I think I’m suffering with brain overload; not that I’m trying to defeat the object of learning. I just decided to quantify in this article how much storing data on the cloud affects us. It’s no small thing I’ve discovered, and shouldn’t be taken lightly. Here at Atlantic we are operating at always increasing our upper limits of capability, redundant internet service and backbone connections, to make sure that we can provide optimum services in the event of peak loads. Here’s 3 articles that allow you to grasp the unseen efforts of data management:
From www.datacenterknowledge.com – 1 month ago
As more enterprises put their internal servers under scrutiny, they are noticing that legacy enterprise data centers are becoming increasingly ineffective, writes Kevin Dean of Interxion.
Juliana Payson‘s insight:
IDC predicts that the total number of U.S. data centers will fall from 2.94 million in 2012 to 2.89 million in 2016. However, while new data center facilities themselves may be on the decline, the data they house certainly isn’t, given that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day, with fewer facilities to house them. This implies that for hosting companies data management is becoming rather like NASA, failure is not an option. At Atlantic, we benefit from being able to service cloud facilities from our data centers as well as colocation communities, thereby strengthening our overall service to businesses.
Let’s take a look at Google’s Data centers, now available in street view!
From techfeit.com – 2 days ago
A data center is a centralized location for the storage and management of vital data and information organized around a particular knowledge or business. The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), for example…
Juliana Payson‘s insight:
From the networking room to taking special note of the cooling towers outside of the facility, you can explore the different areas of a Google data center in this guided video tour. Learn more about what you’re viewing in Street View above, and see some of the equipment in motion.
Managing this enormous amount of data produces a huge amount of heat, which we have to exchange with the outside environment via the use of cooling towers. In a research paper just launched by MIT, there is a suggestion that computational efficiency of data management can reduce the load and energy requirement by as much as 35%!
From thetbleconomy.com – 2 hours ago
Storing video and other files more intelligently reduces the demand on servers in a data center. New research suggests that data centers could significantly cut their electricity usage simply by st…
Juliana Payson‘s insight:
With the new technology, any individual data center could be expected to save 35 percent in capacity and electricity costs—about $2.8 million a year or $18 million over the lifetime of the center, says Muriel Médard, a professor at MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics, who led the work and recently conducted the cost analysis.
Going green is no small issue. Recently, a report issued by the Carbon Disclosure Project stated that by using cloud computing, you can reduce your energy consumption and carbon emissions, while saving on IT resources and improving functional efficiency within your business. Any small effort to reduce energy consumption cumulates to significant effect especially on bigdata with cloud servers. It’s no surprise here that increasing efficiency from the root level of coding can reduce processing requests on servers, and therefore load demands.
by - Juliana
If you are on the market for a new web hosting solution, you have undoubtedly heard the term “Virtual Private Server hosting.” You may also be intrigued by the concept of cloud hosting. What are the differences and similarities between these two solutions? Which option is most ideal for your personal computing needs?
