Rahi Systems Expands Its Global Presence

Rahi Systems announced today the expansion of its global footprint to include new offices in Germany, the U.K. and Turkey, along with expansion of its local integration facilities in Ireland and China. Rahi has added experienced professionals to head up its new locations: Kay Kellerhof, Director of Sales for DACH Region; Chris Austin, Director of Sales for U.K.; and Timucin Yildrim, Director of Sales for Turkey.

The Germany and U.K. locations join Rahi’s existing European offices in Ireland and the Netherlands. The location in Turkey launches Rahi’s operations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

“These locations were strategically identified to better assist our global customers, and to ensure prompt, secure and cost-effective service delivery,” said Tarun Raisoni, CEO and Co-Founder, Rahi Systems. “We are excited to welcome Kay, Chris and Timucin, all of whom have extensive expertise in the data center infrastructure solutions that form the core of our offerings.”

Rahi’s existing presence in Asia includes office locations in Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore. With the rapid growth of Internet users in China, Rahi recently identified a need for an integration facility there, and continues to expand that location.

“Rahi Systems offered us the ability to adopt new technology along with services for efficient product delivery within multiple locations in China,” said Tianzen Zhang, Senior Product Manager, Unibrains China. “Customers in China can benefit by adopting new technologies to reduce operational cost with higher reliability and performance products.”

Rahi Systems has built a network of local integration facilities and in-house logistics and import clearing facilities that spans five continents. Global operations and logistics expertise enables Rahi to deliver multi vendor IT solutions across geopolitical boundaries, helping customers operate efficiently and successfully. Through its physical presence and network of strategic partners, Rahi Systems reduces the cost, complexity and risk of global data center deployments, and enables customers to purchase technology solutions locally from a single provider.

About Rahi Systems

Rahi Systems delivers a suite of solutions and services that optimize the cost, performance, scalability, manageability and efficiency of today’s data center. Founded in 2012 by entrepreneurs with deep understanding of the needs and challenges of service providers, government agencies and enterprises, the company has grown through a solutions-oriented approach, outstanding support and a culture of customer success.
Rahi has its corporate headquarters in Fremont, Calif., with offices in India, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia.

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Data Center Hot and Cold Aisle Containment

Cooling for your Data Center or Engineering Lab can be challenging based on your daily usage, the amount of equipment you plan to cool and lastly the power you have available to utilize cooling. Majority of the cooling solutions used in the past were floor level or building level cooling units.
Rahi Systems specialized in IT Level cooling products that can improve and enforce your cooling activity at a much more modular level.

Cold or Hot Aisle Containment

Cooling is always expensive in a data center because it is an ancillary cost to your compute infrastructure. The best way to make it more effective is to implement a cold or hot aisle containment of your IT environment depending on your building. Aisle containment restricts flow of the cold air directly to you IT environment, thus improving the overall efficiency of your Data Center.

Rahi Systems implements containment using rigid aluminum, metal and fiber reinforced plastic based products. Our containment includes Doors, Roofs and FRP Panels to implement containment across your aisles.

Modular In-Row Cooling

Modular In-Row Cooling is multi-option, precision data center cooling solution providing temperature and humidity control. It integrates within a row of data center racks, providing cooling close to the server heat source, for efficient and effective data center heat management.

In row cooling is available today either in a Building Sourced Chilled Water type or Refrigerant based solutions. Either of these solutions are effective and it is typically dependent based on the environment you are running the products in.

Adiabatic Cooling

Data Center Cooling Infrastructure is a significant OPEX for the majority of Data Center Providers today. Various technologies are deployed from expensive refrigerant systems, chilled water systems to massive cooling towers.
Air@Work Adiabatic Cooling technology aims to provide Data Center Operators with significant cost reduction in both OPEX and Maintenance of Cooling Infrastructure.
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Rack Level Containment

Rahi Systems offers a wide variety of Rack Level Containment or Blanking Panel solutions. This is the lowest hanging fruit in your cooling where you can immediately attain inefficiencies without investing too much in the setup.

