Strengthening Collaboration between IT and Facilities Personnel
Behind the scenes, a harmonious collaboration between IT and facilities personnel is imperative to maintain the efficiency, reliability, and security of data center operations. To facilitate effective collaboration, it's essential to comprehend the distinct roles and responsibilities of IT and facilities personnel within data center operations. When the IT and facilities teams aren’t on the […]
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Preventing Heat and Humidity Damage
Ensuring optimal environmental conditions within data centers is crucial to safeguard the performance, reliability, and longevity of IT equipment. Data center environmental conditions encompass a spectrum of factors, including temperature, humidity, airflow, air quality, and more. These conditions directly impact the operational efficiency and reliability of IT equipment housed within the data center. Monitoring and […]
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Implementing Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Correctly
The management of complex data center infrastructures poses significant challenges, from optimizing resource utilization to ensuring reliability and scalability. Enter Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) - a sophisticated software solution designed to address these challenges by providing comprehensive insights into data center assets, resources, and operations. At its core, DCIM is a powerful software platform […]
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Navigating Data Center Software Maintenance and Fees
In the digital age, data centers are the backbone of modern businesses, housing critical applications and infrastructure and to ensure continual operation and optimal performance, managers must pay close attention to many different aspects. One of those that may slip by, due to never being a high priority, is software maintenance and associated fees. Software […]
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Mistakes to Avoid in Data Center Planning
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technology and information management, data centers serve as the cornerstone of modern business operations (1). As organizations increasingly rely on digital data and applications to drive productivity and innovation, the importance of robust and reliable data center infrastructure cannot be overstated. From multinational corporations to small businesses, data centers […]
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AI vs. Cryptocurrency Mining: Power Use and Efficiency
AI Power Use and Efficiency Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly complex and focused, leading to a greater need for powerful analytical tools5, generally to have better applicability to specific needs. As machine learning models have become more advanced and far more numerous, the computational power required to develop them has doubled every five […]
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PUE vs. ASHRAE 90.4
Almost seven years have passed since the finalization and implementation of the ASHRAE 90.4 Energy Standard for Data Centers in 2016. Many within the industry are aware of its existence, however, less remain uninformed about its implications. In contrast, The Green Grid's Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, introduced in 2007, still has more widespread recognition. […]
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Better Building Basics
There are a lot of complex issues to be solved when aiming to make any facility more sustainable. Meeting sustainability and energy efficiency goals in data centers can seem daunting, especially as new systems become available and the overall density is on the rise faster than ever before. Getting back to the basics on the […]
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2030 and Beyond: The Evolution of Sustainability in Building Development
Given the new year 2024, there are bound to be great predictions and evaluations from the last year. This time we’re looking further out to the year 2030 – now less than 6 years away. What will we see for sustainable buildings, operations, and data centers? Net-Zero Energy Buildings: The Standard for Tomorrow By the year 2030, […]
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