The Immersion Data Center: Submerged Servers at Scale

Geoscience specialist CGG has filled an entire data center with tanks of servers submerged in a liquid coolant similar to mineral oil. Here's a look at this unique data center in Houston and its implementation of immersion cooling technology from Green Revolution Cooling.

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Smarter Sourcing Strategies - Chat with the Editor at CIO 100 2013

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CtrlS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space.  To know more about Tier 4 CtrlS Data Center India  visit https://www.ctrls.com/about-us.php

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CTRLS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space. - See more at: http://www.cio.in/news/smarter-sourcing-strategies-chat-editor-cio-100-2013-458812013#sthash.Rb0MVPee.dpuf

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CTRLS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space. - See more at: http://www.cio.in/news/smarter-sourcing-strategies-chat-editor-cio-100-2013-458812013#sthash.Rb0MVPee.dpuf

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CTRLS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space. - See more at: http://www.cio.in/news/smarter-sourcing-strategies-chat-editor-cio-100-2013-458812013#sthash.Rb0MVPee.dpuf

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CTRLS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space. - See more at: http://www.cio.in/news/smarter-sourcing-strategies-chat-editor-cio-100-2013-458812013#sthash.Rb0MVPee.dpuf

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CTRLS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space. - See more at: http://www.cio.in/news/smarter-sourcing-strategies-chat-editor-cio-100-2013-458812013#sthash.Rb0MVPee.dpuf

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CTRLS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space. - See more at: http://www.cio.in/news/smarter-sourcing-strategies-chat-editor-cio-100-2013-458812013#sthash.Rb0MVPee.dpuf

Sridhar Pinnapureddy, Founder and CEO, CTRLS highlights how CtrlS is redefining infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and creating new rules in the outsourcing space. - See more at: http://www.cio.in/news/smarter-sourcing-strategies-chat-editor-cio-100-2013-458812013#sthash.Rb0MVPee.dpuf

Precautions and Disaster Preparedness of Data Center

In our modern corporate world where data and important documents are primarily kept in soft copies, proper security of the data center is of utmost importance. As tremendous amount of data is stored in every data center, an occurrence of a disaster may affect the business negatively. Disaster can be of two forms, i.e. man-made and natural. Disasters such as theft and terrorism are categorized in man-made disasters whereas natural disasters are earthquake, hurricanes, tsunami, etc. In either case, it is important for the owners of the data center to take proper precautions. 

As prevention is always better than cure, data centers must have a plan so that they can avoid certain disasters and recover to the best possible state. Disaster preparedness is a procedure which is followed by many data centers to minimize the damage to the business in case of disaster occurrence. Some firms think that backing up data automatically is the cheapest and best possible way for disaster preparedness. But, these firms are the ones that face major losses because disaster preparedness is never so easy and quick. It requires regular effort and time to keep the preparedness up to date. One should always adopt disaster preparedness measures because it is the most imperative part of disaster recovery. 

·     (a)    Forecast: It is crucial to stay updated about the things happening around you because it gives you a rough idea about the probability of disaster occurrence near your data center. Real-time monitoring and using forecasting tools can prove to be effective. Once the time left to prepare for disaster is known, you can execute the imperative disaster preparedness steps accordingly.

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    (b)     Redundancy: Backing up your data is of utmost importance. The backup should be stored in a source that can respond and assist during unfavorable events. Building up various redundancy levels is crucial so that the application priority tier can persist during the emergency period.

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   (c)    Power Management: As data centers use a tremendous amount of data, the presence of a proper power supply is obligatory. You should design backup power supply in such a way that nothing can interrupt it easily. Adding to it, the UPS and generators should be flexible enough to be shifted to another site before, during or after the disaster.

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  (d)     Determine Priorities: You should know the importance of various application tiers present in your data center. Application tiers are identified in three categories i.e. mission critical, highly desirable and non-essential. Resources should be allocated on the basis of priorities. 

·     (e)    Multiple plans: Disasters are of different types so their effects differ as per its occurrence.  Hence, you should have several business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Considering adverse situations and preparing accordingly can prove to be useful at the time of disaster.

·    (f)     Reliability: Checking the backups stored in sources increases the reliability. Knowing the fact that your business can recover to the last stored backup keeps you free from the risk of heavy loss and enhances reliability of the source. 

 It's difficult to execute all the steps of data preparedness single-handedly. But, never try to bargain with the disaster preparedness of your data center. Creating a team of professionals who can maintain and improve business continuity plan timely is recommendable because it has proved to be beneficial for many large data centers in the past.

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CtrlS Improves Channel focus with Modi Infosol as Distributor

CtrlS has appointed Modi Infosol as the second distributor for India market. With the strategic partnership of its distribution and overall India business strategy, CtrlS has set the tone for an aggressive growth plan and strategies for the India market. Redington will continue to be the distributor for CtrlS.

CtrlS as a tier 4 certified datacenter with expertise in the areas of datacenter management, colocation services, DR provides a complete suite of offerings from platform level services which include datacenter infrastructure, storage, backup, hardware to OS layers, network and security layers.

