Power and Cooling

Gains economic, operational and environmental Benefits

In this whitepaper, you will learn about three essential things to consider when evaluating and selecting an outsourcing partner for database administration.

This paper provides a primer of the grid, identifies an energy management paradigm shift with distributed energy sources and energy trading that impacts the data center.

Data center priorities have been consistent for some time: Improve efficiency, increase uptime and meet compliance regulations are IT mantras.

The latest advances in power and cooling technology offer cost savings along with features to keep data centers running reliably.

Understanding the Totality of the Move to Virtual Machines and Infrastructure

Business agility can be defined as a company's ability to respond to changes in business conditions quickly enough to benefit from them.

Server virtualization falls within the domain of IT operations but it can very much be a business matter with a measurable impact on the bottom line.

This paper examines various electrical architectures for redundancy that are implemented in today's mission-critical environments. The availability analyses of these various scenarios are then performed and the results are presented.

The consolidation of one or more data centers into an existing data center is a common occurrence. This paper gives examples of what is becoming a standard architecture for preparing the physical infrastructure in the receiving data center.

An insightful and and compelling discussion by IDC that reviews the primary reason for maintaining current systems -- Return on Investment.

With the introduction of Oracle's StorageTek T10000C tape drive, Oracle has raised the bar again, delivering the world's fastest tape drive and the first tape solution to offer an exabyte of storage capacity in a single tape library.

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

What you should know before making a colation decision

Today's IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of optimizing all aspects of their departments, including people, processes and technology. Optimizing and streamlining server utilization through virtualization represents one particularly exciting example. We found that one of the most popular usage models for virtualization is to drive down server procurements in development, test and production environments. When this model is followed, future server purchases are avoided; instead, new workloads are established on existing systems.

This document provides a high level overview of how to build a high performance, highly available IP SAN with deduplicated disk protection and long-term tape archive. This document will also put that solution into context with the rest of a typical IT environment.

Following the sale of a company division housing its corporate data center, Source Interlink had to relocate core IT operations. Teaming with CDW, they were able to not only relocate, but lower capital and operating costs, reduce their carbon footprint, and increase efficiency.

For all their advantages, virtualization and cloud computing bring some unique challenges: higher power demands per server and enclosure, more critical applications residing on each server, and a need for greater visibility into power conditions.

Though power protection solutions vary in numerous ways, all but the largest data centers use basic approaches when deploying uninterruptible power systems (UPSs): Either they distribute many smaller UPSs among their server racks or they install one or two large UPSs centrally within or near their server room. This white paper outlines each architecure's pros and cons.

Reference designs simplify and shorten the planning and implementation process and reduce downtime risks once up and running. In this paper reference designs are defined and their benefits are explained.

This paper shows a new approach to data center cooling that uses approximately half the energy of traditional methods, and at the same time provides greater scalability, availability, and ease of maintenance.

The information in this paper allows IT professionals to be more involved in the specification of precision cooling solutions that better align with IT objectives.

With a goal of reducing inlet temperatures, BayCare Health System, a major, non-profit, healthcare network in the Tampa, Florida area, installed a cold aisle containment system (CACS) in one section of its data center

This paper describes the concept of Rack Hygiene, which positions the rack as an airflow management device, not an inert commodity.

Committed to providing a first class education for the "whole child", Bensalem Township School District's technology team has innovated the learning experience with "technology infused instruction". Read this case study to find out how!