Data center energy efficiency is being touted heavily again, this time by American Power Conversion (APC), which this week rolled out its Next Generation Metered and Switched Rack Power Distribution (PDU) units, designed to help IT managers effectively manage power capacity and allow for optimal energy efficiency in their data centers. Cool features in both the [...]

HP’s new prefab housing style data center design might help companies roll out data center real estate quickly and cost effectively — if you buy into HP’s Flexible DC calculations. HP compares construction and operations costs for a hypothetical Uptime Institute Tier III, 3.2 megawatt data center in Charlotte, NC. versus a comparable HP Flexible [...]

Last week, data center solution providers SynapSense and Future Facilities Limited announced a solution, available in July, that allows IT admins a glimpse into the past, present and future states of their data centers to allow for optimal capacity planning and energy management. The solution is an integration of SynapSense’s Adaptive Control cooling capacity tool and [...]

Delta Dental of Michigan opened its state-of-the-art data center in July 2009 and garnered a distinction of being one of only 19 centers worldwide to earn a Tier III design rating from the Uptime Institute.  They’ve also pumped a lot of “green” technologies into their data center, including outside air economizers and efficient cooling by [...]

Last year the Uptime Institute said it was working on making changes to its famous data center availability tiers, thanks largely to an end users advisory committee that was working on the issue. Well, it now has its first change. Uptime’s availability rating system, which consists of four tiers with increasing uptime expectations, has been the [...]

Pike Research says investment in greener data centers will increase from $7.5 billion in global revenue to $41.4 billion by 2015, representing 28 percent of the total data center market.

Emerson Network Power has built its own data center near Sydney, Australia, which will serve as a live data center for Emerson and allow the company to showcase new technology and products.

The Defense Department certifies Juniper (JNPR) networking gear, Active Power (ACPW) reports strong flywheel UPS sales in Europe, Global Switch makes executive appointments.

It’s a little unbelievable that there was anyone who wasn’t already on Facebook, but the social networking site just keeps...

The Onizuka Air Force Station, located in Sunnyvale and nicknamed the Blue Cube, has just ceased to be a base...

A data center that’s pre-designed, needs less than a year for construction, and offers excellent PUE, but isn’t just containerized......

  Well, it’s official, International Data Security (IDS) is back from what many thought was a watery grave...AND the initial phase...

As some of you may already be aware, Team Silverback has launched a new site, http://www.technicaltavern.com/ (http://www.technicaltavern.com/).  It's an exciting...

Question from Carlton : I have multiple remote DSL modems that each stop working two to three times a week. I've deployed 2-outlet Sentry Switched CDU units to allow me to remotely reboot them when they hang, and they work great! But, I have to wait until someone notifies me of the problem, then I have to manually login to the CDU to initiate the reboot. I've noticed that the DSL modems fail to respond to ping requests when they hang. Is there a method available to automatically reboot the DSL modems when they stop responding to ping requests? Engineer...

This is a common question I receive: How much power should I provision for my cabinets? This can be a very complex question depending upon your goals for today and plans for the future. At the top end, you might provision enough power per cabinet to fully utilize your cooling capacity. For instance, if you can cool 500kW and have 100 cabinets, then you can provide 5kW to each cabinet. This is usually too simplistic because you may have certain high-density cabinets. But, the intent of this post isn’t to cover all of the infrastructure concerns. It is simply to...

Everyone is going green. A new Data Center at Syracuse University has been claimed by IBM as the "greenest" yet. The new 12,000 square foot facility that recently opened offers a comprehensive approach to energy efficiency utilizing DC power distribution to power the IBM z10 mainframe and high efficiency 415 V 3-Phase power distribution units to power the devices within the cabinets. Furthermore, the Green Data Center will operate off the grid while still serving as the primary computing facility at Syracuse University. Estimated cost for the Green Data Center is $12.4 million with funds being contributed from the New...