Wild fires ravage communities across 15 states, 10 inches of rain fall in a few hours, drought lays waste to vast areas of the country, tornado season starts a month early, the most named storms strike in the month of June with Tropical Storm Debby
In today’s cost-conscious business climate, every facet of operations is under greater scrutiny as organizations look to increase efficiency and cut costs.
Advanced technology, expanding hardware, and more customers to serve make implementing the right data center solution criti-cal—especially where decisions can be ‘life or death.’
As I write this it is early July, as we are about to move into the dog days of summer, anticipating the usual issues that seem to appear when cooling systems are pushed to their limits—and sometimes beyond.
ASHRAE’s 2011 Expanded Thermal Guidelines has caused a lot of controversy and confused many in the data center industry. Although ASHRAE released the information a year ago in May 2011, it is still highly debated and sometimes misinterpreted.
Administrators constantly assess data center and network capacity needs in preparation for a potential disaster but are often at a loss to respond in an optimal way to balance capacity and performance during an actual disaster.