Join us to help break in our new offices!
Plenty of food and drink will be served.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
3:00 pm to 6:00 pm
Compu Dynamics, LLC
22446 Davis Drive, Suite 187
Sterling, VA 20164
We hope to see you there!
The Potomac Chapter of AFCOM, an international association of data center management professionals, recently held its first Washington DC area meeting of 2012.
Attendees were treated to two very interesting presentations. Read More
Preventing a problem is always better — and cheaper — than fixing one. That’s especially true with electrical systems, where seemingly small issues (like a loose connection) can lead to big failures over time.
Unlike with an HVAC system, for example, which makes noise or stops cooling, your electrical system won’t give you much if any warning of a looming breakdown. Without a ‘squeaky wheel’ that’s demanding some grease, preventive maintenance is easy to delay or even overlook. Read More
Designing power and cooling systems for your data center can be like trying to hit a moving target. As soon as a design point is established and the installation is complete, new unanticipated IT requirements absorb growth capacity far faster than expected, long before the end of the system’s useful life.
IT managers used to respond to this problem by over-sizing equipment to allow for lots of growth potential. This led to inefficiencies and sometimes wasted investment.
The best solution? Integrate modularity and scalability into your system design. Read More
You’ve decided to move your data center assets to a colocation site. And you’ve decided on a specific facility. Before you actually implement the move, however, here are five questions to answer first — based on our own real-life experience with our clients.
1. Will you use your colo move as an opportunity to refresh technology, network architecture, server architecture? This could increase the cost of your relocation project, but you might be able to eliminate redundant hardware and underutilized systems. Read More
