WHITE PAPER - Data centers and large computer rooms always include a cooling system. This paper teaches the principles of cooling small, distributed IT environments and provides guidance for the effective specification and design of supporting cooling systems.
Posted: June 21, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fans | Heat Sinks | Power Supplies

WHITE PAPER - Mistakes in system planning can result in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and a compromised system. In this paper you will learn how to eliminate these problems and view system planning as a data flow model, with an orderly sequence...
Posted: June 21, 2007 | Published: June 1, 2007


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Data Center Management | Hardware Configuration Management | Hardware Management | Infrastructure Management | Storage Management | Systems Design and Development

WHITE PAPER - This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring.
Posted: February 4, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Benchmarks | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Electricity | Equipment Maintenance Management Software | IT Asset Management | IT Consulting Services | IT Systems

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 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.
Posted: February 6, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Capacity Management | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Installation | Modeling | Power Connectors | Power Supplies

WHITE PAPER - Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of running a data centers. This paper explains how achieve electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.
Posted: June 4, 2007 | Published: December 1, 2006


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Power Supplies

WHITE PAPER - High-density servers offer a significant performance per watt benefit. But, depending on the deployment, they can present a cooling challenge. This paper provides ten approaches for increasing cooling efficiency, cooling capacity and power density.
Posted: June 4, 2007 | Published: February 1, 2006


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Server Hardware

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes an improved method for measuring TCO for data center and network room physical infrastructure, and provides examples on how to relate these costs to the overall IT infrastructure and evaluate cost control strategies.
Posted: June 4, 2007 | Published: February 1, 2005


Topics:  Data Center Management | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | Physical Security | Security Management | TCO

WHITE PAPER - Installing blade servers in an existing data center creates a bewildering set of challenges and options. This paper explains how to evaluate the options and select the best power and cooling approach for a successful and predictable blade deployment.
Posted: June 4, 2007 | Published: January 1, 2005


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Power Supplies