Converting Retail to Data Centers?

by Mike Rinaldi on 5/30/13 8:32 AM

With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers

Ubiquity Critical Environments, a newly-created unit of Sears Holdings, will convert this Sears retail store in Chicago into data center space. (Photo: Ubiquity)

Will blinking blue lights of servers soon fill the aisles that previously offered the Blue Light Special? Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers.

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Half of Data Centers Will Run Out of Power/Cooling Before Space

by Mike Rinaldi on 5/17/13 10:28 AM

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, Data Center, Green IT, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, robust data center, efficient data center, reduce downtime, Green Technology

Does DC Have a Chance in the Data Center?

by Mike Rinaldi on 5/14/13 7:38 AM

As data centers take an ever larger bite of worldwide energy production, efficiency becomes an increasingly urgent topic. Much of the focus in recent years has been on areas like virtualization, improved cooling practices (like free cooling and bumping up the thermostat), consolidation of idle equipment and so onand rightly so. In the background, however, has been a growing discussion about a fundamental topic:alternating-current (AC) versus direct-current (DC) power. AC power won the day when electrical infrastructure was first being deployed, but could DC be poised for a return from the dead?

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Topics: data center infrastructure, reduce cost, data center design, robust data center, efficient data center, DVL, electrical distribution, data center outages, DC Power

Data Center Infrastructure Management Market to Reach $3.14 Billion

by Mike Rinaldi on 5/7/13 8:16 AM

Data Center Infrastructure Management Market to Reach $3.14 Billion in 2017

The report Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Market by Types (Software, Services & Size of Datacenters); by Industry Verticals (Banking & Finance, Retail, Telecommunications, Healthcare); by Geographies (North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa): Global Trends, Technology Advancements, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Enterprise Adoption, Competitive Ecosystem, Key Industry Player Profiles, Venture Capital Funding Trends and Worldwide Market Forecasts (2012 2017) defines and segments the global Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) market with analysis and forecasting of the global revenues. It also identifies drivers and restraints for this market with insights on trends, opportunities, and challenges

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Topics: data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, PUE, Green Technology

Is Data Center Infrastructure Management a set of products, a process or both?

by Mike Rinaldi on 5/3/13 1:31 PM

Is DCIM the monitoring, collection and analysis of real-time, continuous, accurate information from an intelligent infrastructure that allows for immediate action, designed to keep the data center in an optimal state of balance between availability, efficiency and capacity? Is it a framework for operating the data center?

What are your thoughts?

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center design, kW per rack, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, PUE, DVL, electrical distribution, reduce downtime

Converting Retail to Data Centers?

With Ubiquity, Sears is Turning Shuttered Stores into Data Centers

Half of Data Centers Will Run Out of Power/Cooling Before Space

Does DC Have a Chance in the Data Center?

Data Center Infrastructure Management Market to Reach $3.14 Billion

Is Data Center Infrastructure Management a set of products, a process or both?

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