BOOK: Some of the most useful benchmarks and metrics in evaluating server performance are provided in this article along with descriptions to help IT managers identify the ones that best fit their organization.

Posted: 30 Jun 2009 | Published: 30 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: What your IT equipment needs from a UPS: The top five requirements that define “quality power” in the eyes of the power supplies in your IT systems.

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Is your data center running out of power or cooling? Read this paper and discover seven ways to extend the value of what you have and optimize the plan for what you need.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: This SAP Executive Insight examines specific concerns that confront utility executives in today's economy. Further, it describes how gaining greater business visibility and transparency can enable organizations to execute decisively and effectively in this challenging climate.

Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure.

Posted: 19 May 2009 | Published: 09 May 2008

WHITE PAPER: This paper examines various mistakes that compromise data center colling systems, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes simple remedies.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Dec 2003

WHITE PAPER: Predicting and measuring Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for the physical infrastructure for network rooms and data centers is required for ROI analysis and other business decision processes. This paper describes a method for determining TCO of physical data center and network room infrastructure including power, cooling and protection.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 30 Apr 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper covers the basics of reactive power management, as well as the more advanced topic of proactive or predictive power management. System integrators and developers well gain a better understanding of these power management techniques and how these techniques can reduce power consumption.

Posted: 10 Apr 2009 | Published: 30 Sep 2008

WEBCAST: This session identifies the three primary drivers of ever increasing facility costs and identifies the three strategic actions required by CFOs and CIOs to throttle uneconomic application demand and re-balance IT's economics.

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WEBCAST: Three data center experts will discuss the benefits and potential pratfalls of going green.

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the need for a systematized program for new power equipment startup and the best practices and pitfalls that exist with regards to power equipment startup.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the nature of circulating currents in UPS-supplied power systems when solid system grounding is employed and the use of modified-differential ground fault protection to eliminate the effects of these circulating currents.

Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | Published: 12 Feb 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents the fundamentals of power system grounding, definitions and requirements of the National Electrical Code with respect to grounding, the need for low voltage ground fault protection and how it is implemented.

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 | Published: 05 Nov 2008

VIDEOCAST: This videocast explains how the sequence of events recording (SER) works, so that you can implement a plan to identify, treat, and prevent power system issues.

Posted: 05 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 05 Nov 2008

WHITE PAPER: Effective standby generator system installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past designs to ensure high availability. This paper overviews generator system challenges and offers tips on solving them.

Posted: 10 Jul 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2005