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Independent Insights
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 ...Posted: 25 November, 2008
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...Posted: 25 November, 2008
Strategic Path - The Australian Standard for Computer Accommodation
A Revision, to Be or Not to Be? Author: Alan McCubbin October 2008 INTRODUCTION The subject of data centres is as wide as it is broad and for the standard to be revised requires the voluntary participation of highly experienced and skilled peop...Posted: 20 November, 2008
Strategic Path - A Revision: To be or not to be?
The Australian Standard for Computer Accommodation By Alan McCubbin, Chairman of the AS 2834 Revision Group The subject of data centres is as wide as it is broad and for the standard to be revised requires the voluntary participation of highly expe...Posted: 18 November, 2008
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...Posted: 23 July, 2008
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...Posted: 22 July, 2008
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’ ...Posted: 29 August, 2007
Vendor Insights
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...Posted: 24 July, 2008
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...Posted: 23 July, 2008
Rack Technologies - Rack Technologies Evolution Ducting System Server Rack
Rack Technologies Evolution Ducting System Server Rack Data Centres across Australia are continually faced with the hurdle of how to keep servers from over heating in a highly populated environment such as a cabinet. Air conditioning alone does help...Posted: 27 March, 2008
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...Posted: 29 February, 2008