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 paper compares several popular classes of batteries, compares batteries to both flywheels and ultracapacitors, and briefly discusses fuel cells.
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: July 1, 2008


Topics:  Batteries | Business Systems | Data Centers | Power Supplies

WHITE PAPER - Effective standby generator system installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past designs. This paper presents a categorized and prioritized overview of generator system challenges.
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2005


Topics:  Data Centers | IT Managers | Power Connectors | Power Generation Equipment

WHITE PAPER - New breakthroughs in power and cooling technology allow for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high-density zones with an existing or new low-density center. This white paper details how...
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Downtime | Power Connectors | Power Supplies | Rack Servers

WHITE PAPER - In this paper, the characteristics, features, and limitation of AC and DC distribution are explained.
Posted: July 10, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Power Supplies | Security | Telephone Switches

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

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 - 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 - 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 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 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 illustrates which power and cooling factors to consider when safeguarding a Power over Ethernet (PoE) investment by comparing three different deployment methods.
Posted: July 9, 2007 | Published: July 1, 2007


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Downtime | High Availability | Network Design | Network Infrastructure | Network Performance | Power Generation Equipment | Power over Ethernet

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 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 - 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 - 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

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 - This paper covers the fundamentals of secure networking systems, including firewalls, network topology and secure protocols.
Posted: June 1, 2006 | Published: January 1, 2005


Topics:  Access Control | Firewall Management | Network Security | Security Architectures | SSH | SSL

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

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - APC Preventive Maintenance services give your system the level of service it needs and you the peace of mind you deserve.
Posted: February 8, 2004 | Published: February 5, 2004


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Hardware Management Services | Power Components