A proactive approach for a reactive system: Predictive modeling for DCIM

During the fifth edition of Open Compute Summit, Jon Koomey (Research Fellow, Stanford University) moderated a Keynote Panel titled “…

Uptime Institute congratulates the winners of the first annual Brill Awards for Efficient IT. 



In the judgment of more than 90 industry professionals who evaluated project submissions from leading enterprises around the world, these projects best exhibited efficiency in data center and IT operations in the broadest…

Can you manage what you can’t measure? Is monitoring your data center really the same as modeling it? Do you make IT changes, then cross your fingers that they’ll work?

There’s an old adage that you can’t manage what you can’t measure. As data center operators flock to DCIM to gather more and more information about their facilities, there’s a danger…

The meeting was not going well. An argument had broken out between the Chief Engineer of Edifices, the firm that had designed and built the flagship data center and the CFO of TheDifferenceEngines.com, which had commissioned the build.

‘You promised me a class-leading levels of energy efficiency; instead the data center is using thousands of dollars of…

Good blog by Shawn Patrick of Canara

Ricoh India has announced the launch the new 360 degree experience in Delhi, aimed at enhancing office productivity by integrating solutions in Document Management, IT Services and Communications.

Ricoh also announced that they are firmly on plans to achieve their goal of Rs 1000 crore revenue in FY14 (March ending of 2014), recording a CAGR of over 50% in last 3 years. The key growth drivers include…

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Many data center facilities focus on improving the infrastructure efficiency, measured by PUE (Power Utilization Effectiveness), but a single minded focus on that metric will often yield perverse results,…

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Power, IT assets, PUE and temperatures are the focus of data center monitoring today. But, Capacity (the ability of the facility to support IT equipment) is being overlooked. At any point in time, 30%…

There has been a significant shift in paradigm as more and more organizations are transferring their valuable data and information to cloud. Cloud service providers have emerged in the market and now the customer has plenty of options to consider before choosing the right provider.

The jury has been out already but the verdict has been a mixed one with some claiming this to be a landmark…