Instor’s IT Infrastructure Blog, provides frequent IT, Network and Data Center industry tips & tricks, as well as news from the industry’s IT leaders. We understand that IT goals are a moving target and want to bring you the latest information to help make your work life easier.
A Clean Sweep: Data Center Cleaning Made Easy
Keep it Clean, Folks Do you get excited when you think about data center cleaning? You do? OK, sit down there, class clown. We’ve heard enough cracks from you. Truth is, keeping your data [...]
May 17 Data Center News
Data Center News for Friday, May 17, 2019. This week in data center news, the UK's data industry shrugs off Brexit worries, an uptick in server purchases, new age edge solutions and a new 75MW [...]
May 10 Data Center News
This week in data center news, we look at the soaring hyperscale market, the lights-out concept and more data center news. The Power of Edge Computing The High Performance Computing Industry is driving [...]
Expert Data Center Fitups
From White Space to Done in No Time A data center fitup includes custom cooling, power, containment and IT infrastructure for data centers of all shapes and sizes. In today’s ever-changing data center landscape, [...]
May 3 Data Center News
And now for this week's data center news roundup for Friday, May 3, 2019... Departure of the JEDI Four years ago, Chris Lynch took over the Pentagon’s highly-touted JEDI cloud project, which had the aim [...]
Accessing Data Centers with Smartphone Technology; Microsoft Makes a Move in Phoenix
Data Center News Roundup for Friday, April 26, 2019 This week, we take a look at Microsoft’s big play in the Phoenix market; the ability to access data centers with biometrics; lessons from a phishing [...]
Data Centers Still Alive and Kicking; Other News
This week, it was reported that Google will build a $600 million wind-powered data center in Minnesota; a new report shows that data centers are far from dead despite a strong challenge from [...]
Cabinets Withstand Massive Alaskan Earthquake Thanks to ISO-Base
When a massive 7.0 Alaskan earthquake struck Anchorage, Alaska in late 2018, ISO-Base technology saved the day for one data center. Here’s their story. Early in the morning of Nov. 30, 2018, a [...]
Report: Working in a Data Center Hard, but Fulfilling; More News
Data Center News Roundup for Friday, April 19, 2019 This week, we take a look at a new report that shows most data center workers are happy despite the challenges and heavy work loads; Gartner [...]
New Tool May Slash Power Costs by 90 Percent
This week, we take a look at promising new technology reducing power costs to cool data centers; the rise of India as a data center hub, capacity expansions in England and more news [...]
Chicago Data Capacity Ranks Third in the Nation; More News
Photo by Alex Powell from Pexels This week, we take a look at a pair of stories from the Windy City, including one that indicates Chicago data capacity is third in the nation and another [...]
Google Gobbles Everything in Sight; Amazon Scraps NYC HQ, More
Imagine Google, but bigger. Well, that’s exactly what Google is going for as it continues to dominate the hyperscale market. This week, we take a look at Google’s massive nationwide expansion; Amazon’s scrapped [...]
5G: Ready or Not, Here it Comes
Many are touting 2019 as the year of 5G – the hype has been building and some of the technologies were on display during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019 last month. Here’s a [...]
Major Wells Fargo Outage Thursday; More Data Center News
Due to a Wells Fargo outage, for the second time in a week Wells Fargo customers were denied access to their online and mobile banking, thanks to dust activating the fire suppression system [...]