Is your data center doing everything in its power to reduce costs? Learn from the experts at Lifeline Data Centers on how you can reduce power costs.
Will a server consolidation project that cuts total servers by 50% through virtualization cut operating costs by that much? Not even close. That’s just one of the data center energy efficiency tips that hit the cutting room floor as my…
Thu, January 21, 2010 — Computerworld — Industrial Light & Magic has been replacing its servers with the hottest new IBM (IBM) BladeCenters — literally, the hottest. For every new rack ILM brings in, it cuts overall power use in…
As data centers get warmer, the environment gets less forgiving. That lesson was learned the hard way at the University of Pennsylvania, which on Tuesday had to shut off the IT systems supporting the school’s financial, research and student services.…
What is your cost of downtime? If it is high, you may be able to control those costs by employing outsource data center facilities. Data center facilities downtime events (power, cooling, physical security, and fire suppression) are some of the…
There is a growing gap between memory bandwidth and CPU power and this growing gap makes low power servers both more practical and more efficient than current designs. Per-socket processor performance continues to increase much more rapidly than memory bandwidth…
