When Should You Consider Building a New Data Center? Case Study: Paragon Internet Group

by Emerson Network Power on 11/19/14 9:25 AM

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IT departments today are all about speed – adding more applications faster to satisfy voracious global appetites for mobile, social media, streaming video and other resource-intensive applications. These applications must be available, regardless of their impact on critical infrastructure performance. If growth is stretching your resources too thin, you must take action to ensure availability. But because IT organizations are pressured to lower costs, you have to build an unassailable business case when deciding how to expand.

A variety of solutions are available for upgrading and expanding your critical infrastructure, including building a new data center, but how do you know which option is best?

Because you can take many actions short of building a new data center to improve your critical infrastructure, you may want to consider building new only as a last resort.
Building new is expensive and difficult. Factors such as getting a loan, finding a location and determining if you can get fiber optic cable all come into play. It can take three years before the new space is operational, and managing logistics for a move is challenging.

Still, there are times when building new is a good choice:

  • Your business growth is through acquisition, and you need to consolidate a number of acquired data center You may have to build new to accommodate them.
  • You don’t have a disaster recovery site. You can build new and use the old facility for this purpose.
  • Your equipment is so old and poorly maintained that it’s not worth it to upgrade. Building new is an opportunity to take advantage of new, more efficient technologies.

 

Here is an interesting case study about Paragon Internet Group in the UK.

What about you? Have you assessed and optimized your existing critical infrastructure or have you preferred to invest in a new data center project?

Author: Paul Russell, Emerson Network Power. 
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Topics: Emerson Network Power, Data Center, cloud computing, Efficiency, Energy Logic, Thermal Management, DCIM, capacity

Avocent Products: Now Available at DVL

by Marissa Donatone on 12/13/13 11:51 AM

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Avocent is known for leading edge remote network management and control technology. Avocent delivers IT operations and infrastructure management solutions for enterprises worldwide, helping customers to reduce costs and simplify complex IT environments via integrated, centralized in-band and out-of-band hardware and software. Emerson Network power is now offering Avocent Solutions.

DVL Group Inc. is now the Avocent representative serving Central & Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey & Northern Delaware. To learn more about Avocent products or schedule an appointment with a Data Center Engineer  please contact Marissa Donatone, Marketing Coordinator: mdonatone@dvlnet.com or 215-826-1150.

For More Information on Avocent Products, download: Avocent Data Center Solutions Brochure.

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, data center design, DVL

Emerson Network Power- Integrate People, Process and Technology

by Marissa Donatone on 8/14/13 11:20 AM

Emerson Network Power Outlines How Best to Integrate People, Process and Technology to Transform Data Center Operations and Performance 

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.

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center energy, efficient data center

The Server Closet Must Die...

by Mike Rinaldi on 6/20/13 12:46 PM

They are small, poorly managed, wasteful and high risk environments for a business’s IT systems and they’re lurking in a building near you. The server closet, it’s a danger to us all and it must be eradicated.

The server closet is a room set aside for IT gear, but not designed as a data center. Not even as a bad data center. They vary in size, but are generally between 100 SF and 2500 SF. The rooms usually have some extra AC assigned to them and maybe additional jury rigged power, but beyond that they are a large closet that IT gear has been force fit into. There are 10s of thousands of these server closets out in the wild. 

 

 

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center design, data center infrastructure management, robust data center, Containment, efficient data center

Can Building Codes Ensure Power Reliability?

by Mike Rinaldi on 6/14/13 1:33 PM

The impact of Hurricane Sandy gave U.S. power providers as well as code making bodies a wake-up call.  Why are facilities that must operate to provide services during disasters allowed to locate critical electrical system components in vulnerable areas? Although designs of this magnitude require a great deal of thought and planning, it’s difficult to include every possible scenario. Even codes and standards as extensive as they are can’t cover everything. 

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Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, Data Center, data center infrastructure management, efficient data center, electrical distribution, reduce downtime, data center outages, short circuit current ratings

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