All Research Sponsored By:Schneider Electric
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InfraStruxure for Small IT Spaces at Schneider Electric
Access this video to discover a comprehensive solution that brings together UPS, power distribution and cooling offerings to help you manage small data centres, IT rooms, enterprise branches or network closets. This video outlines a solution that uses virtualisation, unified communication and cloud technologies to simplify these environments.
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Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Evaluating and Implementing DCIM Solutions
Access this white paper to discover tips for choosing the right data center infrastructure management tools. This resource describes the common pitfalls to avoid when choosing a DCIM solution and provides practical guidance to help you pick a toolset that is a better fit for your data center – and shows you how to implement it properly.
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Economizer Modes of Data Center Cooling Systems
Access this white paper to learn how your data center can reduce energy costs by using the right economizer mode. This resource provides definitions for the various types of economizer modes and compares their performance against key data center attributes.
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Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms
Access this white paper to discover innovative approaches to eliminating chaos in your data center or server room. From quick fixes to long term solutions, this resource has it all.
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Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment
Access this white paper to discover ten cooling solutions to support high-density server deployment. Read on to learn how your organization can increase cooling efficiency and more.
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Smart-UPS Features and Benefits Overview
Access this video to learn about the benefits of using an effective UPS to protect your servers and other network devices from surges, spikes, blackouts and more.
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Virtualization Energy Cost Calculator
Access this virtualization energy cost calculator to compare the cost of virtualized and non-virtualized IT environments. Input information about data center capacity, load, energy cost and view the percentage savings that virtualization can bring to your annual electric bill.
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Energy Impact of Increased Server Inlet Temperature
Learn how your business can promote data center energy efficiency by finding the optimal temperature range where the combined IT and cooling load is minimized.
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Impact of Hot and Cold Aisle Containment on Data Centre Temperature and Efficiency
Access this exclusive resource to discover the efficiency benefits of containment and learn about the differences between hot-air and cold-air strategies.
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Guidance for Calculation of Efficiency (PUE) in Data Centres
The efficiency ratings of a data centre can vary substantially depending on what methodologies are applied. Access this exclusive resource to discover the importance of measuring data centre efficiency and learn about the issues companies face when establishing the PUE of an infrastructure.
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Schneider Electric Delivers StruxureWare™ for Data Centers
This essential resource explores the top IT and business drivers for data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) software, definitions of DCIM, how it can solve data centre challenges, and presents the main benefits of DCIM.
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Standardization and Modularity in Data Center Physical Infrastructure
This paper examines how failure to adopt modular standardization as a design strategy for data center physical infrastructure (DCPI) is costly on all fronts, unnecessary expense, avoidable downtime, and lost business opportunity. Standardization and modularity, create wide-ranging benefits in DCPI that streamline and simplify every process.
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How Monitoring Systems Reduce Human Error in Distributed Server Rooms and Remote Wiring Closets
Surprise incidences of downtime in server rooms and remote wiring closets lead to sleepless nights for many IT managers. This paper analyzes several of these incidents and makes recommendations for how a basic monitoring system can help reduce the occurrence of these unanticipated events.
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Estimating a Data Center's Electrical Carbon Footprint
Data Center carbon emissions are a growing global concern. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cites data centers as a major source of energy consumption in the United States. This paper introduces a simple approach, supported by free web-based tools, for estimating the carbon footprint of a data center anywhere in the world.
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Rack Powering Options for High Density
In this APC whitepaper, alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in data centers and network rooms are explained and compared as well as defined guidelines for rack power systems that can reliably deliver power to high density loads while adapting to changing needs.
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Solutions for Network Closets
Convergence, consolidation, virtualization - today's IT trends have turned the network closet into a mission-critical environment. APC solutions give you the level of control, monitoring, and management that today’s more critical systems demand.
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Solutions for Small to Medium Data Centers
APC® by Schneider Electric enables you to adapt your data center to the changing needs of a business. With the same InfraStruXure® HD-Ready architecture, you can start out with a low-density data center, and later scale up to high density as needed without picking up the phone to call for more capacity, engineering or quotes.
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A Quantitative Comparison of High Efficiency AC vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers
This paper explains why a move to a DC-based architecture is unwarranted on the basis of efficiency by comparing the most efficient DC and AC power distribution methods.
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The Green Data Center: Energy-Efficient Computing in the 21st Century, Chapter 3, 2009 Update
This chapter is a primer on energy efficient cooling and power distribution principles and best practices in data center.
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A Guide to Systems Planning for Data Center Management
In this paper, you will learn how to eliminate systems planning problems with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final data center design.