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Dynamic Power Variations in Data Centers and Network Rooms
The power requirements of data centers and network rooms vary on a minute-by-minute basis depending on computational loads. The magnitude of this variation has grown...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: March 2005 |
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Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms
Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers or network rooms compromise availability and increase costs. These unintentional...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2008 |
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Rack Powering Options for High Density
Alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in Data Centers and Network Rooms are explained and compared. Issues addressed include quantity of feeds,...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2006 |
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Calculating Total Cooling Requirements for Data Centers
All electrical equipment produces heat, which must be removed to prevent the equipment temperature from rising to an unacceptable level. Most Information Technology equipment and...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2004 |
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Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure: Optimizing Business Value
To stay competitive in today's rapidly changing business world, companies must update the way they view the value of their investment in Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: January 2005 |
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Fundamental Principles of Network Security
Security incidents are rising at an alarming rate every year. As the complexity of the threats increases, so do the security measures required to protect...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009 |
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Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers
Rack power of 10kW per rack or more can result from the deployment of high-density information technology equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2005 |
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Physical Security in Mission Critical Facilities
Physical security is critical to achieving availability goals of mission critical facilities. Security of the data center accounts for it's surroundings as well as data...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009 |
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Electrical Efficiency Modeling for Data Centers
The conventional models used to estimate electrical efficiency of data centers are grossly inaccurate for real-world installations. Estimates of electrical losses typically are made by...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: January 2006 |
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Monitoring Physical Threats in the Data Center
Traditional methodologies for monitoring the datacenter environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: June 2007 |
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Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers
Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: August 2006 |
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Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: November 2007 |
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Preventive Maintenance Strategy for Data Centers
In the broadening data center cost-saving and energy efficiency discussion, data center physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: November 2007 |
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Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers
High density IT equipment stresses the power density capability of modern data centers. The ability to measure and predict power and cooling capability at the...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: November 2007 |
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Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. In particular, row-based cooling, correctly sized power and cooling, and...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2008 |
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Hot Aisle vs. Cold Aisle Containment
Both hot and cold air containment can significantly improve the predictability and efficiency of data center cooling systems. While both approaches eliminate the mixing of...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2008 |
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Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution
The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: July 2009 |
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Management Strategy for Network-Critical Physical Infrastructure
When choosing a management solution for the physical infrastructure of IT networks, management of individual devices is necessary in order to have visibility to the...
Sponsored by: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: September 2009 |
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Avoiding Costs From Oversizing Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure
The physical and power infrastructure of data centers and network rooms is typically oversized by more than 100%. Statistics related to oversizing are presented. The...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009 |
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Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure
This paper describes an improved method for measuring Total Cost of Ownership of data center and network room physical infrastructure and relating these costs to...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: December 2005 |
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Power and Cooling for VoIP and IP Telephony Applications
Voice Over IP (VoIP) deployments can cause unexpected or unplanned power and cooling requirements in wiring closets and wiring rooms. Most wiring closets do not...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: February 2005 |
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Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: Ventilation
Lead-acid batteries are the most widely used method of energy reserve. Ventilation systems must address health and safety as well as performance of the battery...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009 |
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Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: Safety Codes
This white paper reviews fire safety regulations and their application to UPS battery installations in the USA. In some cases, fire codes do not clearly...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2008 |
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Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management Blanking Panels
Unused vertical space in open frame racks and rack enclosures creates an unrestricted recycling of hot air that causes equipment to heat up unnecessarily. The...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009 |
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Air Distribution Architecture Options for Mission Critical Facilities
There are nine basic ways to use air to cool equipment in data centers and network rooms. These methods vary in performance, cost, and ease...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009 |
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Preventing Data Corruption in the Event of an Extended Power Outage
Despite advances in computer technology, power outages continue to be a major cause of PC and server downtime. Protecting computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: December 2007 |
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Increasing Data Center Cooling Efficiency and Capacity
The requirement to deploy high-density servers within single racks is presenting data center managers with a challenge. Vendors are now designing servers which will demand...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: January 2004 |
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Management Strategy for Network Critical Physical Infrastructure
When choosing a management solution for the physical infrastructure of IT networks, management of individual devices is necessary in order to have visibility to the...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: January 2003 |
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Road to Reliable, Available VoIP & IP telephony
Businesses across the country are embracing voice-over-IP to reduce their long-term networking costs and gain the power of IP telephony. Voice-over-IP networks require careful planning,...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2004 |
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Ten Solutions to Solving Cooling Problems Caused by High Density Server Deployment
The requirement to deploy high-density servers within single racks is presenting data center managers with a challenge. Vendors are now designing servers that will demand...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: February 2006 |
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Cooling Audit for Identifying Potential Cooling Problems in Data Centers
The compaction of Information Technology equipment and simultaneous increases in processor power consumption are creating challenges for data center managers in ensuring adequate distribution of...
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: October 2006 |
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Watts and Volt-Amps: Powerful Confusion
This note helps explain the differences between Watts and VA and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment....
Company: American Power Conversion (APC)
Date: April 2009 |
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The Different Types of UPS Systems There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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Humidification Strategies for Data Centers and Network Rooms The control of humidity in Information Technology environments is essential to achieving high availability. This paper explains how humidity affects equipment and why humidity control... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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Experts speak on UPS output Watt, VA, and Power Factor ratings. Experts speak on the subject of UPS output ratings, and how the use of UPS with an output power factor rating of 1 reduces uncertainty... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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Essential Rack System Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past data center designs. This paper presents a categorized and... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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Use of 208V vs 120V for Servers This paper explains why and when 208V is used instead of 120V for servers in North America. This same discussion applies to the use of... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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Neutral Wire Facts and Mythology This technical paper discusses many common misunderstandings about the function of the neutral wire and its relation to power problems. The subjects of dedicated lines,... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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Architecting for Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Equipment This industry-specific white paper from APC provides important guidance for determining the power and cooling needs of an IT infrastructure that will support Medical Imaging... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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Essential Cooling Requirements for Data Centers This APC white paper presents the findings of a recent survey of corporate CIOs and IT managers that was conducted to identify customer problems related... Company: American Power Conversion (APC) |
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