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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
efficient, secure, scalable and flexible data center network. Data center managers are challenged with designing data centers that centralize servers and applications while keeping them accessible from a variety of locations. This white paper shows you how to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry...
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...
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...
Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms by APC
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 and...
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...
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...
Going Green Speakers Panel by SearchDataCenter
Three data center experts will discuss the benefits and potential pratfalls of going green. Three data center experts - Albert Esser from Dell, Jack Pouchet from Emerson/Liebert, and Steve Oberlin from Cassatt - will discuss the benefits and potential pratfalls of going green. Topics covered will include how and why users should...
E-Guide: Best Practices for Data Center Design and Maintenance by Dell, Inc. and Intel
you will gain insight into best practices for data center design and maintenance in today's down economy. In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Dell, you will gain insight into best practices for data center design and maintenance in today's down economy. Explore expert tips for determining where and how to build your next data center and...
Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation by BMC Software, Inc
saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs. The term “data center consolidation” can mean different things to different people, from simply reducing the number of physical servers in an isolated location to reducing the global footprint of a company's entire infrastructure (including applications and software licenses, etc.).

One goal of a...
Networking the Modern Data Center by SearchNetworking.com
where people work are all changing the way the data center should be designed. This e-book examines the issues and offers strategies for developing a data center network that will stand the test of time and emerging technology. Read on to learn more. Virtualization, the convergence of data and storage networks, and the evolution of how and where people work top the list of...
Three Must Haves for the Virtual Data Center by Compellent
virtualization, and create a true virtual data center, IT departments need a holistic storage solution that allows fully shared resources, easy and automated storage classification and migration and complete data protection. Read this white paper for three "must haves" to achieve those objectives. Traditionally, data centers have attempted to respond to growth...
Transforming a Global Data Center Environment by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
purchases. This white paper will cover Global Data Center Environment Strategies such as:

  • Consolidating data centers, concentrating computing resources into fewer large, highly efficient hub data centers, and closing other local data centers
  • Accelerating server refresh, while implementing grid computing and server virtualization to increase utilization, and
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The Multi-tiered Hybrid Data Center: An innovative design model for cost reduction and facilities optimization by Hewlett-Packard Company
tiered hybrid design can help you build the data center of the future. Today's businesses need to work within a tight budget while accommodating their continuing need to house higher-and lower-tiered technology systems and applications within the same facility. Read this white paper to learn how the HP multi-tiered hybrid design can help you build the data center of...
Windows Servers and Storage: Planning Your Server Room by Dell, Inc. and Intel
of the key steps to setting up a dedicated server room. Whether your server project is large or small, having a dedicated server room will allow you to store backup disks, blades, equipment, and also allow you to have an onsite console for administrators. Whether you are installing a large or small server having a dedicated server room should be part of your project. To...
Branch Infrastructure Optimization: Dynamic IT for the People-Ready Business by Microsoft
s server infrastructure, along with IT managers and staff in charge of servers. It aims to help you understand the benefits of optimizing your branch office infrastructure and determine which branch scenario may enable you to gain the most benefits. Infrastructure Optimization covers the three primary components of a company's IT infrastructure: core...
Modular Systems: The Evolution of Reliability by APC
is an established technique for organizing and simplifying a complex system. In data centers, modular design has already taken root in new fault-tolerant architectures for servers and storage systems. The mission of this paper is to illustrate how modularity delivers a profound reliability benefit: fault tolerance Nature proved early on that in complex...
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Blade servers by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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 consumption and improve performance in the data center. In part two of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies...
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers by APC
the electrical power costs over the life of a data center may exceed the costs of the electrical power system and IT equipment, electrical power usage is not a typical design criterion for data centers, nor is it effectively managed as an expense. Some reasons for this situation are as follows:

  • Billed electrical costs are not clearly linked to any particular decisions
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    Success Story Riverbed by CA
    of CA, to establish a fully functional secondary data center in Chicago with 24/7/365 data back up. The business didn't miss a beat even during Hurricane Wilma, one of Florida's worst storms in recent history. Read on to learn more.

    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...
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    Data center cooling optimization in the virtualized-server world by Julius Neudorfer
    should more be energy efficient and your data center is more "green" (ah, the magic "G" word).

    So, this where the virtualization-efficiency conundrum manifests. As mentioned earlier, data centers that were built only five years ago were not designed for 10, 20, or even 30 kW per rack. As such, their cooling systems are not capable of efficiently removing... More...

    Mainframers need to focus on process not piecemeal disaster recovery by Robert Rosen, Columnist
    focus is business resilience.

    The IT environment and business resilience

    When you talk about business resilience, you're talking about keeping your business functioning when you've lost a major component. But it's much more than having a disaster recovery site with a bunch of computers where you can replicate your data.

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    BigStockPhoto.com, a website that lets users upload and download photos, supports between 10 million and 20 million pages of content monthly. Its compute needs are less aggressive than the large scale-out companies HP targets with this system, but like the bigger Web 2.0 companies, BigStockPhoto is "growing constantly, so a... More...
    Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT by Erin Kelly
    the challenges businesses may face and offers energy-saving solutions. A free download of Chapter 1 of The Greening of IT, "The Importance of Green IT," is available for review.

    Chapter 1 states many companies talk about reducing their total energy requirements, but are not actually going green where it counts. Why do you think this is true, and how can your... More...
    IBM doubles refund for Sparc migrations: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
    could save about 4% on a server's power consumption.

    The updates also include a way to download HP-UX from high-bandwidth replicated servers to reduce deployment time and allows users to update the operating system while still online, needing only a standard reboot to switch to the new version.

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