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Both hot and cold air containment can significantly improve the predictability and efficiency of data centre cooling systems. While both approaches eliminate the mixing of hot and cold air, there are practical differences in implementation that have significant consequences. This paper examines both methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.
Organizations are storing and using more data than ever before. Data volume is growing exponentially, and government regulations and competitive pres- sures are increasing—forcing organizations to retain more data for longer periods of time. But budgets are flat or being cut. And as everyone becomes more dependent on digital information, the costs of losing any of it are increasingly painful.
Taking steps towards meeting the legal challenge of carbon reduction within data centres in a sensible, cost effective and sustainable manner.
Up over in the UK: In April 2010, many organisations will find that they fall under the UK's new Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation (now known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme).
Up over in the UK: In April 2010, many organisations will find that they fall under the UK's new Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation (now known as the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme).
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What would it mean to your organization if you could always access critical business data at the exact moment you need it?
Or if you could improve service and reduce costs by delivering IT services when the customer requests them—and automatically reclaim them when they are no longer needed?
Or if you could improve service and reduce costs by delivering IT services when the customer requests them—and automatically reclaim them when they are no longer needed?
While vital power systems such as UPSs and generators stand at the ready to mitigate power glitches, they act in a reactive mode and only provide power after there has been a power event. What if there was a way to know before impending power faults of key systems? What if there was a crystal ball inside the walls of the facility that show exactly what is going on with the power infrastructure?
In the far distant past, if you wanted an IT platform, it came as a pretty well integrated package: a mainframe or midi-computer, dedicated networking and client devices that were pretty well tied in to the platform you bought. The PC changed all of this, and there was an explosion of different hardware manufacturers providing distinct parts of the platform, from servers, through storage, networking and client devices.
Data center managers have several opportunities to gain efficiencies from their facilities. Managers should look at three key areas to address these opportunities: the IT equipment inside the data center, other gear inside the facility but outside the data center, and the outside of the building. In this article, we'll review 13 ways that The Green Grid recommends to help maximize efficiency inside the facility.
In the Westin's Boardroom in September, Strategic Path hosted a group of infrastructure directors from some of Australia's leading companies for a Peer session on data centre power and cooling efficiency. Key discussion points were: asset management, power monitoring and consumption efficiency, air management, hot aisle containment, DCiE, lifecycle management and modular system builds.
In September 2009, The Strategic Path ran an executive peer-group roundtable on power and cooling efficiency in the data centre. The round table was comprised of nine leading data centre managers, 3 data centre experts, and facilitated by well known IT infrastructure analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac of Intelligent Business Research Services (IBRS).
The economic downturn that we have seen over the past year is a global problem that may very well get worse before it gets better. Unemployment is on the rise. The cost of oil spiked to an all time high. Tax rate increases are being made. Consumers are spending less. The overall situation just seems glum. So what does this mean to the data center?
Infrastructure monitoring in the data center is critical for data center managers. They must have constant access to current, accurate information to operate the facility to maintain maximum uptime.
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