WHITE PAPER - Growing environmental, energy-cost, and space-planning concerns have moved conservation to the top of many agendas - calling for agencies to develop a plan to both reduce costs and energy consumption. Learn how government agencies can chart an energy...
Posted: September 3, 2008 | Published: August 19, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Desktop Management | Productivity | Server Virtualization | Storage Management | UPS

WHITE PAPER - High density computing is today's standard in best-in-class performance and availability, and those that fail to keep pace or fall behind will find themselves no longer competitive in today's markets.
Posted: August 11, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Architectures | Data Centers | Hardware | IT Managers | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares the efficiency numbers of several common storage solutions.
Posted: August 8, 2008 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Tape Libraries | UPS

WHITE PAPER - This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect...
Posted: July 31, 2008 | Published: July 24, 2008


Topics:  Business Continuity Planning | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | IT Asset Management | Loss Prevention | Power Integrated Circuits | RAS | Server Virtualization | UPS

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 - High-density rack-mounted servers reduce space, cooling, networking, cabling, and management costs - as well as total power consumption - compared to low-density configurations having far few servers per rack.
Posted: July 24, 2008 | Published: October 1, 2007


Topics:  Data Centers | Financial Services | Information Security | Productivity | Server Consolidation | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - TCO represents the cost to the owner to build, as well as the cost over time to operate and maintain the data center, these costs are all brought back to a present value using appropriate engineering economics.
Posted: July 24, 2008 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Best Practices | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Security | TCO | UPS

WHITE PAPER - In the next decade, power, with its attendant heating, cooling, cost, reliability and dependability issues, will be the greatest challenge for the vast majority of data center operations. IT professionals attempting to deal with...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 10, 2008


Topics:  Panel Meters | Power Generation Equipment | Power Supplies | Rack Servers | UPS

WHITE PAPER - IDC believes that a true datacenter transformation is taking place and that IT organizations will continue to consolidate the number of sites and number of supported systems and will increasingly place greater emphasis on energy efficiency. This will c...
Posted: June 11, 2008 | Published: June 1, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Planning | Cooling Equipment | Customer Satisfaction | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Financial Services Industry | Server Virtualization | Storage Systems | UPS

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

WHITE PAPER - Download this report to see top-level findings of 150 IT professional surveyed to measure and quantify their current needs, obstacles and attitudes as they weigh decisions about investing in green technology.
Posted: April 28, 2008 | Published: April 1, 2008


Topics:  BPM | Cooling Capacity | Data Centers | Data Storage | File Server Hardware | NAS | Regulations | SAN | UPS

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn how the world's largest IT company is implementing hardware, software and services to become more energy efficient within their own network and how it can work for you as well.
Posted: March 13, 2008 | Premiered: March 12, 2008


Topics:  Best Practices | Change Management | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Network Management | Software | UPS

WHITE PAPER - Using a custom-built NAS server and hardware-accelerated file system, BlueArc is able to deliver both high performance and industry leading energy efficiency. Learn moe in this whitepaper.
Posted: March 10, 2008 | Published: February 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | CPU | FPGA | IT Infrastructure | NAS | Storage Management | 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 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 - The corporate data center is a huge power consumer and a substantial contributor to global warming. Download this whitepaper to learn and discover the business benefits of a more eco-friendly data center.
Posted: October 29, 2007 | Published: September 1, 2007


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Management | Energy Industries | File Server Hardware | NAS | SAN | Storage Best Practices | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | TCO | UPS | VMware

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 - Learn how to meet the demand for higher computing capacity without adding servers to the data center. This white paper discusses how virtualization can provide high performance, energy efficiency, and lower operational costs in the IT infrastru...
Posted: August 31, 2007 | Published: September 1, 2006


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | IT Infrastructure | IT Spending | Server Virtualization | TCO | UPS | VM

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