Hi there! We have been cruising right through these elements, please feel free to post comments or questions or contact us directly. We are very excited to share this information as we know if all elements are considered you will truly have a unique and comprehensive solution for your data center.

This week we will post the content from Mark Evanko’s presentation outlining the 16 Elements one should consider in order to develop a complete and appropriate Data Center solution. Mark’s theory is simple, if anyone who needs to plan the next steps or creation of a data center solution looks carefully at these 16 items, based on their specific needs and requirements, this system can act as a roadmap to pinpoint a proper solution. BRUNS-PAK can of course help!

So this week lets look at Element #6, Co-Location

6. Co-Location

A. Leased data center constructed space

B. Capex schedule of delivery minimized

C. ROI – see total cost of ownership – 3+?

D. Other tenants? – Impact of security

E. Downtime: Who pays?

F. Security Breach: Who pays?

G. Terms and conditions (Legal Beagles 2014!!!)

H. Senator Menendez – New Jersey sponsoring legislation 2014 and beyond

I. Financial strength of service providers – see Cushman Wakefield survey of “economics” 2014 report.

J. Moves/add/changes

Here is the full list of 16 Elements we have covered and/or will be reviewing one by one over the next weeks:

Defining the Mix of “Elements” (16) Considered in the Data Center Solution

1. FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE

2. ENERGY EFFICIENCY

3. COMPUTER HARDWARE

4. CLOUD Internal/External

5. DISASTER RECOVERY

6. CO-LOCATION

7. MIGRATION/RELOCATION

8. COMPUTER SOFTWARE

9. MODULARITY/SCALABILITY /RELIABILITY

10. COMMUNICATIONS/NETWORK

11. SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS

12. PERSONNEL

13. CAPEX vs. LEASE/OPEX

14. CONTAINERS

15. GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE/UNIVERSITY/NON-PROFIT

16. LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS

Copyright © 2014 BRUNS-PAK 2014. All Rights Reserved.

Good Morning! Moving right along through these elements, please feel free to post comments or questions or contact us directly. We are very excited to share this information as we know if all elements are considered you will truly have a unique and comprehensive solution for your data center.

This week we will post the content from Mark Evanko’s presentation outlining the 16 Elements one should consider in order to develop a complete and appropriate Data Center solution. Mark’s theory is simple, if anyone who needs to plan the next steps or creation of a data center solution looks carefully at these 16 items, based on their specific needs and requirements, this system can act as a roadmap to pinpoint a proper solution. BRUNS-PAK can of course help!

So this week lets look at Element #7, Migration / Relocation

7. Migration / Relocation

A. Move existing or buy/lease new?

B. Asset swap outs

C. General hardware life cycle ± 3-4 years?

D. Maximize uptime

E. Multiple phases

F. Consolidation strategies

G. Physical cost vs. planning costs

H. Impacts of the network

I. Move it? – Plan to migrate back? – Resume update

Here is the full list of 16 Elements we have covered and/or will be reviewing one by one over the next weeks:

Defining the Mix of “Elements” (16) Considered in the Data Center Solution

1. FACILITY INFRASTRUCTURE

2. ENERGY EFFICIENCY

3. COMPUTER HARDWARE

4. CLOUD Internal/External

5. DISASTER RECOVERY

6. CO-LOCATION

7. MIGRATION/RELOCATION

8. COMPUTER SOFTWARE

9. MODULARITY/SCALABILITY /RELIABILITY

10. COMMUNICATIONS/NETWORK

11. SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS

12. PERSONNEL

13. CAPEX vs. LEASE/OPEX

14. CONTAINERS

15. GOVERNMENT/CORPORATE/UNIVERSITY/NON-PROFIT

16. LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS

Copyright © 2014 BRUNS-PAK 2014. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.nfmt.com/orlando/education/speakerdetails/Mark-S-Evanko–72

This time of year is about reflection and giving thanks and we always say that our clients are the best and the brightest organizations in the world! We can tell you all of the reasons WHY these firms have chosen BRUNS-PAK to aid them on their Data Center Design and Data Center Construction projects….. but today we’d like to feature WHO has chosen our Data Center Services and Solutions. Simply because the integrity and reputation of these organizations speak for themselves. #goodchoices #thankyou

https://www.bruns-pak.com/clients-partnerships/client-list/

Mobile Access is Driving New Demand for Smarter Networks and More Intelligent Data Center Architecture

Big data often seems to dominate headlines in IT publications. Few trends carry as dramatic a potential impact on business processes, with data-driven decision making becoming de rigueur across departments in all enterprises. But for IT, an even more important trend continues to build momentum, threatening to rewrite many of the rules for data center design and management — mobile data growth.

Global mobile data traffic grew 81% in 2013, reaching 1.5 exabytes per month by December 2013, up from 820 petabytes per month at the end of 2012.¹ Mobile data transmissions now represent over 18x the total traffic traversing the entire Internet in 2000. While mobile devices continue to grow in terms of processing power, their true potential for both business and consumer applications comes from their ability to connect users anywhere and anytime to data located in data centers around the globe. This developing ‘anywhere, anytime’ approach introduces a whole new set of rules for data center management, including increasing demand to move information among data centers integrated in hybrid architectures in order to provide optimized user experience through localized points-of-presence.

