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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 ...

Strategic Path - Greening the Data Centre And growing the Bottom Line

Do you actually know how much energy your data centre consumes each year? Neither did South East Water, until they placed a meter on the electrical switchboard that revealed they were using nearly 80KW of energy – day and night. South East Water ...

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...

AFCOM - Asset Management and Data Centre Optimisation

By William L. Dibella, President, AFCOM The age old business questions never change. For decades, we have asked: how do I lower cost, increase revenue, improve efficiency, lower risk, keep up with change and reduce head count all while continuing to...

DEHWA - Energy Efficiency and the Regulation of Servers

E3 attempts to harmonise its approach with US EPA approach in building benchmarks for computer servers and data centres. By Shane Holt, Director - Appliance Energy Efficiency Team, Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts. During th...

E3 - Data Centre Energy Issues

E3 attempts to harmonise its approach with US EPA approach in building benchmarks for computer servers and data centres. During the past five years, the increasing demand and use of computer based resources has led to signifi cant growth in the numb...

Gartner - The Data Centre Power and Cooling Challenge

The Data Centre’s Power and Cooling Challenge According to Gartner’s research, 50 percent of existing data centres in North America will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment by 2008,...

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 - 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, ...

Rittal - Keeping Your Cool

Strategic Path talks to Mark Roberts, Business Development Manager at Rittal, about data centre cooling SP: Companies are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprints in order to enhance their reputations, but what underlying benefits could this...

Rittal - Liquid Cooling White Paper

by Herb Villa 1 Executive summary As heat densities continue to escalate, data center managers are seeking solutions for handling these extreme heat loads to protect their equipment and their facilities. This paper provides a brief history ...

Chloride - Taking care of your UPS battery

Representing a significant part of the initial capital cost of a UPS, sometimes as much as 50%, it is in the interest of the user, both in operational and financial terms, to ensure that the battery is constantly in optimum condition. Whilst regular...

Chloride - Future power trends in dense single-user IT environments

Data Centre power density (W/m2) is growing at an exponential rate. What is the impact upon UPS systems? Building Services & Environmental Engineer, October 07 From the first microprocessor introduction in 1971 to the introduction of the Pent...

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 - Power Play

Is the DIC powered data centre really more energy efficient? By Ian Bitterlin International Sales Directory, Chloride Power Protection With rising costs and consumption of electrical power and increased pressure on companies to become ‘gree...

Chloride - Benefits of transformer-free UPS topology: myth or reality?

Abstract The aim of this application note is to focus our attention on the characteristics of Transformer-Free UPS (i.e. without unnecessary magnetic components) and to compare them with UPS with inverter transformer (a transformer between the inver...

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 ...

Cummins - Closing the FINAL GAPS in genset/UPS Interaction and Control

Closing the FINAL GAPS in genset/UPS Interaction and Control Specifying equipment that addresses the known problems associated with generators and UPS equipment compatibility isn’t enough Facility designers have been aware of problems assoc...

Chloride Power - Tiers for Fears?

TIERS FOR FEARS? Ian Bitterlin, International Sales Director of Chloride Power Protection, reviews data centre classifications After carefully aligning their IT availability needs against a data centre’s performance expectations, an informe...

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...

Eaton - Power quality in the IT infrastructure

If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – power quality in the IT infrastructure By Ciaran Bolton, Product Manager, Software & Connectivity, Eaton Root causes of power irregularity Guaranteeing computer-grad...

Emerson - Power to the people

Power to the people Why cooling just got hotter Ensuring business-critical continuity Emerson’s developments Emerson Network Power Australia recently appointed David Scott, an Emerson veteran of 30 years, to the positio...

Eaton - Strategic Power Management

Make sure your equipment is protected against power problems The importance of a power audit Examination of the three types of UPS Contingency planning to protect the bottom line With the advancing integration of voice and...

Eaton - Strategic Power Management Out of the basement and into the network

Make sure your equipment is protected against power problems The importance of a power audit Examination of the three types of UPS Contingency planning to protect the bottom line With the advancing integration of voice and dat...

Eaton Power - PowerChain Management

Why cool is now ‘hot’ for IT planners: Architecture solutions for your data centre Rising electricity prices are highlighting the power consumption of IT kit. With lifetime energy costs for some hardware approaching the purchase price, ...