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15 Nov 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Cabling, Data Centers, Facilities Design

Power Cable Management: The Foundation of Any Functioning Data Center

Earlier this month, DSI’s Business Administrator, Jon McSweeny, published a thought leadership piece for Facility Executive discussing the importance of proper Data Center cable management. In the piece, Jon discusses how cables are the foundation of every Data Center and how important it is for a Data Center’s operational integrity. Additionally, proper cable management helps avoid needless headaches that chew up valuable time and resources for...

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01 Nov 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Facilities Design

Surviving the PG&E Power Outages

Over the last few weeks, California has been ravaged by wildfires, and PG&E has stuck to its promise to selectively shut off power to help reduce the start and spread of wildfires. For the mission critical industry, this revelation is troubling. In fact, just last week it was reported that the NERSC's Cori supercomputer shut down due to PG&E's power cut. "The National Energy Research Scientific...

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24 Oct 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Center News, Data Centers, Modular Data Center

Phil Rafferty’s Thought Leadership Piece Featured at Data Center Dynamics

Earlier this week, Phil Rafferty’s piece Edge Computing and Modular Data Centers: A Marriage Made in Heaven was published at Data Center Dynamics. In the piece, Phil draws on DSI’s years of experience in designing and building modular data center deployments to highlight why edge and modular are the perfect match for numerous reasons. Edge modules have a small footprint and are built offsite with all...

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17 Oct 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Design, Facilities Design, Modular Data Center

The True Cost of Data Center Over-Provisioning

Earlier this week, Future Facilities released some interesting findings based on a study they recently commissioned. The bottom line: there is a lack of Data Center capacity planning, and, in many cases, organizations are not prepared to meet the growing challenges that IT and Facilities face from increased rack densities and other factors. The study indicates that 85% of those surveyed have experienced downtime or outages...

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11 Oct 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Facilities Design, News

Electric Vehicle Sales Are on the Rise – Is Your Business Prepared?

As pointed out in an article in FacilitiesNet e-newsletter, Take Charge of EV Infrastructure, electric vehicle adoption is expected to grow exponentially in the US over the next couple of years. In order to preserve the environment on behalf of both the organization and its employees, Facilities Managers are being asked to provide Electric Vehicle Charging (EVC) stations on site. Data Specialties can handle every aspect...

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20 Sep 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Events, News, Trade Shows

7X24 Exchange International Announces International Data Center Day

Data Specialties Inc. is pleased to help the 7x24 Exchange International promote its first International Data Center Day! The Day was created to raise awareness of the data center industry and to inspire the next generation of talent. The first International Data Center Day will be held on October 29, 2019. International Data Center Day provides the industry an opportunity to open their doors and show,...

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13 Sep 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Design, News

DSI Completes Data Center Expansion to Service Global Auto Manufacturer

DSI recently completed a significant data center expansion for a global technology services company that will support two large auto manufacturers and their affiliate businesses in the North and South American markets. Prior to DSI’s involvement, the data center was reaching maximum limits of physical space, as well as electrical and cooling capacities. To continue operations, the company planned to expand the facility to operate...

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06 Sep 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Modular Data Center

Announcing DSI’s Data Center Dive

Today, we officially launched our quarterly newsletter, the DSI Data Center Dive. The newsletter is an opportunity for us to keep in touch with customers and partners, providing them with valuable information on data center best practices, upcoming events that we will be attending and media coverage. The newsletter is also an opportunity for us to highlight the breadth of work that our firm has...

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30 Aug 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Modular Data Center

Modular Data Centers

With Modular Data Centers becoming such an important topic in the data center environment, we wanted to focus on one of DSI’s most recent, and most successful, Modular Data Center projects. The University of Texas Health Science Center recent implemented a Modular Data Center solution designed and built by DSI. As detailed in the link below, construction of a new building to house a data center...

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23 Aug 2019
Posted byDSI
CategoryBlog, Data Centers, Modular Data Center

Hitting the Road for Edge Data Centers

Last month, DSI partnered with Future Facilities and RF Code to host two Edge Data Center seminars. The first one was held at Hurricane Electric’s Fremont 2 data center in Fremont, CA and the other one was held in Irvine, CA at Southern California Edison’s operations center. Upon conclusion of the Irvine event, attendees had the opportunity to tour SCE’s data center and get some...

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