Piece provides high-level overview on benefits of data center auditing and how to ensure a smooth process. From the article: HOW TO REDUCE DATA CENTER AUDIT HEADACHES written by Christine Burke July 3, 2018 Enterprises are moving ever more firmly into the digital realm and transforming their business models as they do so. The shift to digital is often made to simplify activities or increase efficiency. Yet data centers, which house critical information necessary to achieve this […]
The Data Center Journal’s Industry Outlook column recently featured a piece by SPEC-CLEAN‘s Founder and President Rich DeBlasi. From the article: Industry Outlook is a regular Data Center Journal Q&A series that presents expert views on market trends, technologies and other issues relevant to data centers and IT. This week, Industry Outlook asks Rich DeBlasi, founder and president of Spec-Clean, about cleaning and maintenance of data centers. Spec-Clean provides specialized cleaning of data centers, server rooms and critical […]
Polargy’s Cary Frame has been featured by Data Center Journal for his expertise in containment solutions, discussing N+1 redundancy. From the article: N+1 redundancy is a system-design best practice because equipment failure happens; we expect it and we plan around it. In the case of data center cooling, we expect a CRAC to go down at some point, and with an N+1 system design we have a spare CRAC to fall back on. A major problem […]
The Data Center Journal recently featured Purkay Labs for the announcement of the AUDIT-MATE updates, to be released this week at the 7×24 Exchange International Conference in Florida. From the article: Home » Purkay Labs to Feature New Product Package at 7×24 Exchange, June 1-4 Purkay Labs to Feature New Product Package at 7×24 Exchange, June 1-4 Purkay Labs, the leading provider of portable air quality monitors for data centers and other mission critical facilities, announced today new capabilities […]
Upsite Technologies recently contributed an article to Data Center Journal’s “Facilities” articles, written by experts in their fields. This piece, “Cooling What Remains: The CCF After Moving to the Cloud” was written by Upsite’s Senior Engineer, Lars Strong. From the article: Every move to the cloud, whether from an original site or in the changed environment of a colocation facility, creates an opportunity to refine the configuration and control of the cooling infrastructure that supports what remains to […]
Upsite Technologies’ Lars Strong recently contributed his industry perspective on AFM and managing cooling capacity for Data Center Journal. From the article: Introduction Everyone is trying to improve airflow management (AFM) because cooling infrastructure is one of the biggest expenses in a data center. Lowering the cost of cooling through improved AFM is a practical, simple way to reduce operating expenses. Recovering stranded capacity can also enable operators to increase computer-room density. AFM is more than […]
Purkay Labs was recently featured on the Data Center Journal for their brand new release of the Audit-Buddy. From the article: Purkay Labs is a Massachusetts based company which deals with various kinds of industrial products. It has come out of stealth mode to launch AUDIT BUDDY. This product is the first of its kind which can measure humidity and temperature in a data center. It is a standalone product which is also portable. It can measure air […]
Future Facilities’ software makes an appearance in a Data Center Journal posting. From the article: Future Facilities, global leaders in 3-dimensional CFD simulation for data center design and operational management through its 6SigmaDC DCIM software suite, has announced the addition to its equipment library of 5-star rated models for the complete range of Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers. Since its inception in 2004, Future Facilities has pioneered the use of CFD modeling for assessing the impact of […]
Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and leading colocation provider, today announced that it is the first Internet backbone to connect to over 2,000 IPv6 networks, doubling in less than three years. According to University of California research presented at the International Measurement Conference (IMC) in November of 2012, Hurricane Electric is the most dominant Autonomous System (AS) in the global IPv6transit topology. Data from the research indicate that between 2011 and 2012 no other AS was added to IPv6 […]