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It Was An Exciting Week At Cisco Live!

Cisco Live 2016 was full of excitement.  The conference showcased innovated products and solutions in hardware, software and services.  It was a great turnout and gave Rahi Systems the opportunity to network with friends and colleagues as well as connect with some new faces.

Rahi was proud to showcase some of our newest solutions including our pre-engineered, ready-to-deploy FlexIT series, and NodeGrid Out-of-Band management system by ZPE.  Featured products included The FlexIT Office in a Box (OIB) Rack, our new FlexIT Series R Server, and NodeGrid Service Processor™.

The FlexIT Office in a Box (OIB) Rack provides data center features in a solution designed for an IT closet or any other location where IT infrastructure is needed and space is tight. It includes built-in cooling, backup power, smart power distribution, network services, and physical and IT security. With tempered glass doors and sound-dampening side, roof and floor panels, this all-in-one cabinet can be installed just about anywhere.

The FlexIT Series R Server features a unique sliding system tray that makes it easy to remove the system board without disconnecting storage devices, power supplies or any internal system cables, solving an operational problem experienced by many users.

The Series R Server is based upon an interchangeable system board that is designed for forward compatibility. This modular system board solution also includes a 16-gigabit channel bus, multiple networking and storage options, and the ability to support dual power supply configuration in a 1U form factor.

ZPE Systems NodeGrid Service Processor™ is the ultimate IPMI, BMC and IoT Management solution providing secure, hyperscale remote access to management ports of network capable IT devices, regardless of vendor.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to chat with us and see our product offerings.  We enjoyed catching up with you and look forward to seeing everyone next year!

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Is your Data Center Ready for the 2016 Olympic Games?

Rahi Systems offers Ready To Deploy Data Center Infrastructure Products in Brazil: Rack Power Distribution, Out Of Band Management, Top of Rack Networking and Connectivity

This summer the largest sporting event in the world will take place for the first time in South America.  The city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, will host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad.  During the four weeks of competition Brazil will host over 50,000 athletes and over 2 million visitors!  Not to mention the virtual presence of the entire world…

With the increase in data usage, data center operators should be asking themselves “Is my data center ready for this, and how quickly can I scale up?”

At Rahi Systems, we work with several large global web services customers. A key requirement for our customers is the ability to deliver web service in every single part of the world, which requires the ability to deploy and setup data centers in every GEO Location around the world.

One of Rahi’s core competencies is understanding the challenges associated with transporting products within a county.  With our large geographic presence, and our forefront in Brazil, we can ensure the appropriate compliances and processes are followed to deliver products and solutions to our customers.

Time-to-market is key, to decrease lead times Rahi offers a wide variety of stocked products at our Brazil Facility.  We also offer on-site field services and engineering.

Stocked products include, but are not limited to:

• Servers and Storage
• Power Distribution
• Out of Band Networking
• Top of Rack Networking
• Connectivity

    

We are here to help you be ready, adopt a faster time to market for your services, and execute a fast roll out of your Data Center.

Not sure where to start?  Talk to one of our engineers today to see what products and solutions will work best for you. Contact Rahi Systems

To learn more about Rahi’s Data Center Solution visit us at www.rahisystems.com

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Rahi Systems India is now official ServerLift partner

ServerLIFT today entered into a distributorship agreement with Rahi Systems for India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other neighboring countries. As part of the agreement, Rahi Systems will provide inventory, support, and services for both customers and partners. This will help broaden the customer base for ServerLIFT and its partners.

Rahi Systems brings a strong presence in the South East Asian region, providing broad support for existing as well as new customers of ServerLIFT to help engage, maintain and service ServerLIFT Equipment.

“ServerLIFT enables our team to help our customers deliver Data Center deployments faster and in a more effective automated way.” said Sushil Goyal, Managing Director, Rahi Systems APAC.

