The trend toward the mobile user continues at an accelerating pace and trends indicate that the mobile applications and hardware (smartphones and tablets and even vehicle based systems) will exceed the PC based...
One of the design issues facing data center operators is the projected life cycle of the facility, writes Julius Neudorfer. The data center is evolving at a much faster pace over the last several years especially when...
While most data centers have some basic form of Build Management System (BMS), any new design needs to include a highly granular network of sensors in virtually all of the systems and sub-systems of the facility power...
Historically, data center IT loads have been relatively stable and predictable, if viewed over a 24-hour or weekly period. This is beginning to change and this article outlines a number of causes for this.
In the world of mission critical computing the term “data center” and its implied and projected level of “availability” has always referred to the physical facility and its power and cooling infrastructure. The advent...
Current designs for traditional enterprise type data centers aren’t necessarily flexible enough for the myriad of newer devices coming their way. IT hardware is beginning to morph into different form factors, which...
This article series examines some of the classic design adaptations and new data center design trends being adopted as businesses strive to meet the challenges driven by evolving IT architecture.
The business case for custom data centers are sometimes driven by special technical requirements, rath¬er than a better ROI. In those cases, the IT architects should be asked to make a solid business justification for...
The advantages of a custom design can look and be attractive, since they may be able to accommodate non-standard IT hardware or provide very high energy efficiency or high cooling density. However there are potential...
