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Business leaders have largely embraced modern IT infrastructure, platform and software innovations throughout the past several years, with legacy systems quickly going the way of the dinosaur. What has become clear is that agile, affordable and elastic computing capabilities are not only in high demand, but simply necessary to competing in the modern, fast-paced markets present in virtually every industry and region. …

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In the past couple of years, colocation has gone from a term that many business leaders would not likely be able to define, to one that is at once high on the priority list and commonly incorporated into the corporate lexicon. This raises the question as to why colocation has become such a commonly sought-after set of solutions among businesses and public sector entities, and…

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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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The typical data center will lose at minimum 30% of its total compute capacity in the absence of careful coordination of the space, power, cooling and IT equipment distributions. Many have turned to DCIM tools to protect capacity that is lost as a result of data center operations.

But, DCIM tools can only monitor/track power, IT assets, temperature and space only, NOT…

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Presented at AFCOM NC Chapter Meeting

The typical data center will lose at minimum 30% of its total compute capacity in the absence of careful coordination of the space, power, cooling and IT equipment…

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Global Property Advisor, CBRE, has published this white paper “At the End of the Day – It’s Lost Capacity” as a roadmap to a fully deployed data center and you can download it from the link below.

Download the White Paper Here: …

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Release 8 of the 6SigmaDC software suite brings a raft of user-led performance updates to further enhance its market leading Predictive DCIM capabilities

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(…

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By: Bill Kleyman

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The task of a data center operator is to continuously deliver service availability, compute capacity and energy efficiency. As data centers have become more complex and more mission critical, operators have sought greater quantity and detail in their…

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The Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric has become the de facto standard for measuring data center energy efficiency. PUE compares the total power going into a data center with the amount of power used to power IT equipment (servers, storage, and network). There is increasing pressure being exerted on data center managers to take measures to reduce the PUE. Unfortunately, the proper usage of PUE is often misunderstood and, by focusing solely on this single metric, it may…

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A data center can contain thousands of assets, from servers, storage and network devices to infrastructure support equipment such as Computer Room Air Conditioners, PDUs and UPSs. Keeping track of these assets is an ongoing task faced by data center managers around the world. A Digital Realty Trust survey found that only 26% of data center managers could locate a server that had gone down within minutes. Only 58% could locate the server within 4…

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Illuminating DCIM tools: Asset Management vs. Real-time Monitoring

In the news recently, there has been a lot of discussion around a new category of software tools focusing on unified facilities and IT management in the data center. These tools have been labeled by Gartner as Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM), of which Modius OpenData is a leading…

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OK, I have been doing a bunch of reading about the highly innovative approaches to energy management being tested in places like Arizona. Phoenix as you can imagine sees temperature extremes like few other places in the country. (I remember stepping off a plane at Sky Harbor Airport in June 1979 and seeing an air temperature of 118-degrees). HEAT is a major topic in…

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Over the course of meeting with perhaps 100 customers over the last 6 months, it has become painfully clear to me that there is widescale and growing confusion about Real-Time Data Center…

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Having just returned from the Uptime event in NYC I have to admit I saw so very interesting advances in monitoring software. In fact it appears that the monitoring software is merging with asset management software to create and extremely versatile tool set for the data center and facility managers. By merging the two software applications the ability to perform capacity planning in a real time mode is now available. In addition to the capaicity planning I saw some great examples of… Continue

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