| Data center standards and metrics |
Implementing standards and metrics can help ensure that a data center is run smoothly. By clearly defining metrics a business can increase its productivity; however, if metrics are unorganized or poorly defined a company can begin to slide down the slippery slope toward chaos. Employees can become frustrated because their tasks and goals are not clearly defined for them, which will hurt their job satisfaction and affect how a data center is run. Because the data center is the hub for the entire business, making sure that a data center has clearly defined metrics must be a priority for every manager. In order to help with that task, SearchDataCenter.com has put together this Fast Guide to set you on the right path.
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Syska
Hennessy proposes new data center performance metricSyska Hennessy has proposed a new data center performance metric that it says is more detailed than the Uptime Institute Inc.'s tier system.
Uptime
Institute warns against tier standard misuse
Data center executives and Uptime Institute Inc. directors say the IT community is misappropriating
Uptime's tier classification system for data center performance.
Making
sense of metrics
One of the most common questions people ask about performance dashboards is "How do we define
effective metrics?" The answer is important because the metrics govern how employees do their
jobs.
Data
center standards
With a slew of standards updates and regulation changes all your free time could be spent pouring
over documentation. In an attempt to shorten the curve and provide information on impact, we offer
you this quick primer.
TIA-942:
Cookie cutter or cost cutter?
The TIA-942 standard, entitled Telecommunications Infrastructure Standard for Data Centers, weighs
in at 148 pages, and covers everything from site selection to rack mounting methods.
Using ASHRAE
specs for data center metrics
What are temperature and humidity values that will be acceptable in a multi-vendor installation and
where are they measured?
ASHRAE
considerations for data centers
The issue of sound in data centers is usually overlooked. Read why sound emmision is important in
the data center and why you may need to take it more seriously.
Data
center goes green for energy savings
IT doesn't do "green." Hardware refresh cycles are constantly shrinking, sending tons of server
flotsam into the waste stream. Equipment is packed so densely that companies are requiring hundreds
of watts per square foot in their facilities.
This was first published in August 2006