At its best, “partnering” with a vendor is a powerful tool that can drive successful business outcomes for data center managers. Done right, partnering can deliver significant value for the money to both parties over the length of the relationship.
Partnering is not a new sales term for the old cost-focused customer verses supplier management battle. [...]
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You only relocate a data center once (hopefully), but you manage it day after day. A big part of making your data center more manageable, dressing in all the cables and fiber. This means keeping everything covered, bundled and out of sight:
a) Cabinets have doors and sidewalls.
b) Copper cables are patched within the [...]
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There are two goals in an effective data center operations organization, “keep the lights on” and continually improve operational efficiency of the data center or colocation facility. Focus on these two goals means attaining maturity rather than perfection. It also means the operational team is effectively:
Taking advantage of Moore’s Law and [...]
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