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sponsored by APC
Posted:  20 Nov 2008
Published:  20 Nov 2008
Format:  PDF
Length:  10   Page(s)
Type:  White Paper
Language:  English


ABSTRACT:
Unplanned, uncontrolled growth accompanied by new applications has created a hectic, deadline-driven environment, and equipment is often installed with no regard to the long-term implications to data center integrity and reliability. Whether your data center mess is created over years of mismanagement or whether the cable -chocked data center is inherited, solutions for both quick and longer term evolutionary changes exist.

This white paper explains how you can take charge of physical infrastructure deployment and change management behaviors to encourage an orderly data center. Implementing a change control system that accounts for both the IT infrastructure and the physical infrastructure can prevent these setbacks:

  • Poor air distribution: causes servers to overheat and possible shut down, fail prematurely, or corrupt the data being processed
  • Poor power system capacity management: leads to downtime
  • Disrupted communications: constrains telecommunications and can disrupt data


  • Author

    Dennis Bouley
    Strategic Research Analyst ,  American Power Conversion (APC)
    Dennis Bouley is a Strategic Research Analyst at APC’s data Center Science Center, in West Kingston, RI. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism and French from the University of Rhode Island and a Certifical Annuel from the Sorbonne in Paris, France. Over the last 20 years (10 with IBM and 10 with APC) he has interviewed data center professionals regarding their data center IT and physical infrastructure.



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