Data Center Management
Sponsored by APC
In today's "always on, always available" world where businesses can't stop and downtime is measured in dollars, American Power Conversion (APC) provides protection against some of the leading causes of downtime, data loss and hardware damage: power problems and temperature. As a global leader in network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI) solutions, APC sets the standard in its industry for quality, innovation and support. Its comprehensive solutions, which are designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the manageability, availability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communications and industrial equipment of all sizes.
Sponsored Content
Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
This white paper describes how the latest power and cooling systems not only provide effective support for a virtualized environment, but also efficient support — significantly leveraging the IT-layer efficiency gains that are the signature benefit of virtualization.
Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms
Learn how you can rid your data centers of messy racks, sub-standard under floor air distribution, and cable sprawl with a minimum of heartache and expense.
Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers
This white paper provides guidelines for determining the appropriate power and cooling strategy, based on the needs and constraints of a specific installation.
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers
This article discusses the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to two other common cooling architectures.
Data Center Projects: System Planning
This white paper illustrates a framework for organizing, understanding, and tracking the logical sequence that carries the system design from concept to blueprint.
Ten Errors to Avoid When Commissioning a Data Center
This white paper outlines the ten most common errors that prevent successful execution of the commissioning process.
Blogs
The Hot-Swappable Data Center?
Resource consolidation, whether it is server, storage or networking, is usually viewed in terms of hardware acquisition costs and operational expenses like power and cooling. But the ability to do more with less is also leading to significant changes in the physical architecture of the data...More >
New Power Management Systems at the Ready
Data center efficiency has made great strides in the past few years, driven both by the oil shocks earlier in the decade and the rapid rise of virtualization and other hardware consolidation technology that swept the IT industry. So when we see surveys like the recent one from Kelton Research...More >
Articles & Interviews
Virtualization Initiatives Getting Bogged Down?
Server consolidation initiatives created a strong ROI for organizations and proved to be the impetus that server virtualization needed to gain broad market adoption. But as organizations grow their virtual environments, they inevitably run into the same set of issues that force a slowdown.... More >
Striking the Right Balance in Server Utilization
Arthur Cole spoke with Mark E. Stumm, senior vice president of product marketing, nlyte Software . Cole : Recent studies indicate that about 15 percent of the servers in a typical enterprise are drawing power but not performing any meaningful function. Is that a reasonable amount, or should... More >
The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing
Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unknown and not yet understood widely. is one of those technologies that business professionals... More >
Related Topics
IBM Offers Virtualization Security
IBM's new Virtual Server Security product is designed to secure each layer of the infrastructure of a virtual server, reports InformationWeek . The software is built for VMware's vSphere platform for data center virtualization. The offering secures everything from the hypervisor to the operating system to data... More >
Nokia Recalls 14 Million Chargers
Nokia announced today that 14 million of its cell phone chargers could pose a shock hazard to their users and the company will replace the affected chargers for free. The Nokia-branded chargers were manufactured by third-party supplier BYD Electronic Company. Models numbers AC-3E, AC-3U and AC-4U that were manufactured... More >
Dell Launches Adamo XPS
Dell has officially launched the Adamo XPS , which the company is touting as the world's thinnest. At 0.4 of an inch in thickness, the Adamo weighs in at just 3.2 pounds. The laptop consists of a 13.4-inch display, an ultra-low voltage 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of memory and a 128GB solid-state drive, reports ... More >
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