“[This] is an important growth area for ServerLIFT. Our distribution agreement with Rahi Systems brings a strong presence for ServerLIFT and provides our customers the ability to leverage local inventory, installation expertise and services. ” said Steve Bashkin, Director of Sales, ServerLIFT.

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Private Cloud Computing Solutions

Private Clouds are designed to offer similar features and benefits of Public Clouds with the key distinction that they are built within corporate firewalls and under the control of the IT department. This effectively allows IT to be the service provider for the internal customers. This also removes the many objections surrounding security in a public cloud computing environment while still allowing an IT team to recognize the many benefits of a services model. Rahi Systems will help you design and implement a new Private Clouds solution in your environment or help you build this type of solution with your current existing infrastructure.

Private Clouds can be effectively used for your Development, QA Test, and Production Environments. It gives you the same-self service type of environment as a public cloud without the security inhibitions of public cloud as the Data, Technology and Resources are within your Corporate Firewalls.

Rahi Systems works with your team to design and deploy the best Private Cloud solution within the constraints of your Project Timeline, Budgets, Reliability and Resiliency Factors.

Elastic & Extensible Private Clouds
Cloud Extensibility is a primarily an operational model that is being embraced within IT. In this model, IT delivers services to the business using a combination of internal resources as well as external application services, where it makes sense. Over the years, a few services that IT typically delivers have matured in their remote offerings making that feasible for consideration. Rahi Systems helps you design Elastic and Extensible private clouds. This can help you accurately manage your tight budget spends to get the maximum efficiency. 

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Rahi Systems and ServerLIFT Corporation announce their partnership to distribute ServerLIFT products in South East Asia

Fremont, California March 24th – Rahi Systems and ServerLIFT Corporation announce their partnership to distribute ServerLIFT products in South East Asia.

ServerLIFT Corporation, a premier manufacturer of automated lifts, today entered into a master distributorship agreement with Rahi Systems for the South East Asia Region; India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other neighboring countries.

As part of the agreement, Rahi Systems will provide inventory, support, and services for both customers and partners.   This will help broaden the customer base for ServerLIFT and its partners.
ServerLIFT products on average, help reduce the installation time of equipment by at least 40%, reduce workplace injuries and ensure that IT assets are installed and operated correctly. Customers of ServerLIFT have enjoyed the excellent quality and automation provided by ServerLIFT products.

Rahi Systems brings a strong presence in the South East Asian region, providing broad support for existing as well as new customers of ServerLIFT to help engage, maintain and service ServerLIFT Equipment. Along with with its complete Data Center Solutions and Services, customers can benefit by utilizing Rahi Systems’ resources for quicker and faster deployment of their Data Centers.

“Supporting our customers in the South East Asia region with a full set of Data Center Solutions is an important part of our business. ServerLIFT enables our team to help our customers deliver Data Center deployments faster and in a more effective automated way. As the Internet user base continues to grow in South East Asia, we expect to see more and more requirements from customers to help enable Data Centers.” said Sushil Goyal, Managing Director, Rahi Systems APAC.

“South East Asia is an important growth area for ServerLIFT. Our distributorship agreement with Rahi Systems brings in a strong presence for ServerLIFT and provides our customers the ability to leverage local inventory, installation expertise and services. ServerLIFT designs and builds products to help our customers with faster installation and reduce workplace injuries. Safety and reliability of installing IT equipment is extremely important in the design of our products.” said Steve Bashkin, Director of Sales, ServerLIFT.

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About ServerLIFT:
ServerLIFT Corporation was founded in 2002 in response to a growing demand for a safe and efficient way to handle servers and other IT equipment in the data center. With a strong focus on the integration of design and manufacturing across the value chain, we have grown to become the premier provider of IT Equipment Handling Solutions.

About Rahi Systems:
Rahi Systems, a Data Center Solutions provider, offers a full suite of Data Center Solutions. Rahi Systems helps organizations smoothly evolve from a static data center to a dynamic, well instrumented and efficiently managed data center with necessary software, hardware products and service offerings.

