Seattle's Plan To Warm City With Data Center Waste Heat

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 24, 2013

Seattle officials, from The Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment, want to recycle waste heat from nearby data centers to provide sustainable heat and hot water to buildings.

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Tags: Data Center, Seattle, Warm, City, Waste, Heat

Reasons Data Centers Don’t Raise Their Thermostats

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 23, 2013

Raising the thermostat is the single most simple energy saving move a data center can make.

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Tags: Data Centers, Thermostats

Power Usage, the Great Divide and Why the CFO Should Care

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 22, 2013

With all kinds of data centers from smaller on-site server farms to colocation facilities, to distributed services, to massive dedicated data centers, and combinations. There is still a divide between operations and financial departments.

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Tags: Power Usage, Operations, Financial

The Pros and Cons of Underground Data Centers

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 21, 2013

More data centers are being built under ground. Here are a few factors to consider:

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Tags: Data Centers, under ground

How to Build the Immortal Data Center

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 18, 2013

As companies are looking to improve their data centers, can there be a possibility of building an immortal data center?

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Tags: Data Center, Build, retrofitting

The Zero-Client: The Next-Generation in Client Computing

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 17, 2013

Corporations are dealing with IT consumerization and demands around mobility.

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Tags: Zero-Client, Client Computing

Virtualization and Storage Infrastructure

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 16, 2013

Benefits from virtualizing servers include cost savings and flexibility. Virtualization enables organizations increase the efficiency of data center’s hardware. Virtualization has had a substantial impact on data center architecture and management.

Here are a few strategies:

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Tags: Virtualization, Storage Infrastructure

Improving the Reliability, Efficiency and Effectiveness of a Vintage Data Center

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 15, 2013

Data centers are supporting more users, data and technologies. Platforms must be high-density, efficient and easy to manage.

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Tags: Data Center, Efficiency, Improving, Reliability, Effectiveness, Vintage

Yahoo Donates 125 Servers to Howard University, Opens New Data Center

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 14, 2013

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Tags: Data Center, Servers, Yahoo, Donates, Howard University

Planning and tracking data center investments

Posted by Dasha Bushmakin on Oct 11, 2013

Beyond traditional metrics, what are the best ways to track and plan for future data center investments?

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Tags: Data Center, Planning, tracking, investments