Eight Tips for Managing Higher Education Networks Securely and Cost-Effectively [ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009 -
Colleges and universities worldwide are being pressured to do more with less, particularly in today's challenging economic climate. Colleges and universities must consider the benefits of leveraging centralized management to automate deployment and provide configuration and oversight of the data center and remote campuses.
This white paper presents eight tips IT can use as they begin to deploy centralized network management projects for higher education networks.
Solutions for 21st Century Healthcare [ Source: 3Com ]
September 2009 -
To significantly improve the delivery of healthcare, an impressive arrange of new technology solutions are being introduced daily. 3Com designs solutions that deliver unique price/performance value, reduce complexity to facilitate healthcare delivery and ensure security to protect investments, resources and information.
In this case study, learn how 3Com can help you enhance patient care by maximizing business continuity, security, and productivity.
The KVM Option: Critical Considerations For Companies With Limited Staff Resources [ Source: Adder Corporation ]
December 2008 - KVM technology is designed for IT organizations that need to ensure the health of its computing infrastructure within tight staff resource constraints. With KVM, IT staff can instantly take control of devices anywhere at any time in order to solve problems, perform essential management tasks, and respond to changing business requirements. This white paper outlines the specific attributes of the user experience that KVM buyers should consider when choosing a solution--and how those attributes ....
Belden Variable Frequency Drive White Paper [ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009 - A variable frequency drive (VFD) regulates the speed of a three-phase AC electric motor by controlling the frequency and voltage of the power it delivers to the motor. Today, these devices (also known as adjustable speed drives or variable speed drives) are becoming prevalent in a wide range of applications throughout industry, from motion control applications to ventilation systems, from wastewater processing facilities to machining areas, and many others.
Belden Adaptive Heat Containment System White Paper [ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009 - According to the EPA’s Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency, if current trends continue, the demand for power by data centers will require an additional 10 power plants on the North American power grid by 2011. In order to minimize the impact of this phenomenon, data centers must be increasingly efficient in their use of power.
Belden Total Enterprise Network White Paper [ Source: Adventive Marketing, Inc. ]
October 2009 - The future of enterprise networks is IP convergence where signal transmission for networking, A/V, and building management and security systems are merged over one common infrastructure using common protocols rather than deploying separate closed, proprietary solutions.
Green Data Center: The IT Industry's Energy Efficiency Initiative [ Source: AMD ]
April 2008 - Faced with surging demand for data processing and storage, the IT industry is focusing on making data centers more energy-efficient.
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers [ Source: Apani ]
June 2008 - For security directors at large organizations, securing virtualized data centers is a major concern. Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership, increased operational efficiencies and more flexible management capabilities. But server virtualization may also increase security risks. Virtual machines (VMs) themselves are no less secure than their physical counterparts, but organizations often apply different procedures to their deployment and management. In addition, server virtualization while ....
Deploying a Green IP Telephony Network [ Source: APC, A Schneider Electric Company ]
May 2008 - APC details energy use in data centers in this presentation. Best practices can be utilized to maintain current energy usage levels through 2011 but programs and incentives are needed as well as a “whole system” approach, according to the company.
Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
July 2009 - Avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers or network rooms compromise availability and increase costs. These unintentional flaws create hot-spots, decrease fault tolerance, decrease efficiency, and reduce cooling capacity. Although facilities operators are often held accountable for cooling problems, many problems are actually caused by improper deployment of IT equipment outside of their control. This paper examines these typical mistakes, explains their principles, quantifies their impacts, and ....
The Advantages of Row- and Rack-Oriented Cooling Architectures for Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
July 2009 - Room cooling is an ineffective approach for next-generation data centers. Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that room cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are inefficient, unpredictable, and low in power density. Row-oriented and rack-oriented cooling architectures have been developed to address these problems. This paper contrasts room, row, and rack architectures and shows why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most ....
Electrical Efficiency Measurement For Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
May 2009 - Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed, resulting in most data centers wasting substantial amounts of electricity. But today it is possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center efficiency. Learn how in addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT power densities and the ability to install more IT equipment in a given installation.
Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
May 2009 - There are three subtle but significant factors that can materially affect UPS systems' operating costs, but unfortunately, the people who specify UPSes often fail to recognize these factors, which leads to increased costs. Learn how to avoid common errors and misunderstandings in evaluating UPS efficiency.
Monitoring Physical Threats In The Data Center [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely. While well understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is ....
An Improved Architecture For High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60 million megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available data center architecture that can be implemented today to dramatically improve the electrical efficiency of data centers.
Energy Efficient Cooling For Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
May 2009 - As heat densities in data centers have increased, it has become evident that cooling these higher power demand loads is more difficult. The advent of a newer cooling architecture that was designed for the higher densities has brought increased data center efficiencies. Learn more about the efficiency benefits of row-based cooling compared to other common cooling architectures.
Cooling Strategies For IT Wiring Closets And Small Rooms [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
June 2009 - Cooling for IT wiring closets is rarely planned and typically only implemented after failures or overheating occur. Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behavior within wiring closets. Understand the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of cooling for wiring closets.
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - Electricity usage costs have become an increasing fraction of the total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers. It is possible to dramatically reduce the electrical consumption of typical data centers through appropriate design of the network-critical physical infrastructure and through the design of the IT architecture. This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.
Electrical Efficiency Measurement For Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
June 2009 - Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed, which results in most data centers wasting substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center efficiency. In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can result in higher IT power densities and give organizations the ability to install more IT equipment.
Five Basic Steps for Efficient Space Organization within High-Density Enclosures [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
June 2009 - Organizing components and cables within high-density enclosures need not be a stressful, time-consuming chore. Thanks to the flexibility of new enclosure designs, a standard for organizing enclosure space, including power and data cables, can be easily implemented. Get five basic steps for efficient space organization within high-density enclosures.
Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
July 2009 - 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 center. The independence of these high density zones allows for predictable and reliable operation of high density equipment without a negative impact on the performance of existing low density power and cooling infrastructure. A side benefit is that these high density zones operate at much higher electrical efficiency ....
Dynamic Power Variations In Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
June 2009 - Data center power requirements vary on a minute by minute basis, depending on the computational load. The magnitude of this variation continues to grow dramatically with the deployment of power management technologies in servers and communication equipment. Learn how variation gives rise to new problems relating to availability and management.
Humidification Strategies for Data Centers and Network Rooms [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
July 2009 - 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. Quantitative design guidelines for existing and new computing installations are discussed. Alternative methods to achieve desired humidity are described and contrasted. The difficult issue of how and where humidity should be measured is explained. The hidden costs associated with over-humidification are described.
An Improved Architecture For High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
May 2009 - Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60 million megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. Not only is this an enormous financial burden, it is a significant public policy environmental issue. Learn the principles of a new, commercially available data center architecture that can be implemented to dramatically improve the data center electrical efficiency.
Data Center Projects: System Planning [ Source: APC by Schneider Electric ]
October 2009 - System planning is the Achilles’ heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system. Much of the trouble can be eliminated by viewing system planning as a data flow model, with an orderly sequence of tasks that progressively transform and refine information from initial concept to final design.