Data Center Design
WiredRE provides data center design services via its alliance with Deerns America. The Deerns relationship allows WiredRE to support large and small-scale developments with integrated solutions for high-density and high-efficiency computing, from concept through operations.
Deerns is a privately owned firm founded in 1928 with its headquarters in The Netherlands and branches in The United States, Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom and Dubai. The company has grown into one of the largest independent mechanical and electrical consulting firms in the building services engineering industry in Europe. Deerns has designed more than 2,300,000 SF of IT Space worldwide, with an IT power of more than 670MW. The firm is currently working on design projects for high efficiency (as low as 1.12), scalable, high availability data centers for commercial and private companies in United Kingdom, Russia, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and the USA.
Data Center Design Research by Deerns
Research by Deerns has has produced numerous smart “add-ons” to data center infrastructure. What’s an “add-on” you ask? Could it be a “modular” solution? Whatever the definition, the research is leading to dramatic reduction in PUEs…see this white paper, Data Center Design Research by Deerns GC-DC 20110913 v1.0 READ MORE »
Data Center Design Services – Wired Real Estate Group & Deerns America
WiredRE to offer Data Center Design Services Wired Real Estate Group Inc. (“WiredRE”) today announced an alliance with Deerns America to offer data center design and data center project management services. As a leader in data center real estate, WiredRE is an early stage participant in some of the nation’s largest developments, including Vineyard Data [...] READ MORE »
Chicago Data Center Market Update
Steadfast Networks Goes SSAE 16 The Chicago-based hosting and colocation provider, Steadfast Networks, recently announced that both of their Data Centers located in Chicago and Data Centers located in New York successfully completed an Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 16 audit. “We are extremely happy to have completed this recent third-party audit,” says [...] READ MORE »
Future of High Efficiency Data Centers – Yahoo’s Lockport Facility
Scott Noteboom, Yahoo!’s global head of data center operation, recently pointed out similarities between Henry Ford’s Ford Motor Company’s manufacturing revolution and the revolution of design and construction of modern data centers. He pointed out how slow and inefficient car production was before the invention of the assembly line, and it compares to the process [...] READ MORE »
Cloud, Colocation, and Data Center Real Estate Analysis
With the maturation of the IT infrastructure business, solution sets for any given need have multiplied and produced an alphabet soup of viable alternatives. IaaS, Cloud, Colo, PaaS, Container, etc., all serve essentially the same need for infrastructure services. Processor level advances have solved many problems, and now bottlenecks have emerged elsewhere in the solution [...] READ MORE »
Video and the Disruption of the Internet Hierarchy
I was recently reminded of the genius of Bill Norton, one of the founders of Equinix and now proprietor of DrPeering.com. Bill wrote back in 2008 about how the next wave of “disruptive” traffic growth would be 10X the first wave of 2001, and he also postulated several Internet Hierarchies that might evolve, namely: 1. [...] READ MORE »
Data Center Energy Efficiency Measures to Improve PUE
The following list represents the key energy efficiency measures and major energy saving concepts to be employed to improve PUE: Air side economizer: the rooftop air handling units are equipped with the ability to utilize 100% fresh air to provide the cooling for the building, allowing the chiller plant to be turned off or operated [...] READ MORE »