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The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
meet today's power demands. Studies show that data center power requirements are increasing by 8% per year on average, and 20% per year in the largest centers. Indeed, creating an energy-efficient data center is paramount to curbing runaway power consumption and accommodating greater data center capacity.

This green data center e-book serves as an all-in-one guide to lead you through the...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect... Chapter two of this three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure All-in-One Guide focuses on power management. The...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
Wire Enterprises, a 200,000 sq/ft Tier IV data center discusses how its strategic partnership with Square D CPCC contributes to its reliability, uptime and an ultimate success. Power systems in today's data centers represent the highest level in optimization for reliability. This is a necessity, since the computer and IT equipment in these facilities and...
Rack Powering Options for High Density by APC
rack enclosure power consumption in the data center or network room varies widely and is expected to grow in the next few years. Rack enclosure equipment is replaced 5 or more times during the life of a data center in a piecemeal manner. This situation requires a rack enclosure power distribution system that can cope with the changing requirements. Key...
Data Center Demo (Flash Educational Tool) by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
components and operation of a typical Tier IV data center power system. Interactive tool demonstrates the components and operation of a typical Tier IV data center power system...
Essential Cooling System Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers by APC
collection of cooling system challenges and requirements as obtained through systematic user interviews. Results from a recent industry-wide survey of IT managers revealed five key cooling system challenge areas for mission critical installations. This white paper explores the underlying problems and highlights the necessary cooling system requirements to...
4 Stages of Green: Mapping Your Way to a Useful Project by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
is a 4-step explanation of how to reduce data center power consumption by:

  • Assessing current power expenditures
  • Developing a plan and framework
  • Gaining funding commitment
  • Understanding the leaders in green materials and how you can dispose of old materials
Brochure: Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at the approach to Data Center Transformation and how centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. It highlights data center managers and how HP is helping its customers address them. Not all data centers are ready for the challenges of the global marketplace including environmental concerns, disruption of critical...
System Grounding and Ground Fault Protection for Data Centers by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
protection and how it is implemented. Proper data center operation requires effective installation and maintenance of bonding and grounding systems. This white paper guides you though the basics of designing a bonded and grounded system, including National Electrical Code (NEC) requirements and installation and common construction issues. You'll also receive...
Speeding Business Innovation by Hewlett-Packard Company
In this white paper, learn how data center transformation can help your organization outsource applications and shift spending from maintenance and management to projects that support business growth and innovation. According to the Data Center Institute, by 2010 more than half of all data centers will have to relocate to new facilities or...
Critical Facilities Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
of large enterprises will face a shortage of data center floor space.

In short, data center requirements worldwide are rapidly increasing, fueling a demand for new "greenfield" or upgraded facilities with energy-efficient power and cooling technologies and modern, spacesaving layouts that provide operational continuity.

In this white paper, read how to meet the...
Understanding Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor by APC
meet virtually any requirement in a data room or data center. Therefore, their use in bid specifications is relatively unimportant.

Power Factor remains a misunderstood subject, and ignoring or misapplying the power factor concepts can result in a number of problems, including: overestimation of UPS run time; incorrect comparison of run time between competitive...
Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Intel Corporation
without exceeding the thermal limits of its data center, CERN is taking a comprehensive approach to improving energy efficiency. This paper outlines key strategies, including a move to Intel Xeon processors. Improving data center energy efficiency is becoming a fundamental requirement for most organizations, not only to contain operating costs, but also to...
CA Data Center Automation Manager Product Brief: A Tactical Approach to Simplify Service Delivery in the Data Center by CA
delivery lead time, and helps conserve valuable data center space and power resources. Today's IT shops must ensure service delivery as user demand grows, resources shrink, and technologies become more complex-a daunting task when combined with higher performance expectations and compliance requirements. Read this white paper to learn how automating critical...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
of ownership in x86 data centers. Cost, power, and data center cooling and space will continue to worsen if no changes are made to the current data center infrastructure. In fact, an estimated 10 power plants must be built over the next few years to accommodate the growing power usage in data centers. This webcast reviews a memory technology that enables memory capacity up to...
Maximizing IT Value by Using High-End Server Processors by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Intel IT has standardized on Intel® Xeon® processors with a core frequency of 3 GHz for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. Software acquisition and licensing costs are the largest drivers of TCO for server deployment in most IT shops. This white paper compares the performance of low- and high-end...
Data Center LAN Connectivity Guide by Juniper Networks, Inc.
introduces the issues related to changing data center needs and presents design considerations and recommendations for data center LANs. Today's IT organizations are need a data center LAN design that meets the growing performance demands of users and network-centric applications from a variety of locations. It must also economically scale and flexibly...
Oracle VM and NetApp Storage-Best Practices Guide by Oracle Corporation
and networking. This combination helps reduce power and space requirements. This white paper reviews a virtualization strategy that leverages grid technology to dynamically share resources like servers, storage, and networking among different enterprise applications. The combination of server and storage virtualization enables this technology to...
Rightsizing Blades for the Midmarket by Hewlett-Packard Company
in the mid-market and how to apply blades to your data center in a cost effective manner. Blades are one of the fastest-growing segments in the IT industry. Already accounting for nearly 10% of all server shipments, blades are expected to grow to represent more than 25% of server shipments by 2011.

