Opinion piece issues a series of best practices that highlight how real-time monitoring can lower data center power usage and TCO. From the column: How Real-Time Monitoring Lowers Data Center Power and Operating Costs The best practice to keep a handle on costs, track assets, and achieve optimization is to monitor equipment in real time, throughout its lifetime. Industry Perspectives | Jul 25, 2018 Christine Burke is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for RF Code. […]
Dr. Peter Vancorenland writes on why real-time information is crucial for the business behind the data center. From the piece: The importance of data center intelligence for the C-level AUTHOR Peter Vancorenland PUBLISHED July 16, 2018 Editor’s note: The following is a guest article from Dr. Peter Vancorenland, Chief Technology Officer at RF Code. It takes a variety of figures working together in the right ways for a data center to function: power consumption, cooling efficiency, delta […]
Rob Golden writes on why the Midwest market has embraced energy efficiency. From the article: Efficiency is the Incentive in the Midwest Energy Market July 11, 2018 By Rob Golden Energy efficiency has become increasingly important for business owners to consider from the perspectives of both sustainability and cost of operations. Although rates vary across the 12 Midwestern states, the region as a whole boasts some of the lowest prices for electricity in the United […]
From Compromised To Optimized Part two of a strategy to minimize TCO. By: Akhil Docca, Maira Bana, and James Baross Our previous article, “5 Reasons For Lost Data Center Dollars,” established the main causes of low-capacity utilization, increased downtime and cooling inefficiencies, and examined the impact they have on your costs. We concluded that the best solution is an integrated and continuous modeling process to resolve current problems and model future changes. At Future Facilities, we achieve […]
5 Reasons For Lost Data Center Dollars Part one of a strategy to minimize TCO By: James Baross and Akhil Docca The high-level breakdown of a typical Tier III data center’s costs. The expected TCO never matches the actual TCO. The reality is that energy, operational (OPEX) and capital (CAPEX) costs all rise during the life of the data center. Data center owners and operators are increasingly looking for ways to minimize total cost of […]
