BOOK - In chapter 5 of this e-book, a step-by-step guide to greening the data center is presented. These strategies for going green in the data center are designed to help IT managers create a holistic data center efficiency project.
Posted: March 1, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | EPA | IT Asset Management | IT Infrastructure | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers | UPS

WHITE PAPER - APC 's Power and Cooling Resource Center is a fully integrated solution provider for Critical Power and Cooling Services. There are more than 12,000 APC-MGE employees standing by ready to serve you.
Posted: July 30, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Architectures | Cooling Equipment | Customer Service | Customer Support Software | Globalization | Management Service Providers | Service Level Management | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the most common types of power disturbances, what they can do to your critical equipment and how you can protect against them.
Posted: September 11, 2007 | Published: September 10, 2007


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Downtime | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | Network Performance | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | RPO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains some of the metrics that have been used to describe the efficiency of data center physical infrastructure and suggests which metric is the most effective.
Posted: February 6, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmark Testing | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Environmental Compliance | EPA | Infrastructure Management | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the principles for achieving power and cooling capacity management.
Posted: February 4, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Management | Data Centers | ITIL | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the types of PM services that can help safeguard the uptime of data centers and IT equipment rooms.
Posted: February 4, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | Downtime | Software | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This white paper discusses the common errors and misunderstandings in evaluating Uninterruptible Power Supply efficiency. UPS efficiency curves are explained, compared, and their cost implications quantified.
Posted: September 20, 2007 | Published: September 3, 2007


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Disaster Planning | Downtime | Electrical Cable | Fault Tolerance | High Availability | Network Performance | RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This paper provides an example of an improved architecture that incorporates high-efficiency power and cooling equipment, combined with configuration and operation strategies that optimize efficiency.
Posted: May 30, 2008 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Hardware | Security | UPS

WHITE PAPER - Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total data center solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages.
Posted: April 18, 2004 | Published: February 1, 2005


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Centers | Data Recovery | Downtime | Network Operating Systems | Power Blackouts | Server Management | UPS