Two of the biggest reasons typically listed for the problem with data centers are capital and speed of deployment. The traditional brick and mortar data center takes a lot of money and time to build. Furthermore, the quick evolution of supporting technologies further entices organizations to work...
The concept of a modular data center solution has eluded definition, if not comprehension. Through the short history of modular solutions and vendor marketing, a definition and categorization of solutions has emerged. This is the second article in the series, DCK Guide to Modular Data Centers.
Agility and speed are the hallmarks of Formula 1 racing. The Sauber F1 Team pushes technology and real-time data analysis to the limits. This is a team that punches way above its weight, in a sport where one thousandth of a second can be the difference between victory and defeat.
This is the fifth article in a best practices series on data center energy efficiency through effective airflow management strategies. When considering containment providers and their solutions, make sure to do your due diligence.
This is the forth article in a best practices series on data center energy efficiency through effective airflow management strategies and focuses on data center containment components and considerations.
If you feel chilly walking round a data centre, it is probably wasting energy. The data centre has to provide cold air to keep the servers cool, but if it is also cooling the space were people are walking around to an uncomfortably low temperature, then it is wasting energy. Now, it seems Google has a patent on a “hot aisle” containment system which should cut that waste.
Data Center traditionally uses raised floor and in room CRAC units to supply cooling. Google shared a month ago its hot aisle containment with water heat exchange which is the 5th iteration since 2006. Google shared its thinking in evaluating heat removal methods. So should you pump heat or use a fan? Google modeled a 10MW IT load. The fans use 3.85x more energy than a pump!!! Google found what it had created was so unique they could patent the innovation.
Legacy data centers employ a hot aisle/cold aisle arrangement of the IT racks. The fronts of the racks face each other and draw cold air into the rack to cool rack mounted IT devices (i.e. servers, switches, etc.). Conversely, the rear sides of the rows of racks face one another, expelling the hot air into the hot aisle. The issue with hot aisle/cold aisle designs is that the air is free to move wherever it will.
More organizations are relying on their IT infrastructure to accomplish more. This has created a need for larger data center environments which are capable of handling both current and future demands. IT administrators are tasked with migrating to, and managing these environments.
In an effort to create a more efficient data center infrastructure, IT and facilities administrators began working with hot air containment. Today, this more common practice is used in the industry as a design metric for a well-managed data center. Still, there are some questions around the use of air containment and how it can be best utilized. Since each data center is unique, the use of a containment design will differ based on demand, size, location, and other factors.
Published September 28, 2012 in Climate * Tweet * * Print * Email This week The New York Times began publishing an excellent series of articles examining the high energy demands of data centers -- those rarely-thought-of places that store all the precious information contained on our phones, tablets, and computers. Not only do these facilities use enormous amounts of energy, a lot of it is wasted, the series points out. Part of the problem is t
Since the first computer rooms of the 60’s, airflow has been an important, but often misunderstood component of data center design. With the low density computing of the past, it didn’t need to perform very efficiently to do its job. Today however, with high performance servers doing many times the work of their predecessors in a much smaller space, data center airflow needs to keep pace. The first tenet of effective and efficient data center cooling and airflow is to “reduce or eliminate mixi
SimpliVity's vision for a "software-defined data center in a box" has received a big thumbs up from some well-heeled venture capital firms with a $25 million funding led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), with Accel Partners and Charles River Ventures also participating. The post...
Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs will begin using factory-built modular data centers to deploy its IT infrastructure, and has partnered with IO to deploy modules across three continents, the companies said today. Goldman has signed a ”long-term, strategic technology partnership” with IO, which will deploy modules for Goldman in IO data centers in Singapore, the U.K. and the United States. Goldman Sachs also plans to deploy IO modules in its own facilities, and will adopt its IO.OS software for data center monitoring and management.
As the digital age progressed, significant advancements in information technology were followed by an increased demand for information technology based services. Many data center owners and operators soon faced a rapidly changing consumer environment and an increased demand for space, power and cooling growth at a rate faster than most businesses were prepared to respond to. By the early dot com bubble ages, there was a rush to build to meet the demand. Post dot com bubble gives
George Slessman, CEO of IO, offers his take on modular data centers and how they are differentiated from containers, pods and mobile data centers. The post Top 10 Reasons Modular Data Centers Are Not Containers appeared first on Data Center Knowledge.
Big customers and big facilities are at the heart of the business strategy for CyrusOne, the data center business of Cincinnati Bell, which plans to go public through an initial public offering (IPO) later this year. The recent opening of a 700,000 square foot facility in the Dallas market is a reflection of the size of the company’s ambitions, but the value of the company’s customer base is perhaps best seen in another new facility – a new Houston campus optimized for customers in the oil and gas industry that have been some of CyrusOne’s most reliable tenants.
August 20, 2012 -- IT infrastructure solutions provider SimpliVity Corporation announced on Monday its official entry into the market with its launch of OmniCube. OmniCube is an IT infrastructure platform that contains storage, computing and networking services for a virtual machine environment.
August 14, 2012 -- Managed web hosting and data center services company CyrusOne announced on Monday it has completed the first phase of its 670,000-square-foot Carrollton, Texas data center, with the first 47,000 square feet of space commissioned and 10 percent of its total space already sold.
Ever since the 40' container wave started I have made the point that most have not gone through the exercise on what is the right size for a container. Dell has announced the MDC - Mobile data center - 45 kW of IT capacity. The Dell press release is here. Deployable to any location, Dell’s Tactical Mobile Data Center can expand customers’ current data center, used as a back-up or recovery site to provide disaster recovery services or create new data centers in remote locations. The system can operate under a wide range of temperatures and conditions allowing for powerful operations in many environments. “Many of our military and government customers are forced to quickly deploy to remote environments, like combat outposts in Afghanistan, or even in more developed communities following a natural disaster,” said Joe Ayers, vice president and general manager, Dell Federal. “In today’s operational environment in order ...