Many companies that toured our Midwest colocation facility this year have been considering cloud computing versus colocation for their secondary data center site. Many of them have given great thought to the theoretical advantages and disadvantages of one versus the…
The year 2012 saw increase in data center usage. And so did data center power consumption. A massive growth in power consumption figures was reported by Data Center Dynamics 2012 Global Census. This year saw power consumption grow by an…
When facility managers look to reducing the energy consumption in their data centers, they often miss a critical aspect – lighting of the facility. This is probably due to the fact that lighting consumes only 3-5% of the total electrical…
Energy costs continue to rise. It is vital for IT organizations to make sure that their operational and working infrastructures such as data centers consume power as efficiently as possible. But how do you calculate this efficiency? This is where…
Wasting critical resources, specifically energy resources is expensive and avoidable. As power costs soar, the burden of maintaining power hungry equipment like data centers gets increasingly heavy. So how do you reduce the power consumption in data center infrastructures? Well,…
