Notes from the Consultant's Jungle

In a recent interview with CIO Insight, Kenneth Brill of the Uptime Institute posits that the growth of demand for data processing is likely to cause enterprises to repeat data center construction projects every four to eight years. What?! Do it again?

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In 2006, Amercan data centers consumed more power than American televisions. Collectively, data centers consumed more power than all the TVs in every home and sports bar in America. That really puts a new perspective on it, doesn’t it? For the past few years, the “P-word” has loomed large in the dialogue around data centers. [...]

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Momentum is a powerful force, and momentum coupled with synergies cannot be denied. Today IBM is announcing their entry into the Container Data Center space. Starting with their newly released iDataPlex high density server product, and riding the wake of Microsoft’s widely publicized embracing of Data Center Containers, the recipe was there for a product [...]

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You may be familiar with the “Dollars per KW plus Dollars per Square Foot of Computer Floor” white paper from the Uptime Institute for data center construction cost estimation. Following the update to their widely referenced Tier classifications paper, this benchmark for thumbnail cost estimation has been updated as well. If you’d like to look [...]

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The Uptime Institute recently released an update to its white paper defining the Tier levels for data centers. If you’re interested in looking at it, it can be found here. This update from the Institute is a welcomed release indeed. In our recent experience with Clients planning, renovating, and building data centers, the earlier release [...]

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