Capacity Planning
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Data Center Staffing Shortage Will Worsen, But Here’s How You Can Overcome It
RJ Tee
March 09, 2021Surging demand for data center capacity has forced more data centers to be built, creating a shortage of data center staff. This blog recaps a new study describing how to alleviate the shortage.
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No Room for Errors When Planning for Data Center Power Capacity
RJ Tee
February 10, 2017As a data center administrator, one of the most important parts of your job — besides maintaining uptime and staying under budget — involves monitoring and managing your department’s resources. It’s your responsibility to make sure that your data center is fully capable of meeting the current and future needs of your enterprise and its changing customer base. Of course, capacity planning is a broad topic that extends throughout all areas of the data center. It’s important to stay on top of resources like cooling, available rack and floor space, lighting and more. But all of these resources have one underlying commonality: They need electricity to function. So data center power usage should be a top resource to monitor.
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In The Spotlight: Server Technology’s PRO2 Platform
RJ Tee
June 21, 2016If you haven’t met PRO2 yet, it’s time for an introduction. As Server Technology’s newest platform for CDU products, PRO2 is designed with real world power situations in mind, meeting a whole host of power needs for a new generation of data centers.
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Four Capacity Planning Factors In A New Build
Josh Schaap
May 11, 2016Pardon the pun, but the origin of the phrase, “getting your ducks in a row,” is a little, well, fuzzy. It’s not clear whether the term comes from hunting, sports, or - most likely - the practice of mother ducks encouraging their babies to line up in a row before heading to the pond. Either way, having one’s proverbial ducks in a row is nearly always a good idea before undertaking a sizable project. Take, for example, capacity planning in a new build. That’s one situation where you don’t want to jump in headfirst without a solid plan.
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Whack Those Moles: Key Components to Capacity Planning
RJ Tee
March 22, 2016In the arcade game Whack-a-Mole, the object is to smash multiple mechanical rodents with a large felt mallet as they pop up from their holes. Simple enough, right? That is, until the game progresses and the moles start popping up with alarming frequency, requiring you to exercise cat-like reflexes just to keep up. Similarly, being a data center operator takes constant vigilance in order to avoid unscheduled downtime, obsolescence and other operational moles from popping up.
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An Answer For Every Challenge: Switched PDUs for Capacity Planning
Josh Schaap
February 22, 2016Our client was facing a very nice – but very real – problem: as a facilitator of webinars, it was experiencing unprecedented growth year after year. Webinars, those ubiquitous online teaching and conference platforms, are bringing people across the globe into the same virtual meeting rooms with increasing frequency each day. With this expansion comes the need for increased bandwidth and infrastructure requirements, resulting in technical challenges for the webinar operators.
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What’s Driving Bandwidth Demand and Why Should You Care?
Josh Schaap
February 02, 2016Bandwidth is the hottest commodity of the new year and will likely continue as such for the long haul. After all, both enterprise and consumer appetites will only become more insatiable as technology continues to require more support from the Internet. For example, enterprises are increasingly using the public cloud to run applications and store data due to its cost efficiency and simplicity. However, the more enterprises that utilize the cloud, the more bandwidth that is required to support their needs. Additionally, a surge in mobile video consumption is also impacting bandwidth requirements. This particular driver of bandwidth demand will likely multiply over the years as consumers continue to watch videos on social media, stream movies and use video chatting applications such as Skype or FaceTime.
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Mo Money Mo Data Center Power Problems
Josh Schaap
January 13, 2016Analysts forecast that the data center construction market is set to grow at a CAGR of 4.18 percent over the period 2014-2019, in the US alone. The reason for the rapid development of data centers in the enterprise’s growing need for dedicated IT environments as they move much of their mission-critical applications and data to the cloud.
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Three Data Center Power Resolutions to Follow Through With In 2016
Josh Schaap
December 30, 2015There’s no shame in admitting you’re one of those resolution quitters, who will be reaching for a bag of Reese’s come February 1. All too often, we strive to reach our goals by the end of January only to fall back into our old ways by the start of February. This practice is forgivable in our personal lives, but when you’re a network administrator who has enterprise connectivity and environmental sustainability to consider, reaching your New Year’s goals is critical to your data center’s efficiency.
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'Tis the season for good deeds
Josh Schaap
November 29, 2015Doing a good deed makes us feel warm and fuzzy on the inside. But, there are more impactful, large-scale reasons why many data centers are transforming to become the do-gooders of the world. More specifically, right along with capacity planning, complying with industry regulations and power monitoring, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is now among organizations’ top data center initiatives.
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