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Rahi Systems Brings Disruptive Cooling Technology for Data Centers in Partnership with Air@Work B.V.

 FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rahi Systems, a data center solutions provider, announced general availability of disruptive Indirect Adiabatic Cooling technology for Data Centers of Small, Medium and Large Scale in partnership with Air@Work B.V., a European manufacturer of energy efficient air cooling solutions.

Data Center Cooling Infrastructure is a significant OPEX for the majority of Data Center Providers today. Various technologies are deployed from expensive refrigerant systems, chilled water systems to massive cooling towers. The partnership announced today aims to provide Data Center Operators with significant cost reduction in both OPEX and Maintenance of Cooling Infrastructure.

The systems are custom designed to be affordable, durable and low maintenance; utilizing StatiqCooling - an innovative low maintenance synthetic heat exchanger for indirect adiabatic cooling. The systems are modular starting with 20KW up to 200KW in capacity modules. The heat exchanger is a patented technology developed by Air@Work which operates with extremely low water consumption. The modularity allows Data Center Operators to accurately measure and control utilization, consumption and different cooling models specific to tenancy requirements within Data Centers. 

“The payback time and reliability were decisive factors,” said Gregor Snip, of Amsterdam based Switch Datacenter Group. “Not only did the installation become 80% more energy efficient, but reliability increased greatly because all components were designed for N+1, therefore the cooling does not depend on a single cold water circuit. Moreover the maintenance of the systems can be carried out by our own maintenance crew which greatly decreased operating costs.”

“Air@Work has developed the Adiabatic Cooling technology over the past fifteen years and has implemented this technology in a variety of environments. As we started to expand in the USA, we were interested in a potential partner that would bring talent, operational skill sets and an extensive field network to make this successful. We have a lot of confidence that with our partnership with Rahi Systems we will be able to service our customers and help them gain value out of minimal consumption of water, granular control in maintaining temperature delta and operational simplicity,” said Coen Binnerts, CEO of Air@Work B.V.

“Rahi Systems is excited to announce our partnership with Air@Work. With our team’s talent, extensive experience in design, implementation and operation of large scale Data Centers we are well positioned to bring this new technology to the US Market. We feel this innovative technology is a green and cost saving solution. In addition, Air@Work has done several large implementations in Europe of Retrofit and New Data Center builds with their patented technology,” said Paul Weber, VP of Engineering at Rahi Systems.

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About Air@Work:
Air@Work manufactures air cooling systems that reliably cool computer rooms, data centers, and commercial buildings that only require a low investment and have low operational costs. Air@Work is based out of The Netherlands and founded by industry experts in Air Handling.

About Rahi Systems:
Rahi Systems a Data Center Solutions provider, offers a full suite of Data Center Infrastructure products covering Storage, Server, Network & Physical Infrastructure. Rahi Systems helps organizations smoothly evolve from a static data center to a dynamic, well instrumented and efficiently managed data center with necessary software, hardware products and service offerings.

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Ken Kiernan, +1 650-686-7312
cooling@rahisystems.com
Air@Work:
Marius Klerk, +31 6 2115 1879
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Follow These Data Center Trends in 2016

Here it is, our obligatory end-of-year look in the crystal ball (hey, at least give us credit for not using a picture of an actual crystal ball to accompany it).

Data centers may stand still, but the data center industry never stops morphing. We will doubtlessly see more big trends emerge next year in addition to the five listed below, but these five are the ones we think are the big ones that will get even bigger over the course of 2016.

More Colo Firms Will Invest in Renewable Energy

We saw unprecedented investment in renewable energy by colocation providers this year. Equinix, the world’s largest retail colo provider, contracted to buy enough renewable energy to offset the power consumption of its entire North American footprint.

Switch, the operator of a giant SuperNap data center campus in Las Vegas that is on an expansion roll, building in Nevada, Michigan, and Italy, and seriously considering a move into Asia, has committed to powering all of its footprint with renewable and invested in building a 100 MW solar plant in Nevada.

