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Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - IBRS

IT infrastructure analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac of Intelligent Business Research Services reveals the key points from Strategic Path’s executive peer-group roundtable Strategic Path’s roundtable discussions aim to foster better understanding ...

Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - Roundtable

Strategic Path discusses best practices and IT infrastructure challenges with IBM’s Chris Fasseau and Michael Shallcross, and Dylan Morison of Cisco. This compelling panel discussion was moderated by Kevin McIsaac, following a longer end-user rou...

Pacific R&A - The State of Data Centres in Australia

Latest survey results By Clive Longbottom, Head of Research, Pacific R&A At the recent Data Center Dynamics event held in Sydney, Pacific R&A carried out some interesting research, looking at attendees’ approach to and perceptions of ...

AFCOM - Data Centre Revolution

100 years ago there was no such thing as a data centre. Even 50 years ago we only had an inkling of what a data centre was. It wasn’t until 40 years ago that the data centre really began to come into its own… back in the days when people t...

DMI - Green IT and The Data Centre

Why the Delete Key may be the Greenest Technology You Own By JON WILLIAM TOIGO, CEO, TOIGO PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL LLC, CHAIRMAN, DATA MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE LLC • Assessing the need to reduce power usage in the data centre • Where sto...

Longhaus - Power, water, bandwidth, space and the modern data centre

Why going green gets the green light By Sam Higgins, Longhaus PTY LTD Understanding basic design elements, and their constraints, will determine the success or failure of the best assembled data centre strategy. At present it seems market hype is...

Strategic Path - Green Networking Equipment: Who Leads and Who Lags

Introduction In the data center, the advent of high-density computing equipment has sent power usage soaring. For instance, servers and their supporting infrastructure consumed an estimated 1.5% of US electricity in 2006, according to the Environmen...

Strategic Path - The Instant Data Centre

The instant data centre – just add water BDM editor Branko Miletic talks to Chris Schroor, GM of Commercial Projects for the City of Greater Springfield in South-East Queensland about their greenfields data centre project and what he thinks are ...

Strategic Path - Stephen Withers - Data Centre Design

Data Centre Design Data centre design has been made more complex by the increasing density of equipment such as blade servers, which leads to greater demands on power and cooling subsystems. Current thinking has moved from a ‘big bang’ ...

Strategic Path - Stand and Deliver

Stand and Deliver Many of today’s data centres are struggling to support or deliver under a weight of projects and application deployments, sparking a huge growth in upgrades and Greenfield designs. At the same time, new drivers like blade ser...

Strategic Path - Data Centre Designs and Blade Servers

Data centre designs and blade servers By Kirsten Marsh , STRATEGIC PATH WRITER The server has long been an indispensable part of the company information network. Acting as distributor of information, providing connections between workstations and, ...

CISCO - A Unified Data Centre Network Fabric

As technology consolidation and virtualisation demands 100% uptime, extra bandwidth and the high-density of 10GIG, we interviewed Dylan Morison, Cisco’s regional head of data centres, to see how they are satisfying both the customer and technolog...

Cisco - Sanitarium deploys Cisco WAAS for its IT consolidation strategy

Cisco WAAS has been able to optimise application and file performance at remote sites, help centralise server and data centre infrastructure and allow for greater staff productivity and efficiency. Business Challenge Founded more than 100 years ...

IBM - Talking Data

Strategic Path speaks to Stuart Lewis, Platforms Executive, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Australia/New Zealand 1.    What are the challenges or issues your clients are faced with in their Data Centres? Its probably worth first...

3Com - How to apply green principles in network equipment purchase and management

…with the industry’s help By ANDREW HINDMARCH, SENIOR NETWORK CONSULTANT, 3COM AUSTRALIA Of the many trends the IT industry has endorsed, green IT has drawn strongest attention and support, not only from within the industry, but a...

HP - IT under pressure to do more, spend less

How the data centre double-bind changes everything ANGUS JONES, PRODUCT MARKETING MANAGER, HEWLETT PACKARD. Call it the ‘next-generation data centre’. Call it the ‘lights-out data centre’. Whatever you call it, the data c...

Chloride - Leading power factors

Traditionally an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) designed to protect computer supplies was optimised for operation with lagging power factor (PF) loads in the range of 0.6 - 0.9 which has led to almost universal adoption of the 0.8 lag PF rating e.g...

Reichle & deMassari - Total Facility Management

1. Introduction Ever since the first large modern buildings were built, the challenge facing building managers has been how to centrally control and manage them. Numerous functions – from security and fire alarms, to power consumption and temp...

Chloride - Integrated systems for UPS: New solutions in the power quality chain White paper

Presented at INTELEC 07, Rome, Italy Abstract Power quality solutions for critical loads have to satisfy some specific needs such as reliability, cost, environmental impact and power conditioning capability. A correct trade-off between these depe...

3Com - Safeguarding the Environment While Advancing Networked Communications

FASTER AND SMARTER COMMUNICATIONS Reducing energy consumption while increasing network functionality is a significant challenge, but typical of the complex issues that 3Com research and development teams are addressing. Because few places are free f...

NDY - How To Build A Real Green Data Centre (Part 1)

How To Build A Real Green Data Centre Part 1: Drivers for Data Centre energy efficiency WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Data centres are the work horses that support internet connectivity, and they are massive power users. Few people understand the re...

NDY - How To Build A Real Green Data Centre (Part 2)

How To Build A Real Green Data Centre Part 2: Energy Efficiency improvements that can save you money TODAY WHAT ARE THE SHORT TERM FIXES? This paper is part 2 of a series for IT and Property professionals who are concerned about energy consumpti...

NDY - How To Build A Real Green Data Centre (Part 3)

How To Build A Real Green Data Centre Part 3: Energy Efficiency strategies for your next build WHAT ARE THE LONGER TERM FIXES? This paper is part 3 of a series for IT and Property professionals who are concerned about energy consumption in Data ...

Belden - Data Center Guide

1. Introduction 1.1 The term data center is used to describe a specialized facility for housing a large number of servers, storage devices, networking equipment and communications links. Past (and current) equivalents to a data center include mainfr...