Category Archive for : ‘Data Center Power Costs’

It’s been a couple years since research revealed a startling discovery: Across the board, in various industries, more data centers were sitting comatose than realized. The study, which was conducted by Stanford University and Anthesis, found that about 30 percent of servers were what they described as “comatose” — not providing computing services for at least six months.

That study confirmed what the research firm Gartner had earlier indicated — about 80 percent of IT budgets are spent to simply “keep the lights on” and only 20 percent to create new business

With so much focus on environmental issues, data centers are increasingly coming under scrutiny for the amount of energy they consume. It’s not just a matter of being conscientious of the environment, many companies are concerned about the high costs of energy bills that could be unnecessary.

According to one estimate, U.S. data centers were consuming 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2013. That was about the same amount used by 34 large coal-fired power plants. That report by the National Resources Defense Counsel also projected that electricity consumption by data

It’s seems quite natural to protect your company against a natural disaster. That’s why companies wouldn’t think twice about purchasing insurance policies to cover their equipment, facilities and other assets. You never know when an earthquake, storm, tornado or flood can hit.

Yet, the same can be said of cyber attacks. You never know when one could hit. And it can be even more devastating than a natural disaster, according to the companies who have suffered the damage of one.

The Ponemon Institute, a privacy and information security organization, surveyed companies impacted

With demands steadily increasing for enterprise data centers, it’s no surprise that nearly 90 percent of data center operators throughout North America and Europe are planning to expand their budgets for their facilities in the near future, according to a recent survey.

And, contrary to some predictions, they’re not solely relying on the cloud to handle that extra capacity, a report by 451 Research revealed.

So, what are the most frequently cited options? Based on the study, the top three solutions companies are implementing include consolidation, the cloud and colocation. And companies

Developers can run into problems when their applications lack scalability or compatibility. To ensure applications can meet the demands of users, developers must devote considerable time to testing, but they may need access to additional resources in order to do that.

When developers are testing the functionality of an application, a host server may become less responsive. That means, in the workplace, end users may find that everyday computing tasks take longer to perform. That’s why it makes sense to have a separate server dedicated solely to development and testing. And

Technology seems to be evolving more rapidly than the law, with regulators scrambling to draft rules only after a dispute or question arises. Lawmakers and courts encounter new issues that didn’t exist decades ago … for example, whether social media evidence is admissible in a court case.

When technology grows to the point that it triggers regulatory concerns, the Federal Communications Commission is bound to respond. Recently, the FCC tackled questions about broadband Internet, when it issued the Open Internet order. Now, the FCC is being asked to re-evaluate how cell

Ah, summertime – sunshine, vacations and occasional devastating power outages! That’s right – blackouts are poised to steal the #1 spot from mosquitoes, on the list of top summer nuisances. And a power outage can do a lot of damage, especially when your business relies on a functional server.

In January, the middle of summer in Australia, a heat wave caused a power outage that shut down the data center for iiNet, the country’s second-largest DSL provider. The Perth-based business was inoperable for six or seven hours, after several air conditioning

When your organization experiences an IT outage, the setbacks are immediately obvious. Missed deadlines, idled employees, and customer dissatisfaction may come to mind. However, you may not have a good sense of the financial consequences of that type of disruption without a deep analysis of your company’s operations.

Depending upon the size of your company, you could be losing as much as $5,600 per minute as a result of network downtime — the average cited in a 2014 report by Gartner analyst Andrew Lerner. If your company falls into that category,

Making the decision to keep your in-house data center or make the switch to outsourcing your facility will be one of the greatest challenges you will face as a business. Keeping your in-house data center can get rather expensive and time-consuming, but if you outsource, there is a possibility that you will give up control of everything you have worked hard to create.

While having an in-house data centers can and will work for some companies, we find that most businesses can save an abundance of time, money and resources by having

When managing an outdated data center, there are improvements that may be out of the budget for your company. Keeping up with technology, equipment and servers alone are some of the most expensive updates you can make within your own facility. Other expenses such as remodeling the actual building and keeping up-to-date with security efforts will add to the already enormous expense. Justifying these improvements may be an issue for upper management, so here are three ways, identified by Robert McFarlane from Shen Milsom & Wilke LLC, you can extend the life of