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IT Pros Are From Venus, Facilities Pros Are From Mars
It's no secret that there is discord between IT staff and facilities managers in organizations with large data centers. This e-book serves as a guide for IT pros looking for information to ensure that their physical infrastructures support the data center. It also provides insight into some of the challenges facing data center facilities teams.
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Realtime Publishing: The Business Drivers for Energy-Efficient Data Centers
What are the business drivers for energy-efficient data centers? Cost is obviously an important factor, but it’s actually a multi-pronged concern. Are you concerned about the costs of cooling your data center, or the costs of powering it? What about the costs associated with individual servers? You may also be concerned with data center capacity: Do you have the power and cooling to add new servers and provide new business services? Can some older, less-efficient servers be retired early for a cost savings? In this article, technology author Don Jones explores the thinking behind today’s business decisions on data center energy efficiency.
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Realtime Publishing: Finding Inefficient Servers and Reducing Data Center Costs
Do you know the “Efficiency Score” for your servers? It’s a measurement of how much power and cooling they consume compared to the utilization of the server itself. Servers with a low score are consuming a lot of money and providing relatively little value, and those servers are prime candidates for early retirement, consolidation, or a refresh to a more-efficient, newer hardware platform. Reducing data center costs starts and the server level, and author Don Jones shows you how to find the lowest-hanging fruit quickly and easily.
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Realtime Publishing: Maximizing Data Center Density by Finding Power and Cooling Capacity You Didn’t Know You Had
Does your business need new servers to provide new capabilities – but you don’t think your data center can handle any more power and cooling? You might be surprised. Simply adding up the wattage on your server power supplies isn’t an accurate estimate of actual utilization, and you may have more data center capacity than you realize. Let author Don Jones show you how to save money by finding – and utilizing – capacity you’re already paying for.
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SearchDataCenter.com Pocket E-Guide: An Expert Guide to Data Center Trends, Energy Regulations, and More
In light of the current economic condition, data center managers’ plans and budgets must be extremely flexible. This expert Pocket E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Viridity, discusses the top trends for the data center in 2010. Explore a group of data center energy efficiency standards that are currently being developed by the federal government and other major industry groups. Discover why it is critical for facilities and finance groups to work together for the approval of data center project initiatives.
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Uptime Institute Underwriter Case Study: Measuring Power Consumption and Equipment Utilization for Greater Data Center Efficiency
Lack of available power along with the energy expenses associated with IT equipment and cooling infrastructure have heightened the requirement for data center energy efficiency initiatives. Until now, it’s been difficult to successfully improve energy usage and gain visibility in the data center because of the cost and complexity involved in measuring equipment power consumption and utilization.
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