Articles from Relocate

Developing a Rapport Between Facilities and IT

Explore Relocate (Jan 24 2012) Construction

Facilities and IT have largely acted as separate entities in the data center, each with its own goals, priorities, concerns and procedures. A number of factors that have gained emphasis over recent years, however, make this separation problematic for companies. Since facilities and IT are ultimately working toward the same goal, establishing and nurturing a rapport between them can be a profitable venture. Here are some ways to do so. Ongoing disagreements and resentment between facilities and IT personnel can spell trouble for a company. Both are equally important to delivering the needed data center resources to both the company and customers, and working to foster understanding and mutual respect can increase uptime, increase energy efficiency and decrease costs. (Read Full Article)

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NTT America's Technology and Infrastructure Assets Drive Global Business Growth

Explore Relocate (Jan 3 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing , Networking

Comment Mentions:   NTT Communications Corporation   NTT   Bloom Energy

Google vs Facebook: Who Is The Greenest Of Them All?

Explore Relocate (Oct 31 2011) Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Google   Facebook

Data Center Energy Efficiency Tool From Green Grid

Explore Relocate (Oct 13 2011) Monitoring , Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid

Data Center Energy – The Hot Topic At Boston Summit

Explore Relocate (Oct 12 2011) Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Data Center Energy

Rubicon Expands Data Center Construction Management Services

Explore Relocate (Sep 16 2011) Cloud Computing

Rubicon Expands Data Center Construction Management ServicesThe Data Center JournalBy examining the energy consumption at the proposed data center, the team explores the energy rebate opportunities to be gained by incorporating high-efficiency equipment for a better ROI. Rubicon goes beyond standard energy efficiency audits and kW ...and more » (Read Full Article)

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The Rather Glamorous Data Center

Explore Relocate (Sep 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Microblogging , Servers

The Rather Glamorous Data CenterThe Data Center JournalCeleste is a high speed internet access provider and has used vertical air cooling for their data center and therefore the inspiration to call it Marilyn. This method of air cooling is stated to be more conducive for increasing energy efficiency. ...and more » (Read Full Article)

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Interxion's City of London Data Center is Powered by 100% Renewable Energy

Explore Relocate (Sep 1 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Servers

SmartestEnergy is the UK’s leading purchaser and supplier of electricity from independent generators, sourcing all power from renewable energy sources including wind, hydro and biomass, in addition to Good Quality CHP (Combined Heat and Power). Being as transparent as possible was key for Interxion, as SmartestEnergy provides a clear audit trail and also records relevant renewable energy certificates for Renewable Energy Guarantees of Origin (REGO) this was a major factor in Interxion’s decision. Interxion UK is the latest of Interxion’s data centers to convert to 100% renewable energy as part of an ambitious, ongoing sustainability programme. Interxion already has company-wide measures in place, including a monthly overview of energy-efficiency in all countries, non-negotiable energy efficient components in design engineering requirements, energy metering and energy efficiency measurements available to customers and closed-loop energy and natural cooling wherever practical. "We are passionate about making our extensive European network of ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

How to Select a Colocation Provider

Explore Relocate (Aug 31 2011) Cloud Computing

How to Select a Colocation ProviderThe Data Center JournalEnergy efficiency—The task of maintaining good energy efficiency falls both on your shoulders and on the shoulders of your colocation provider. Ask what a prospective provider is doing to improve the efficiency of its operations. ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Uptime Institute   SunGard Availability Services   SunGard

Life in a Box

Explore Relocate (Jul 25 2011) Container

Life in a BoxThe Data Center JournalAccording to a 2010 Microsoft Global Foundation Services whitepaper (“A Holistic Approach to Energy Efficiency in Datacenters”), “We have learned a lot from our container experience in [our Chicago data center] and have now moved more towards ...and more » (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco   Microsoft Global Foundation Services

The Trigeneration Data Center: What Is It?

