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Texas Server Farm Management

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Let's face it when you outgrow your server room that's one problem.  When you have thousands of servers across remote locations that is a larger problem.  I understand not only the management of thousands of servers but I tackle disaster recovery issues as well.

Texas Customers

Some information I know about Texas is I believe the state was admitted or ratified to the United States around or about 'December 29, 1845'.  Texas is located around latitude '31' and longitude of '-100' and has a population of roughly '29,145,505 million'.  If I remember correctly the capital is 'Austin' and the largest city is 'Houston'. 

Areas of Server Mitigation Issues

Understand, Plan, Implement, Manage:

1. Understand your data
2. Determine the best strategy for data access across a multitude of servers
3. Utilize data expansion across servers to cut down on speed of access and network traffic
4. Ensure automated updates occur seamlessly and issues notified and recorded accordingly.
5. Develop and test a disaster recovery plan

If at any point you decide to reach to me just know the area codes I am familiar with for Texas are '210, 214, 254, 281, 325, 346, 361, 409, 430, 432, 469, 512, 682, 713, 726, 737, 806, 817, 830, 832, 903, 915, 936, 940, 956, 972, 979'.  For Server Farms assistance you will find my rates very reasonable for Texas.  Now just keep in mind my time zone is 'Eastern Standard Time (EST)' and I know the time zones in Texas are 'Most of the state: Central Standard Time (CST) / El Paso and Hudspeth Counties: Mountain Standard Time (MST)' in case you wish to call me.  Anyway let me continue.

Costs

Whether you are running a small farm or a data center, energy is one of the important issues to consider for server farm cost.  As you know, computers consume lots of energy.  If you are running processor intensive applications, the server farm cost will go up.  Further, using energy creates heat.  So, installing a proper cooling mechanisms for your farm is important.  You might have to install an HVAC system to properly cool the area.  Besides the power consumption of the CPU's, your estimations should also take into account the price of installation and energy consumption of the cooling system.

You know, I don't make it out to Texas much but I would like to see the 'Mockingbird' state bird.  I am a little familiar with the Texas 'Texas Blue Bonnet' state flower as well.  However, I do not know much about Texas's state tree the 'Pecan'.  Fishing is fun to me perhaps I would like reeling in the Texas 'Guadelupe Bass' state fish.  Anyway, sorry I went off topic.  Let me continue.

Performance Optimization

Today, most server farms use virtualization and containerization technologies, refer to this link and you'll find more info about containerization.  In the past, certain machines were dedicated to an application.  When the application wasn't in use, the machines would still remain running and waste energy.  So, virtualization and containerization allow IT teams to use the same servers for multiple applications.  Thus it, optimizes the use of the equipment.  It also makes it easy to scale or improve performance for any application.

Server Farm Maintenance

You can create load balancers to ensure traffic is always routed to the functional servers.  Also, you can set up simple health checks that can run on regular intervals to make sure your critical services are always online.  And if you're experiencing some trouble with the configuration of all this stuff, this is exactly what my team are dealing with and can help you.

Physical and Cyber Security

There should be proper access mechanisms like doors and locks, so only authorized personnel can access the computers.  Cybercriminals often use social engineering methods to gain access to the physical locations.  So if you don't have a way to safeguard your devices, criminals might be able to walk into your facility and get access to your servers directly.