Storm season is afoot - a look into how data centers are getting prepared following some crazy weather, with more anticipated crazy weather
June 7, 2013 -- Data center design provider Switch announced on Friday it has unveiled its new SUPERNAP 8 data center in Las Vegas, building on technology advances achieved in SUPERNAP 7 with newly added features.Keep on reading: Switch Unveils SuperNAP 8 Data Center in Las Vegas
I found this presentation just sitting on Utah University's website for a 2011 data center project. Found it interesting that this was 4,000 kW facility with 2,400 kW for critical load for a 1.7 PUE in 2011. Here are pictures of the data center space during construction. I can't recall where I have ever seen Generac generators at a data center site. Generators to provide power in the event of a power outage Brand new facility and their hot/cold aisle containment is not that impressive. I guess that would explain the 1.7 PUE at full load. Got to think the PUE is 2.0 during the early phases. Once the racks were installed, airflow zones were created to channel cold air to the racks and contain and vent the hot air from the data center. Power is delivered to each row of racks ...
May 22, 2013 -- In the last few years, Asia has become a hotbed for many tech startups. With a population of 4.1 billion, it is clearly a lucrative market for companies. Keep on reading: Is Singapore Asia’s Hosting Hub?
The war-torn country of Syria effectively disappeared from the Internet Tuesday afternoon, according to multiple monitoring services.
The creators of Ushahidi, a crisis mapping platform, have developed hardware that keeps wireless communication going in the midst of chaos. The people behind Ushahidi, a software platform for communicating information during a crisis, have now developed what they are dubbing a “backup generator for the Internet”—a device that can connect with any network in the world, provide eight hours of wireless connectivity battery life, and can be programmed for new applications, such as remote sensing.
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) said Tuesday that it plans to spend $100 million to install solar panels and fuel cells at more than a dozen facilities that will generate and use the clean power.
Facebook is planning to build a massive data center in Altoona, Iowa, the company said on Tuesday. That's right, Altoona, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines. With more than a billion users around the world to support and just three wholly owned data centers (Forest City, North Carolina; Prineville, Oregon; Luleå, Sweden, with the latter two still being built out) Facebook may have needed another ...
IT services in Macomb County, Michigan are offline after a fire damaged the building that houses the county's data center. Macomb County, which is just west of Detroit and has 850,000 resident, did not have a backup data center.
Use-Case Examples: Energy Controls Lower Consumption. A wealth of data is available on the subject of energy efficiency in the data center; much of this data is driving energy-efficient DR best practices. Organizations such as the Open Data Center Alliance
While it seems like “the cloud is down” every few months. Outages from public cloud providers do happen, but not every outage is created equal and not every outage impacts customers in the same way, writes Andres Rodriguez of Nasuni.
Web hosting provider DreamHost experienced an extended outages when power systems failed at its data center in Irvine, Calif. The incident created hours of downtime across Tuesday and Wednesday for many of DreamHost's more than 350,000 customers.
NEW YORK – Keep your diesel supplier close, and your employees closer. These were among the “lessons learned” from Superstorm Sandy, according to data center and emergency readiness experts at yesterday’s Datacenter Dynamics Converged conference at the Marriott Marquis, which examined the epic storm’s impact on the industry and the city.
Target Corporation, the second-largest discount retailer in the United States behind Walmart, is trialling Bloom Energy fuel cells at two of its California stores, in San Francisco and Pasadena. The trial forms part of a wider initiative to investigate on-site energy generation at Target stores; the company currently uses roof-mounted solar panels at 26 of its stores.
Today, you can plug in the words “data center design and build services” into an Internet search engine, and it renders results literally in the millions. A decade or so ago, however, data center specialists were scarce. Finding an architectural and engineering group that understood the complexities of the data center and spoke our language proved challenging, to say the least.
The power outage that interrupted last Sunday's Super Bowl was caused by a malfunction in an electrical relay device, according to Entergy New Orleans, the utility supporting the SuperDome in New Orleans.
But while the benefits of hybrid cloud deployments are substantial, many managers focusing on off-site deployments tend to meet an unexpected challenge post-virtualization: protecting their remaining physical equipment, writes Shannon Sbar of APC by Schneider Electric.
A data center power outage is being blamed for payment processing problems that prevented Visa card holders in Canada from using their cards for most of Monday.
The United States has an aging and unreliable power infrastructure, writes Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global. Data center operators are looking at the best geographical locations that offer clean, reliable power, and plenty of it.
DCIM’s Big Data is data about any asset, application, process, or workflow that impacts the performance of the physical ecosystem and its ability to serve the ever-changing needs of the business, writes Gary Bunyan of iTRACS Corporation.
Another year’s end, and we’re in the midst of another holiday season. Besides anticipating time off, family celebrations, and gift giving, every IT professional should be anticipating—and planning for—the challenges relating to data center energy management in 2013.
The major downtime incidents of 2012 illustrate the range of causes of outages - major disasters, equipment failures, software behaving badly, undetected Leap Year date issues, and human error.
A 14.9 megwatt power generating station, to be owned by a U.S.-based utility, will feed local grid in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Stationary fuel cells have been steady performers for years delivering electricity at office parks, supermarkets, or wastewater treatment plants. But utilities, for the most part, have stayed clear of fuel cells.
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.