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Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers by APC
rack or more can result from the deployment of high density equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult cooling challenges in a data center environment where the industry average rack power consumption is under 2 kW. This white paper discusses:
  • A background and explanation of power density
  • Actual power density values of current and new data centers
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Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment by APC
High-density servers offer a significant performance per watt benefit. But, depending on the deployment, they can present a cooling challenge. This paper provides ten approaches for increasing cooling efficiency, cooling capacity and power density. Blade servers use less powerful than traditional servers, but when housed...
IDC: Next - Generation Power and Cooling for Blade Environments by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
Next-Generation Technology for Virtual I/O and Blade Servers, which focus on the operational and cost advantages of HP Insight Software and HP Virtual Connect, respectively...
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Blade servers by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Implementing the newest blade servers will enable you to decrease power consumption and optimize performance in your virtualized data center. Listen to this expert podcast to learn more about how you can consume less power and cut cooling costs. Analysts are reporting that the newest blade servers are helping companies decrease power...
Expert Tips For Energy-Efficient Rack Servers: Green E-Book by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
portion of the IT energy load-between 50% and 75%--so they also signify the biggest opportunity to combat the IT energy crisis in your data center. This expert e-book from the writers at SearchDataCenter.com details strategies to reduce energy usage per server and decrease the number of servers. Rack servers represent the largest portion of the IT energy load...
Total cost of ownership (TCO) of Dell PowerEdge M710 and HP Proliant BL685c G5 blade solutions. by Dell, Inc. and Intel
to deploy and manage than traditional rack servers and offer lower energy consumption for both server power and cooling. We calculated the total cost of ownership (TCO) of two full-height blade solutions: the Dell PowerEdge M710 server and the HP ProLiant BL685c C5 server. Our 1-, 3-, and 5-year TCO estimates included costs for hardware, support, management software, power...
DELL™ PowerEdge™ Half-Height M610 and Full-Height M710 Blade by Dell, Inc. and Intel
The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. These M-Series blades use the Intel...
Windows Servers and Storage: Planning Your Server Room by Dell, Inc. and Intel
To build this room you will need more than just servers and space. The room should have disks, backup disks, blades, and even a console incase the administrator would like to work on it onsite. Read this eBook chapter to learn about equipment, environmental factors, planning for growth, and security.

Other topics included in this chapter include:

  • Technology evolution and
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Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center by APC
This white paper details how self-contained high-density zones enable a reliable operation of high-density equipment without impacting a low-density data center. New breakthroughs in power and cooling technology allow for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high-density zones with an existing or new low-density center. This white paper explains how the...
Air-Cooled High-Performance Data Centers: Case Studies and Best Methods. by Intel Corporation
an air-cooled data center has been challending and costly for many businesses. Read this white paper to learn how Intel Corporation achieved breakthrough power and heat densities of 15 kW per cabinet and more than 500 watts per square foot of server room area.

Designing an air-cooled data center has been challending and costly for many businesses. Read this white...
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution by APC
became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also increasing. The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also...
HP ProLiant G6 Technology Overview: Featuring servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
The sixth-generation (G6) of HP ProLiant DL, ML, and BL servers is the broadest range of servers in the industry based on the Intel Xeon® processor 5500 series. The ProLiant G6 server lineup includes rack, tower, and server blades that provide industry-leading energy efficiency, extreme flexibility, and scalable perform This product overview will outline how...
Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers by APC
This paper reviews five methods to deploy blade servers and avoid common pitfalls, helping you select the best power and cooling approach for your IT shop. The installation of blade servers—which drastically increase the electrical power used per rack and heat generated per rack—into an existing data center is guaranteed to stress existing power and cooling systems...
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits by APC
throughput, frees up floor space, and facilitates load migration and disaster recovery. With these benefits though, come new challenges to the power and cooling infrastructure. Virtualization is an undisputed leap forward in data center evolution - it saves energy, it increases computing throughput, it frees up floor space, and it...
Transitioning your Data Center from 10th to 11th Generation PowerEdge Servers by Dell, Inc. and Intel
the transition from Dell's 10th generation servers to the new 11th generation servers. With Dell's new 11th generation line, Dell is launching the industry's first portfolio of servers with integrated management. In this video, learn more about the transition from Dell's 10th generation servers to the new 11th generation servers. With Dell's new 11th generation...
Server Study by Dell, Inc. and Intel
that administrators look at when buying and choosing a server vendor.

Take this quick survey on server to show us the important advantages between solutions...
HP reference configurations for HP and Microsoft Hyper-V solution-guidelines for ProLiant DL160 G6 for Enterprise by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
HP and Microsoft have developed a variety of recommended configurations and services for Microsoft applications, which are appropriate for particular business and technical situations. Properly configuring Hyper-V for your virtualization plan enables you to best ensure full lifecycle support and seamlessly...
E-Guide: A Guide to Managing Data Center Power Outages and Consumption by APC
consumtion. As businesses continue to pack more high-density computing gear into their data centers, power density and heat have been brought to critical levels. This has created a significant power management crisis for many organizations. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and APC, you will discover best practices for managing data center...
Five Basic Steps for Efficient Space Organization with High Density Enclosures by APC
and optimizing organization within both low and high density enclosure, with special emphasis on how to plan for higher densities. Crowded enclosures are not only unsightly, they also diminish efficiency and uptime in the data center. This white paper reviews five critical steps to improve internal enclosure organization with new enclosure designs and sizes. Read on...
SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE T5440 SERVER ARCHITECTURE by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges. Serving the dynamic and growing pace of Web 2.0 services development and application deployment is increasingly challenging for datacenter operations. Services need to be able to start small and scale very...
An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers by APC
that combines high-efficiency power and cooling equipment with configuration and operation strategies to optimize efficiency. Since conventional legacy data centers don't use proven designs incorporating readily available power and cooling equipment, they operate much less efficiently than they could.

One key finding of this paper is that...
HP sample configurations for the HP and SAP Virtualization solution by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
provided by the selection of HP ProLiant servers and the options they contain. When virtualizing an SAP environment, it's important to consider configuration techniques before a deployment. This configuration guide reviews configuration paradigms, including blade optimization and workload considerations. It also offers sample configurations for the...
World Class Data Center: Retrofit Data Center Video by Intel Corporation
s needs. Check out this brief video to see how one high density computer center was converted to maximize power delivery and air cooling. Watch this video tour presented by Tom Greenbaum, Data Center Manager for one of the highest density computer centers in the world, to see how an old silicon chip factory was converted into an innovative data center.

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Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure. Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide...
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experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...