Collocation Facilities And The Myth Of The Tiered Data Center

By admin, on January 30th, 2009
Data center teirs

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 . . . → Read More: Collocation Facilities And The Myth Of The Tiered Data Center

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

By admin, on September 24th, 2008
blade chassis wired up

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 . . . → Read More: Data Center Design: Keep It Covered, Bundled And Out Of Sight

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Keeping The Lights On, In A Lights Out Data Center

By admin, on September 14th, 2008

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 increasing capacity . . . → Read More: Keeping The Lights On, In A Lights Out Data Center

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Data Center Design: When Bandwidth Will Not Do

By admin, on August 31st, 2008
data center ping test results

Improving customer experience often times means speeding up the delivery down to the customer’s desktop. When bandwidth isn’t the problem, a delivery strategy is required that reduces the latency… . . . → Read More: Data Center Design: When Bandwidth Will Not Do

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