Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) has become the big “must have” on the data center project list despite the ongoing weak economic environment, or perhaps because of it.
Since energy efficiency numbers for the data center facility infrastructure have improved so much over the last few years and have begun to approach the perfect PUE of 1.00, the pressure to improve has moved to the IT side of the equation.
Mission Critical is now celebrating it 5th anniversary. However, before you assume the editors didn’t catch the extra zero in the title, “50th Birthday,” let me note that the rate of change in the industry has been accelerating
While writing this column, I began to wonder if I am the only one who has noticed that for better or worse, Facebook’s “Open Kimono” policy is directly or indirectly challenging the industry to green-up.
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.
Those lazy, hazy days of summer are upon us again and while I have written about this before, many small and midsize firms will still see their data center’s cooling systems pushed to their limits, and even far beyond.
It is the end of June in Forrest City, North Carolina, a small town located only 10 miles from the border of South Carolina, an area known for its high heat and humidity during the summer.