As the world of technology continues to evolve around us and the boundaries between network and systems become less defined, systems administrators and network administrators need to evolve their monitoring practices to take on a more application-centered focus, rather than the traditional silos of systems monitoring or network monitoring.
There has been a heated debate around the data center service provider business model: will large centralized data centers that pop up near major fiber hubs or distributed data centers that bring proximity and geographic flexibility dominate the future of the multi-tenant data center industry?
As an owner’s quality assurance program, commissioning verifies and documents that a new data center, including all of its systems and assemblies, meets project requirements.
The technology trends that promise to improve the level of information we have at our disposal to make decisions—big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) —have an under-appreciated downside to them: added energy consumption in data centers.
Part III examines developing the pro form during an acquisition or property sale. Just to keep the record straight, my firm is not a brokerage or real estate advisor, but a very smart engineering company.