Although facilities staff are often held accountable for cooling problems, many problems are actually caused by improper deployment of IT equipment outside their control. This paper examines the typical mistakes, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and describes their remedies.

IT IS ALL ABOUT EFFICIENCY. The new PowerEdge M1000e is designed to help you be more efficient with your time, your power and cooling, your investment, and your system’s performance.

To help you comply with these regulations, IBM Internet Security Systems (ISS) offers the Security Awareness Program. This customisable computer-based training system educates your employees about the importance of achieving and maintaining best security practices.

A survey of management personnel relating to mission critical installations was conducted, interviewing CIO’s, Facility Managers, and IT Managers. Over 90 people were interviewed from over 50 different organizations including Fortune 1000 companies, Government and Education, and Service Providers.

Conventional models for esitmating electrical efficiency of data centres are grossly inaccurate for real-world installations. This paper examines a more accurate efficiency model, one that provides a rational basis for identifying and quantifying waste in power and cooling equipment.

This paper discusses the common errors and misunderstandings in evaluating UPS efficiency. UPS efficiency curves are explained, compared, and their cost implications quantified.

Room cooling is an ineffective approach for next-generation data centers. This paper contrasts room, row, and rack architectures and shows why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most next generation data centres.

In many companies the IT spend constitutes the largest proportion of the budget and managing these assets can be time consuming and expensive. Reduce IT support costs with this IT inventory and full management and system administration tool

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