Data center management stories

The premise behind DCIM is to allow organizations to use resources as efficiently as possible.

Sustainability is a cause we all must get behind. By supporting and encouraging those in our value chains, we can create a greener future.

DCIM isn’t just about keeping documentation up to date all the time; it’s also about monitoring what the documentation represents.

Not every cloud services model works for every organisation, so it pays to be diligent and find the right fit, writes Hyland country manager for ANZ Jamie Atherton.

The digital infrastructure and data centre company aims to make a 50% absolute reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions from a 2019 base year by 2030. 

RDA has pioneered an artificial intelligence-driven digital twin solution, also known as a cognitive digital twin, that helps transform data centre operations and management. 

STT Defu 3, which will span seven levels and more than 14,500 square metres, will be completed by the third quarter of 2022.

Interactive is Australia’s largest privately owned IT company, providing cloud and managed services for data centre, business continuity and hardware maintenance.

By ensuring that management and operations measures are in place, data center downtime is minimized.

“The impact of COVID-19 fundamentally accelerated the concept of ‘mission critical’. Overnight, businesses became even more reliant on the cloud to enable operations, processes and remote collaboration.”

The NVMe-oF-based appliance is designed to increase data centre performance.

The data center, now rightly classified by governments worldwide as essential critical infrastructure, has become for business and society what oxygen is for the ultramarathon runner, writes Intel general manager of data center management solutions Jeff Klaus.

Using variable speed drives for cooling can yield significant improvements in data centre energy consumption. But drives can come with their own hidden costs in terms of a potentially adverse effect on the overall power system.

As the city accounting for 65% of Australia’s financial services activity, Sydney will inevitably be at the centre of the new data centre wave.

Offerings include a new smart rack controller that acts as an environmental monitoring tool.

The APAC region is set to be the biggest market for data centers by 2021, with a total market size to be around US$28 billion by 2024 for colocation data centres, according to a new joint report from Digital Realty and Eco-Business.

The report reveals the extent to which the region, led by Singapore, has seen exponential growth in data demand in the past few years —mostly a result of rapid expansion of enterprises in the region, driving demand for robust regional IT infrastructure. 

The data center housed 864 servers and cooling system infrastructure in a watertight steel tube that was approximately the size of a shipping container.

"Ciena’s DCI platform will enable us to provide the agile foundation our customers need to thrive in a competitive marketplace and COVID-19 environment.”

Cohesity believes that it was named as a leader for its approach to modern data management.

“Hyperscalers will require much higher power, exerting great pressure on systems. This will push for the adoption of a more standardized, prefabricated, and replicable architecture of future data centers.”

Green Lease Leaders manage nearly three billion square feet of commercial and government space across North America, representing a huge potential for growth in green leases.  

Colt Technology Services CEO Carl Grivner is stepping down from his position after five years with the company, to be replaced by Keri Gilder.

Traditional data center racks use 12-volt power shelves. However, higher performance compute and storage platforms now demand more power, which results in very high current.