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Designing for Efficiency: A Green Data Center Checklist
by Anna Paquette
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsTucked in an appendix to the recently released “The Power of Hyperscale Computing 2019,” Servertech provides a checklist to guide green data center design. Today we focus on bringing this potentially overlooked information to light.
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Hyperscale Best Practices: DC Power Distribution and New PDUs
by Anna Paquette
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsServer Technology, the Power Strategy Expert, recently released “The Power of Hyperscale Computing 2019.” This blog focuses on the role of DC power distribution in new data centers, as well as the intelligent PDUs that support them.
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Flying Solo or Going Colo Means an Intelligent PDU
by Kayla Poole
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsAs more and more companies plan for hybrid IT, Server Technology visits the issues around colocation and cloud. In this three-part blog, learn everything about flying solo, or going colo.
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What to Consider When Considering Going Colo
by Kayla Poole
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsAs more and more companies plan for hybrid IT, Server Technology visits the issues around colocation and cloud. In this three-part blog, learn everything about flying solo, or going colo.
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What to Consider When Considering Flying Solo
by Kayla Poole
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsAs more and more companies plan for hybrid IT, Server Technology visits the issues around colocation and cloud. In this three-part blog, learn everything about flying solo, or going colo.
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Cx and the Environment: A New “Intelligent” PDU
by Kayla Poole
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsThe data center industry is making environmental headlines again. In this blog, learn how to reuse, reduce, and recycle with a new form of intelligent PDU: the HDOT Cx.
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A Smart City Overview
by Kayla Poole
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsAt the ‘edge’ of any Smart City is a data center PDU that is supporting the data it generates. In this blog post, Server Technology talks about its new whitepaper about the rise of the Smart City.
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The Role of Efficient and Intelligent Power in the Smart City
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsIn our previous post on the smart city, and as explained in Marc Cram’s latest whitepaper, ‘Smart Cities Run on Smart Power,’ we identify the contributing factors in the development of smart city technology. It is the advent of the microprocessors and microchips that collect the massive quantity of intelligence ...
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The Dynamic Data Center: 10 Keys to Designing for Flexibility
by Kayla Poole
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsIn our last blog supporting the new “Flexibility and Sustainability for the Dynamic Data Center” white paper by ServerTech’s own Marc Cram, we discussed the relationship between Moore’s Law and the resulting increased availability of data and its immediate consumption. In the first blog in this series, we talked about PUE and its contribution to the sustainable data center. For this last blog, we will shift our attention to the mission-critical facility itself and discuss flexible features that support sustainable design.
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The Dynamic Data Center: Today’s Growing Demands
by Kayla Poole
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsIn our last blog, we addressed the role of PUE and its relationship to flexible, sustainable data centers. If you missed it, you can follow this link here to get caught up on the series. Today, we are going to turn our attention to some of the new challenges facing data center operators, specifically around the seemingly continuous propagation of technology and data. While Moore’s Law and consolidation efforts have worked to ‘densify’ the data center, new applications and edge computing are working to offset the trend. As mentioned in our previous blog, the industry as a whole has made tremendous advances in getting the average data center PUE closer to 1.0 but the recent technological advances have challenged operators.
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Server Tech Cx and Data Center Standardization
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsThe idea that standardization benefits those of us in the data center space is neither new nor difficult to grasp. Data center standardization is a reality that directly supports the uptime goals of your organization. This applies wherever your PDU(s) are operating, like a colocation facility, corporate data center, or hyperscale complex. You may wonder, then, how PDU power factors into this equation, let alone a small receptacle tucked into a PDU at the back of a rack?
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[Pt. 3] New Hardware in the Data Center
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsOne of the identified macro trends for the data center market is the never-ending progression of new hardware technologies. Where “density” used to mean a 42U rack full of 1U servers, today’s hyperscale, hyper dense data centers may have tens, hundreds, or even thousands of nodes and cores within a single rack (or even single RU in some instances). In addition, SSDs, networking fabric, GPU processing cards, specialty FPGA and ASIC chips for AI applications are all being added at a rapid clip to the already complex stack found in most data centers.
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[Pt. 2] New Workloads in the Data Center
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsIn the early days of data centers, we had data. Then, we wanted to know more about how and when and where the data came into being. Thus, we developed metadata. Then we needed to report on both the data and the meta data. And then we wanted to analyze the reports – what are they telling us? Are they accurate? Are we optimized? Machine learning, deep learning, “big data” and “analytics” were developed as a means of understanding the underlying pools of data, resulting in still more data. Today, we are drowning in the ocean of data, metadata, reports, big data, analytics, and machine learning. So where do we turn? More technology needing more data – artificial intelligence.