Save for a few exceptions (such as QTS’s massive solar farm in New Jersey), colocation providers generally have not been interested in spending money on renewables, saying there was little demand for it from their customers.

A giant like Equinix and a provider like Switch – which is much smaller than Equinix but houses infrastructure for some of the largest internet and cloud players – making serious commitments to renewables signals that interest in renewable energy among colocation customers is on the rise, so expect to see more multitenant data center providers to invest in clean energy.

Enterprises Will Come to Colo for Their Cloud Needs

There’s less and less doubt now that even the most traditional enterprises have a lot to gain from using public cloud services. However, many of them don’t want to rely on the public internet to access cloud services, because of concerns with security, performance, or both.

Enterprises will increasingly use highly connected colocation data centers to access cloud services privately, over direct network links. Expect data center providers to strike more and more deals with cloud service providers to make their services accessible from the colos to attract those enterprise users.

Add access to cloud services to the list of most important factors to consider when evaluating a colocation facility – on par with network connectivity, power costs, room for expansion, and tax breaks.

Data Center Construction Spike in Europe

The killing of Safe Harbor by the European Court of Justice threw a curve ball to the cloud services industry, especially since the regulators didn’t really propose an alternative to the legal framework companies used since 2000 to ensure they weren’t breaking any laws by storing their European users’ data in data centers overseas.

While many of the cloud providers turned to legal workarounds to address the vacuum left by the annulment of Safe Harbor – Microsoft handing the custody of its European customers’ data to Deutsche Telekom, a direct competitor in the European cloud market, being the most creative workaround – those who could afford it started building.

Expect a spike in data center construction in Europe as a result of the regulators’ move. The writing’s on the wall: after Edward Snowden’s leaks, physical location of data matters, and it will continue to matter. The decision’s clear beneficiaries are data center providers with capacity in Europe, who will be glad to absorb increasing demand for data stored locally.

Construction in Edge Data Center Markets Will Continue

The trends of streaming services eating into the traditional TV market and companies replacing software licenses (or entire data centers) with cloud services will continue to accelerate. That means more and more data center capacity will be needed in places where in the past demand for data centers was low.

Expect to see more data center construction in places like Philadelphia, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, and Kansas City. Digital content and cloud providers want to make sure customers in those markets get high-quality service, and the way to do it is to store content they use closer to them, partnering with local internet service providers to deliver it.

New companies like EdgeConneX and vXchnge will continue expanding in those and other markets, but their older and bigger competitors, the likes of Equinix or CoreSite, will also see demand driven by the need to move the edge of the internet further out from primary data center markets like Silicon Valley, Northern Virginia, and New York.

One or Two Big Telcos Will Offload Data Centers

The telco cloud frenzy of the last five years or so has been replaced by a lot of doubt, as Amazon Web Services has reasserted its lead in the infrastructure cloud market, and as Microsoft Azure has invested billions to try and catch up to AWS.

With the cloud giants’ race to lower the prices of their services, their scale, and their rapid releases of new features, it has become nearly impossible to compete in the space, and operating a global data center fleet is expensive business. We’ve already seen both Dell and HP try and quit.

If AT&T and Verizon are only rumored to be considering selling off their massive data center portfolios, built out to chase the enterprise cloud market, CenturyLink said publicly it was considering alternatives to data center ownership, while Wind stream – a much smaller telco – already sold its data center business to TierPoint this year.

Expect to see some hard decisions from Century Link about its under performing data center business in 2016, and perhaps one of the other two giants will make a big move as well. So far, AT&T has handed over its managed hosting business to IBM.

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Data center environmental control

Data center environmental control is a constructive generic framework for maintaining temperature, humidity, and other physical qualities of air within a specific range in order to allow the equipment housed in a data center to perform optimally throughout its lifespan.

