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Delivering Turn-Key Mission Critical Solutions
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1-800-862-0329
With many growing businesses, your data center needs will at some point need to grow with your information and business capacity. Servers will need to be upgraded, whether due to size constraints or age. If this occurs, the migration process becomes a very serious factor in upgrading your data center. How can you get your information from Point A to Point B without loss and security issues? This process must be carried out seamlessly with minimal downtime and hopefully with cost savings moving forward. Here are some tips to help your business or organization improve the bottom line, while improving Read More...
The DCS Data Centers team will be attending the 7×24 Conference October 15-18 at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge in Phoenix, AZ. 7×24 Exchange is the leading knowledge exchange for those who design, build, operate and maintain mission-critical enterprise information infrastructures. The organization’s goal is to improve end-to-end reliability by promoting dialogue among these groups. 7×24 Exchange is committed to addressing the challenges of sustainability and giving back through its social responsibility initiative. DCS Data Centers is headquartered in Annapolis Maryland, with presence in California, Florida and Utah. Our purpose is to assist clients with the planning, design, building and maintaining Read More...
The U.S. Data Center industry is on the rise according to Urbanland. The first half of 2017 saw record levels for investment in the U.S Data Center sector. This nearly doubles investment into the sector from 2016 and is on track to surpass the last 3 years combined. The areas with the largest growth have been Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Greater New York, Northern Virginia, Phoenix and Silicon Valley in California. Northern Virginia is especially growing, with some of the largest and most active data center marketspaces in the world. Northern Virginia is even outshining Europe and Asian-Pacific countries. Read More...
Is this the Matrix? Not quite, but it is very useful for Data Center Managers. Data Centers are far from small and simple in today’s information-centric world. We have gone from websites that need only a few small racks for data to hyper-sized Data Centers that cover acres. This growth brings new advances in technology and one of the biggest today for Data Centers is automation. Automation advances are now bringing machine-learning to the Data Center market. These new upgrades enable Data Center Managers to now improve capacity for storage and reduce risks for clients and end-users on all fronts, Read More...
DCS Data Centers will be attending the Critical Facilities Summit in Minneapolis, MN October 23-25, 2017. The 5th annual Critical Facilities Summit brings the best of the mission critical community together for 2½ days of unbeatable networking, education and product discovery. Come face to face with today’s thought leaders for an in-depth look at the leading trends in design, management and operations of data centers, hospitals, banks, telecoms and other critical facilities. WHY MEET WITH DCS? DCS Data Centers is headquartered in Annapolis Maryland, with presence in California, Florida and Utah. Our purpose is to assist clients with the planning, design, building Read More...
DCS Data Centers will be attending the 2017 NFMT Orlando Conference November 14th-15th in Orlando, Florida. The National Facilities Management and Technology Conference & Exposition (NFMT) was launched in 2001 by the publishers of Building Operating Management and Facility Maintenance Decisions magazines. In 2015 we launched NFMT Orlando to be a companion event to serve the Southeast of the United States. The goal was to bring free education, networking and product discovery to facilities professionals in another region of the country. Today NFMT Orlando is the premier facilities management conference in the Southeast supplying broad-based education for facilities professionals from every type of organization: Read More...
Internet of Things (IoT) continues to be more and more in demand as business grow and need more server space for data. Due to this, skills needed in the IoT field are constantly growing. Here are some of the most in demand skills for data center IoT. Machine Learning: IoT skills in Machine Learning has increased over 220% in the last year. Autocad: Skills in Autocad have increased over 108% in the last year. Node.JS: Skills in this have increased in need by over 99%. Security Infrastructure: In demand more than 83%. Security Engineering: In demand more than 83% as Read More...
Cooling is an essential factor of every data center. As data centers are turned on, heat is an inevitable part of operating the data center. Solutions to the heat from the data centers concentrate on various types of cooling methods. Turning down the heat and chilling the data center ensures valuable data will not be fried and production can continue as usual. Past methods of cooling data centers ignored energy efficiency leading to ineffective methods of cooling. Failed cooling methods funneled all the energy to the data servers, which created more heat and neglected the energy required to cool the Read More...
Data centers currently consume about 2 percent of the combined energy in the United States. In the federal government, the percentage of energy consumption rises to 10 percent, which has led to lawmakers initiating new bills for energy efficiency in data centers. With new bills supporting energy efficiency, federal agencies operating data centers must focus on how to reduce their energy consumption and increase energy savings. Becoming more energy efficient starts with data center initiatives focusing on energy saving methods. A method data centers already have implemented is the consolidations of data centers. Trends to consolidate data centers encourage the Read More...
Data center technologies are continuing to be developed and refined throughout the world. With a global assessment for the future of data centers, industries can prepare for the changes ahead. The forecasted studies of data center technologies provide insight to the new strategies companies will have to implement to remain competitive. With the global assessment, data center managers can begin focusing on new methods and strategies to realize their opportunities for expansion in the future. Research and development is a main area of focus for data center managers when considering the future of data centers and the correlating opportunities. Technologies Read More...
