The Data Center Post recently featured a piece by Upsite Technologies’ president John Thornell, reflecting on previous wisdom from Ken Brill and applying it to 2014 cooling best practices. From the article: Ken Brill’s Original ‘Gold Nuggets’ of Wisdom Several years ago at an Uptime Institute Symposium, Ken Brill outlined five “gold nuggets” that could curb skyrocketing energy consumption in the data center: 1. Consolidating servers 2. Enabling server power-save features 3. Turning off servers no […]
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Future Facilities and Upsite Technologies at AFCOM New England
On November 6, 2013, over 80 professionals in the data center space gathered in Westford, MA for the last AFCOM New England meeting of the year. The event featured Future Facilites and Upsite Technologies, as well as 2 other sponsors. From Future Facilities, Tom Wu spoke of using predictive DCIM measures and the virtual facility to monitor a site’s availability, capacity, and efficiency both at the design and functioning stages. John Thornell, of Upsite Technologies, […]