For all this success, however, blades have been primarily limited to...
Intel IT: Taking Power Management to the Limit--and Beyond by Intel Corporation
power and thermal management in an aging data center to add needed servers--without expensive new infrastructure. Intel's 20-year-old FM1 data center in Folsom, California, was almost maxed out: Even though it had just been through a power upgrade, it already had just about as many servers as its aging infrastructure could support. But Intel IT Global Facilities...
Maximizing Business Agility with the Dynamic Data Center by Egenera, Inc.
footprint. Leveraging virtualization. Most data center managers that have successfully deployed virtualization for server consolidation now want to use this technology to provide higher service levels, greater reliability, and TCO reductions. This white paper guides you through the process of leveraging virtualization to implement an integrated management...
eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
s power consumption with its performance. Data center managers want to decrease power consumption in their IT shops, but how much of their efforts are actually paying off? Measuring energy efficiency is tricky, especially since most IT business units don't pay the power bill. And, the scarcity of virtual benchmarks in place means that virtualization adds...
MDS 9000 SAN-OS Software: The Virtual Machine Aware SAN by Cisco Systems, Inc.
44; scalable, and mobile. Virtualization of the data center, which includes servers, storage, and networks, has addressed some of the challenges related to consolidation, space constraints, demand for high power, and cooling requirements. End-to-end virtualization helps increase efficiency and reduces overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Virtual...
Confront Escalating Data Storage and Power Requirement with HP's Enterprise Virtual Array by Mobius Partners
Houston was facing unprecedented demands for power from its High Performance Computing Lab and to overcome this problem they used HP's Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) 6000 Series for SAN and C-Class Chassis. The University of Houston was facing unprecedented demands for power from its High Performance Computing Lab and to overcome this problem they used HP'...
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
program with a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure... In 2005, Hewlett-Packard faced many of the same challenges its customers face in their business technology infrastructure. The company had too many individual data centers-85 in total-too...
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Configuring DBCTL and virtual storage by Robert Crawford, Contributor
use more depending on database types and IMS system requirements.

Failure to set these numbers correctly can have a number of unpleasant effects. If buffers are over allocated there's a chance of blowing out ECSA. If FPBUF is set too low performance will be hurt by constant dipping into the overflow pool. If CNBA is too low CICS may not connect to DBCTL... More...

FTP on the mainframe roundup by Adam Trujillo, Assistant Editor
Managing data in various programs and across various platforms can get a little hairy when you're working on the mainframe. We put together this little FTP roundup to help you manage some of those tough files.


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FTP a dataset from MVS to Linux
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Career pathing: Advancing your career in the data center by Leonard Eckhaus, Contributor
highest ranking, most successful employees in your data center? What do they have in common? How did they achieve their success -- was it simply a stroke of luck, or did they perhaps have a plan?

There is an old adage that if you are dedicated, and work hard, you will be successful -- truth be told, that is seldom enough. It is also said that luck is better than brains, but... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

"When everyone talks... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
about how this complexity – and costliness -- arose. Certainly mainframe power players like IBM, CA and BMC had a hand in it.

"I wouldn't want it to sound like they intentionally created that complexity," said Ptak. "The complexity was a result of the state of technology at the time. A fair amount of it is simply a fact of life."

According to O'Malley, a lot of... More...