Data Center Power Management

EBOOK: Chapter 4 of this e-book summarizes strategies for lessening the environmental impact of data centers and helps IT managers create a holistic four-phased approach to an energy-efficient data center project that includes persuading C-level executives to pursue energy efficiency, measuring data center energy consumption, and much more.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 30 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Knowing the difference between Watts and Volt-Amps (VA) is crucial for UPS load sizing in data centers, but UPS vendors and manufacturers often use the terms interchangeably. Learn how to use these terms correctly in specifying power protection equipment.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2003

WHITE PAPER: Small data centers and network rooms vary dramatically in the amount of uninterruptible power supply (UPS) runtime deployed. This paper identifies four steps to identifying if a standby generator is required.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jul 2007

WHITE PAPER: Assessing the electrical power required to support and cool the critical loads within the data center is essential in planning for the development of a facility that will meet the end user's availability expectations. Read this white paper to learn how.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2007

WHITE PAPER: An understanding of the 9 types of cooling systems and their attributes can be used to develop guidelines for when each type should be used, and such guidelines are provided in this paper for both raised floor and hard floor applications.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 20 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems related to current and past data center designs. This paper presents a collection of power system challenges and requirements as obtained through systematic user interviews.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 04 Feb 2005

WHITE PAPER: In this APC whitepaper, alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in data centers and network rooms are explained and compared as well as defined guidelines for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2005

WHITE PAPER: Every Information Technology professional who is responsible for the operation of computing equipment needs to understand the function of air conditioning in the data center or network room. This introductory paper explains the function of basic components of an air conditioning system for a computer room.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Jan 2004

WHITE PAPER: To be actionable and effective, data center power optimization requires accurate measuring, modeling, trending, and analysis. Read this white paper to learn how accurate energy measurements can provide a quantum leap over current methods in helping data center energy optimization.

Posted: 31 Mar 2010 | Published: 31 Mar 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: My name is Bob Napaa. I am the VP of Business Development and Marketing for Virtensys. In this presentation transcript, I will be talking about the Virtensys I/O virtualization switches and then how they can optimize the data centers, in terms of reducing power consumption, reducing equipment cost and enhancing the manageability of the data center.

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 | Published: 24 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: There are few sure things in business these days, but here’s one: If you are in business and expect to stay in business you can also expect that your need to store and manage data will be growing. The “go to” technology for a successful data storage growth plan is automated tiered storage.

Posted: 18 Mar 2010 | Published: 18 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of the challenges faced in today’s data centers; addressing the issues surrounding data center power, cooling and efficiency, with an emphasis on how specific networking tools and strategies can help address these issues.

Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Green IT equals efficient IT - and that equals an efficient and sustainable enterprise with a healthy bottom line. Getting started along the path to a green data center does not have to be a complex undertaking. Read this paper to learn about the three critical steps that can empower CIOs to reduce both infrastructure costs and GHG emissions. 

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: The environmental and economic responsibility of our age is demanding more. A lot more. Discover how you can maximize storage power efficiency without sacrificing storage performance or incurring special costs to get it.

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 | Published: 23 Feb 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this brief presentation transcript for information about improving data center energy efficiency and how this can have a tremendous impact on the environment. Presenters also discuss the LEED ratings system and the need for data center specific benchmarks.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is often proposed as a key decision making criterion when comparing data center infrastructure systems. This paper explains how MTBF can be effectively used as one of several factors for specification and selection of systems, by making the assumptions explicit.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: The APC InfraStruXure product line offers an alternative architecture to the central UPS. This paper summarizes the key findings of MTechnology's quantitative risk assessment and discusses their implications for facility managers and designers.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: MTechnology, Inc. (MTech) performed a quantitative reliability analysis of the APC Symmetra MW UPS. The study used techniques of Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA) to calculate the likelihood of over 680,000 potential failure modes.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript to learn what Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, thinks it means to really have a green data center.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision. We show that it is both easy and inexpensive for any data center, large or small, new or old, to get started allocating costs and carbon, but the expense and complexity escalate and ROI declines when excessive precision is specified.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Unfortunately, commonly published efficiency data is not computed using a standard methodology making it difficult to properly benchmark infrastructure efficiency in data centers. This paper explains the problem and describes a standardized method for classifying data center loads for efficiency calculations.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses thermal management considerations associated with deploying a Vertical Exhaust System in the data center, and its impact on the data center physical infrastructure. An example scenario is presented to demonstrate the cost savings that may be achieved by deploying a VES in a typical data center environment.

Posted: 28 Jan 2010 | Published: 28 Jan 2010

EBOOK: Data center efficiency has become increasingly important to IT departments. With IT departments now on the hook for reducing their energy use, technologists look to sources of inefficiency and see that commodity scale-out servers are clear culprits. In chapter 2 of this ebook, we'll discuss server efficiency tactics, fixes and other strategies.

Posted: 25 Jan 2010 | Published: 25 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today's successful businesses depend on adaptable technologies to help them respond quickly to market demands. Emerson Network Power's portfolio of products provide innovative, flexible solutions that ensure reliability and efficiency.

Posted: 22 Jan 2010 | Published: 22 Jan 2010