After nearly a decade of public cloud adoption, many organizations have realized they need more flexibility when it comes to where they run applications and workloads. Increasingly, they are moving to highly distributed, multi-cloud architectures that span multiple public clouds, an on-premises data center and an MTDC facility. Multiple factors drove the pivot to multi-cloud,…
Two years in two months. For anyone working in the digital space, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s declaration in late April that the company has seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months can’t really be a surprise. Data center traffic had been growing exponentially, and COVID-19 has given it another shot of adrenaline.…
At Panduit, we take pride in finding new solutions to old problems (and new ones, too!). And, when we work with the best customers around to help them find solutions to their problems, that’s even better. Last week, Cabling Installation & Maintenance presented their annual Cabling Innovators Awards. And, for the second year, several Panduit…
How do you build out a new data center physical infrastructure? Under the best of circumstances, building out new data center capacity is complex, expensive, time consuming and fraught with risk. Experts, engineers and consultants are needed for everything from designing the building shell, planning power and cooling systems, to commissioning. These are just the…
When it comes to running an efficient operation, small data centers have many of the same concerns and challenges as their larger counterparts. One of the greatest challenges that managers of small data centers have is that they typically have limited resources in terms of technology, staffing, and financial support. This can leave a small…
This year’s Cisco Live , being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, promises to be another exciting event. As a Platinum Sponsor, Panduit will be exhibiting in booth #1521 and will be featuring our Intelligent Data Center Solutions, Enterprise Solutions and Industrial Automation Solutions. We are particularly excited about Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure…
DCIM and cooling solutions help Data Centers save up to 50% of cooling energy costs while providing comprehensive capacity management, that being said, Panduit has recently acquired SynapSense Corporation located in Folsom, CA specializing in thermal risk management and cooling energy savings for large enterprise, colocation, and cloud computing service providers. The SynapSense data center…
Statistics, multiple analysts, and research reports indicate that data centers are often overprovisioned with power and cooling capacity to maintain service levels regardless of actual IT equipment utilization. As you are well aware, this approach has proven to be expensive and inefficient. As data center energy consumption grows it is drawing the attention of CFO’s…
New research information from Data Center Dynamics indicates that global data center energy consumption in 2013 has slowed down to 7% growth as compared to 19% between 2011 and 2012. This reduction is attributed to energy efficiency measures, consolidation projects and outsourcing, primarily in mature markets. So, does this mean data center managers and operators…