The first phase of Facebook’s data center in Prineville, Ore. will have a capacity for 28 MW of power, points out Data Center Knowledge. That’s about the same amount of power used by all the homes and businesses in the…
Smaller, lighter, and more agile are more than just industry buzzwords. IT organizations that fail to lead those charges will get relegated to cost centers. In an industry where innovation threatens to tear down legacy systems and practices (and vendors)…
In a nutshell: The ever-increasing popularity of mobile devices has changed the way many enterprise users deploy technology, with an ever-increasing body of employees now bringing their own devices into work with them. The enterprise, meanwhile, focuses on ensuring its…
In this era of cheap-and-reliable rent-a-data centers, does it make sense for a company to build a new data center on its own anymore? Amazon’s data center guru James Hamilton is pretty clear that he sees no reason for most…
One of the main focus area in data centers today is Data Center Infrastructure Management or DCIM. Why is DCIM now more important to many facility managers than anything else in their data center? Streamlining power consumption DCIM provides for…
