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A Silverback Story: 5 Tales from the Trenches
Data Center moves are very interesting projects that often feel like they are coming alive. Silverback Data Center Solutions is uniquely positioned to see all sorts of interesting things. Check out this infographic to see some of the unexpected project anomalies we have encountered.
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INFOGRAPHIC: How Silverback Helps Data Centers Close Business
Silverback provides data center sales people with a unique set of tools to assist them in closing data center business. Check out the infographic below to see some of the services that our partners are using to help customers make key decisions to move to a new data center facility. Read More
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Racking Methods ~Infographic~
With as many styles of racks and cabinets as there are manufacturers there are a few constants that apply to the method of racking devices in a data center. Check out the infographic below where Silverback highlights a few of them.
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Cost vs Risk on a Data Center Move ~Infographic~
Data Center moves are fraught with opportunities for potential risk. Sometimes, you can mitigate those risks by spending your budget wisely. Check out our infographic below that outlines some of the ways you can balance cost and risk to find the sweet spot for your project. Read More
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Naming Devices in the Data Center ~Infographic~
Naming servers can be a hand-wringing prospect whether it’s a small environment or a large one. Check out this Silverback Infographic on the theory of naming devices.
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Device Naming Theory
What’s in a server name? This question has inspired debate for nearly as long as computers have been around. And it’s a debate worth having, since a poorly thought out naming scheme can create some surprising challenges down the road. There are many differing schools of thought on the subject, but the real “right” answer tends to depend on the scale of your environment and its projected growth.
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The Modern Data Center
It doesn’t matter if you see them or not, data centers are everywhere and so are the devices and connections that use them. That traffic light that caught the guy in too much of a hurry? Uploads to a data center somewhere. That cute cat picture you can’t help but like and share? It’s sitting on someone’s server in a data center or server room. It’s a lot to take in though, the world of data centers have been around for over thirty years and it has continued to evolve and change – an ecosystem all its own. Thanks to datacenterworld.com we have an easy to digest graphic that displays some of the hows and whys of the data center. Check it out!
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What Data Center Downtime Looks Like
What could possibly go wrong? We’ve all heard it a million times when someone is trying to pass off the possible repercussions. But what about data centers? Holders of the world’s knowledge and cat pictures, data centers are home to some of the biggest names and brands that we use in our every day lives. Read More
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The Evolution of Data Center Power
Data Center Power can be confusing, let’s see what we can do to clear a few things up!
As servers, storage and networking gear get more dense and power hungry, data center power utilization changed dramatically.
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A Look At Awesome Data Centers
“What do you do?” We get asked this question often and it’s not always easy to answer. We move data centers. “Well what’s a data center?” This time, we are prepared! The simple answer is ‘computer stuff’, but we’re not here for the simple answer. The technical answer is that a data center is a large group of networked computer servers typically used by organizations for the remote storage, processing and distribution of large amounts of data.