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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Data Center Facilities IT Handbook: Mastering data center climate control by Dell, Inc. and Intel
look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations are creating more heat in smaller places which in turn requires efficient and effective climate control. Read this paper to learn more about how to properly cool your data center. This SearchDataCenter.com eBook takes a look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations...
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...
Server Energy Efficiency Animation by Intel Corporation
Reduce data center carbon footprint and expenses even in times of enormous data center growth by implementing Intel Xeon processor 5400 servers. According to IDC, more than 30 million servers are currently crunching numbers worldwide and are expected to grow four times in the next ten years. Along with that growth come server...
Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure by APC
a method for determining TCO of physical data center and network room infrastructure including power, cooling and protection. Predicting and measuring Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the physical infrastructure for network rooms and data centers is required for Return-on-investment (ROI) analysis and other business decision processes. In addition, an...
E-Guide: A Guide To Improving Data Center Efficiency with Virtualization by Agilysys Technology Solutions Group
efficiency. Learn how to effectively improve data center cooling in a virtualized-server environment.

Explore why virtualization offers more than just cost-savings to many businesses and gain insight into the role virtualization plays in effective disaster recovery planning...
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...
Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center by APC
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 independence of these high-density zones allows for predictable and reliable operation of high-density...
Cutting datacenter costs with server and infrastructure offload - A technical guide by Citrix
run out of available floor space or power and cooling capacity. For those already at their limits, this approach also means having to get by as best they can for the next two to three years, or however long it takes for their new data centers to be designed, approved, constructed and eventually brought on line. Without the capacity to readily deploy new applications, a key...
Associated Newspapers Solves Data Centre Challenges with Data Domain and Vizioncore by Data Domain
around space, power and cooling in its primary data centre, Associated Newspapers implemented VMware Infrastructure to consolidate its physical server estate. With its virtual infrastructure in place and growing rapidly, Associated Newspapers required a completely new approach to disaster recovery. Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) is the management...
World Class Data Center: Retrofit Data Center Video by Intel Corporation
With some innovative engineering, a data center can be retrofitted to meet today'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...
What is Virtualization? by Dell and VMware
of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges. In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Application workloads were directly dependent on server reliability for uptime. Even planned hardware...
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...
Energy Efficient Data Center by APC
Learn how aGreen Data Center can improve your company's bottom line today. With rising power costs and shrinking budgets, forward-thinking data center managers are making efforts to improve energy efficiency. But with all of the hype around “greening” the data center, how do you select the most effective techniques for your...
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...
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Disaster recovery planning during the holiday season by Robert Rosen, Contributor
effect on fewer people. It's also a great time to review data center disaster recovery (DR) plans and look at staffing issues for those times when you have only a skeleton crew.

Managing disaster recovery personnel
Managing personnel is probably the biggest challenge in the data center, whether it's the holiday season or in the event of a disaster. One thing... More...

CICS/TS 3.2 for application programmers by Robert Crawford, Contributor
API's for other sorts of files (remote, BDAM and shared data tables, etc.) will remain quasi-reentrant.

In CICS/TS 3.2 shared data tables can be larger than 2GB through the use of multiple data spaces up to the limit of 100 per CICS. This doesn't entail a lot of system configuration work because CICS nicely manages the data spaces by creating on an as needed... More...

Leasing vs. buying storage: A closer look by Greg Schulz
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About the author: Greg Schulz is founder and senior analyst with the IT infrastructure analyst and consulting firm StorageIO. Greg is also the author and illustrator of "Resilient Storage Networks" (Elsevier) and has contributed material to "Storage" magazine... 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...