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[Pt.1] Hyper Growth, Hyperscale, and Hyper Density in the Data Center
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsHow to keep up with the need to build out multiple data centers a day? Edge and cloud computing players such as Vapor IO are finding themselves with a daunting task – figuring out how to roll out 40,000 data centers at cell tower locations around North America. Partnering with fast, flexible suppliers offering short lead times and high production capacity is a key enabler for widespread micro/edge data centers as well as building hyperscale data centers.
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Average Power Density Vs. Peak Power Density
by Josh Schaap
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsIt’s not unusual to be a little fuzzy on the differences between the two, but here it is at a high level: average rack power density is power utilization density that’s averaged over a period of time and space, and peak power density is a maximum power reading at a specific point in time.
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Data Center Managers: Ten-HUT!
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsServer Technology’s new white paper 'Top 10 Concerns of Data Center Managers in 2018' is a comprehensive summary of the 10 things that keep the typical DCM up at night and make their jobs harder. But we’re not here to commiserate. We’re here to say this: toughen up and avoid chugging over to mamby-pamby land. After all, it’s those things that put the ‘manage’ in ‘data center manager.’ Server Technology is here to share these concerns with you and offer our HDOT PDU solution to help you make these battles a little easier.
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Like a Mother, in a Good Way
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsThat’s how we’d like you to think about Server Technology’s solutions. In all the myriad ways your own mother looks after you, Server Technology is there for your business. Just like your mother knew what you needed and when, often before you did, we can anticipate and meet the needs of your data center racks and everything on them. In case you hadn’t guessed, we have Mother’s Day on the brain. And while we are busy trying to find the gift that says just how special and important she is, it occurred to us that our product lines aren’t so different from what moms do, day in and day out.
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Best Practices for High Density Data Centers Start with Server Technology
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsWe thought we would take a moment to talk about high density data centers, case studies, and best practices. Whether you are building a new data center, upgrading an existing one or just keeping abreast of the PDU power industry trends, it’s good policy to start with what works. What are the biggest and best companies doing to optimize their high-density computing needs and manage their power and usage data? Look no further than the experts at Server Technology for answers. With an extensive list of customers well-served by our support and product expertise, not to mention client case studies for reference and validation, Server Technology has lots to offer a customer looking to get comfortable with the notion of powering a high-density, hyperscale computing environment.
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The Advantages of an Uncluttered Rack, Part II
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsAs mentioned in our previous post on Alternating Phase rack PDUs, many of us at Server Technology (including myself) like to talk about the benefits of our approach to handling three-phase power distribution within the rack. While the subject of three phase is de rigueur in the fashionable world of high density, there is a lot to talk about above and beyond the distribution of large amounts of power in a very small footprint.
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Three Things You Don’t Know About Your Own Data Center
by Josh Schaap
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsThis is your data center speaking. You think you know me pretty well, right? After all, you spend almost all of your time around me. Take a harder look, however, and you’ll see that there are some important things about me that you aren’t aware of!
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Server Technology and the Internet of Things: Power at the Edge
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsBy now, you are familiar with the Internet of Things, or IoT. In fact, according recent statistics, you’re also likely involved in a deployment that has brought some of the challenges associated with the bulk data collection and storage issues presented by this technology. You've probably run into three phase PDU requirements or the need for a network controlled power strip.
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5 Reasons to use Intelligent PDUs in Edge Data Centers [WEBINAR LINK]
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsA growing number of companies are now moving their servers to the “edge” of the network for lower latency data transmissions, and reduced network operating costs. This is one of the major trends occurring in the IT space right now, and industry experts predict it will continue to accelerate in the coming years.
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Still Using the PUE Standard In Your Data Center?
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsPUE is nothing more than a ratio that compares a data center’s total energy consumption to the energy that is consumed by its IT equipment. In other words, it’s a way of seeing how much power your servers are using, versus your lights. The ideal PUE for a data center is 1.0, while a reading closer to 2.0 indicates that for every kilowatt of electricity consumed by the equipment, another kilowatt is needed to power the facility.
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What Rack PDU is Right for You?
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsAt Server Technology, we understand that power needs vary from customer to customer. Some data centers require all-in-one power solutions complete with all the available bells and whistles, while others have more basic needs. But one thing that doesn’t vary is the desire for a best-in-class high quality power product. Another thing that’s for certain is that Server Technology’s award-winning power solutions provide just that.
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The Problems And Solutions Of Capacity Planning
by RJ Tee
Categories: Industry Trends & SolutionsIt’s never fun to lose sleep over a problem, but night after night, many of us toss and turn, worrying about the things both within our control and beyond it. For the folks who run data centers, it’s no different.
