Power Management

Solution Search:
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...
Intel IT: Taking Power Management to the Limit--and Beyond by Intel Corporation
Intel maximizes 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...
Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage by APC
is part of a total data center solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages. Without shutdown software installed on the protected computer, the net effect of the UPS is simply to delay the inevitable. Regardless of which configuration, which best practices, and which particular UPS software is...
Dell Transition Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by Dell, Inc.
Windows Server 2008 features simplified power management and offers power savings for the data center. Dell offers world-class Power and Cooling hardware solutions and is a leader in environmental strategies. Windows Server 2008 features simplified power management and offers power savings for the data center. Dell offers world-class Power and Cooling hardware...
Sequence of Events Recording (SER), Part II by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
Learn about how implementing modern energy and power management systems enables you to identify, treat, and prevent power system issues. Topics covered include:

  • How millisecond resolution event sequence information is used to create a master log of events
  • How incident recovery procedures can determine the root cause of failure, take action, and save the critical load
  • SER
...
Power Configurator Tool by IBM
flexibility businesses need, plus advanced power management that keeps energy costs as low as possible.

Download the Power Configurator tool and see how much savings IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter can deliver for you...
IT Briefing: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Dell's energy-efficient chassis design and power management system. Finally it presents two customer case studies illustrating the cost savings that can be achieved with Dell blades...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 6 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 6
on for proven best practices for virtual lab management planning and physical-to-virtual migrations. Virtualization can drastically transform and improve an organization, but using P2V tools and doing migrations without assessing the impact on the whole IT infrastructure can create a domino effect of server, network, and storage problems. Many IT shops select...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
cabling, and management costs - as well as total power consumption - compared to low-density configurations having far few servers per rack. The Eco-Rack Proof of Concept demonstrates how server-level changes--such as moving to servers equipped with new energy-efficient processors, converting to DC power delivery to servers, activating Enhanced...
Beyond System Center: Addressing Systems Management Needs across the Entire IT Infrastructure by Quest Software
System Center for true end-to-end IT management. For many companies, the power of Microsoft's System Center suite provides a powerful management platform to handle today's ever-changing IT environment. However, expanding Microsoft System Center's capabilities not only improves the value of your IT investments, but you better achieve IT goals...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
44; 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 served by these power systems are extremely sensitive to even a momentary loss of power. When a data center has reached the highest level of...
Rack Powering Options for High Density by APC
This paper is focused on AC rack power distribution. Individual 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...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
webcast, learn how you can make breakthroughs in power, server consolidation and total cost 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...
Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems as Database Server in Midsize Companies - Cost Comparisons for Linux by IBM
This ITG report shows the advantages of the IBM Power platform for Linux database serving in mid-sized companies. It will discuss the use of IBM Power servers for core database serving and give a number of reasons to consider the Power platform. IBM Power Systems-cost-effective Linux® database serving.

Maintaining data security, performance,...
eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
performance metrics to compare a server'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...
Understanding Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor by APC
This paper explains the technical terms of Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor. The terms Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor refer to completely different and unrelated phenomena. These characteristics are often specified for UPS systems, and customers will sometimes place them in specifications.

Most UPS systems today have...
ITG Report: Value Proposition for IBM Power Systems as Database Server in Midsize Companies - Cost Comparisons with Windows Servers by IBM
This report examines the use of the IBM Power platform as an alternative to commodity Windows servers. Learn how the IBM Power platform offers many advantages in performance, scalability and key functional capabilities to support key database serving. IBM Power Systems offer a smart alterative to Windows® servers.

Maintaining data security,...
Hot Spots: Managing Storage in a Virtual Server World by Storage Magazine
reduction in physical servers helps trim the power and cooling, floor space and number of people required to keep them running. In many areas where power is limited, power and cooling can be the primary driver for adopting server virtualization. With power limitations, the only way to add new applications or grow existing ones is to find new efficiencies. Beyond...
Breakthroughs in Enterprise Server Architecture by Dell, Inc. and Intel
future server, storage, networking, and management technologies? This white paper reviews a modular server enclosure that incorporates the latest advances in power, cooling, I/O, and... Does your data center have the capability to support current and future server, storage, networking, and management technologies? This white paper reviews a...
The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
reaching end of life, and unable to 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...
Blade Servers & Virtualization: Improve Power & Cooling Efficiency - eGuide with Analyst View by Hewlett-Packard Company
on myths and misconceptions surrounding power, cooling and consolidation. Clearly, power and cooling issues are hot priorities for data centers today, with users looking for help from hardware, software, and power companies, as well as resellers and integrators. Virtualization and blades can both directly contribute to addressing these issues. There are...
Top 10 Ways to Save Energy in Your Data Center by Wright Line
hot-aisle/cold-aisle strategies, tips for power distribution optimization, and more. Want to learn expert tips to increase energy efficiency in your data center? This videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 features Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant. Watch it now to hear McFarlane discuss the top 10 energy...
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'...
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Dell, HP, and IBM Blade Solutions by Dell, Inc. and Intel
management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space. Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. These solutions tend to be easier to deploy and manage than traditional rack servers and offer lower energy...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
This whitepaper presents the power consumption characteristics of several types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers. Disk drives consume a significant amount of power and consequently place a considerable load on the cooling resources in large data centers. The type of disk drive and associated packaging play a...
Related Tips
Mainframe vulnerabilities: Be proactive rather than reactive by Robert Crawford, Contributor
libraries where a properly linked program has the power to change system control blocks or storage. Most installations do a good job of limiting access to APF libraries, but auditors are always on the lookout for the one improperly defended library some systems programmers keep to the side to be able to slip an authorized program into... More...
Sys admin recommended reading: Improve your skill set by By David Douthitt, Contributor
the point.

The first missing piece is business management books. A favorite of mine is Re-imagine! by Tom Peters. Books like his help system administrators build a "business of one" and provide excellent service for which they are rewarded.

Another topic that is often missed is networking (no, not that kind!) -- social networking. One of the best books about... More...

Mainframe change management tools ease compliance burden by Richard Ptak, Contributor
regulation and control mandates due to an enterprise management team forced to deal with the swelling burden of compliance activities. These activities stem from a combination of legislation, licensing/certification processes and executive directives to achieve good business governance.

As the major force behind the creation and delivery of... More...

Related Articles
Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
our tower full."

"When everyone talks about Tier IV [data center], they talk about power and cooling redundancy," Burlew continued. "But they don't think a lot about water. But in our case, without water, you don't have cooling." After the water main line broke, Burlew began looking for a backup water supply. And eventually he and his data center staff took a page... More...

After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
the basis of its PowerVM Lx86 software, which allows x86 Linux workloads to run on IBM Power-based platforms. Transitive's own QuickTransit is also used to migrate Sun Sparc/Solaris workloads onto Solaris or Linux for x86, or Linux for Itanium.

Migrating to competitors
But IBM's competitors also use Transitive emulation software to lure customers... More...
CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
its Mainframe 2.0 iniative, which aims to untangle the complexity of mainframe management.

Chris O'Malley, the head of CA's mainframe business unit, said Mainframe 2.0 strives to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe... More...