One problem that anyone who runs a server room or a datacenter has come across is how do I keep it cool. Servers put off a ton of heat, now with the popularity of 1U servers and Blade Servers the heat problem has only gotten worse.
The best way to keep a datacenter cool is to […]
Ok so this is a sweet test. HP setup two datacenters, a primary and a backup datacenter, then they blew up the primary datacenter to see failover times. I would have liked to be involved in that, to be able to blowup a bunch of server racks and see it failover in real time. SWEET!
Here […]
Well we had a jam-packed day full of datacenter tours yesterday. We drove all over Minneapolis and St. Paul to look at 6 different datacenters. 10 Hours of touring and talking about places to co-locate some of our equipment.
All of the datacenters we visited were quite different, both in the facilities and the people of […]
I guess there is a new concept being shown at cebit for protecting your datacenter from fire. You reduce the amount of oxygen that is in the air in your datacenter. Air typically has about 21% oxygen in the air and you can keep most fires from starting by reducing the oxygen levels to around […]
I read an article today in the St. Cloud Time that was about the benefits of running you tech company out of St. Cloud Minnesota and almost fell off my chair laughing.
The only way to benefit from putting your datacenter in downtown St. Cloud is if you are hosting it somewhere else in Central Minnesota. […]
We have started to look for a new server co-location center in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. There are quite of few of them to take a look at. We are probably going to start taking tours soon so if anyone has recommendations on co-location spaces in the Twin Cities area please comment here.
We are looking […]
Here is a PDF download for a brochure on some of APC Cooling solutions. There are some really impressive solutions, easy to understand brochure. The company that I work for is looking at getting their chilled water cooling solution in our datacenter in the future.
Don’t forget to check out my Datacenter Cooling page here.
I was able to get those white papers on cooling your datacenter up and running last night. I plan on adding more info to this page but for now there is some really good info in these white papers. Download them here.
I have started researching cooling today datacenters today. I figured since this weekend is the hottest weekend since 1988 here and we have been having cooling issues in our datacenter it would be a good topic to look into. I have been downloading and reading white papers written by APC. Here is a link to […]
Yesterday I spent most of the day working on racking equipment in my company’s new server room. 5 racks came in and we racked 5 5000VA APC UPSes. These weighed about 250 pounds a piece and because of need to more a lot of stuff around we had to rack them and pull them out […]
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