Another great day at the DVL Engineering Summit. Mechanical are here getting the latest inforamation on Data Center Economizers and Energy Standards. Electrical Engineers are learning about Electrical codes and standards for Data Centers.
We are concluding our Engineering Summit tour at Le Meridien Hotel in Philadelphia on Friday, April 24th. We are excited to see you there!
Topics: Emerson Network Power, Data Center, data center energy, Green Technology, DC Power, 7x24 exchange, Thermal Management, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, DVL Engineering Summit, AHRI
Data centers have traditionally been designed with extra headroom to accommodate growth, but during the last decade, demand escalated so quickly that added IT capacity consumed available headroom and outpaced supply in terms of floor space and power and cooling capacity. This created conflicts as facility personnel struggled to supply IT’s demand for server capacity.
These problems were further worsened by two trends that emerged in the second half of the decade.
1. The first trend is the increased focus on data center energy consumption. With both the density and quantity of servers rising, data center energy consumption became a significant factor in terms of IT cost management and, in some companies, response to concerns about global warming. Early efforts to reduce data center energy consumption focused on lowering costs around data center cooling, which accounts for approximately 35 percent of data center energy consumption.
2. The second trend was the adoption of virtualization technologies. In a recent survey of data center managers, virtualization adoption rates stood at 81 percent. This has created a dynamically changing application environment layered on an essentially static physical environment, increasing data center complexity and introducing new challenges to physical infrastructure management.
In most organizations, data center managers lacked the tools to effectively address these challenges. The network management systems essential to IT personnel in monitoring and managing IT equipment did not address the critical issues of energy consumption, available rack capacity, or ambient air temperatures that are essential to proactive data center management. Further, the building management systems used by facility personnel to monitor power and cooling in the data center failed to provide the alarm management capabilities required for critical systems and to account for the interdependencies between systems. Evolving from a reactive to a proactive approach to infrastructure monitoring requires a new type of management system that provides visibility into the data center’s physical infrastructure within both the IT and facility domains and across these two domains.
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Topics: data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, DCIM, Trellis, the green grid, energy efficiency
Columbus, Ohio [August 8, 2013] With the data center at a critical stage in its evolution, Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE: EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today released a white paper that provides IT and data center managers with best practices for moving toward a holistic approach to data center management that rises above organizational, system-level silos while optimizing the interaction of people, process and technology to achieve true operational efficiency.
The white paper, titled Integrating People, Process and Technology to Transform Data Center Operations and Performance, takes a closer look at the constraints preventing organizations from optimizing data center performance and efficiency, and it provides a clear path for overcoming them through the better utilization of people, process and technology.
Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center energy, efficient data center
Bristol, PA May 29, 2013 DVL Group, a provider of data center infrastructure management solutions, partnered with 12 data centers to help them save at least 1,000,000 watts of electrical energy.
DVL has officially announced a fourth organization that saved the most watts, which earns them the prestigious Less Watts Award.
The winner of the large category, encompassing data centers greater than 5,000 sq. ft., is Conde Nast / CBRE. CONGRATULATIONS!!
In addition to honoring the winner with the Less Watts Award, DVL is also making a donation of $1,000 in Conde Nast / CBRE's name to the Delaware Valley Green Building Council (DVGBC).
The Less Watts competition has been a blast, says DVL Chief Executive Officer Mike Beck. Everyone who participated was incredibly cooperative, enthusiastic and just really great to work with. We couldnt be happier to present the award to this outstanding organization and look forward to helping others save energy with our Less Watts program.
To learn more about how DVL helps its customers use Less Watts with quality solutions from industry leader Liebert to build dynamic, energy efficient data centers, visit www.dvlnet.com.
Topics: data center infrastructure, Data Center, Green IT, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, PUE, efficient data center, DVL, Green Technology, energy, Energy Star, 7x24 exchange
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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Topics: data center infrastructure, reduce cost, Data Center, Green IT, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, efficient data center, Green Technology, data center outages, Energy Star, cloud strategy, CIO
