Datacenter Room Temperature of 45 Degrees Celsius – Cover Higher Server Failure Rates by Significant Savings from Cooling
At the Technology Convergence Conference in Santa Clara (Calif.) Subodh Bapat, former VP of Energy Efficiency at Sun Microsystems, shared insight from the Middle East where datacenter operators analysed server failure rates at unconditionally high room temperatures – “high” meaning far beyond the common 25-27 degrees Celsius and going up to unprecedented 45 degrees (!). The reason … Read more
Design Insights from Constructing a 500MW Datacenter Facility (the “SuperNAP”)
For many of us, building a site with power connections above 5MW is likely to be already a one-time life-challenge. Can you now consider the blink in one’s eye if you are asked to build the “Super-NAP”? Switch’s NAP (network accesspoint) datacenter - briefly also called the “Super NAP” is exactly such a type of mega-datacenter: … Read more
Video on Visual Impact of Different Cooling Strategies
The recent video post on cooling has caught some attention, which in return motivated me to further dig and find some even better videos to explain common cooling issues and strategies to cope with them. Although this is a promotional video from APC, it’s not so intrusive that it no longer worth watching. It also … Read more
Construction of a Multi-Tier Tier 3+ Datacenter in Fast Motion
Close to Zurich (in a small village called Lupfig) green.ch is building a multi-tier (tier 3+) datacenter with 10’000m2 server-room that – according to its owners – shall comply with highest requirements with respect to security, availability, connectivity, redundancy and ecology. It is very interesting to watch how this new site is developed and – starting … Read more
ASHRAE soon to recommend new room temperatures and humidity ranges for datacenters
ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) has announced in a press-release that they are reviewing their recommendation on temperature and humidity ranges for the datacenter and that they expect to further widen them in the third edition of the datacom book, “Thermal Guidelines for Data Processing Environments.” which is to be published … Read more
A quick and visual introduction into Datacenter Cooling
Some times a picture tells more than a thousand words – in this case showing in real life how Datacenter Cooling works, gives a fast and easy introduction and overview directly on the spot, meaning: in the server-room of a real life datacenter. Very nice overview, and don’t get excited about the presenter speaking rather … Read more
How Rackspace continues to improve datacenter utilisation – and generates large profits
The past year has been pretty successful for Rackspace (RAX): they added some 38,000 customers, added 9,300+ feet of new datacenter space… – but this alone is not sufficient to explain how Rackspace succeeded in driving its quarterly profit up by some 23% (from $459 million to $565 million). Let’s have some more detailed look … Read more
Cisco Data Center 2011-Texas: Cisco to Deploy IaaS in its New Texas Data Center
take a look at Cisco’s CITEIS
With Mark Zuckerberg being TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year – you may want to take a look at Facebook’s Datacenter
With several 100 mio users, FaceBook does require a real armada of servers to deliver and to ensure that user updates are truly posted within seconds on its portal. And all of this servers are spread across many different datacenter sites – all of them being in a state-of-the-art shape. TIME has got the opportunity … Read more
Ever wondered how much Google is spending on datacenter?
According to a very interesting article on datacenterknowledge.com: 1Q 2006: $345 million 2Q 2006: $699 million 3Q 2006: $492 million 4Q 2006: $367 million 1Q 2007: $597 million 2Q 2007: $575 million 3Q 2007: $553 million 4Q 2007: $678 million 1Q 2008: $842 million 2Q 2008: $698 million 3Q 2008: $452 million 4Q 2008:$368 million … Read more
About the author…
I am a senior IT-manager in the financial services industry with CIO experience and as background an Executive MBA in General & Strategic Management. I have many years of international experience, most recently with focus in Central Europe. Key strength is successful delivery of complex and multi-national IT, large-scale organizational change and transformation projects. I have also lead several high-profile outsourcing initiatives.
I currently work as a professional datacenter manager, responsible for multiple thousand square-meters datacenter-space spread across 3 locations.
I will talk about daily challenges when managing datacenter development and cost management.