Air flow

Air flow management addresses the need to improve data center computer cooling efficiency by preventing the recirculation of hot air exhausted from IT equipment and reducing bypass airflow. There are several methods of separating hot and cold airstreams, such as hot/cold aisle containment and in-row cooling units.
Overheating of data center equipment can result in reduced server performance or equipment damage due to hot exhaust air finding its way into an air inlet. Atmospheric stratification can require setting cooling equipment temperatures lower than recommended. Mixing the cooled air and exhausted air increases refrigeration costs.

Temperature

IT vendors recommend maintaining temperature of 70–75 °F (21–24 °C). The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) states that the recommended temperatures is between 68–77 °F (20–25 °C), with an allowable range spanning 59–90 °F (15–32 °C). Research has shown, however, that the practice of keeping data centers at or below 70 °F (21 °C) may be wasting money and energy^. Over cooling equipment, in environments with a high relative humidity, can expose equipment to a high amount of moisture that facilitates the growth of salt deposits on conductive filaments in the circuitry.



Although a high cooling temperature is more efficient, overcooling of smaller server rooms can provide reserve thermal protection in the event of cooling system failure, or in outage situations where the computers are provided emergency backup power but cooling systems are not. In such situations, the equipment can continue to run and tolerate several degrees of temperature rise before system damage from overheating occurs. Environmental reserve cooling capacity may not be feasible in dense equipment environments such as datacenters, but those locations are more likely to have backup cooling and emergency power for cooling.

Aisle containment

Containment of hot/cold aisles and ducting hot air from cabinets are intended to prevent cool/exhaust air mixing within server rooms. Generally rows of cabinets face each other so that cool air can reach the equipment air intakes at the set temperature point for the room. A more recent addition to the consideration of above floor containment is below floor air flow control. A range of underfloor panels can be fitted within the raised floor plenum to create efficient cold air pathways direct to the raised floor vented tiles.

Containment is generally implemented by physical separation of the hot and cold aisles, using blanking panels, PVC curtains or hard panel boards. Containment strategies could differ based on various factors including server tolerance, ambient temperature requirements and leakage from data centers

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How to Optimize Your Data Center and Save Millions

Here’s a helpful tip: Don’t try using the aphorism, “What you don’t know can hurt you,” with your data center professionals. Trust me, they know it already. And they live in daily fear that this lack of insight could strike down their infrastructure (and your company) at any minute.

Every CEO, CIO and IT professional operates with the knowledge that they could potentially be tomorrow’s headline. Often those headlines are due to security breaches, but those breaches can also result from an unprotected or unrecorded IT asset. The recent four hour New York Stock Exchange outage, for example, which led the NYSE to cancel all open orders, stemmed from issues around updating software/lifecycle management tools, an eminently preventable occurrence – if IT knew what it didn’t know.

Why are there so many headlines when we’re spending more on IT than ever before? It’s simple: We are involved in a struggle with our data – and the data is winning. Think for a moment about what the IT department has to track and utilize: data center hardware and software; virtual assets; a dizzying array of end-user computing devices; the networking infrastructure; public and private clouds; and, of course, all the data and applications at the core of their operation.

As today’s enterprise IT environments increase in complexity, dynamism and scale, the key to surviving and thriving in this new business and IT environment lies in the data center. Because a complete and accurate picture of an enterprise’s data and infrastructure is the only way to make factual and informed decisions today, while planning for tomorrow’s IT and business future.

Here are four tips to gaining and maintaining a complete and accurate picture of your entire data operation:

Create a Strong, Functioning 1.0 IT and Data Infrastructure

It may feel like we’re in the middle of a data storm, buffeted from all angles, but the pace and quantity are leisurely compared to what is to come (Data 2.0 – the world of Big Data – and Data 3.0 – the Internet of Things). The inability to articulate, gather and manage all your data leaves you exposed to any number of IT and financial exposures. To list just a few:

• IT compliance issues can drive up costs
• Operational shortfalls can increase risk
• Change collisions can cause significant outages (NYSE)
• Failing IT or software audits
• Significant delays in identifying and resolving incidents

The good news is: if you put the correct foundation in place – platforms and tools capable of identifying and managing all your data and IT assets – that foundation should be able to scale to handle your Big Data and IoT data.

