As I’ve watched the momentum of the Cloud, it’s caused me to reflect upon earlier discussions about data center physical security. It’s long been my opinion that physical security will soon emerge (or re-emerge) as a top issue in data center planning, since businesses and consumers alike are increasingly reliant on the data and transaction [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Data Center'
Physical Security for Cloud Data Centers
December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery Planning, IS Security
Tags:Cloud Computing·Data Center·Data Center Security·Physical Security·Security·Terremark
Wind Power for Data Centers
December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Data Center, Data Center MEP, Green Data Center, Green IT
The challenge in using green energy alternatives such as wind or solar power in data centers is power density. Data centers consume a lot of power with respect to their physical footprint, so they need very large solar arrays or large wind turbine farms to generate the necessary power for the facility. Consequently, the amount [...]
Tags:Data Center·Green Data Center·Green Data Centers·Green IT·Wind Turbines
Shell Building Property as Data Centers: When to Just Walk Away
November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Data Centers
Many firms have gone looking for core/shell property with the intent of renovating these structures for use as a data center. These projects are very capital intensive, and in many cases the benefits of having the existing structure are almost nil when viewed in the context of the broader project plan and budget. However, many [...]
Tags:Data Center·Data Center Planning·Data Center Site Selection
Smart Grid Jolting IPv6?
November 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Convergence, Data Center, Internet, Power, Wireless
The Smart Grid concept is getting a boost from the Obama administration in the form of (with matching of private sector funds) approximately $8B capital investment over the next three years. The United States Department of Energy is making a number of Smart Grid publications widely available, and the funding attracted by Smart Grid is [...]
Tags:IPv4·IPv6·Public Utilities·Smart Grid
Where should we build that data center?
October 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Green Data Center, Green IT, IS Security, IT Governance
When launching a new data center build project, where the data center will be located is a fundamental issue. There are many factors in deciding where the data center will be, but all of these factors can arguably be consolidated into two issues- Risk and Cost.
We mention risk in terms of Risk Management. [...]
Tags:Colocation Providers·Data Center·Data Center Efficiency·Data Center Site Selection·Security·Waxman-Markey
Cloud World: Recap on the August event in San Francisco
August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Container Data Centers, Data Center, Data Center MEP, Uncategorized
This year’s Cloud World conference was a mashup of three industry conferences- Open Source World, Next Generation Data Center (NGDC), and Cloud World. Even with the combining of three (formerly) major industry events, the attendance volume still only merited the West wing of the Moscone Center.
It’s easy to blame the low attendance on the economy, [...]
Tags:Cloud Computing·Cloud World·Container Data Centers·Data Center
The Resilient Dynamic Data Center
June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Data Center MEP, Disaster Recovery Planning, Green Data Center, Green IT
I attended the 2009 IT Roadmap Conference in Atlanta,
Georgia this week and sat in on the presentation by
Johna Till Johnson of Nemertes Research, entitled
“Building a Resilient Dynamic Data Center.” The presentation
was a summary of hundreds of hours of discussions
with data center operators and enterprises with [...]
Tags:Data Center·Data Center Efficiency·Data Center Planning·Data Center Trends·Green Data Center·Green IT·IT Roadmap·IT Roadmap 2009·Nemertes Research·Virtualization
Uptime Institute Data Center Tier Classifications: Time for a Refresh?
June 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Data Center, Data Center MEP, Disaster Recovery Planning
Posted by Bob Landstrom
Enterprises have embraced the data center tier classification system developed by the Uptime Institute for evaluating their own data center facilities and those of potential colocation and hosting providers.
The subject of facility availability has matured over recent years. The mind set has matured from recognition that existing IT facilities were a problem [...]
Tags:Data Center·Data Center Tier Levels·Uptime Institute
Container Data Centers: “Waiting for Godot” meets “The Price is Right”
April 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Container Data Centers, Data Center
Regular readers of this blog will know that we are strong advocates of container data centers as a step toward modular data center design and as a facility component for extremely dense data processing. Earlier posts talked about 2008 as a breakout year for containers (it wasn’t) and containers used as facility components in cargo [...]
Tags:Container Data Centers·Containers·Data Center·Data Center Containers
Data Center Tier Levels and Real Availability
April 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Business, Business Continuity Planning, Data Center, Disaster Recovery Planning, General, IS Security
Data
Center consolidation and Data Center outsourcing are
top of mind for many CIO’s these days. Many companies
have ‘90s vintage IT facilities that not only do not
have the availability to align with the Business’ operating
model but also are struggling to keep up with the power
and cooling demands of contemporary computing systems.
The deployment of multi-core processors and blade-based
systems [...]
Tags:Colocation·Colocation Providers·Data Center·Data Center Tier Levels·Uptime Institute
