Adds, moves and changes in the data center require re-patching. Network documentation is essential to enable a comprehensive overview and offers starting points if failures or problems occur, or special upgrades have to be imported. Equally important: the documentation also helps to identify possible risks in the event of planned changes or extensions to the network infrastructure. Misplaced patches can lead to interruptions in active data transmission and thus to data loss, which can be cost-intensive for the company.
Webinar: Curbing the Cost of Data Center Cooling
Not only are cooling costs for data centers already red hot and rising with energy prices, they are impacted by continual changes in IT equipment and racks. According to ENERGY STAR, the energy required for a data center’s cooling is 10 times greater than that required for other buildings regardless of climate region. This webinar will provide tips on reducing cooling costs in both free-standing data centers and in-building centers.
Data Center Outages Cost Nearly $9,000 Per Minute
Yikes! A study from Emerson Network Power, 2016 Cost of Data Center Outages, estimates that every minute of an unplanned outage in the data center costs $8,851 in 2013, up from $5,617 in 2010. Maximum downtime costs are rising faster than average, increasing 81% since 2010 to a current high of $2,409,991. UPS system failure, including UPS and batteries, is the #1 cause of unplanned data center outages, accounting for one-quarter of all such events. Cybercrime represents the fastest growing cause of data center outages, rising from 2% of outages in 2010 to 18% in 2013 to 22% for those sampled in the latest cost of downtime study.
Robots in the Data Center
According to a recent study, each minute of data center downtime costs approximately $9,000. Network operators searching for ways to improve uptime, are turning to robots to automatically update the physical layer. Robotic fiber switching adds hands-free automation via software to the physical network connection activity. Each passive fiber connection is securely latched, low latency, and agnostic to data rates or protocols.
Belden industrial EVP promoted to COO
Belden has promoted Roel Vestjens, the company’s Executive Vice President, Industrial Solutions, to the role Chief Operating Officer effective immediately. In this new role to Belden, Vestjens will continue to report to Belden’s President, CEO, and Chairman John Stroup.
Industrial Edge Represents a “New Frontier” Says Microsoft CTO
Microsoft’s CTO is bullish on the impact of the industrial edge and its ability to transform industries by ramping up productivity and efficiencies. Edge computing has the potential to transform industries ranging from agriculture to industrial manufacturing and healthcare with its ability to offer real-time data analysis and insight from billions of devices in the field. Schneider Electric research shows only about 15% of companies have deployed Internet of Things technology to support industrial applications – which are a prime driver behind edge computing.
Why smart cities need smart buildings
ABI Research reports that connecting smart home and smart cities projects could benefit both. Top-down coordinated smart city projects have only been partly successful, achieving deployment of smart street lights and opening doors to things like car and bike-sharing schemes. But when it comes to broader integrated projects, such as transforming a city’s healthcare offering or upgrading its power distribution infrastructure, complexity and cost quickly become barriers.
Make or Break: How Cabling is Key to the Future of the Data Center
Industry 4.0, machine-to-machine learning and software-as-a-service are other examples of new technologies that data center operators are having to react to and increase storage for, as global cloud data center traffic grows at an unprecedented rate. Although 400G is currently a very small market, adoption of this technology will grow over the coming years. To ensure data centers are ultra-fast, high-performing, and able to adapt quickly, 400G is key for the future. Hyperscale cloud data centers will be the drivers of the development of 400G, with this momentum expected to increase throughout 2020 and beyond.
With Fiber Certification… Are You Working Smart?
Higher fiber-count cables are being laid, leading to a challenge for installers and contractors: how to manage, track and report on the test and certification of the individual fibers and the cable as a whole. The questions are many: how far along are you in testing all the fibers? Did you already test this or that fiber? Did it pass or fail? Where is the test result so you can check? And how do you consolidate a bunch of individual test results into one certification report? Without a clear and simple view of where you are with your project (and a little bit of automation), you can waste a lot of time figuring these things out, potentially duplicating tests (accidentally testing the same fiber twice) or worse, missing a fiber and having to return to site (at your own cost if you’re a contractor) to fill in the missing data.
The Emergence of uLAN in the Connected Enterprise
The uLAN is an emerging network made up of non-traditional Ethernet-enabled utility devices that are now connecting to the network. While the traditional Core LAN – comprised of the PC, VoIP phone and WiFi – is not expected to undergo significant change through 2022, the emerging uLAN is expected to grow significantly over that time. The uLAN and the network infrastructure supporting it will be largely responsible for connecting and powering the billions of new devices needed to make buildings smart.
