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Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution by APC
rack). This has driven an architectural shift in data center cooling. The advent of a newer cooling architecture that was designed for the higher densities has brought with it increased efficiencies for the data center. This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures...
Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC
examines various mistakes that compromise data center colling systems, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies. Most data centers and network rooms have a variety of basic design and configuration flaws that prevent them from achieving their potential cooling capacity and prevent them from delivering cool air where...
IDC: Next - Generation Power and Cooling for Blade Environments by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
play a central role in reducing overall data center operating expenses and improving flexibility and control of infrastructure resources. They also differentiate HP BladeSystem both from competitive blade offerings and from rack-optimized servers.

In this technical brief, IDC examines HP Thermal Logic, a holistic approach to improving power and cooling...
Turning Challenges into Opportunities in the Data Center by Intel Corporation
the steps to improve energy efficiency in the data center. First, learn about reliable metrics for comparison of energy-efficiency performance. Next, explore techniques that enable you to do the following:

  • Reduce energy usage for non-compute functions
  • Provide fine-grained component power management
  • Enable modeling airflow to identify and address key airflow
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An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers by APC
not sufficient to ensure high-efficiency in the data center. An architecture and strategy that uses such high-efficiency equipment in an efficient manner, and reduces over-sizing, is just as important as efficient hardware itself. In fact, by combining high-efficiency equipment with an effective architecture, your IT shop can save up to 40% of the total electrical power of...
Air-Cooled High-Performance Data Centers: Case Studies and Best Methods. by Intel Corporation
Designing 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...
Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management™ Blanking Panels by APC
cools itself by drawing ambient air from the data center or network room. If the heated exhaust air is allowed to return to the air inlet of the equipment, an undesirable overheating condition may occur. This paper explains how this problem compromises the cooling process and the benefit of using air blanking panels. IT equipment mounted in racks cools itself by...
Power Metrics for Data Centers by Intel Corporation
IT managers are evaluating the performance of a data center by tracking power measurements of the overall data center including both IT equipment and infrastructure to determine Power Use Effectiveness (PUE) and Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency (DCiE) ratios. Some of the most useful benchmarks and metrics are provided in this article along with descriptions to...
Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency by SearchDataCenter
installed is driving the biggest global boom in data center construction history. The OpEx and CapEx costs of these new data centers are creating significant financial challenges for many IT intensive enterprises. This session identifies the three primary drivers of ever increasing facility costs and identifies the three strategic actions required by CFOs and...
Cutting datacenter costs with server and infrastructure offload - A technical guide by Citrix
Enterprises and service providers worldwide are struggling to deal with mounting datacenter costs. With a powerful set of capabilities for offloading datacenter infrastructure, NetScaler provides a relatively quick, low-cost way for organizations to cut their server count by 50 to 60 percent or more. Enterprises and...
Is Your Data Center Running Out Of Power Or Cooling? by Eaton Corporation
Is your data center running out of power or cooling? Read this paper and discover seven ways to extend the value of what you have and optimize the plan for what you need. The challenge. To keep pace with business demands, data centers pack in more power-hungry, heat generating IT systems than ever. Many power and cooling systems are...
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...
Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers by APC
Installing blade servers in an existing data center stresses the power and cooling systems. 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...
Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms by APC
This paper explains the five methods of a proper cooling closet and outlines the basic principles of cooling small, distributed IT environments. Improper cooling systems can cause overheating and equipment failure. For most IT closets, ventilation is the most effective and practical cooling strategy. Learn how ventilation systems that are specifically designed...
The Green Data Center: Where Ecology Meets Economy by Wipro Technologies
critically examine the means to maximize your Data Center's efficiency by providing you with a green perspective of your computing environment. This paper will critically examine the means to maximize your Data Center's efficiency by providing you with a green perspective of your computing environment. Our goal is to give you the tools so you don't waste...
Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment by APC
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 compactly in a single rack, the increased power required and heat dissipated creates hot spots. In fact, many high...
The Other Green -- Storage Efficiency and Optimization by Storage Decisions
session will look at various techniques and strategies to optimize either on-line active or primary as well as near-line or secondary storage environment during tough economic times, as well as to position for future growth. Throw out the "green" buzzword, and you're still left with the task of saving or maximizing use of space, power, and cooling while...
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...
Green Data Center: A Proactive Approach to IT Efficiency by SearchDataCenter
Listen to top green data center experts, as they help you properly identify your current energy efficiency issues and show you the next steps toward increasing your data center performance without breaking the bank. This year, we all are facing the need to cut costs without sacrificing performance. As energy costs are rapidly rising, data...
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits by APC
is an undisputed leap forward in data center evolution - it saves energy, increases computing 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...
Data Center Projects: Standardized Process by APC
involving new construction or upgrades to the data center’s physical infrastructure - the power, cooling, and other physical systems that house and protect the data center’s IT equipment. As the design and deployment of data center physical infrastructure moves away from art and more toward science, the benefits of a standardized and predictable...
E-Guide: A Guide to Managing Data Center Power Outages and Consumption by APC
you will discover best practices for managing data center power usage, how to prevent power outages and learn how to ensure your data center has enough power to operate at optimal capacity. It'll also discuss 5 essential steps for reducing data center power consumtion. As businesses continue to pack more high-density computing gear into their data centers, power...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
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Many of these "small" changes are things data center managers can do today. Specifying best-in-class, energy-efficient components in everything from server processors to PSUs and memory modules can go a long way to saving energy and reducing TCO. So can utilizing power optimization features and settings. Other changes, such as DC power components,...
Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments by CA
environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments. Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce...
Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers by APC
This white paper addresses common data center cooling challenges and describes five strategies for deploying ultra-high power racks, with practical solutions for both new and existing data centers. Rack power of 10 kW per rack or more can result from the deployment of high density equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult cooling challenges in a data...
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Supplier disasters: The case for ISO 27001 by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group

What did you think of this tip? Write to us about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. If your supplier went under, would it bring you down? The Burton Group's Richard Jones urges all companies to consider ISO 27001 certification to prevent nightmare scenarios from keeping you up at night... More...

Virtual server policy is key to mitigating systems vulnerabilities by Richard Ptak, Contributor
to attacks. Furthermore, virtualization in the data center (except for mainframes) is relatively new. This means it has not been subjected to and hardened against serious attacks. However, vendors are aware of the potential problem and are working hard to identify and harden their products.

Common sense tells data center managers to monitor and... More...

Implementing ITIL in the modern data center by Rich Schiesser
The following presentation was given at Data Center Decisions Spring 2005 in New York.

Today's large-scale data centers usually fall between two opposite ends of an operational spectrum. On one end is a data center that serves as an efficient nerve center for command, communication and coordination. One the other end is a hectic hub of crisis... More...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
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...