It probably should go without saying that the planning phase is crucial to any data center project. But the specific planning process you use will go a long way toward how successful the data center will ultimately be in delivering on the requirements it was intended to meet. Schneider Electric has some sound advice on the topic, and lays it out in a new eBook, "A Practical Guide to Data Center Planning and Design".
The data center industry has achieved impressive sustainability gains over the past decade – mostly focused on operational efficiency. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the...
More companies are leveraging 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) to transform their operations and offer new, cutting-edge products and services to their customers. As a result, there’s a... ...
The data center industry has long been considered a pioneer in developing new ways to increase energy efficiency and incorporate renewable energy into its energy procurement strategy. Despite...
Just under two years ago, all 27 member states of the European Union (EU) committed to turning Europe into the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Entitled the European Green Deal,... Read...
The demand for cloud computing resources is soaring, driven by both consumers and enterprises. This is setting the stage for hyperscalers to explore innovative solutions, such as prefabricated...
In a world where every micro data centre (MDC) requires UPS, cooling and monitoring equipment, it only makes sense that these components are simply built in. Schneider Electric’s innovative new......
Digitization is viewed as a crucial pathway to a sustainable future, but it comes with its challenges. The burgeoning volume of data accumulated in the industrial sector, allied with the... Read...
Data centers enable us to accomplish different tasks, from enabling smart home capabilities to making virtual calls possible. Their failure has significant impacts on productivity and our daily...
The digitization of nearly every function of our society has led to an explosion of data creation, and the rate of growth is only increasing. Global data creation and reproduction... Read more...
The prefabricated modular data center has been around for at least a decade, offering a fast, cost-effective, scalable alternative to the traditional stick-built data center. At first, potential...
The global health crisis brought by COVID-19 is another challenge that emphasized the importance of the pharmaceutical industry. Companies in this field promptly responded by commencing research...
IT physical infrastructure management is transforming amid mounting demands for cybersecurity and physical security, sustainability data, and reporting transparency. These trends are here to stay...
Soaring demand for cloud resources has placed data centers under enormous pressure to scale quickly to meet demand. No company feels this pressure more than Facebook (now called Meta), whose... ...
In this post, we will see how a well-known U.S. government research laboratory is using a connected power management solution to help validate and improve power usage efficiency (PUE). This... ...
The growth of power-consuming data centers has sparked interest in eco-friendly data centers. Large amounts of data increase the size of the data center, which consumes more power to manage... ...
I am one of those people who live and breathe innovation, and, in my spare time, I sometimes (okay, very often) watch American football, so this is my favorite time... Read more » The post...
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, famously noted last year that, “we’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months.” I think we can all agree that the pace... Read more » The...
The power of brands is about more than marketing – it is about relationships. I recently read that brands have evolved to the point where they are no longer objects... Read more » The post...
Bob Dylan famously wrote and sang, “The Times They Are A-Changin’” and this sentiment could not be more appropriate for the drastic transformation taking place in data centers around the world.......
If you’re reading this, then you probably already know that cooling systems are the second biggest energy consumer in data centers, second only to the IT equipment itself. For more... Read more...
