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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...
Humidification Stratiegies for Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC
and data centers. Controlling humidity in the data center is crucial to ensuring high availability, but measuring humidity to avoid hidden costs is a challenge. This white paper explains how humidity affects equipment, reviews design guidelines for new and existing computing installations, and offers alternative methods to achieve desired humidity.

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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...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 1: Site Selection and Design by Hewlett-Packard Company
Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements. Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This first chapter in a...
Data Center Projects: Growth Model by APC
effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room. Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT equipment, so planning - or lack of planning - can have a...
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...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
is causing people to not only consider the design and form factor of their data centers, but also location. Proximity to clean, reliable and low cost energy is now a major consideration.

2) The second driver is high-energy costs. Total electricity cost for a typical high-density data center is 42% of OPEX.

3) The third driver is the resource shortage. The pool of...
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...
Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center by APC
administrator to fill critical gaps in overall data center security, and to keep physical security aligned with changing data center infrastructure and availability goals...
Quantum DXi 7500 Support for Veritas NetBackup 6.5 VTL-Direct-to-Tape Feature from Symantec by Quantum Corporation
The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on scalability, performance, high availability, and flexibility. The DXi7500 is the disk backup and remote replication system for data centers where a premium is placed on scalability, performance, high availability, and...
Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms by APC
Data center professionals can rid themselves of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense. This paper outlines several innovative approaches. Unplanned, uncontrolled growth accompanied by new applications has created a hectic, deadline-driven...
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...
Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
magazine provides a guide for storage and data center managers looking to take advantage of green technologies. Readers will find power saving tips and methods that can be used immediately as well as information on leading vendors of green solutions...
Questions and Answers on Data Center Cooling Issues by Upsite Technologies, Inc.
heights, more equipment within racks, and increasing equipment power consumption. Uneven cooling is a very common problem that is likely to get much worse as server-farm power consumption rises due to increased rack heights, more equipment within racks, and increasing equipment power consumption. Depending on heat density and computer-room...
eBook - Chapter 2: Planning Your Server Room by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Chapter 2 of Windows Servers and Storage (Revised edition, November 2008) discusses the physical aspects of server installation and topics include what a server room should contain, installation efficiency, and environmental factors. Server installations of all sizes can benefit from a dedicated server room. But proper planning must...
Air Distribution Architecture Options for Mission Critical Facilities by APC
understanding of the 9 types of cooling systems and their attributes can be used to develop guidelines for when each type should be used, and such guidelines are provided in this paper for both raised floor and hard floor applications. There are nine basic ways to use air to cool equipment in data centers and network rooms. These methods vary in performance,...
Reducing Complexity by Simplifying the Enterprise Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
can centralize and consolidate the data center environment, allowing IT administrators to oversee and manage resources in fewer locations while still providing global access and reducing operating costs. While innovations in server virtualization have enabled significant consolidation improvements, these techniques do not address the...
Six Years after 9/11, Most Firms Are Not Ready for Another Disaster by Compellent
do not have a recovery site in the event of data center site failure; 23% of enterprises never test their disaster recovery plans, and 40% test their plans once per year. These results show that some enterprises still struggle to create convincing business cases for disaster recovery investment while others struggle with the ability to schedule business and...
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...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue. Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and...
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...
EdgePlatform for Application Acceleration and Delivery by Akamai Technologies
that accelerates delivery of applications and content over the Internet, which can lead to increased usage, adoption and improved productivity. The Akamai EdgePlatform is a purpose built Application Delivery Network that accelerates delivery of applications and content over the Internet, which can lead to increased usage, adoption and improved...
Taneja Report: F5's Acquisition of Acopia Networks & the Vision of the Next Generation Data Center by F5 Networks
to understand the vision of the next generation data center. We describe that in the following pages, and look at how we believe F5 will position Acopia Network's technologies to gain a strategic advantage over its competitors...
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...
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...
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Mainframe New Year's resolutions by Robert Crawford, Contributor
motives like to use consultants to manage the ebb and flow of project staffing while keeping the number of employees constant. But a deeper look often belies the purported savings. Here are some of the hidden problems and costs in offshore outsourcing: Dubious software quality: This can cause production problems that need to be fixed by... More...
CICS/TS 3.2 for application programmers by Robert Crawford, Contributor
of new features lose their allure once you see the nuts and bolts of their implementation.

However, IBM is providing an interesting "open Beta" program allowing customers to download a free beta version of CICS/TS 3.2. The download will be available until June 29th, 2007 and the beta will work until August 31st, 2007. So, if you happen to have a couple of... More...

Pros and cons of VTLs by W. Curtis Preston
backup, virtual tape libraries (VTLs) treat disk as tape and offer many advantages compared to disk-as-disk backup targets. But VTLs aren't perfect, and there some caveats about the technology that you need to know before implementing a VTL.

VTLs, which treat disk as tape, offer two main advantages over disk-as-disk backup targets: ease of management and... 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
use for less 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... More...