Power Generation Equipment

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

WHITE PAPER: Technology systems such as electronic medical records and digital imaging are revolutionizing healthcare. The continuous operation of these systems has become increasingly critical. Emerson Network Power has developed three centralized UPS configurations specifically for healthcare settings.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

WHITE PAPER: Today's IT, facilities and data center managers face the daunting challenge of maintaining a high availability data center while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency. Learn how Transformer-based UPS designs are proven topologies for achieving high efficiency without compromising availability in large enterprise data center applications.

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 | Published: 21 Jan 2010

EBOOK: This APC eBook will discuss power consumption trends in the data center, why energy efficiency matters, how to reduce your power footprint, and benchmark metrics that will help you measure your progress.

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 | Published: 03 Dec 2009

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: 02 Nov 2009 | Published: 02 Nov 2009

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: 30 Oct 2009 | Published: 30 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Developments in alternative energy technology are creating solutions that provide network operators with the ability to reduce their energy costs and carbon footprint. Read this short whitepaper for more information about alternative energy sources that can make your wireless network more eco-friendly and save you money.

Posted: 02 Oct 2009 | Published: 02 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: A data center's power availability has become essential to an organization's ability to serve its customers and to stay both competitive and profitable. This white paper will discuss 10 underutilized best practices for building and maintaining a highly available data center power infrastructure.

Posted: 01 Sep 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the advantages and disadvantages of EPO for protecting data centers and small IT equipment rooms containing UPS systems.

Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2005

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. It will also highlight the HP ProCurve data center solutions that focus on efficiency.

Posted: 09 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: High heat in critical spaces compromises availability. This paper discusses the pros and cons of different cooling fluids and system architectures, and explores the role of supplemental cooling technologies as data center densities increase.

Posted: 07 Jul 2009 | Published: 07 Jul 2009

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: 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: 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: A new approach to power distribution for high density server installations saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits.

Posted: 29 Apr 2009 | Published: 01 Jan 2006

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 discusses the advantages and disadvantages of Flooded, Valve Regulated Lead Acid (VLRA), and Modular Battery Catridge (MBC) lead-acid battery technologies.

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 04 Feb 2009

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

Posted: 04 Feb 2009 | Published: 03 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

DATA SHEET: Cassatt Active Response, Standard Edition is an innovative software solution for intelligently controlling the power usage of servers in the data center.

Posted: 15 Sep 2008 | Published: 15 Mar 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

WHITE PAPER: In this paper, The Green Grid™ provides a framework for improving the energy efficiency of both new and existing datacenters. The nature of datacenter energy consumption is reviewed and best practices are suggested that can significantly impa...

Posted: 12 Jun 2008 | Published: 06 Feb 2007

WHITE PAPER: Following a greener path has become much more than an altruistic endeavor, organizations are focusing on developing green data centers in order to reduce the exorbitant power and cooling costs as well as improve operational efficiency.

Posted: 08 Feb 2008 | Published: 05 Feb 2008