Today’s data center environment is designed and built around efficiencies. These infrastructures have advanced cooling mechanisms, high-density server technologies, and try to use space as optimally as possible. IT administrators are continuously tasked with furthering these efficiencies and making their…
The era of the software-defined data centre which provides CIOs with the ability to remotely increase network capacity within a data centre just like you would a virtual machine has arrived, the technical director of TelecityGroup in Ireland John Shorten…
In Paris Thursday Dell unveiled a series of end-to-end storage portfolio updates during its EMEA Storage Forum customer and partner event. A new 6.3 version of Compellent Storage Center array software offers enhanced scalability and performance for Dell Compellent arrays. With…
For many years now, scientists have predicted that climate change, fueled by greenhouse gas emissions, would lead to more extreme weather. Certainly, the past several years in particular support this prediction. Sandy, a once-innocuous name, now conjures images of absolute…
It’s been an exciting ride. In the last few years, focus by the data center industry has brought about substantial gains in efficiency. These improvements range from infrastructure to fundamental improvements in computing efficiency. I’ll have the privilege of co-presenting…
Legacy data centers employ a hot aisle/cold aisle arrangement of the IT racks. The fronts of the racks face each other and draw cold air into the rack to cool rack mounted IT devices (i.e. servers, switches, etc.). Conversely, the…
While unemployment figures hardly create cause for optimism, the technology sector is proving an outlier with plenty of jobs available in some of the multinational firms located here. Currently 16 multinational tech-based companies have 794 Irish-based open positions on offer…
As SuperStorm Sandy brought destruction and death to the East Coast, data centers in New York and New Jersey faced extraordinary challenges. Here’s a look back at the storm and its aftermath, as chronicled in our coverage at Data Center…
Temperatures inside a Zayo Group data center at 111 8th Avenue in New York City briefly soared past 100 degrees on the 1st of November, as generator problems forced the company to power down its cooling systems. The company has since…
This Data Center Knowledge article series will explore how to improve data center efficiency through containment and effective airflow management strategies. Data center operators understand how the growing demand for compute cycles, web-based applications and content are driving data centers…
