The report provides a snapshot of how leading European enterprises are using virtualisation today, and what they’ve learned from their implementations

Learn from a leading analyst firm, Hurwitz & Associates, how CA Data Center Automation can help reduce the costs and complexities that plague data center management through various points of entry.

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.

Maintaining availability of network and storage resources is one of the biggest challenges faced by server administrators. Availability becomes a key when there are mission critical applications deployed on these resources.

This film takes the viewer through the day-to-day work of an IT manager and his modern data center in 2008. The viewers learn how various tasks are handled using a dynamic data center and thus receive a good insight into how a Dynamic Data Center works.

An increasing number of enterprises have hit the limits of their data center’s power, cooling and space capacity. Learn how Data center virtualization could reduce energy costs in the data center by up to 50%

CIOs have many reasons for looking at the energy efficiency of their data centers. This 2008 report from IDC and Fujitsu Siemens details the most important considerations for organizations that are looking to reduce their power consumption and the challenges of environmental sustainability.

Going green has become an imperative! Limited energy supply and skyrocketing costs are compelling organizations to take radical measures to reduce their carbon footprint. Learn how Citrix products can help bring environmental and organizational objectives into alignment.

An explaination on the sources of downtime in Electric Power Systems and with an explanation for site-to-site variations in Power Availability. There is a qualitative description of a model, which can be combined with data to provide a method for estimating down time based on site-related factors.

An educational document that provides an overview of problems related to harmonic currents, with a specific focus on Information Technology equipment. The way that international regulations solved these problems is described.

When blade servers are densely packed, they can exceed the power and cooling capacities of almost all traditional data centers. This paper explains how to evaluate the options and select the best power and cooling approach for a successful and predictable blade deployment.

There is much confusion in the marketplace about the different types of UPS systems and their characteristics. Each of these UPS types is defined, practical applications of each are discussed, and advantages and disadvantages are listed.

Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems and challenges relating to current and past data center designs. This paper presents a categorized and prioritized collection of power system challenges and requirements as obtained through
systematic user interviews.

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.

Protect computer systems with Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) hardware is part of a total solution, but power management software is also necessary to prevent data corruption after extended power outages. Software configurations are discussed, and best practices to ensure uptime is presented.

Find out what leading consulting engineers viewpoints are on the various power trends that are currently occuring within the IT industry and the effects that this can have on your organisation in this informative White Paper.

Need help in understanding the technical terms of Power Factor, Crest Factor, and Surge Factor ? This informative White Paper will expalin these terms. The use of these terms in specifying UPS is also explained in a clear and easy to understand format.

In this paper, the impact of data center design parameters on perforated tile airflow is quantified and methods of improving the uniformity are discussed.

The control of humidity in IT environments is essential to achieving high availability. This paper explains how humidity affects equipment and why humidity control is required.

Signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data centers despite the fact that they are no longer needed by modern IT equipment. The question of why systems can work reliably without an SRG and whether the SRG is ever a necessary or logical expense.