Scaling the power capacity of legacy UPS systems leads to hidden costs that may outweigh the very benefit that scalability intends to provide. A scalable UPS system provides a significant benefit to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of data center and network room physical infrastructure. This paper describes the drawbacks of scaling legacy UPS
Effective sales organizations do more than just meet revenue goals. They find new ways to achieve their goals while ensuring their sales professionals foster profitable customer relationships. There are two tools that are essential to sales professionals today – a CRM system and a smart phone. By combining both, field sales professionals can get quick,
Google “iPhone in the Enterprise” and in the blink of an eye, millions of results will appear. End-users, including many executives, love the iPhone, and ultimately – like it or not – that’s what matters. IT managers are just going to have to love, or at least accept it, because the iPhone as an enterprise
Every day, more and more of your enterprise – along with its data and transactions – is moving to the frontlines where you interact directly with your customers. The frontlines present a key opportunity for your business to gain a competitive advantage, by having the information and applications necessary to take decisive action when you
Business and IT managers alike have known for years that information is the fuel that powers business success. The ability to collect, integrate, secure, analyse and move business-critical information to end-users wherever they may be is often the key differentiator between market leaders and runners-up. So with over 35% of employees now working outside corporate
Both hot and cold air containment can significantly improve the predictability and efficiency of data centre cooling systems. While both approaches eliminate the mixing of hot and cold air, there are practical differences in implementation that have significant consequences. This paper examines both methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the
In the wider discussion about how to save costs and energy in the data centre, physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for controlling TCO and downtime. PM is performed specifically to prevent faults from ocurring, but IT and facilities managers can improve systems uptime through a better underderstanding of
Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data centre environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up security requirements, the physical environment in the data centre must be watched more closely. Find out more about the threats that exist regarding a class of
New breakthroughs in power and cooling technology allow for a simple and rapid deployment of self-contained high-density zones within an existing or new low-density data centre. The independence of these high-density zones allows for preditable and reliable operation of high-density equipment without a negative impact on the performance of existing low-density power and cooling infrastructure.
Data centre electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed, with the unfortunate result that most data centres waste substantial amounts. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure and improve data centre efficiency, thereby reducing electrical consumption and improving power densities, so that more IT equipment can be installed in a given site.