WHITE PAPER - The commissioning process flow is described and critical success factors are discussed. The commissioning process inputs and outputs are also placed in context with other key data center project process phases and steps.
Posted: November 2, 2009 | Published: November 2, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Downtime | Power Generation Equipment | Systems Management

WHITE PAPER - Read this paper to learn the ways in which new technologies are impacting power demand patterns, explores the consequences of having too much power capacity or too little and then provides concrete advice on strategies for right-sizing your power systems.
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Energy Efficiency | Network Performance | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Generation Equipment | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Convergence, consolidation, virtualization - today's IT trends have turned the network closet into a mission-critical environment. APC solutions give you the level of control, monitoring, and management that today’s more critical systems demand.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | High Availability | Network Design | Network Management | Network Monitoring Software | Network Performance | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes.
Posted: October 23, 2009 | Published: October 23, 2009


Topics:  Change Management | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Downtime | Systems Management Software

WHITE PAPER - Virtualization is more than just a concept-- it is a concrete business strategy that can provide tangible value for companies in virtually any industry. Read this paper to learn more about Dell's virtual infrastructure solutions.
Posted: September 29, 2009 | Published: December 17, 2007


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization | TCO | VMware

WHITE PAPER - Along with an in-depth discussion of energy measurement and management, this white paper provides a brief overview of IBM solutions that can help organizations support their initiatives for developing energy-efficient and environmentally responsible data centers.
Posted: September 23, 2009 | Published: May 1, 2008


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center

WHITE PAPER - IT managers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency - to reduce power consumption and cooling requirements - to save money. Using HP Reference Architectures for Oracle, you get a modular, inherently flexible, and highly available application platform that accomplishes that. Read this paper for details.
Posted: July 30, 2009 | Published: July 1, 2009


Topics:  Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers

WHITE PAPER - This paper describes the principles for achieving power and cooling capacity management.
Posted: July 10, 2009 | Published: January 1, 2007


Topics:  Blade Servers | Capacity Management | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | ITIL | Power Consumption Monitoring | UPS

WHITE PAPER - Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
Posted: June 17, 2009 | Published: June 15, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Green Data Center | IT Service Management | IT Spending | Network Appliances | Network Management Services | Storage Capacity | Storage Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs.
Posted: June 4, 2009 | Published: March 1, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Consolidation | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - Enterprises, government agencies and service providers are increasingly employing virtualized environments to decrease costs, consolidate data center space and reduce environmental impacts. This paper describes a comprehensive set of CA tools for managing virtual environments.
Posted: April 29, 2009 | Published: April 1, 2009


Topics:  Capacity Planning | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Fault Management | Fault Tolerance | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Virtualization

WHITE PAPER - This paper contrasts room, row and rack architectures and shows why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most next generation data centers.
Posted: February 4, 2009 | Published: February 3, 2009


Topics:  Blade Servers | Computer Room Air Conditioning Units | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Management | Rack Servers

WHITE PAPER - This IBM white paper helps you to understand what's happening in an overheated system and to see if yours is at risk, it also explains how the IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger helps to dramatically reduce data center power consumption.
Posted: October 27, 2008 | Published: October 27, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | CMOS | Cooling Capacity | Data Center Cooling | Data Centers | IT Managers | Server Consolidation

WHITE PAPER - This white paper examines the TCO of this blade solution at acquisition and at 1, 3, and 5 years. TCO includes hardware, support, management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space.
Posted: October 24, 2008 | Published: October 23, 2008


Topics:  Blade Servers | Cooling Capacity | Data Centers | Performance Testing | Rack Servers | ROI | Server Virtualization | Software | TCO