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A comprehensive guide to the data center transformation (Spanish)

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Allow the data center more efficient and agile. Domain TenSM Cisco provides a holistic framework that allows you to identify gaps and create an architectural plan for consolidation, virtualization...

Provided by: Cisco

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Energy Savings Performance Contracts for Federal Data Center Consolidation

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

The cost of operating and maintaining federal agency data centers is extremely high. Mandates and initiatives have been put in place to address these costs through energy conservation, but with...

Provided by: APC by Schneider Electric

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Data Center Temperature Rise During a Cooling System Outage

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

The data center architecture and its IT load significantly affect the amount of time available for continued IT operation following a loss of cooling. Some data center trends such as increasing...

Provided by: APC by Schneider Electric

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Allocating data center energy costs and carbon to IT users

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Are complicated software and instrumentation needed to measure and allocate energy costs and carbon to IT users? Or can we get by with simple, low cost methods for energy cost and carbon...

Provided by: APC by Schneider Electric

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Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as...

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Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Center Temperature and Efficiency

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Both hot-air and cold-air containment can improve the predictability and efficiency of traditional data center cooling systems. While both approaches minimize the mixing of hot and cold air, there...

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Deploying High-Density Pods in a Low-Density Data Center

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Simple and rapid deployment of self-contained, high-density pods within an existing or new low-density data center is possible with today’s power and cooling technology. The independence of these...

Provided by: APC by Schneider Electric

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Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are...

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Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to...

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Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of...

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Containerized Power and Cooling Modules for Data Centers

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Standardized, pre-assembled and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules are at least 60% faster to deploy, and provide a first cost savings of 13% or more compared to traditional...

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TCO Analysis of a Traditional Data Center vs. a Scalable, Containerized Data Center

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Standardized, scalable, pre-assembled, and integrated data center facility power and cooling modules provide a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) savings of 30% compared to traditional, built-out...

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Implementing Hot and Cold Air Containment in Existing Data Centers

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Containment solutions can eliminate hot spots and provide energy savings over traditional uncontained data center designs. The best containment solution for an existing facility will depend on the...

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Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Data center commissioning can deliver an unbiased evaluation of whether a newly constructed data center will be an operational success or a failure. Proper execution of the commissioning process...

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Cooling Entire Data Centers Using Only Row Cooling

April 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

Row cooling is emerging as a practical total cooling solution for new data centers due to its inherent high efficiency and predictable performance. Yet some IT equipment in data centers appears...

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Discussion Threads

10 stupid things people do in their data centers

April 26, 2013 4:43am PDT

10 stupid things people do in their data centers article root Data Centers are also called as Server Rooms Same thing applies to Server rooms which are heart of the organization. Worse thing......

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Solutions for a More Energy-Efficient Data Center: From Water to Fresh-Air Cooling

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

This white paper discusses recent trends in the industry toward increasing energy efficiency of the data center in order to save on power and cooling costs without reducing performance. Included...

Provided by: IBM

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Capitalize on a highly available virtualization reference architecture

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

Struggling with how to achieve consistent uptime? Address the challenges that can potentially cripple services and applications, while reducing data center costs and increasing workload...

Provided by: IBM

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IBM SmartCloud Entry on System x with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus

April 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

To address rapidly changing IT demands, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) can now go beyond virtualization and tap into the economic advantages of private clouds, enabling them to reinvent their...

Provided by: IBM