Of course, many organizations have already begun to address the demands of mobile access and its attendant ‘anywhere, anytime’ use cases. However, the usage patterns we see today only minimally represent what many experts foresee in the future.

In the latest update of the Cisco® Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, networking giant Cisco predicts²:

• Mobile data traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 61 percent from 2013 to 2018, reaching 15.9 exabytes per month by 2018, up from 1.5 exabytes per month currently
• By 2018, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed 10 billion, exceeding the forecasted global population and averaging 1.4 devices per person
• By 2018, network traffic generated by tablet devices will reach 2.9 exabytes monthly, nearly double the total mobile network traffic today
• The penetration of smart mobile devices will reach 54%, up from 21% at the end of 2013, but only 15% of the connections will be at 4G speeds. Of note, a typical 4G connection generates nearly 6x more traffic than a non-4G connection, meaning that mobile growth could spike even faster if 4G penetration accelerates

These forecasts indicate a dramatic uptick in demand for mobile connectivity, a demand easily explained as users get more comfortable connecting to data from mobile devices and experience the advantages that real-time connection to data, in all its forms, can provide. Of particular note for many organizations is the explosive growth in demand for video content, which is expected to continue to accelerate across applications for the foreseeable future.

For CIOs, the mobile data explosion is creating rapid escalation of demand for flexible, scalable, high-performance data center capacity that can swiftly be commissioned to meet both organic demand growth in existing application portfolios as well as sudden increase of demand resulting from new application deployments to meet new customer or internal business requirements. For example, retailers are increasingly using in-store video monitoring tools to predict traffic at registers to better manage service levels. At the same time, retail deployment of more sophisticated mobile shopping applications is growing exponentially.

As applications for everything from transactional commerce to customer service, logistics and finance move increasingly online, many traditional approaches to data center architecture built on proprietary, on-premise facilities are being challenged. Few organizations will avoid the need to construct hybrid architectures that integrate cloud, colo, on-premise, POD and modular designs into a multi-faceted environment that can easily address emerging capacity, reliability and cost-efficiency demands.

How BRUNS-PAK Can Help

Over the past thirty-five years, BRUNS-PAK has evolved its proprietary design/build methodologies to integrate the evolving array of strategies and tools available to data center planning teams, resulting in the BRUNS-PAK Hybrid Efficient Data Center Design program. Through an iterative process that acknowledges both rapidly changing IT requirements and their associated facilities infrastructure needs, this program delivers a strategic approach to addressing the evolving capacity and complex networking requirements created by the explosive growth in mobile data traffic. Through our expanded consulting services group, and well-established design/build services team, BRUNS-PAK is uniquely positioned to assist customers seeking to create a long-term strategic direction for their data center that ensures an infrastructure able to support real-world demands in an increasingly mobile age.

For more information, contact Jackie Porr at 888.704.1400 or via email at jporr@stage-14xghe2.dream.press.

Name: Brandon Evanko

Title: Project Engineer

Role at BRUNS-PAK: Brandon’s role in his words is basically a Hybrid between Operations, Sales and Business Development. He gets to take calls, work (learn) the technical side, and be a Brand Ambassador for the next generation of BRUNS-PAK.

Me: What do you love about what you do?

Brandon: There is a lot to love about what I do. There is the meaningfulness of carrying on the legacy of our family’s business. There is the technical nature of what we do…I am kind of a nerd at heart and I enjoy being an apprentice, learning the engineering…the ability to understand how to build a Data Center. Also there’s the love of being a part of something bigger than just me.

Me: What has been your favorite project to work on to date? Why?

Brandon: Would have to be the Design/Build of The Metropolitan District Commission’s Data Center. I was able and excited to see some of the Design stage and was onsite through Construction and commissioning.

Me: What is the most common pitfalls/issues you see from our clients when they come to BRUNS-PAK for our services or to your department?

Brandon: Probably the most common issue is when potential clients have failed to plan for the future capability of their Data Center. Many have built their Data Center for today and yesterday but have not planned for the future. They then have to look at Cloud vs. Security Issues, Tear Down etc. Company’s need to have a modular, scalable approach when thinking about design and build for a data center.  Data centers are inherently dynamic in how they change.  By allowing for modularity, you can piece together additional power and cooling without having to tear down the whole building and starting from scratch.  Designing for that modularity allows scaling to current business needs to go that much more smooth.

Me: Where do you see the future of Data Centers heading in the next 5 years or so? And beyond?

Brandon: I see a real progression in the utilization of renewable energy. I think in the future that the majority of power and Data Centers will be run by renewable sources.  Especially with major players such as Google, Apple and LinkedIn pushing the envelope in that regard, I believe that it will lead for all the other players to follow suit.  When technology catches up and allows renewable energy to be as efficient and cost effective as fossil fuels, data centers will have an extra incentive to go renewable.

