Resources
Reports and White Papers
Driving Digital Transformation
for the Automotive Industry
New data center management approaches are key to car makers finding value in the new mobility and transport industry. This Paper will show how Serverfarm’s skills and experience make it uniquely positioned to execute Data Center Economics Transformation (DCET) and Data Center Operations Transformation (DCOT) for the car industry.
How to Cloudify your
Data Center
Cloudifying means selecting the best features of the cloud such as flexibility, SLAs, cost transparency and security and applying them to physical facility and IT assets. Today, multi-cloud driven data center strategies are increasingly common across on-premise, commercial data center cloud on ramps, hybrid, private and public cloud platforms.
Data Center Digital Transformation
Running the data center like a cloud to maximize capital and operational efficiency. Whether your digital assets are hosted on IT located in an owned and managed facility, spread across private, hybrid or public clouds or completely outsourced to multiple public clouds, the foundation of a successful digital transformation strategy is the data center.
Case Studies
Case Study – Global Auto Manufacturer Part: 2
Have you read Part 1 yet? Click below to learn more about the business situation and what led the auto manufacturer to need a solution that could fix their legacy issues. Read Part 1 here. Part 2: Success To make data center planning more...
Case Study – Global Auto Manufacturer Part: 1
The Business Situation The physical data center fleet and IT estate of a global car maker had grown over decades into a distributed environment with different data center types. The portfolio included 55 sites with 124 data halls running more than 10,000 devices. The...
Case Study – InCommand Services
The Business Situation The customer, a global semiconductor enterprise, was in escrow to construct two new data centers as they believed their primary West Coast U.S. data centers were at capacity. However, the company had not implemented Data Center Infrastructure...
Press
Data Movers Podcast – Where Aviation, Surfing, and Data Centers Meet
Data Movers Podcast Telecom PR pro, Jaymie Scotto Cutaia and top B2B social media influencer Evan Kirstel sit down with the most influential men and women of today’s leading telcos and data centers, supporting the network infrastructure requirements of our modern...
i3 Solutions Group LON1 Data Center Award Winning Modernization
Modernisation in the data centre industry is key to successful evolution and maintaining a high standard of operation. Jim Shanahan, Chief Operating Officer, Serverfarm, discusses the decision behind selecting i3 Solutions Group to modernise and optimise its data...
Having endured the weirdest year any of us could have imagined, what will be different in 2021?
In this the first of a multi-part report, IT Wire looks at general thoughts for life in 2021 before addressing more specific topics in subsequent reports. This is the question we posed to our panel of experts:Having endured the weirdest year any of us could have...
Blog
A Serverfarm Q&A with Peter Gross
Peter Gross is one of the most eminent and influential engineering minds working in data centers. Recognized for his unique contribution to the industry as an entrepreneur and engineer, he has been a leading thinker on some of the industry’s most important issues in...
How to Fly a Data Center – A Pilot’s View
What Flying teaches you As a certified airline transport pilot (ATP) with over 5,000 hours flying jets, aerobatics and experimental aircraft, I have learned much about critical infrastructure design and operations. I’ve also learned about design, redundancy and the...
What Does a True Data Center Management as a Service Solution Look Like? Pt III
Three Part Blog Series Demystifying DMaaS - What makes InCommand Data Center Management as a Service (DMaaS) different from DCIM? InCommand: Cracking the Code for Data Center Operations What Does a True Data Center Management as a Service Look Like? The days of...