Nature has some highly dangerous and destructive weapons in its arsenal. IT facility managers should always keep an eye out for lethal threats from nature of which lightning is perhaps one of the more harmful ones. Lightning strikes are not…
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…
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…
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…
Data Centers are subject to outages in power or network connectivity that can adversely affect services that rely on them. As far as clients are concerned, a significant outage can ruin their opinion of the business. Case in point? Recent…
