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WHITE PAPER: This resource presents how IT solution providers can grow through a targeted approach to marketing and sales by focusing on specific industries or types of businesses.

Posted: 06 Jan 2012 | Published: 06 Jan 2012

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: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Apr 2009

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: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 10 Jul 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper outlines the ten most common errors that prevent successful execution of the commissioning process.

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 04 Feb 2009

EGUIDE: Power will be the number-one issue for most IT executives within the next few years. Not only does it represent a significant percentage of data center operating costs, but demand is likely to overtake supply in the near future. This e-guide highlights available courses of action for reducing energy consumption – without sacrificing performance.

Posted: 01 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Mar 2011

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: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 29 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This reference architecture is intended for data center administrators and enterprise IT professionals who seek power management solutions to achieve better efficiency within new or existing data centers.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes how the physical and power infrastructure of data centers and network rooms is typically oversized by more than 100%. Statistics related to oversizing are also presented, as well as the costs and fundamental reasons why oversizing occurs. An architecture and method for avoiding oversizing is described.

Posted: 04 Jun 2007 | Published: 04 Jun 2007

CASE STUDY: This case study reveals how HP assisted Mitsubishi in simplifying their storage management and eliminating single points of failure.

Posted: 18 Mar 2011 | Published: 18 Mar 2011

CASE STUDY: Machine manufacturer Hennecke wanted to boost enterprise efficiency but was constrained by its IT infrastructure. Guided by Dell consultants, the IT team chose virtualized Dell servers and Dell/EMC centralized storage. This case study examines this transition and the benefits achieved.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 23 Mar 2011

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: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: Inside, explore 5 questions you need to ask before selecting a high-efficiency, multi-mode UPS for your data center.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Machine manufacturer Hennecke wanted to boost enterprise efficiency but was constrained by its IT infrastructure. Guided by Dell consultants, the IT team chose virtualized Dell servers and Dell/EMC centralized storage. This case study examines this transition and the benefits achieved.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Today’s IT pros are being challenged to convert their data centers from costly infrastructures into producers of business value. This resource explores how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource divides the data center management tools into four distinct subsets and provides definitions and examples of each. Learn how you can determine which physical infrastructure management tools are needed to operate a data center.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will describe the most common types of power disturbances, what can cause them, what they can do to your critical equipment, and how to safeguard your equipment, using the IEEE standards for describing power quality problems

Posted: 11 Sep 2007 | Published: 11 Sep 2007

WHITE PAPER: This resource introduces what a UPS is and explores what kinds of UPS are available. Discover how to select the right UPS and accessories for your needs.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: A significant number of younger employees today blur the boundaries between their business and private email accounts out of frustration with their corporate IT infrastructure. This white paper reveals the key findings of a work habits report centering on email communication, and reveals how you can encourage your users to communicate responsibly.

Posted: 05 May 2011 | Published: 05 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores how you can optimize UPS availability by focusing on minimizing repair time and maximizing redundancy, both inside your UPSs and across your power protection initiatives. Also learn why modular UPS designs provide superior availability even though they typically contain more parts that could potentially fail.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today, IT has become a valuable asset of any organization. Because of this, data center availability has become essential. Yet businesses still remain vulnerable to a variety of threats, including electrical power systems. This resource explores 10 best practices for building and maintaining a highly available data center power infrastructure.

Posted: 02 Feb 2012 | Published: 02 Feb 2012

ANALYST BRIEF: A look at alternative approaches to managing energy for cost and/or sustainability reasons in data centres.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores how to overcome 8 common power management challenges with a new generation of intelligent, logical, and complete power management solutions. Learn how to improve power efficiency and cost-effectiveness inside.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines hot-air and cold-air containment methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot-aisle containment is the preferred best practice for new data centres.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Following on from the first cycle of research carried out in February 2011, this r e-run of the next generation datacentre research covered 10 regions to identify what progress organisations have made in preparing to adapt to new IT architectures and approaches to computing.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Enterprise organizations must allocate increasingly-scarce budget resources to products and services that help them address key barriers to true data center efficiency—such as unabated data growth, rising storage system costs, infrastructure complexity, and increasing power and cooling requirements.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

WHITE PAPER: Virtualization can have major consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced energy consumption may actually worsen the data center's power usage effectiveness (PUE). Learn more about the particular effects of virtualization inside.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011