Category Archive for : ‘Data Center Pricing Model’

“We’re moving our headquarters and we need to do something about replacing our data center with a more reliable facility. We’ve discussed building a new data center at the new headquarters location. But the CFO won’t approve two generators. How do I guarantee high data center uptime?” A recent visitor to our data center spoke these words to me as she toured Lifeline Data Centers’ Eastgate campus.

This IT Director had done her homework. She knew that in order to achieve extremely high uptime (28 minutes of downtime per year or

Gartner predicts that the year 2013 will see a $3.7 billion spend on global IT, a 4.2% growth over the previous year. As for data centers, a whopping £147 billion ($192 billion approximately) spend is expected, which is a 4.5% increase from 2012 figures. The increased spending marks double growth for the industry compared to 2012. Better yet, a 4.2% further growth is forecast for 2014!

According to Cisco, the prevailing traffic seen in data centers is in zettabyte range and by 2016 it is expected to quadruple to 6.6 zettabytes annually. It is estimated

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, here are some tips that might prove useful to you:

– Switch off after use: This can mean something as simple turning off a common fan or light. If there is any equipment that you no longer need after it has served its purpose, switch it off either temporarily or permanently.

– Measure

Startup Stem is one of a growing number of young cleantech startups that are using data, analytics and energy storage, like batteries, to manage companies’ energy consumption. It’s an area that can take advantage of the latest trends in information technology like big data, cloud computing and cheap batteries.

Founded in 2009 and formerly called Powergetics, Stem plans to announce its first customer installation on Nov. 15. and this week announced a new CEO, Salim Khan, the former COO of smart grid company Trilliant. Khan replaced founder Brian Thompson, who is

An outage or downtime in a data center is unpredictable. No machine is perfect and at some point of time they are going to experience failures, or more specifically downtimes. Although this fact is known to almost all IT managers and administrators, several corporate enterprises fail to understand the true consequences of such an outage. It is critical to realize the importance of recovery mechanisms as well as data backup strategies. The dangers associated with data center downtime are:

Loss of User Base

The recent outage of services of Blackberry  resulted in

If your company is considering outsourcing your data center facilities, you’re probably looking at multiple colocation providers as candidates.

Do the colocation providers’ pricing models make sense? Is it possible to find an incremental pay-as-you grow model for your space, power and cooling requirements?

Here are a few key elements to consider as you investigate your alternatives.

How is your private colocation space allocated?

Many companies are opting for private cages and suites in colocation facilities. Does the colocation provider (colo) allow you to purchase extra space for growth? What is the cost of

To build and operate the modern day data center is definitely an expensive feat! But you need to understand all the costs associated with building an operating a data center. TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) encompasses the sum total of operational and capital expenses involved in erecting and maintaining a data center.  TCO must analyze all parts that are included in operating the data center and it should investigate total cost involved in obtaining, utilizing, installing, sustaining, disposing and changing IT and data center assets. For a data center owned

A major shift is underway in data center infrastructure procurement and design. Many public and private entities have shifted from making large hardware and software purchases in the form of components of servers, storage and applications to instead buying pre-packaged bundles, building blocks and/or PODS. This trend is part of a more modular data center design approach based on vendor tested and certified reference architectures. These modular building blocks are typically all inclusive of the hardware and software components and customizations required to run the applications, and they form the

Colocation or cloud computing? Which one is right for your critical computer systems?

In simple terms, colocation (also known as outsourced data center or wholesale colocation) is high-tech real estate. Companies use colocation to solve the problems of hardened data center buildings, power, cooling, telecommunications and security. Companies use colocation to solve these problems without losing any control of their IT infrastructure and systems. Colocation is about control of IT without the worry of building facilities.

Cloud computing comes in many forms. Companies use cloud computing to access applications and resources without

99.995% uptime and affordable colocation are not mutually exclusive. Many companies that visit our data center are surprised to learn that they can have high reliability without the huge capital costs of building a Rated-4 data center.

Most companies who need new high uptime data center space compare the costs of building their own primary data center in a company building versus using wholesale colocation facilities, aka outsource data centers.

So what does high uptime mean? Uptime is the measured value in minutes of a company’s computer systems reliability. 99.995% uptime means