Compared to traditional air-cooling methods, liquid cooling devices either at rack level or near the racks can reduce power consumption of in-room cooling by 80-90 percent.
The Federal government is using cloud computing and finding it can meet its security and scalability needs. Security and privacy concerns often present a strong barrier-to-entry and federal government CIOs need to find ways to secure their...
The IT - Facilities gap creates a situation in which the IT and operations teams can have little, if any, visibility into the normal performance characteristics of the facilities on a day-to-day basis.
The industry as a whole needs to work together in order to reduce our energy consumption, and a centralized campaign on data centre temperature could be one of the most effective means to achieve this.
IT operations groups are going to be increasingly evaluated against the service and customer satisfaction levels provided by public clouds. IT teams need to make self-service for their own resources as easy and robust as it is for public clouds.
An economizer system can be an extremely effective strategy for reducing energy consumption. But care should be taken to weigh the benefits of different types of economizers against associated costs and risks.
Enterprises looking to outsource infrastructure to cloud computing providers face a bewildering number of choices today. Here are steps to help your enterprise evaluate and select the right cloud platform.
Whether you’re in the midst of building a new data center or retro-fitting an existing one, there are some very simple solutions for reducing cooling-related energy costs.
The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) certification termed “SAS 70” helps customers know that their data center provider has effective internal controls in place.