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- Cooling Audit for Identifying Potential Cooling Problems in Data Centers
- The compaction of Information Technology equipment and simultaneous increases in processor power consumption are creating challenges for data center managers in ensuring adequate distribution of cool air, removal of hot air and sufficient cooling capacity. This paper provides a checklist for assessing potential problems that can adversely affect the cooling...
- Tags: Audit, American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Increasing Data Center Cooling Efficiency and Capacity
- The requirement to deploy high-density servers within single racks is presenting data center managers with a challenge. Vendors are now designing servers which will demand up to 20kW of cooling if installed in a single rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2004-01-01
- IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - Data Center Stored Cooling Solution
- IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored cooling solution can deliver significant operational savings from the largest user of energy that provides cooling to data center - the chiller plant, representing about one-third of the data center's total energy requirements. This stored cooling solution is...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Construction Service, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Construction, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency
- As electricity prices and IT power consumption continue to rise, IT-related energy costs are getting increased scrutiny. Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs. This paper presents five strategies for...
- Tags: Data Center, Energy Cost, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-04-17
- Ten Solutions to Solving Cooling Problems Caused by High Density Server Deployment
- The requirement to deploy high-density servers within single racks is presenting data center managers with a challenge. Vendors are now designing servers that will demand up to 20kW of cooling if installed in a single rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Rack, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-02-01
- Power Struggle: How IT Managers Cope With Data Center Power Demands and the Raptor Solution
- A major concern faced by data center operators is the power consumption and cooling of the equipment in the data center. These operators must continuously plan and implement plans to update, increase the number of, and relocate switching units and the associated devices into other areas using other cooling sources,...
- Tags: Data Center, Raptor Networks Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-07
- 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
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- Power Consumption and Cooling in the Data Center: A Survey
- Power consumption and cooling issues in the data center are important to companies, as evidenced by a survey conducted by the Strategy Group, an independent research company. Download the results of this Ziff-Davis Media survey to learn more about what other companies are doing to solve power...
- Tags: Data Center, Power Consumption, Survey, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Explanation of Cooling and Air Conditioning Terminology for IT Professionals
- As power densities continue to increase in today's data centers, heat removal is becoming a greater concern for the IT professional. Unfortunately, air conditioning terminology routinely used in the cooling industry is unnecessarily complicated. This complexity makes it difficult and frustrating for IT professionals to specify cooling requirements and even...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, IT Professional, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-02-04
- Data Center Cooling and Environmental Control Systems
- We have had mixed success with various vendors/manufacturers in regards to implementing data center cooling and environmental control systems. Additional upgrades are pending. It would be of great interest to us to learn of your experiences with turn-key data center cooling and environmental control systems from the likes of APC,...
- Tags: Data centers, hclasse@..., environmental control system
- Discussion threads 2007-04-12
- Thermal Storage System Provides Emergency Data Center Cooling
- Intel IT implemented a low-cost thermal storage system that maintained cooling at a high-density data center during an electrical power outage.
- Tags: Data Center, Storage System, Intel Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-09-01
- 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
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- Managing Data Center Power and Cooling
- Managing Data Center Power and Cooling Optimizing the overall power efficiency of the data center requires a comprehensive approach that focuses on technologies and strategies to minimize power consumption and maximize power efficiency at every level within the infrastructure, including CPU chips, power supplies, servers, storage devices,...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Control Strategies for Plenum Optimization in Raised Floor Data Centers
- Contemporary data centers contain a denser aggregation of commodity computing, networking and storage hardware mounted in industry standard racks than before. As a result of high power density in data centers, mechanical engineers face more challenges in cooling system design. One of the objectives for data center cooling systems is...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Optimization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-07
- How much power each server consume in data center For cooling purpose?
- In data center the power consumption is high . most of the power is used to cooling the servers? How can we reduce this power consumption?
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, deepika.gupta@..., data center, server
- Discussion threads 2007-04-23
- Guidelines for Specification of Data Center Power Density
- An appropriate specification for data center density should assure compatibility with anticipated high density loads, provide unambiguous instruction for design and installation of power and cooling equipment, prevent oversizing, and maximize electrical efficiency. This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of power...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Specification, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-03-18
- "Greening" the Data Center
- A variety of factors are driving the emerging industry trend of "Greening" the data center. A "Green" data center is one that is designed to be energy efficient and minimize its impact on the environment. One problem is that many IT organizations have reached - or are approaching - the...
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-23
- Webcast: Why Cooling is the Hottest Issue for 21st-Century Data Centers
- Recent advances in server technologies are ushering in a new era of high-performance computing. But the trend toward dual-core microprocessors, blade servers, and ultra-high-density racks can lead to a variety of unique power and cooling challenges for next-generation data centers. Listen as Paul Marcoux of APC and...
- Tags: Dual-core, American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Webcast, Data Centers, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components
- Webcasts 2006-03-30
- Model-Based Approach for Optimizing a Data Center Centralized Cooling System
- A steady-state model for a centralized cooling system is developed to enable proper provisioning of cooling resources in capital intensive projects such as data centers. The model resolves the energy equations for a cooling tower and a centralized water-cooled chiller simultaneously. It requires inputs that are readily available to the...
- Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-04-14
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