Power and Cooling

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.

Server virtualization empowers businesses to lower hardware spending, simplify administration and boost availability. For IT and facilities managers, however, it introduces challenges and opportunities.

This paper examines how eight companies were able to reduce their annual IT infrastructure cost per user by almost 25% by migrating to blades.

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Read this whitepaper to see how choosing the right energy-efficient HP products can cut your organization's technology energy use and costs.

Read this whitepaper to learn how your organization can overcome the challenges associated with legacy networks to the mission-critical data center.

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This paper examines both methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.

Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behavior within wiring closets; this paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of cooling for wiring closets.

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Servers are the foundation of a dependable IT infrastructure. You need your IT to be reliable, flexible and ready to support your business through changing times. Read this white paper to see how IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers can offer an outstanding platform for virtualization and consolidation.

This paper explains virtualization, its benefits for mid-sized business and how IBM's virtualization strategy can help mid-sized companies reduce costs, improve services and simplify management.

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The focus of this paper is the power consumed by the support equipment which includes the losses of the power path equipment plus all power used by non-power-path support equipment.

The purpose of this paper is to outline practical and effective strategies of deployment of high density enclosures and blade servers.

In this paper, the real costs of UPS capacity expansion employing a legacy type of UPS will be compared and contrasted to the costs of employing a scalable UPS system.

This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision.

This paper defines a standard approach to collecting data from data centers and showing how to use it to calculate PUE, with a focus on what to do with data that is confusing or incomplete.

This paper discusses the common errors and misunderstandings in evaluating UPS efficiency.

This paper explains some the newer approaches to power distribution including modular power distribution and overhead power busway, and shows their advantages when compared to the legacy approach.