How addressing data latency could heat and cool our homes and businesses
Heat is a resource that can be recaptured and reused several times over and help to significantly improve energy productivity
Industry Views - Sustainability
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Keeping your data center operations green as the snow begins to fall
Implementing sustainable efficiency practices that use the right tools can significantly reduce operating costs for every type of operation
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Have we reached the sustainability ‘tipping point’ for data centers?
More businesses than ever care about clean data, but still have much to learn
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Resilience in the face of Global Warming
With irreversible change in prospect, how can you plan for resilience?
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Refrigerants – nothing is constant but change
How reforms in the refrigeration sector will affect the data center industry
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Uptime’s outage data: Logical spaghetti, simple message
Equipment, expertise, and management are so much more advanced than they were five or 10 years ago. How could failures possibly be more common?
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When it comes to controls, should we keep AI on a leash?
AI is often presented as a universal panacea that can somehow resolve everything
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Clean air takes fresh thinking
Regulations and changing locations means extra care has to be taken when it comes to the air around you
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Improving control rooms with IP-based KVM
Increase productivity by taking ergonomics seriously
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Building data centers with a conscience
We can do good, and we should do better
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Why clean data is as important as clean energy
Accurate, reliable data is central to a serious sustainability initiative
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Getting the green from the grey
With UPS-as-a-Reserve, data centers can be compensated either for not drawing power, or for offering capacity back to the grid
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Four approaches to building a data center
Each of the approaches to data center construction has its pros and cons
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PUE be gone!
DCValley strongly focuses on the Energy Re-use Factor (ERF)
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Why environmentally responsible cloud matters
As businesses, we affect the environment in ways often not clearly visible
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Going beyond energy savings in data centers with LEDs
Light up your data center, efficiently
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There is such a thing as life after death
Old buildings have found new uses as data centers, perhaps old data centers will live again too
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AI: the new frontier for optimization
Increasing data center efficiency is a complex task. Humans could use a little help
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Check your provider’s data center rating
The Data Center Performance Index from Infrastructure Masons could help customers choose a facility
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I’m probably too old for this
There’s nothing for you beyond the firewall
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Time to replace fossils with renewables
As a new surge of building begins, it’s more important than ever that data centers move to renewable energy sources
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A look at the Indian data center market in 2017
A bigger focus on cloud, mobility and analytics has made many organizations rethink their data center strategies
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Reflections from DCD Shanghai 2017
There are huge opportunities for overseas operators interested in attracting and doing business with the rapidly expanding companies from China
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Data centers lead the way in energy
Data centers are making things better for the rest of us