6 Keys to Saving Energy in Your Data Center
As companies look for ways to reduce expenses, energy savings is a rather obvious target. That’s especially true when it comes to data centers, which can consume 100 times more energy than the offices...
View ArticleThe Role of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) in Proper Data Center Design
Long gone are the days when companies would design their data center by scratching out a diagram with pen and paper. Today, most firms use tools such as the Microsoft Visio diagramming software or a...
View Article4 More Tips for an Effective, Efficient Data Center
For last week’s blog post on data center design, we talked with Jonathan Caserta, Physical Infrastructure Solutions Architect with Carousel Industries. If you’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with...
View ArticleCFD Modeling Podcast: Get a Handle on Your Data Center Airflow
Listen to the Computational Fluid Dynamics Podcast Jamie Davis as been working in and around data centers for some 25 years, so when he gets excited about any given data center technology, you can bet...
View Article3 Keys to Deploying Effective Containment Systems in Your Data Center
As the price of energy and the energy density of data centers continue to rise, energy efficiency in data centers is becoming an ever hotter topic (no pun intended). Containment systems, or keeping...
View Article3 Potential Pitfalls to Avoid in Virtual Desktop (VDI) Deployments
We’ve written previously about the various benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology, including simplified management, improved security and increased mobility. But successfully...
View ArticleSoftware Defined Networking (SDN) – An Extreme Overview
Software defined networking is generating lots of buzz these days as the next step in virtualization. Essentially, it’s a way to “virtualize” network infrastructure, in much the same way that most...
View ArticleHow Dirty Are Data Centers?
For those of you that may not have seen it, last week the New York Times ran a very well researched, scathing article about wasteful energy usage by major data centers and Cloud service providers. The...
View ArticleGartner Predicts Increased Concern about Carbon Footprint and Green IT
Throughout the seemingly endless presidential campaign we just witnessed in the U.S., the issue of climate change hardly came up at all. It’s just not an issue that’s front and center these days, at...
View ArticleCarousel Cuts Energy Use In Half With In-Row Cooling and Hot Aisle Containment
Along with helping our customers with all things IT, here at Carousel Industries we are focused on staying on the cutting edge and creating best practices within our own physical infrastructure and...
View ArticleData Center Assessments and Upgrades: Don’t Get Caught in a Digital Black Hole
In a post not long ago, we cited some Gartner figures on IT spending and expectations regarding growth in storage. Here’s the line that really stuck out at us: In 2017 alone, more external-based...
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