. Yes, cybercriminals and other outside threats are rightfully a key focus when it comes to data center security, but focusing solely on them dangerously ignores the potential threats and vulnerabilities from within: endusers and even us, the venerable but not invulnerable IT professionals.
I have had discussions with clients, contractors, consultants, and pretty much everyone else at one time or another regarding the benefits of providing both continuity and consistency of services.
Are microgrids that are not interconnected to utility grids (islanded) appropriate to power data centers? Islanded microgrids may be very beneficial to single owner data centers or other mission critical facilities.