DCJ Expert Blogs
Strategies for Data Center Consolidation – Part 1 of 3: Design-Level
With companies relying on IT more heavily than ever, data center capacity requirements are steadily rising. Unfortunately, so are the costs associated with data center construction and operation. As a result, organizations are increasingly searching for ways to reduce ... Read More »
Researchers and marketers dont agree on future of nand flash SSD
Marketers particular those involved with anything resembling Solid State Devices (SSD) will tell you SSD is the future as will some researchers along with their fans and pundits. Some will tell you that the future only has room for SSD ... Read More »
A Head-to-Head Comparison of the Mega Data Center
Earlier this month, Tulip Data City announced that it had partnered with IBM to create a mega data center facility in Bangalore India. At 900,000 square feet the facility ranks third in the world for size and was designed to ... Read More »
The Two-Year Renewable Energy Gap – How Google and Facebook are Making Up Lost Ground
Google got much attention in recent weeks for its efforts to be one of the first among U.S. data centers operated by major Internet service companies to be certified to meet specific environmental and occupational safety standards. The company’s senior ... Read More »
The Power of Power Savings in the Data Center
Reducing data center power consumption seems to be the common theme throughout 2012 predictions by press, analysts and bloggers on those trends and advancements that will have the greatest impact on the data center, and budgets, in the year head. ... Read More »
Why Businesses Need Data Center Services?
It has been reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that the majority of SMEs never recover from catastrophic data loss. In a recent research International Data Center reported that 58 percent of the companies are doing just a ... Read More »
2012 industry trends perspectives and commentary (predictions)
2011 is over, so its wrap up time of the year as well as getting ready for 2012. Here is a link to a post of the top 25 new posts that appeared on StorageIOblog in 2011. As a companion ... Read More »
Location, Location, Location: New Report Shows UK-Based Data Centers Beginning to Move Out to the Commuter Belt
The industry is finally starting to take notice of what we at NGD Europe have been saying for years – why continue to adhere to the “server hugger” mentality of yesteryear when cheaper, safer, better performing facilities are available within ... Read More »
Greenpeace Declares a Truce with Facebook
After two years of pressure from Greenpeace to make its data centers cleaner and more energy efficient, Facebook has finally relented and agreed to build its new facility in Lulea, Sweden with renewable energy top of mind. In an announcement ... Read More »
Switch to Data Center Services for Peace of Mind
Economists love to predict about industries which are expected to grow over the next several years. Frequently we tend to hear a lot about “sunrise sectors” and the future of growth. While their estimates are sometimes accurate, it would be ... Read More »