The partnership will make select set of partners of Modi Infosol capable of selling Managed Services, Network Services, and other offerings such as Disaster Recovery, Cloud offerings, Messaging solutions among others. 

Under the alliance, Modi Infosol will also offer CtrlS marketing support in order to promote the products and services of the company to all prospective customers who look to avail similar services in the territory, said Sunil Raja Pudota, National Sales Head,CtrlS.

Delhi headquartered Modi Infosol as a distributor would be responsible for the development of channel partners for CtrlS. “Our sales people – region by region will identity the channel partners suitable for these products and service across India., says Anuj Modi, Director, Modi Infosol.

Modi Infosol works with over 2500 channel partners across India through full-fledged operations in nine states including Haryana, UP, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, West Bengal. “For CtrlS, we would align with competent VARs and Systems Integrators. There will be hand holding to ensure that sales people of partner organisations are trained on CtrlS solutions and services to get well versed with pre sales and post sales at the customer end,” informs Modi.

Cloud (Private and Public) deployments will increase in future as per Modi. “There is large uptake for private cloud wherein enterprises collocate their data centre. DR is witnessing more adoption with compliance becoming mandatory across different verticals. These pose huge opportunities for channel partners,” says Modi. For public cloud too, CtrlS has an extensive range of ‘opex centric’ services which appeal to enterprises today, he adds.

Cloud is usually a concept which has a longer sales cycle than a traditional On Premise deployment. Working on the core infrastructure of an organization takes more time to convince them for cloud, agrees Modi. However he adds, “There is a recurring and predictable business for partners. Also cloud leads to more customer stickiness and the business will increase multi fold in future. And such business offers healthy margins for partners.”

The partners on board will define the focused market segment as CtrlS offerings cut across the verticals. “However SMBs will be immediate focus that are more receptive to private cloud and also public cloud. Enterprises will follow soon. Also BFSI will be a key vertical as CtrlS is quite strong in that segment,” said Modi.

For the first quarter of 2014, Modi Infosol would increase their presence in Hyderabad, Chennai and Rajasthan “With cloud era ushering in, we are confident to build competent channel base of delivering solutions and services from CtrlS. Partners can expect recurring business, customer stickiness and bottom-lines,” said Modi at Modi Infosol.

With the current trends such as cloud computing, BYOD, BYOX, CtrlS would further tap the untapped potential of the India market and capture a bigger market share, while addressing challenges of CIOs to function a dynamic and complex IT environment,” says Pudota at CtrlS.

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A thrust towards best practices adopted by Green Data Center

The organizations today are looking towards more effective way of data management. Data has always been a key success factor for the growth of any business, provided it is managed and processed in such manner that it gives the desired information to the user. The coming generation has seen a lot of emphasis to the task of data management. This has ultimately led to the development of data centers across the world. Now, Big Data are stored in high class a server that not only stores data, but also processes them accordingly so that it can be used for operational purposes.

In reality, building up data center facility is task which could only be taken by big business organizations which have huge financial backing behind them. Small business providers thrive on clouding services to meet the needs of their businesses. Over a period of time the concept of Green Data Center has evolved. As the name suggests, it aims at maximizing the environmental benefits while operation of Data Center facility. It aims at installing new energy efficient technologies along with following the best industry practices. This helps them curtails their utility bills and also makes the environment more congenial to work.

The few best practices of a Green Data Center are mentioned below, which will help users identify some of the best practices adopted by them.

• The basic reason one can call such data centers as green is due to their adoption of energy efficient power methods. Such data centers install UPS system to cope with frequent power cuts. These UPS are not like ordinary UPS’s. They are highly energy efficient and Energy-Star rated tools that run at almost to their full efficiency when they reach their maximum capacity.

• A new concept, which has recently been perceived by Robert Sullivan, is hot and cold aisle. This has considerably been adopted by many data center, which is now a known practice. In this method the hardware compartment arranged in a row are made to face the in the same direction while cool air is blown from the other side of the compartment.

• The lighting facilities too have seen a big change in data centers. Now, data centers have switched to more sensor oriented lighting facility, which remain in the ‘switch on’ mode as long as any person is present in the room. The light automatically goes to ‘switch off’ mode once the room is deserted. This helps in saving considerable amount of energy.

• The efficiency of servers increases by almost 2 to 3.5%, if traditional data centers switch from 120-208 volts to 240 volts. So in case of fluctuation of power the servers will still thrive to exist.

• The cooling systems adopted by such data centers help in controlling the temperature of the server rooms. HVAC systems are installed for cooling purposes that are best in the industry. Such data centers usually install highly chilled water HVAC facility as it reduces energy bill by up to 0.75%.

• Even the buildings in which such facilities are built are so designed, that it maximizes cooling effort and reduces the cooling cost. The roof tops of such building are built by using white reflective coating material, which can reduce the temperature of roof by almost 100 degree Fahrenheit. It also helps in curbing carbon emission by almost 5 Metric tones.

These were some of the most effective practices adopted by Green Data Center, which have made them environment and work friendly. Therefore, one could take lead from these practices and build an effective and efficient Data Center with the ‘Green feature’.

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