WiredRE to offer Data Center Design Services Wired Real Estate Group Inc. (“WiredREâ€) 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
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
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
Join WiredRE and some of the world’s most innovative IT infrastructure and operations professionals for this interactive online event. End-users, analysts and other experts will present the latest solutions for increasing efficiency and maximizing availability in the data center. Key topics will include efficiency metrics, capacity management, cloud strategy, and storage efficiency. Presentations include: Creating … Read more
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
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
I had the opportunity to speak with Geoff Hampson late last year regarding the data center market. If you don’t know Geoff, he has been the captain of the ship at several retail brands including Peer 1 Network and CoreLink Data Centers. Geoff had a few things to say about the current environment, “It used … Read more
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
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