Get Your Hands Around ALL Your Data

And by all we mean machine and human data, structued and unstructured. Assets and data. There are over 200 data types out there (the standard enterprise works with about 25, but that’s still a lot to understand and track), not to mention shadow IT operations. The tools and platforms are now there to identify and manage all of this data, but you need the commitment and resources to apply and manage them.

Once You’ve Got All that Data, Put it to Use

Even the most sophisticated enterprises use only a fraction of their data. And many smaller enterprises, envious of their bigger compatriots, acquire data sets that they are unable to process and manage. The key, again, is to gather all your existing data and put it to good use (find those servers you didn’t even know existed, which software isn’t upgraded, etc.) then build upon this foundation. Once you have corralled and applied your existing resources, you will be ready for the machine learning and predictive tools and systems that can take what you have and optimize it.

Push Yourself as Hard as You Push Your Data

Only by truly and efficiently using your data can you take your IT and business decisions to the next level. Ask the tough questions that would make you more competitive, efficient or profitable, and then task your IT department and data professionals with providing the right answers. Finally, as with Data 1.0 and its successors, scale your questions so that you are pushing your data—and yourself—to new levels of operational efficiency.

In most enterprises, the CIO now has a seat at the Big Table, which is as it should be. Data is no longer just a part of an organization’s supporting infrastructure; it is often the difference between profit and loss, even solvency and insolvency. And the CIO will be tasked with not only making sense of the enterprise’s data, but of optimizing it – both for IT operational efficiency and business advantage.

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10 data centre predictions for 2016

As the world connects everything to the internet, the need for speedy localized data centers is set to just grow.

Next year is tapped to be an important one for data centers across the world. Industry consolidation will see big players become even bigger and green energy will take centre stage.

1. Eco-efficiency becomes hot

Jason O'Conaill, International Client Partner at Infinity SDC, told CBR: "With 2015 ending with the historic Paris agreement between 200 countries on Climate Change and Emissions this will be a major focus for Data Centres over the coming year and up to 2020.

"The data centre industry has a role to play in this reform. Data Centers will strive to improve efficiency and reducing wasted energy. There is a major role for server manufacturers, semiconductor leaders and software providers. Every component in the cloud chain adds to the emission footprint of a data centre.


"After all, data centres power and cool server and storage racks and high performance computers from the leading OEMs like IBM, HP, Dell and EMC. The data centre industry and the server inducts will have to form its own Paris agreement to strive to reduce the carbon footprint within the data centre industry."

2. True impact of Safe Harbor to be felt

O'Conaill said: "The implications of the annulment of the Safe Harbor agreement between the EU and USA will be felt in 2016. The move by the European Court of Justice has caused many US owned companies to review their data privacy policies and consider the move to local European based data centers.

"Cloud providers are eagerly trying to appeal to the local European Cloud and Technology markets and to assuage fears over the storage of European data in the USA with unfettered access by government agencies such as the NSA .


"The sensitivity of European citizens and governments around private data will have a positive impact on the scale and take up of European data centre space in 2016 /2017. Europe has a complex tapestry of local and regional laws as well as a national and supra National EU laws that will keep privacy lawyers and Cloud providers busy in 2016 as they interpret the implications of the abolition of Safe Harbour."

3. Storage revolution bolstered by IoT

Alex McMullan, Pure Storage CTO, told CBR: "SDs continue to ride the wave of complex storage systems, but in the long term I expect this to dim as newer product with more simple/Rest interfaces and better ecosystem integration come forward.

"Long term prospects are bright [for containers] as we'll see servers getting more CPU cores for parallelism and an increased value of developer productivity to respond to an increasingly always-on and instant global consumer base.

"In terms of changes in the storage landscape I see IOT becoming realized with the global adoption of smart phones. The automotive and wearable market will also be the next major growth segments for data generation, there is huge, untapped, potential value in this data."

