Posted by Kevin Low on Tue, Dec 01, 2009 @ 12:16 PM
The folks here at SNS are true Geeks and we seem to be getting worse by the week... in a good way, of course! Our data center has steadily been the recipient of regular investments in toys and gadgets of all types.
We have standardized on cabinets from American Power Conversion (APC) and last month received a full row of the APC 3100 series cabinets - jeez they are slick!
We have rolled out a state of the art IP Video system and bioscript finger biometric reader for securing and accessing the data center.
Lastly, we have started the SAS 70 type II audit process and expect great results.
Posted by Kevin Low on Fri, May 15, 2009 @ 12:39 PM
I attended my first Uptime Institute Symposium last month and I will certainly be back next year! Ted Casassa and I represented SNS and spent two days learning and listening from IT leaders from around the world. The theme was Lean, Clean, and Green - and I learned why.
My favorite take aways was the 'the Green IT debate' speech by Larry Quinlan from Deloitte & Neil Rasmussen from APC and his presentation on 'When High Density and High Efficiency Collide'.
We have been making tweaks to the Norwood data center since we returned and have learned lots of useful information for the Rhode Island Data Center