Chad Peters, Director of Infrastructure Solutions for Service Express, revisits the Bathtub Curve theory and explains how to track equipment reliability and performance for data-driven buying decisions.
How Microgrids Can Modernize The Grid
The reliability of the U.S. electric grid has taken center stage as increasingly powerful storms and more frequent natural disasters have revealed grid vulnerabilities. Learn why microgrids are the new highly resilient, carbon-neutral backup generation solution for today’s technology ecosystems.
The Makings of a Modern Microgrid
Learn how a microgrid offers more than just backup power generation, including the capabilities that can allow microgrids to help modernize energy sources and how they are managed. This continues our special report series via Enchanted Rock.
The State of the Grid: Time for a Refresh
Our electrical infrastructure is aging, and is being pushed to do more than it was initially designed to do. Learn why it’s time for the electric grid to be refreshed in this special report series with Enchanted Rock.
The State of the Grid: Understanding the Power Paradigm Shift
The electric grid is more than just generation and transmission infrastructure. Learn why data center leaders must understand the power paradigm shift in this special report series courtesy of Enchanted Rock.
Reliability-as-a-Service Makes Microgrids Affordable
More and more businesses are showing interest in microgrids and the enhanced electric reliability and power quality they provide. Enchanted Rock explores how the concept of reliability-as-a-service can make microgrids affordable for data centers.
How to Approach Your Data Center Provider About Social & Environmental Responsibility
Ultimately, making good choices surrounding energy sourcing can help save money, reduce risks, and contribute to solutions to today’s environmental and social responsibility challenges. A new white paper from Iron Mountain explores further how to turn a potential sustainability liability into an opportunity for your organization, and what questions to make sure to ask your data center provider.
The Bathtub Curve and Data Center Equipment Reliability
Jake Blough, Chief Technology Officer for Service Express, explores the connection between the Bathtub Curve theory and data center equipment reliability and maintenance.
Is A Data Center Disaster Inevitable? Lessons from the Nuclear Industry
Failures at nuclear energy plants offer valuable lessons for the data center industry, and could help reduce the risk of similar headline-making disasters, according to reliability expert Steve Fairfax, who spoke at the 7×24 Exchange Fall Conference.
The Cloud’s Worst Week: Will Outages Slow Enterprise Momentum?
Last week’s cluster of outages for major Internet brands raises fresh questions about the reliability of online service delivery, especially for the enterprise customers that represent future growth for colo & cloud providers.
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