Underestimating the Strategic Value of IT

Submitted by Josh Irwin on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 22:05

Discount the Value of IT at Your Own Peril!

Future Business IT PlanningOrganizations whose senior management does not appreciate the strategic value of IT will stagnate and fail. It can not be overstated: We are living in an information age, and all aspects of business are driven by information. The firm with the most information, the best interpretation of that information, and who gets it the fastest will have an enormous advantage of its rivals.

Toshiba to introduce the New 4300 and 4400 UPS

Submitted by Mike Fox on Mon, 04/16/2012 - 15:20

Toshiba has a new medium-sized UPS in the works: the new 4300 uninterruptible power supply.

The 4300 UPS comes in two sizes: 30kVA and 50kVA, and utilizes some of the latest IGBT technology. The Toshiba 4300 UPS brings true online double conversion technology with 97% efficient online ratings to the medium kVA range of the UPS industry.

Also in the works is the Toshiba 4400 UPS, which will be a replacement for the 4200 series. The 4400 UPS series will bring the latest IGBT technology into a broader range of UPS kVA sizes.

Mitsubishi Rumored to be Working on Super Capacitor

Submitted by Mike Fox on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 17:44

Mitsubishi is rumored to have been working on a "super capcitor" energy storage device which, among many applications, could be used for power storage in Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems.

Capacitor

Digital Scroll Compressors

Submitted by Mike Fox on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 17:25

Are digital scroll compressors right for your facility's cooling?

Few developments in data center cooling have as much impact on system performance and cooling system efficiency as digital scroll compressors. EC Fans may be the only other major change to CRAC units in the past decade, possibly the past two decades.

Stulz to partner with Eaton, Blackbox, in CyberROW project

Submitted by Mike Fox on Tue, 04/10/2012 - 00:10

Stulz is rumored to be in talks with Eaton-Wrightline, BlackBox and Chatsworth in seperate deals to provide Stulz's new CyberROW in row cooling units to those brands.

BlackBox should have their own private labeled In Row Cooling Unit, made by Stulz, available sometime this year.

 

Economies of Scalability in IT

Submitted by Josh Irwin on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 12:28

The past decade has brought new developments in the data center and IT industries. The demands placed on the Information Technology department are greater than ever, budgets are less than ideal, and internal and external stakeholders are demanding greater performance and higher efficiencies.

Major Hack: Mastercard Data Theft

Submitted by Josh Irwin on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 13:43

Law enforcement officials are investigating what appears to be a massive theft of U.S. consumers' credit card data, MasterCard confirmed Friday. The computer security expert who first reported the theft said it might involve 10 million MasterCard and Visa accounts, making it one of the largest credit card heists in recent memory.

Network Infrastructure

Submitted by Josh Irwin on Fri, 03/30/2012 - 13:11

The Importance of A Well Designed Network Infrastructure

Data Center Design

Submitted by DataCenterFix on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 10:23

How to Design a Data Center

If data center design were easy, a lot of us would be out of a job!

Despite an increase in modular data centers in the past several years, which hold the promise of inexpensive and easily-deployable modular facilities, the majority of data centers are still designed and built the old fashioned way:

Molten Energy Storage Could be Boon for Data Center Industry

Submitted by Mike Fox on Mon, 03/19/2012 - 10:28

The Gemasolar plant in Spain stores solar energy in an underground vat of molten salts.

Solar Power for Data CentersWe just wrote an editorial piece about a week ago talking about the potential downside of solar energy in data centers. While others talk about the cost/benefit ratio of solar energy not being there (which we feel is old news), we focused on a "hard to quantify" potential economic outcome of large data center companies using alternative energy and what it could mean for the market as a whole.

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