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Should you comply with Article 645 of the National Electrical Code?
A major consideration in the design of a data center is whether the Information Technology Equipment (ITE) space will comply with Article 645 of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Article 645 covers equipment, power supply wiring, equipment interconnecting wiring, and grounding of information technology equipment and systems. Chapters 1...
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Using ITIL to bridge the IT-facilities gap, boost data center efficiency
and framework can be applied to all facets of the data center on both the IT and the facilities sides, it can help both sides of the data center to communicate and shrink the IT-facilities divide.
IT is focused on maintenance and rolling out new applications, and ensuring that changes and problems don't disrupt service. As a result, IT may not be aware of... More...
Turn to collaborative tools for systems performance management
the firewall, pulling in help from outside of the data center payroll.
Sharing configuration By far, the most popular shared configuration is around reports... More... Related Articles
IBM's Nehalem EX-based systems to boost x86 server memory capacity
higher licensing costs because the chip has eight cores. VMware's multicore pricing and licensing policy states that costs can increase with servrers running on chips with more than six cores. More server memory capacity; too much of a good thing?
Kenny Coleman, a VMware administrator at a Louisville area nonprofit, said the extra memory capacity seems... More...
Virtualization and memory complexity frustrates IT pros
How VM memory issues arise
The ESX hypervisor inspects memory pages loaded by guest operating systems running in virtual machines. When it finds identical memory pages, it saves a copy of the page and then creates a pointer to it for the virtual machines. Duplicate memory pages are common in highly virtualized environments; if someone runs 20 copies of Windows Server... More...
New federal data center energy-effiiciency guidelines on tap
The federal government and major industry groups are on the cusp of developing widely accepted standards for measuring a data center's energy efficiency.
Along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with six data center industry groups... More... |