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.
Into power saving? Start here.
As energy efficiency becomes a front-and-center issue for data center operators everywhere, the fact remains that our industry is responsible for as much as two percent of total U.S. electricity use, which is clearly [...]
Need a Helping Hand? Try Staff Augmentation.
Everyone, from time to time, needs a helping hand. Think of the greatest partnerships from history. Sure, everyone remembers Steve Jobs, but he would have gone nowhere without the dutiful assistance of Apple co-founder Steve [...]
Monitor, Manage, Repeat.
Think fast: what do you think the competition is doing right now? Do you think they’re spending countless man-hours and capital to manually watch over their data centers? Unlikely. Gone are the days of guesswork [...]
Data Center Earthquake Protection at LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of three federally funded research and development centers operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. It is located in Livermore, California. Livermore is about 40 miles east [...]
Three Easy Solutions for Cable Management
Cables. There are so many of them in a data center that if you stretched them out, end to end, well, you’d have a lot of cables to clean up. (Seriously, don’t do that. You’ll [...]
Easy Data Center Decommissions
The end of the road. It’s something that happens to all data centers, whether it’s your own facility or a colocation space you’re sharing. The keys to a successful data center decommissioning come down [...]
The Real Cost of Unplanned Downtime in 2019
Unplanned downtime. The phrase alone is enough to send shivers down the spine of the most experienced data center operator. You also don’t have to look far to see high profile examples of companies [...]
Is Your Data Center Equipped for an Earthquake?
Today, at 10:33 AM at Magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck in California, 11 miles from Ridgecrest, CA - Outside of Los Angeles. And just like today, in a massive 7.0 Alaskan earthquake struck Anchorage, [...]
Finding Your Next Project Manager
Data Center Project Management 101 It takes a special personality type to be a successful project manager. Maybe you’ve known a few in your time. Maybe you are one. These spreadsheet-loving, Gantt chart-building masters of [...]
Scalable Cooling Solutions
Data Center Cooling Options If you could design the perfect data center, what would be at the top of your list? A Hawaiian location? An endless budget? Perfect employees who never make mistakes? OK, we [...]
New Tax Incentives Set to Drive Data Center Growth in Chicago
Already Third in Nation for Capacity, Chicago Poised to Grow Despite being third in the nation for data center capacity, Chicago has always had something of a problem realizing its full potential as a data [...]
It’s Never Too Late for an IT Closet Refresh
Think for a second. What’s the most outdated element in your data center? The servers? The CRAC unit? That senior IT guy who has worked for you for what seems like forever? Wait, don’t answer [...]
Three Easy Steps to Containment
Data Center Containment Think back to the last power bill you got for your home. One of two things happened as you opened the envelope: you were either happy with the bill or you frowned [...]
Custom Data Center Cabinets and Racks
Data Center Cabinets and Racks If you tried to count the number of things that can go wrong in a data center at any given time, you’d be counting for a long time. Downtime, [...]