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floor data center space. That's more than twice the amount managed by JLL's largest competitor, said Brian Oley, the vice president of JLL's Mission Critical Solutions division.
Oley's job is to identify data center locations with stable geography, major tax incentives and big fiber pipes. In...
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Dec 7, 2009
ORLANDO -- A data center consolidation project by the state of Oregon reduces the number of divisions from 12 to one. The $20.6 million consolidation project is estimated to save the state $5 million to $10 million every year while improving the quality of the data center to a Tier-3 facility on the ...
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Sep 19, 2006
facing data center operators going into 2009. SearchDataCenter.com asked our Data Center Advisory Board to weigh in on the topic.
The advisory board is made up of a diverse group of data center professionals -- facilities executives, mainframe programmers, CIOs and systems administration... More... Nov 12, 2008
s main data center is just outside of Birmingham, but it has dozens of offices throughout Europe. Walters plans to consolidate servers from those remote offices onto the new ES7000/one, reducing operational costs.
"I'm hoping I'll be able to save money on power consumption on these things... More... Feb 23, 2007
in data center energy efficiency will not meet increasing demand for power. IT pros need to consider radical change or get out of the data center business.
Data center energy hits the wall, part 1 Next steps in data center design, part 2 What can IT do about the problem?, part 3 For the past... More... May 5, 2008
into the data center colocation business, starting with an 86,000-square-foot facility in Dallas that officials estimate will have a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.3.
The Uptime Institute says data centers' average PUE is 2.5, and so aiming for 1.3 is aiming high, even for a big data center... More... Dec 15, 2008
Institute's data center tier classification system has entered the general industry lexicon, and now the group is trying to reel it back in.
The Uptime Institute's data center tiers have been around since the mid-1990s and have become a major standard of data center reliability. The system... More... Feb 20, 2009
feet of data center space in the U.S. and knows a thing or two about choosing the right location for a data center. Chris Crosby, the senior vice president of Digital Realty Trust, offered tips and tricks of the trade during the Data Center Decisions conference in Chicago this week.
"Finding a... More... Oct 27, 2008
regarding data center energy consumption, it will adopt some recommendations from The Uptime Institute on data center best practices.
A law passed late last year gives the EPA 180 days to file a report on how much energy data centers are using and ways to keep that number in check. Andrew Fanara... More... Mar 12, 2007
Data center hosting giant Terremark Worldwide Inc. is installing flywheel-based uninterruptible power supply (UPS) units at a new facility in Santa Clara, which is due to go live April 1. Though battery-based UPSes are still the preferred choice of most data center managers, flywheels...
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Jan 8, 2010
in the data center, 10 GigE is the buzzword. It's a telecommunication technology that offers data speeds up to 10 billion bps. Built on the Ethernet technology used in many LANs, 10 GigE offers an efficient approach to moving data between networks.
Existing technologies that provide 10 GigE... More... Mar 24, 2005
its 2009 Data Center Products of the Year Awards. This is our fourth year of judging enterprise data center products, and the competition has increased annually as we receive more product nominations and shrink the number of awards (from a high of 24 awards in 2007, to just nine award winners in...
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Jan 18, 2010
square-foot data center into a new 76,000-square-foot facility; in the process, it has shut off about 5,000 old servers, network switches and storage devices.
Sun announced the new Santa Clara, Calif., data center today, saying the consolidation has compressed 2,177 servers on 500 racks down to 1,240... More... Aug 20, 2007
users at the Data Center Decisions conference were asked if they planned to build a new data center within the next year, a sea of hands went up. Unfortunately, when the 300 or so attendees were asked if their companies are aggressively investigating "green" infrastructures, few hands went up.
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data center architect and data center engineer to train partners on the UCS. It also launched its Authorized Partner Program for partners who want to sell the rackmount Unified Computing C-Series. All Cisco Data Center Network Infrastructure (DCNI) Specialized Partners will be...
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Jun 3, 2009
recent "Data Center Decisions 2009: Purchasing Intentions Survey" indicates that the booming growth of blades has slowed. Last year, 35% of respondents said they would buy more blades. This year, that number decreased to 28%.About 40% of respondents in both years said they didn't use blades at all. ...
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Sep 25, 2009
McKinney data center.
"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full." "When everyone talks about ... More... Nov 24, 2008
gap between data center facilities and IT personnel needs to shrink. IT people on one side want to provision servers quickly as applications grow. Meanwhile, data center facilities employees need more advance notice on computing equipment coming in so they can plan whether it requires a new...
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Apr 4, 2007
Data center managers struggling to keep track of server and infrastructure assets now have a new weapon in their arsenal: active radio frequency identification (RFID) tags.
Active RFID tags are the cornerstone of new server and infrastructure asset management software from... More... Jan 29, 2008
Data center backup power is a crucial element to uptime and availability. During an outage, Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSes) enable the switch from utility power to backup generator power. But there is a relatively unreliable and expensive variable to most UPSes: batteries.
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square-foot data center that supports more than 2,000 IT racks and 25 megawatts of power. SearchDataCenter.com spoke with Gary Simpson, the VP of global operations, and Mark Skiff, the senior director of East Coast real estate, about some of the design features – ramping up temperature, using...
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Oct 21, 2009
of the Data Center," took a broad look at the computing industry and the issues that data centers confront. The key to the future, she stressed, is to architect data centers to handle future loads:
It was a message that Pamela Taylor, Share's vice president, said was a good one for folks to hear... More... Aug 12, 2008
friendly data center in Boulder, Colo., and hopes it will eventually become LEED certified.
The $86 million project will add 80,000-square feet to its existing data center, bringing the total size up to about 300,000-square feet. Meanwhile, Big Blue is incorporating features that it calls green in... More... Jun 29, 2007
in the data center.
The standard is getting support from the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and will involve measuring the energy output of a server while it performs existing performance benchmarks. The 10-page draft protocol, which became available on Friday, spells out... More... Aug 22, 2006
Some data center servers hold so much sensitive data the hardware isn't allowed beyond those four walls. When the hardware does make its way out, certain states forbid dumping the parts in landfills.
One solution might be NextPhase, a service offering from Converge Global Trading... More... Feb 15, 2007
in the data center. 'Environmentally-friendly' or, more colloquially, 'Green IT' appears to be rapidly shooting up the list of vendor differentiation strategies. This, not incidentally, will exert major impact on data center policies from acquisition to administration to operations. The...
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Dec 8, 2006
in his data center are looking for a product to support the SOA infrastructure on their two z890s.
They're focusing now on CentraSite, a program from German SOA specialists Software AG, which acts as a management platform for any programs or assets that could be part of the SOA environment... More... Aug 22, 2006
ITIL in the data center. Table of contents
The quest to transform data centers into service management organizations is one reason many IT professionals are turning to ITIL, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library. This set of tools and processes helps data center managers back... More... Mar 29, 2007
has forced data center managers to reconsider their backup practices.
According to David Farber, a professor of computer science and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, it is not uncommon for organizations to ship unencrypted tapes and assume they are safe.
"You would think people... More... Mar 2, 2005
the future data center will be dominated by x86 servers.
Kevin Kettler, speaking Wednesday at Emerson Network Power's AdaptiveXchange show in Columbus, Ohio, advocated his company's focus on "scale-out" architecture, contrasting with the other three major vendors -- IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun... More... Oct 23, 2006
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