Explore Relocate (Jul 20 2011) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Servers

Last week, the Data Center Journal (“Should I Be Generating My Own Power for My Data Center?”) discussed the possibility of data centers generating their own power—a strategy that involves greater capital costs but that can also yield tremendous benefits in terms of power quality and freedom from the vagaries of the power grid. For data centers that elect to generate some or all of their own power for operations, trigeneration offers a way to stretch fuel costs even further. Needless to say, implementing trigeneration infrastructure involves initial capital costs, but with energy prices continually rising, a properly planned and implemented trigeneration scheme can quickly provide a return on this investment. Trigeneration: What Is It? When a fuel such as natural gas or coal is burned, the result is heat energy and waste materials (gases such as carbon dioxide, for instance). (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Syracuse University   IBM

The Greener Side of Data Center Networking

Explore Relocate (Jul 7 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

The Greener Side of Data Center NetworkingThe Data Center JournalNetworking resources have a role in supporting green IT initiatives for the next-generation data center. There are three infrastructure areas to consider when thinking about greener networking for the next-generation data center: the core switches, ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Department of Energy   Facebook

Energy Consumption Is Plaguing the Data Center

Explore Relocate (Jul 5 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

Energy Consumption Is Plaguing the Data CenterThe Data Center JournalLuckily, there is an antidote: data center infrastructure management (DCIM). Jonathan Koomey, Stanford University consulting professor, scientist, author and energy-efficiency expert leads efforts to improve energy efficiency in data center facilities. ...and more » (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   CRC

A Shortage of Power in Data Centers?

Explore Relocate (Feb 2 2011) Data Center Outages , Emissions , Cloud Computing

You don’t know what you have until it’s gone, right? If you’ve ever experienced a power outage (and most people have, either at home, at work, or both), you have probably realized just how much of everyday life depends on available energy. Electrical power is the lifeblood of data centers: it drives the computing equipment as it processes data, and it moves information from place to place both within the data center and without. Naturally, then, an impending shortage of power would be a direct threat to data centers. But is such a shortage on the horizon? Or, indeed, has it already arrived? (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   CTO of Digital Realty Trust

State of My Data Center

Explore Relocate (Jan 26 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

Over the years of covering data center design, construction, and operations, we have noted as many differences as there are similarities in our readers’ facilities. There are basic elements to every data center from the way that they are constructed to the way they are operated. For example, backup power and cooling are common requirements, but each facility has subtle differences and unique features that remain unseen. The “State of Your Data Center” series is intended to provide a snapshot of those differences and similarities in data centers from around the globe and to offer insight on best practices for facilities, management, and operations so that, as a collective, we can learn from each other. This month’s “State of Your Data Center” comes from Internap Network Services, Inc., an IT infrastructure services company that offers colocation data center space. Steve Vineyard, who is the data center manager at Internap ... (Read Full Article)

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Some Of The Ways In Which A Data Center Can Go Green

Explore Relocate (Jan 19 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

Of course, there is no end, literally, to the power of innovative thought in making a data center go greener. The industry has also seen ground breaking green moves. Looks like the flak it is facing for being a highly polluting industry is spurring on green IT in a big way. For this year, Tate Cantrell focuses on a few trends that will drive the green data center forward. Certification, efficiency, virtualization, design innovation and modularity are going to be key differentiators according to Cantrell. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Tate Cantrell   LEED

Data Center Energy Sources: A Game of Give and Take

Explore Relocate (Jan 9 2011) Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind

If increasing demand for IT resources and increasing public awareness of environmental issues have combined to say one thing, it’s that data centers are energy hogs. To some extent, this is unavoidable: if consumers and businesses want IT services, data centers must consume energy to provide them. Data processing, transmission, and storage—even in an ideal world with perfectly efficient, 100% utilized equipment—all require energy. Consequently, more demand means more energy consumption. So what is the best energy source for a data center that wants to meet customer demand and also appease its environmental conscience? The answer to that question is less than clear. If we set aside efforts to increase efficiency and resource utilization (efforts that have limits), The IT industry can meet demand in an environmentally responsible manner either by choosing an appropriate type (or a mix) of energy sources or by cutting back on the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Data Center Energy

