Google’s top energy executive has offered some simple steps for making data centers more energy-efficient, including raising the thermostat to 80 degrees Fahrenheit — or 27 degrees Celsius — to cut down on cooling costs. Data center staff at some…
99.995% uptime equals 27 minutes of downtime per year or less. But what it really means is the level of credibility your company has in the marketplace. We live in a real-time world. Customer facing computer systems sell your products.…
SearchDataCenter featured Lifeline Data Centers and others in this slideshow on unusual places for data centers. This slideshow on weird data center locations presents some companies’ unorthodox methods of housing their data center operations. Data centers in space? Data centers…
Of late, I’ve had a lot of people ask me why my near-term forecast for the colocation market in the United States is so much lower (in many cases, half the growth rate) when compared with those produced by competing…
Many businesses, small and large, are using outsource computer room facilities to improve their data center uptime and reduce data center capital costs. But at what price? The traditional outsource data center facility is a minefield of vendor lock-in problems.…
