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A few takeaways from performing data center power & cooling assessments
Several times throughout the course of a year, I have the fortunate opportunity to participate in conducting Power & Cooling Assessments at customer data centers. Schneider Electric’s Mission...
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DCIM: A Powerful Tool to Address Data Center Issues that Virtualization Brings
Data center service providers are naturally in tune with the many benefits of virtualization technology and how it can dramatically increase server utilization rates, thus reducing the number of...
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DCIM Provides Enterprises the Power to Plan and Drive Operational Efficiencies
Enterprises that run their own data centers must cope with a complex array of responsibilities, including how to power and cool equipment, install and maintain hardware, meet compliance requirements,...
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Schneider Electric Helps BusinessSuites Survive Hurricanes and More
When you’re in the business of providing fully equipped office space for companies large and small, complete with phone and Internet service, it behooves you to make sure those services are available...
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The importance of data center life cycle management
One of the biggest challenges for data center professionals is managing the life cycle of data center equipment in a way that optimizes performance while reducing downtime. There is a lot to keep track...
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Micro data centers: Rubik’s Cube of the Industry
Every once in a while a product comes along that breaks through industry standards. In toys, for example, it’s not the usual suspects like Barbie or Monopoly – the biggest seller was Rubik’s Cube with...
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Software Created the Virtualization Gap; Now It’s the Bridge
Software definition began with server virtualization and helped avoid a zombie apocalypse of dead servers; moved to the network with the emergence of the Internet of Things (IOT); and has now also...
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IT Careers: 20 Years in – Still the Best Option
Software Developer is No. 3 on the U.S. News & World Report top 100 jobs list; computer systems analyst is No. 7; information security analyst No. 8 and web developer just misses the top ten at No....
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What’s the Pulse from the Open Compute Project Summit?
The greatest minds in data center design are converging in Silicon Valley today and tomorrow with the intention of collaborating and sharing. What started out as a controversial idea for Facebook,...
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Deploying Open Rack, Servers and Storage from the Open Compute Project
The data center industry has traditionally been risk averse and for good reason – business critical and life critical applications cannot be taken lightly. With that the industry is also highly...
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UPS Deployment Strategies for Critical Power Distribution
One tends to think of UPS systems as black box devices connected to various IT assets and critical appliances or machines. While these standalone applications for uninterruptible power still exist,...
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Operator Training Maximizes the Value of your Data Center Solution
My father-in-law recently took me for a drive in his brand new, top-of-the-line Buick. He is a “car guy” and clearly enjoyed showing off his newest prize. He pointed to the GPS that was built into the...
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A few takeaways from performing data center power & cooling assessments
Several times throughout the course of a year, I have the fortunate opportunity to participate in conducting Power & Cooling Assessments at customer data centers. Schneider Electric’s Mission...
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5 Ways to Reduce Data Center Operations Costs
There’s no getting around the fact that owning and operating a data center is expensive. But following a few simple, sound best practices can help you reduce your ongoing operations costs, delivering...
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What’s Old is What’s New Again – Liquid Cooling Servers in Data Center Design
The very first computers used vacuum tube analog technology and gave off tremendous amount of heat. In the 1960’s mainframe computers switched to transistor technology that required many of them to...
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Silencing Your Noisy Data Center Infrastructure – with Liquid Cooling
The world is generally a noisy place that is sometimes soothing or relaxing, but most often unpleasant with excessive levels of noise. In urban areas, there is constant noise emanating from car...
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