Data Center Accreditation, the British Way

Explore Relocate (Dec 21 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is a body based in Swindon, U.K., that uses information technology to promote socioeconomic progress. The organization provides a common platform for knowledge enhancement by bringing together academicians, industrialists, government representatives, and other. One of the projects BCS has started is the promotion of green IT. The organization’s special groups like the BCS Green IT Specialist Group, BCS Carbon Footprint Group, and BCS Data Center Specialist Group have worked all over the world to enable green IT. One of BCS’s latest programs is CEEDA (Certified Efficiency Data Center Award). CEEDA is a certification given to data centers and organizations that are on the path to creating or sustaining a policy of low carbon emissions and that follow energy-efficient policies. Read more about 12/22/10 by Rakesh Dogra (Read Full Article)

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The Economics of Data Center Energy Conservation

Explore Relocate (Dec 16 2010)

Energy conservation: it sounds great. And for the data center industry, which is increasingly pegged as an energy hog owing to its ever-growing demand for more power, it sounds even better. Conserving energy is not as simple a matter as it sounds, though. Economic forces can easily take conservation efforts and turn them on their heads: although a company (or another entity) goes to great lengths to increase efficiency, it may find that its overall power usage doesn’t go down much, if at all. Read more about consumers by jeffrey clark (Read Full Article)

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First Power, Now Water and Carbon

Explore Relocate (Dec 7 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency

South Hill Data Center Named NAIOP Technology Development of the Year

Explore Relocate (Nov 11 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing

Seattle-area’s new, high capacity next generation South Hill North Data Center in Puyallup, WA has received the Technology Development of the Year Award from NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association. The Benaroya Company, which developed and owns the facility, was presented the award at the industry’s Washington Chapter Night of the Stars Gala on November 5th. South Hill Data Center was recognized for excellence in its outstanding design, quality product, sustainability and other market criteria. Other technology properties nominated included Microsoft’s Studios West Campus. Read more about cost by Press Release (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   LEED   Microsoft Corp

Mobility to Drive the Cloud

Explore Relocate (Oct 28 2010)

Mobile devices are playing an increasing role in society, both in business and in personal matters. Perhaps the most ubiquitous mobile device is the cellphone (just look at any nearby car—chances are, the driver is talking or texting on one). A significant portion of the cellphone (handset) market is the smartphone segment; smartphones combine a number of features that make these devices almost as powerful as basic computer systems. But a key to mobility is size: smaller is usually better. People now laugh at the first cellphones deployed over 20 years ago, some of which looked more like bricks than high-tech electronic devices—imagine trying to carry one of the original Motorola DynaTAC phones in your pocket! But some sacrifices must be made to keep devices small and sleek. Although storage technology has allowed remarkable amounts of data to be kept on tiny cards, many users may still find ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Cisco

The Leaner, Meaner, Greener Data Center

Explore Relocate (Oct 21 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

Cutting costs is the mantra for almost any person in today’s world. More so perhaps when you are a data center manager and you need to contribute to the bigger picture of cost reductions the company is making. With growing scarcity of resources, budget constraints and increasing dynamism of the business environment, companies are hard pressed to deliver energy savings and cost efficiencies in data centers. One could venture to say that energy savings, cost reductions and environment sustainability could be the three main areas that the future data center manager must focus on. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner

Federal Data Center Consolidation Just Became More Difficult

Explore Relocate (Oct 14 2010) Cloud Computing

When the U.S. Federal Government began its latest effort at data consolidation under the oversight of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) CIO Vivek Kundra, the task already had a number of obstacles to overcome, as the Data Center Journal reported in March. As if the failed OMB attempt to consolidate the Federal data center number in 1995 wasn’t enough, a recent memo from Kundra and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) CIO Richard Spires has revealed that the number of data centers that must be consolidated is not around 1,100 as previously thought, but it is much closer to 2,100! (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Gartner   Facebook