8 Apr 2013 | Design & Facilities Management
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When decision-makers contemplate data-centre projects involving tens or even hundreds of millions of pounds, they must have an absolutely reliable way of assessing how their installation will perform. For large organisations depending on high volume online transactions, the highest possible data processing availability becomes the dominating requirement. Such organisations typically aspire to an availability of 99.999%, often referred to as ‘Five-Nines'. Other applications, with less critical loads, trade off between availability, capital costs and operating costs to best match their business priorities.
Authored by Mike Elms, Technical Services Manager for Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited, a Kohler company.
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21 Jan 2013 | Design & Facilities Management
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As the network needs of businesses continue to evolve – with the increased use of personal devices and the operational cost benefits offered by migrating IT infrastructures to the cloud – there are clear advantages for enterprises to adopt an open multi-vendor, ecosystem approach to enhance the running of their corporate networks. Johan Ragmo, Business Development Director, CNE for Network Infrastructure at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise explains three key advantages of deploying an open multi-vendor data centre.
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1 Oct 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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With energy costs rising, building owners and managers are searching for ways to improve energy efficiency, reduce costs and improve their carbon footprint. One area of the enterprise key to that effort is the data center—the IT system's central nerve center. By Denis Blouin, program manager for data centers with Belden.
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10 Sep 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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When decision-makers contemplate data-centre projects involving tens or even hundreds of millions of pounds, they must have an absolutely reliable way of assessing how their installation will perform. For large organisations depending on high volume online transactions, the highest possible data processing availability becomes the dominating requirement. Such organisations typically aspire to an availability of 99.999%, often referred to as ‘Five-Nines'. Other applications, with less critical loads, trade off between availability, capital costs and operating costs to best match their business priorities. By Mike Elms, Technical Services Manager for Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited, a Kohler company.
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2 Jul 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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As data centre energy costs continue to increase and consume ever greater proportions of the IT budget, organisations are exploring a growing raft of power efficient technologies and innovative designs in order to control costs and meet CRC targets. But virtualisation and cold air cooling alone are not going to solve the data centre power issue long term.
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7 May 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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Most people are aware that a UPS is a system that provides battery backup in the event of a mains failure. However UPSs protect sensitive onsite equipment from many other externally-generated electrical disturbance types as well. Authored by Matt Henley, technical services manager for Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited, a Kohler company, this article looks at why today's critical loads are vulnerable, the type of electrical disturbances that threaten them and how UPS systems can offer protection.
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9 Apr 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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Emerson Network Power has released a list of 10 common surprises for data centre and IT managers and offered tips on how to be prepared for them. The list, released at AFCOM Data Centre World Spring, includes information on a surprising cause of data centre downtime, what data centre managers might not know about that next server refresh, and the growing trend sneaking up on virtually every IT manager.
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13 Feb 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems are fundamental to any data centre. Their key role is to maintain a secure electrical supply if the mains fails or exceeds acceptable limits. Here, Mike Elms, technical sales manager for Uninterruptible Power Supplies Limited, a Kohler company, explains how to maximise your investment and reduce your costs.
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6 Feb 2012 | Design & Facilities Management
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A UPS must warn all ICT equipment it supports of any power failure, to allow the possibility of an orderly shutdown. UPS communications capability also brings other benefits, including management of multiple UPS installations and delivery of data for preventative maintenance and fault diagnostic applications. Authored by Matt Henley, Technical Service Manager for Uninterruptible Power Supplies, a Kohler company, this article looks at how UPSs can communicate alarm and status information locally or transfer it onto an enterprise network for distribution through and beyond the operator's organization.
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19 Dec 2011 | Design & Facilities Management
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Chris Smith, sales and marketing director, on365, a specialist in the planning, installing, management and optimisation of infrastructure and utility services, has identified the following key trends in the data centre industry for 2012, including new data centre monitoring tools, next stage equipment guidelines and some potential game-changing innovations by manufacturers and IT vendors.
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5 Dec 2011 | Design & Facilities Management
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Energy consumption has become a priority focus for any IT Manager. From escalating costs to carbon footprint concerns, gaining insight into power utilisation is key. But organisations are overlooking the fast rising business risk associated with power overloads. With overstretched IT teams delivering more innovation and change than ever, data centre design creep is endemic. The result? The vast majority of disaster recovery invocations in the past year were power related.
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28 Nov 2011 | Design & Facilities Management
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Today we're talking about a project at Facebook that's a little different to those you're used to hearing about. Most of the time, we talk about the work of our software engineers – products like Timeline, Open Graph -- but today we want to spotlight the hardware and infrastructure that makes all those products work.
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3 Aug 2011 | Power & Cooling
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Energy costs are becoming the primary concern for businesses across the UK. But how can companies safeguard themselves from the implications of the sustained rise in prices? Attention has to be turned to one of the primary areas of energy consumption: the data centre. And with cooling technology typically representing 45% of overall data centre day-to-day running costs, today's expensive air conditioning technologies are becoming unsustainable.
By replacing the outdated cooling technologies and methodologies that have been in use for the past 15 years, organisations could reduce data centre cooling costs by 90%. Jason Preston, Director of 2bm, outlines the opportunities for transforming data centre energy consumption, from the adoption of Direct Free Cooling, to more effective air management techniques and the use of aisle containment.
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4 Jul 2011 | Power & Cooling
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Eric Boonstra, managing director of EvoSwitch, discusses the latest cooling technology and how data centres are reducing power consumption through innovation reducing energy costs for customers.
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