TechRepublic Resources
- Mitigating Fire Risks in Mission Critical Facilities
- This paper provides a clear understanding of the creation, detection, suppression and prevention of fire within mission critical facilities. Fire codes for Information Technology environments are discussed. Best practices for increasing availability are provided.
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Strategy, Management
- White papers
- Watts and Volt-Amps: Powerful Confusion
- This paper describes the differences between watts and volt-amps (VAs) and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment.
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Watt
- White papers
- The Different Types of UPS Systems
- There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed. With this information, an educated decision can be made as to the appropriate UPS...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., American Power Conversion Corp.
- White papers
- Humidification Strategies for Data Centers and Network Rooms
- The control of humidity in Information Technology environments is essential to achieving high availability. This paper explains how humidity affects equipment and why humidity control is required. Quantitative design guidelines for existing and new computing installations are discussed. Alternative methods to achieve desired humidity are described and...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Network, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers
- Experts speak on UPS output Watt, VA, and Power Factor ratings.
- Experts speak on the subject of UPS output ratings, and how the use of UPS with an output power factor rating of 1 reduces uncertainty of overloading the power system.
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., American Power Conversion Corp.
- White papers
- Calculating Total Power Requirements for Data Centers
- Part of data center planning and design is to align the power and cooling requirements of the IT equipment with the capacity of infrastructure equipment to provide it. This paper presents methods for calculating power and cooling requirements and provides guidelines for determining the total electrical power capacity needed to...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Equipment, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers
- Use of 208V vs 120V for Servers
- This paper explains why and when 208V is used instead of 120V for servers in North America. This same discussion applies to the use of 200V vs 100V in Japan.
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Servers, Hardware
- White papers
- Neutral Wire Facts and Mythology
- This technical paper discusses many common misunderstandings about the function of the neutral wire and its relation to power problems. The subjects of dedicated lines, phase reversal, isolation transformers, and grounding are addressed. Various myths are described and criticized.
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp.
- White papers
- Essential Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
- This APC white paper presents the findings of a recent survey of corporate CIOs and IT managers that was conducted to identify customer problems related to data center cooling systems. Find out what the respondents named as their top cooling challenges within the key areas of adaptability/scalability, availability, lifecycle cost,...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers
- Architecting for Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Equipment
- This industry-specific white paper from APC provides important guidance for determining the power and cooling needs of an IT infrastructure that will support Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Equipment (MIDE). Download the paper to learn what hospital technology planners must consider when determining the infrastructure needs of today’s leading healthcare technologies,...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Medical Imaging, Imaging, Healthcare, Document Management, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers
- Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
- Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, TCO, Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers
- Essential Rack System Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers
- Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past data center designs. This paper presents a categorized and prioritized collection of rack system challenges and requirements as obtained through systematic user interviews.
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers
- American Power Conversion Runs Siebel on SQL Server; Saves $800,000 Over Oracle
- American Power Conversion (APC) contemplated major increases in its use of Siebel software - including consolidation of separate instances into a single, global database and expanding its use to include the real-time needs of its call center. That required even more performance than it was getting from Microsoft SQL Server...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Oracle Corp., Call-center, Microsoft SQL Server, Siebel Systems Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Call Centers, Databases, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, It Operations, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- The Advantages of Row and Rack-Oriented Cooling Architectures for Data Centers
- Room cooling is an ineffective approach for next-generation data centers. Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that room cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are inefficient, unpredictable, and low in power density. Row-oriented and rack-oriented cooling architectures have been developed...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Architecture, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers
- Electrical Efficiency Modeling for Data Centers
- Conventional models used to estimate electrical efficiency of data centers are grossly inaccurate for real-world installations. Estimates of electrical losses typically are made by summing the inefficiencies of the various electrical devices, such as power and cooling equipment. This paper shows that the values commonly used for equipment inefficiency are...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Inefficiency, Efficiency, Modeling, Data Centers, Research & Development, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations
- White papers
- How and Why Mission-Critical Cooling Systems Differ From Common Air Conditioners
- Today's technology rooms require precise, stable environments in order for sensitive electronics to operate optimally. Standard comfort air conditioning is ill suited for technology rooms, leading to system shutdowns and component failures. Because precision air conditioning maintains temperature and humidity within a very narrow range, it provides the environmental stability...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Air Conditioner
- White papers
- Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Blanking Panels
- Unused vertical space in open frame racks and rack enclosures creates an unrestricted recycling of hot air that causes equipment to heat up unnecessarily. The use of blanking panels can reduce this problem. This paper explains and quantifies the effects of blanking panels on cooling system performance.
- Tags: Panel, American Power Conversion Corp., Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers
- Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers
- High density IT equipment stresses the power density capability of modern data centers. Installation and unmanaged proliferation of this equipment can lead to unexpected problems with power and cooling infrastructure including overheating, overloads, and loss of redundancy. The ability to measure and predict power and cooling capability at the rack...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-11-21
- Data Center Projects: System Planning
- System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system. Much of the trouble can be eliminated by viewing system planning as a data flow...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-19
- A Quantitative Comparison of High Efficiency AC vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers
- This paper presents a detailed quantitative efficiency comparison between the most efficient DC and AC power distribution methods, including an analysis of the effects of power distribution efficiency on the cooling power requirement and on total electrical consumption. The latest high efficiency AC and DC power distribution architectures are shown...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Efficiency, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-11-04
