Two years ago, the Green Grid established an awards program to highlight organizations that effectively improve the energy efficiency of their data centers. Through the program, we’ve found some excellent… Read more »
Green Grid Grand Prix Award Winner Hitachi Achieves Great Success in Data Center Efficiency
January 28, 2013
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Is a Containerized/Modular Data Center in Your Future?
June 1, 2012
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Imagine your growing company suddenly needs some significant new data processing capability. And you’re being tapped to produce—out of thin air—a powerful new data center that has all the capacity,… Read more »
Data Center Key Performance Indicators – A Look At PUE and Other Numbers to Evaluate Performance
March 2, 2012
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Metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for data centers used to be inward looking. In the not so distant past, KPIs tended to be “about the box,” measuring factors like… Read more »
4 Ways to Reduce Data Center Energy Consumption
August 19, 2011
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Many enterprises accept as inevitable the substantial electricity costs of running a data center. Much of this attitude stems from the inability of IT managers to accurately apportion energy consumption… Read more »
Overhead Cabling Can Reduce Data Center Energy Costs
August 19, 2011
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A raised floor to house cabling may be the most common method of cooling data center equipment, but it’s far from the most energy efficient. Increased fan power, oversized cooling… Read more »
Optimize Your DCPI to Increase Its Business Value
August 19, 2011
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Data center physical infrastructure (DCPI) long has been the foundation of an enterprise’s IT business operations and until recently its business value was based almost exclusively on availability (or uptime)… Read more »
The 4 Building Blocks of a Stable IT Platform
August 19, 2011
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The most critical component of a successful enterprise is a reliable network infrastructure. Instability can lead to downtime, data loss, lower productivity and, potentially, lost revenue. This stark fact of… Read more »
How to Provide Physical Security for Your Most Critical Resources
August 19, 2011
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In mission-critical facilities, it’s obviously important to keep unauthorized individuals out, but it’s also important that authorized employees don’t venture where they don’t belong. The reason? That’s how bad things… Read more »
Beyond the Basics: 6 Ways to Protect Your Critical Data Centers
August 19, 2011
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You’ve got your access control system down pat, with multiple levels of security employed, from something you have, something you know and something you are (also see first blog post on… Read more »
Responding to Data Center Threats: How to Create an Effecting Threshold and Alerting Strategy
August 19, 2011
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As explained in a previous post (http://blog.schneider-electric.com/datacenter/?p=27), physical data center security goes well beyond merely monitoring for unauthorized human activity. It involves a series of sensors to monitor everything from… Read more »