More facts and figures are emerging to support the shift from owning a data center facility to outsourcing it. According to this report from 451 Research, data center space in the country is growing at an astonishingly high 9 per…
Floor space reduction in IT environments has been made possible by adoption of blade servers and virtualization. These new technologies paved the way for compact data center facilities that would also appear to require less maintenance costs. Let’s have a…
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…