Me: Common misconception of Data Center Engineers?

Brandon: I have to say that perhaps a lot of the stereotypes are pretty true. We’re not all anti-social but about 90% may be! I heard a joke that you can tell who is a Social Engineer cause when he talks he’s staring at your shoes not his own!

Me: What sets BRUNS-PAK apart from the pak? (see what we did there?)

Brandon: The ethical nature of BRUNS-PAK, the timely/prompt response to clients. Our reputation and track record. Also Mark Evanko President of BRUNS-PAK sets the tone and sets himself apart from the pack. I think its just how we do business… we are a smaller, privately held organization in which our clients can reach Mark or their point of contact at 8pm on a Saturday night for example. I think that resonates with people and they know that is valuable.

Me: Do you actually drink coffee?

Brandon: Yes, I have one cup of black coffee a day in the AM, then a pre workout caffeinated beverage to go to the gym called LIT or C4 in the evening.

Good Morning, we know many of our Data Center Decision Makers are settling down at their desks for office hours and research. And yes, we do have a Services Page on our website but we want to list and highlight them here. People know us as a Data Center Design/Build Firm but there is much more that goes on around here. We Consult, Evaluate, help clients work in the Cloud if and when it fits in their customized Data Center Solution. We want you to know that when you utilize BRUNS-PAK, we provide you with all the design, planning and implementation necessary to give you a Data Center fit for 2018 and beyond!!

Our Services:

Data Center Facility Infrastructure

Data Center IT / Cloud Services

Data Center Colo / Cloud Service Provider Solutions

Consulting – Evaluation and Requirements Analysis

Data Center Design Engineering – Design For Efficiency

Data Center Construction Management – Construction Administration and General Contracting

Commissioning

And of course we understand that you can’t know where your headed if your unsure of where your Data Center currently operates. So here is the link to our Data Center Reliability Levels Chart – Our favorite tool for understanding your current Data Center functionality!

https://www.bruns-pak.com/resources/data-center-reliability-levels/

The new year brings about many articles that look over Data Center and Tech trends from 2017, in order to predict trends in 2018. We like to peruse them as it always validates that BRUNS-PAK and Principal Mark Evanko are spot on when it comes to Thought Leadership in our industry. A common element that industry articles discuss is that there will be more Gatekeeping when it comes to the cloud. More and more Companies will seek and find a balanced approach to Cloud Storage and the use of on premise Apps and Data Center configurations. There are some eggs that are better left in the basket and Mark Evanko, our CEO and Principal Engineer at BRUNS-PAK has long been sharing his presentations on key elements to consider when creating a Data Center Hybrid Solution. He lays out the map for our existing and future clients to utilize and the thought leadership keeps coming. What used to be a 16 Element Solution is now 18 Elements and posted here for you.

BRUNS-PAK 18 Elements and Back Up 01-2018 (1)

Good Afternoon! We received some great content from Brandon Evanko, Project Engineer at BRUNS-PAK. We asked Brandon for commentary after reviewing some 2017 Data Center Trend Summary articles. We think you will find it helpful, informative and a must read to kick off 2018!

“So in relation to 2017 Summary Trends and BRUNS-PAK…  As of recent there has been a large industry trend in migrating workloads from large enterprise data centers into the cloud.  The process and what applications can and can’t be taken into the cloud is still being refined as the cloud boom has really just started.  However, relative to BRUNS-PAK, understanding the bigger picture of what a data center encompasses is vital to being able to understand what you should and shouldn’t take into the cloud as far as your workloads.  BRUNS-PAK’s 18 elements allow clients to take into consideration the whole picture, not just relative to the cloud but to their whole enterprise. 

Inherently, the impact of moving workloads from the enterprise into the cloud is not limited to just the workloads themselves; it impacts your whole business strategy.  The logic of eliminating a need to have physical footprint (capex) and changing those costs to operating expense via cloud hosting is a financial decision that every C level executive across industries needs to understand.  Aside from this you have to look into the modularity, scalability and reliability of transferring those current workloads.  You have to have a strategy via the cloud or in the enterprise, especially with dynamically changing business needs that is not just for today but is for the future of your enterprise.  Without this understanding, you will handicap growth. 

Another relevant topic related to BRUNS-PAK’s 18 elements relative to the cloud is cybersecurity.  Cybersecurity is a reason why today, moving your most critical applications from an on-prem data center into the cloud is not advisable.  Data security on-prem as it stands now is more reliable than cloud security.  This is why the hybrid data center solution is so relevant in today’s day and age.  There are applications that you can offload into the cloud or a co-location facility but you need that centralized on-prem data center for you most critical applications.  Refining what that hybrid approach should be for your business is what BRUNS-PAK and our 18 elements allow organizations to do.  As opposed to your standard watts per square foot approach, we interpolate IT into facilities, nailing down the nitty gritty IT workloads so we can give you the most cost effective way to manage your data for again not only today, but for the FUTURE.”

Good Morning! Wanted to share this certificate from The Global HPC Technical Computing Advisory Panel! #highperformance #computing