Here are this week’s top stories from around the industry considering data center efficiency, cooling, and best practices. Enjoy!
Data Center Strategies to Extend Your Facility’s Life Span
From TechTarget.com
When your data center runs out of space, power or cooling — or all three — you have some difficult decisions to make. Those deliberations become more challenging if your business is likely to move within the next several years, or if there are discussions about eventually transferring some computing to the cloud or to a hosting site.
Minimizing Energy Usage in Data Centers
From ACHRNews.com
According to a recent study from BSRIA, data center traffic is expected to grow at a 23 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), reaching 8.6 zettabytes by 2018. That means a lot of new data centers will be popping up around the country, particularly in vacant shopping centers and big-box stores, which are often being turned into off-site data storage facilities.
How to Choose a Colocation Data Center Provider
From DataCenterKnowledge.com
Whether driven by finances, disaster recovery planning or simply wanting to focus resources on core competencies, more and more companies are making the decision to move a portion or all of their data center operations to a third-party data center colocation provider.
Enterprise-Environments BMS Retrofits
From DataCenterJournal.com
Given the market’s pressure to “go lean,” some organizations can’t help but do the best with what they have. To many, the price tag on bridging the gap between the building-management system (BMS) they have and the BMS they think they need will break the budget. Although it’s easy to say from the outside looking in, “The price of an optimized BMS outweighs the price of a major failure almost any day of the week,” some data center managers are losing sleep because they cannot convince the right people in their organization that change is desperately needed. It might just take a failure for things to change. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Iceland Rated as the World’s Safest Location for a Data Center
From DatacenterDynamics.com
Iceland has been identified as the safest place in the world to host a data center, followed by Norway and Switzerland. These are the findings of the Data Center Risk Index published by the American property management company Cushman & Wakefield. In 2013, when the previous edition of the report was published, US was rated as the top data center location in the world, but has now moved to the tenth position. Meanwhile the UK has moved from second to ninth. Nigeria was rated the riskiest of 37 countries analyzed in the study.
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