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Measuring, monitoring and maintaining a data centre has often been viewed as a purely technical project. Business value can be significant - and explaining this can unlock budget for DCIM investments.
While vital power systems such as UPSs and generators stand at the ready to mitigate power glitches, they act in a reactive mode and only provide power after there has been a power event. What if there was a way to know before impending power faults of key systems? What if there was a crystal ball inside the walls of the facility that show exactly what is going on with the power infrastructure?
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IBRS lead analyst Kevin McIsaac looks at the evolving infrastructure, systems and vendor landscape.
Evolving from an accidental architecture to a scalable, efficient and modular data centre design is an issue for many companies today. One such case follows with ECN internet.
You don't have to own or manage a data center to know that the amount of digital data being stored, shared, manipulated, processed, analyzed, reported, downloaded, uploaded, emailed, backed up and restored is growing fast – as much as 25-50 percent a year, by some estimates.
In September 2009, The Strategic Path ran an executive peer-group roundtable on power and cooling efficiency in the data centre. The round table was comprised of nine leading data centre managers, 3 data centre experts, and facilitated by well known IT infrastructure analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac of Intelligent Business Research Services (IBRS).
In the Westin's Boardroom in September, Strategic Path hosted a group of infrastructure directors from some of Australia's leading companies for a Peer session on data centre power and cooling efficiency. Key discussion points were: asset management, power monitoring and consumption efficiency, air management, hot aisle containment, DCiE, lifecycle management and modular system builds.
Guys who can take on six guys at a time do exist - they grow up to become data centre managers. David Leyton walks us through some fine experiences.
It seems like everyone is trying to figure out how to exploit Web 2.0 technologies, including data center professionals. This initial installment in a two-part series will look at a variety of technologies and how they can be used to communicate in a coordinated way.
Supporting 3 campuses, 2,000 staff and 25,000 students, requires secure, reliable and scalable IT infrastructure. Who does the University of Southern Queensland turn to for its central data centre?
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