Implementation Roadmaps

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 ...

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...

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 - 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’ ...

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...

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...

Raritan - Data Center Transformations

Data Center Transformations Simplify data center build outs, consolidations and acquisitions with IT infrastructure management solutions. Abstract Changes in information technology (IT) can be split into two broad categories. Moves, additions an...

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...