4. XPoint to disrupt data centers

Alex McMullan, Pure Storage CTO, told CBR: "XPoint was recently announced; this has the potential to disrupt the computer and data centre markets if it is viable. It can place cost pressures on DRAM makers, NAND makers and traditional database applications that rely on caching, tiring and similar complexity to function.

"The same applies in storage products where the architecture flexibility and software design will decide if Xpoint can be easily integrated when it becomes cost-effective."

5. IoT brings availability to the fore of data centers

Richard Agnew, VP NW EMEA, at Veeam, told CBR: "The rise of mobile and connected devices demonstrates that there is zero tolerance for downtime. Even a slight outage of a few hours will cause everyone involved in the business to be unhappy that they don't have access, but more importantly, businesses will lose money, data, respect of employees, credibility from partners and loyalty of customers, doing potential damage to consumer and investor confidence.  


"As the Internet of Things continues to gather momentum, the potential cost of downtime [in a data centre] is set to escalate. Minimizing downtime and data loss is critical to the overall health of all businesses and ensuring the end user remains satisfied.

"In addition, since more data and services are now both on premises and in the cloud, businesses in 2016 will need to ensure they have strategies to backup, protect and restore their data on all fronts."

6. Migration to next-gen DC apps to accelerate

Agnew said: "Over the next year, companies will draw the line and migrate to the next generation of application technologies to keep up with competitors. There are clear advantages to making use of the newest infrastructure and application technologies, but there have been some blockages in the past.

"This migration to the next generation of [data center] applications will not be easy for some businesses, but will be worth it to deliver on the bottom line. Companies will see new benefits from an IT perspective; but also have a unique opportunity to re-evaluate their business.

"Migrating away from these systems will enable businesses to offer new services that meet the demand of an Always-On workforce and customer base."

7. The emergence of Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

Agnew also said: "As cloud-based infrastructure continues to become the de facto standard for businesses, we're seeing new service offerings grow in popularity and market share. Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) will be a game changer in 2016, as it will enable businesses to meet and exceed customer and employee expectations around availability.

"As businesses place IT and availability at the center of their operations, we can expect to see service level agreements with guaranteed backup and recovery times becoming the standard for the modern enterprise.

8. DCIM education and consolidation

GM of Intel Data Center Solutions, Jeff Klaus, told CBR: "2016 will be another year of refining education/communication on the benefits of DCIM where more organizations will look to employ DCIM solutions, giving some data centre managers half of their time back that was previously spent on manual processes.


"We will see fewer DCIM exits and mergers as consolidation continues with reduced growth expectations, while there will be a new DCIM curriculum taught at universities, bringing in a whole new set of research in data center efficiency & design."

9. Data Centers find a common language

Simon Brady, head of data centre optimization, Emerson Network Power in EMEA, told CBR: "The IoT will not only impact future data centre architectures by increasing the volume of data that must be processed, it will also change data center management -- and the latter sooner than the former. Today's data centres include thousands of devices that speak a host of languages, including IPMI, SNMP, and Mod Bus.

"This creates gaps between systems that limit efforts to manage holistically. That limit will cease to exist as Redfish, an open systems specification for data centre and systems management developed by Emerson Network Power, Intel, Dell and HP, gains traction. Redfish will create interconnectivity across data centre systems, enabling new levels of visibility, control and automation. Its adoption will also help establish best practices for effective use of IoT in other applications."

10. The neighborhood data center moves in

Simon Brady said: "The growth in digital content consumption and data collection is challenging the centralized data centre model. While large data centers will continue to provide the majority of computing, they will increasingly be supported by edge facilities, or neighbourhood data centres, that provide low-latency content and applications to users or data processing and logic for IoT networks.

"As these micro data centres, operating as satellites to a central facility, proliferate on corporate campuses and in high-density residential areas, their success will depend on the use of standardized, intelligent systems that can be remotely managed."

Reference -  http://www.cbronline.com/news/data-centre/iot-safe-harbour-dcim-10-data-centre-predictions-for-2016-4756935

 
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