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Dual Data Center Go Live

About Client Client provides metasearch technology for use on the Internet under such names as ‘Dogpile’, ‘WebCrawler’, ‘Nation’ and ‘DoGreatGood’. Client’s search engine returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and Ask, for greater efficiency. Client’s metasearch technology is also used internally in companies around the [...]

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Dual Data Center Go Live

New Data Center Services

About Client Client delivers digital entertainment to consumers around the world. Client gave the Internet a voice in 1995 with the first audio streaming solution for the Internet, streaming audio. Continued innovation led to generations of streaming video and its desktop player, which is downloaded millions of times per week. As services expanded, Client required two [...]

Data Center Strategy, Design, Build Out and Move

About Client Client is the leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage, music and other premium media content. Client offers the industry’s best and broadest collections of imagery and footage – including award-winning news, sport and entertainment content, plus rare and contemporary archival imagery. Their music collection provides a wide range of pre-cleared [...]

Save Money With Higher Data Center Temperatures

Research presented at the Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit (DCEE) in Sunnyvale, CA. left those in attendance with one major take away. Raise the temperature in your data center a few degrees and you can save money. However, if the temperature in the data center causes the server fans to run too high, they will [...]

Collocation Facilities And The Myth Of The Tiered Data Center

A number of years ago the ANSI/TIA-942-2005 came out as “the” Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers. Its purpose was to provide requirements and guidelines when designing a data center and to encourage planning for the data center earlier in the property development process. One of the most quoted portions of the standard is the “Tiered [...]

Data Center Management: Is An Assessment Needed?

One of the questions that seems to come up more often than not is “What is a data center assessment”. Although each assessment is unique, there is a general flow with several common deliverables. The action oriented activities of a data center assessment are designed to identify the As Is state, envision the To [...]

Data Center Management: Partnering For Success

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. [...]

Data Center Design: Keep It Covered, Bundled And Out Of Sight

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 [...]

Keeping The Lights On, In A Lights Out Data Center

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 [...]

Data Center Migration Principles

Guiding principles are designed to document the guidelines that shape the outcome of various data center activities. These principles allow all stakeholders to understand the driving forces behind the data center move project plans, decisions, and recommendations. While some principles are intended to outlive a single data center move project, they all have significant [...]