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Articles Tagged: Capacity Management
How IBM Helps Companies Build More Cost-effective, Intelligent Data Centers
March 22, 2012
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Schneider Electric has been partnering with IBM to deliver data center infrastructure for quite some time now, so it was great to catch up with some of the IBM principles… Read more »
How to Shorten Your Data Center Design from 18 Months to 4
March 19, 2012
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Modular Data Centers are dramatically shortening the data center design cycle from 18 months to as little as four months by using off-the-shelf, standardized subsystems. The goal of MDC providers… Read more »
Overhead Air Conditioning Solution Saves Floor Space and Solves Data Center Structural Challenges
March 16, 2012
3,516 views
All data center designs bring their own set of challenges. Sometimes the scale of the challenge is not reflected in the size of the facility; a small datacenter design and… Read more »
Can CAD drawings and Excel spreadsheets make perfect substitutes for DCIM?
March 7, 2012
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By the end of March, it will be two years since the publication of David Cappuccio’s seminal Gartner white paper “DCIM: Going beyond IT” (amended March 28th 2010). Urging data… Read more »
Will modular power and cooling make traditional data center designs obsolete?
February 7, 2012
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Fortune 500 companies around the world are trying to rationalize their data centers for better efficiency of scale. Some of them have approached Schneider Electric with the goal of a… Read more »
5 Data Center Resolutions for 2012
December 22, 2011
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It’s a slam-dunk for any blogger to take advantage of the holiday season to write posts on holiday gifts and resolutions. Far be it from me to pass up this… Read more »
Bridging the gap – what can Hollywood teach us?
December 5, 2011
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If you like tales of redemption and reconciliation, Kevin Costner’s baseball saga, “Field of Dreams” is schmaltzy, but kind of cool. If you haven’t seen the movie, it concerns a… Read more »
When Efficiency Matters, Is Enough Ever Enough?
November 15, 2011
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I’m sharing the platform at DatacenterDynamics Stockholm today with Peter van Schaik, Director of ICT, Delft University of Technology. Like many establishments of stature, the University’s data centre is an important resource for… Read more »
Virtually sure isn’t sure enough for today’s data centers…
November 10, 2011
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4 million or so people took delivery of a new iPhone 4S within 24 hours of release. In other news, sales of the company’s iPad tablets have increased by 166%… Read more »
What value does data center infrastructure management software add to data centers?
October 21, 2011
1,519 views
I think we’ve all met him – the data center operator who can ‘feel’ how his data center is performing – he simply walks into the room, can hear if… Read more »
3 Costly Mistakes to Avoid With Data Center Operations Staff
July 26, 2012
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For years we’ve been hearing that human error is the number one cause of data center downtime, or pretty much any IT failure for that matter. Yet many companies put… Read more »
Uptime Institute Event Puts Focus on Modular, Containerized Data Centers
May 16, 2012
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The Uptime Institute Symposium 2012 is going on this week in Santa Clara, Calif., and a special focus at the event is modular, pre-fabricated and containerized data centers. The Institute… Read more »
5 Cooling Strategies for High-Density Racks and Blade Servers
September 22, 2011
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More and more companies are installing blade servers, in part to support their server virtualization efforts but also simply because blades are more efficient than traditional servers. But the trend… Read more »
How to Shorten Your Data Center Design from 18 Months to 4
March 19, 2012
1,300 views
Modular Data Centers are dramatically shortening the data center design cycle from 18 months to as little as four months by using off-the-shelf, standardized subsystems. The goal of MDC providers… Read more »
Calculating the Hidden UPS Costs Associated with Upgrades of Data Center Power Capacity
September 23, 2011
1,271 views
The traditional way to scale up a UPS system is to buy another system to handle whatever power capacity you need, tie it into the existing system and test it… Read more »
The Word from VMworld: Prepare for More Virtualization
September 14, 2012
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Virtualization technology is becoming easier to deploy for both servers and desktops, so prepare now to be able to handle an ever-increasing amount of both flavors in your data centers… Read more »
When Efficiency Matters, Is Enough Ever Enough?
November 15, 2011
1,160 views
I’m sharing the platform at DatacenterDynamics Stockholm today with Peter van Schaik, Director of ICT, Delft University of Technology. Like many establishments of stature, the University’s data centre is an important resource for… Read more »
Analysis Shows Scalable, Containerized Data Centers Deliver Big Savings
May 11, 2012
1,123 views
It’s a familiar story when it comes to building data centers: you build large enough to deal with the capacity you expect to need some number of years in the… Read more »
Quick-Impact Data Center Fixes with Modest Price Tags
May 21, 2012
1,115 views
In an earlier post, we discussed data center energy saving steps that were primarily about changing behavior, such as powering off unused equipment or tuning systems. These ideas and others… Read more »
Data Center Predictions for 2013: Flash Memory, SDNs, Hybrid Cloud and More
January 7, 2013
1,594 views
As the new year begins it’s time for all good bloggers to do what comes naturally: compile lists! Far be it from me to buck this time-honored tradition (one that pre-dates… Read more »
How IBM Helps Companies Build More Cost-effective, Intelligent Data Centers
March 22, 2012
927 views
Schneider Electric has been partnering with IBM to deliver data center infrastructure for quite some time now, so it was great to catch up with some of the IBM principles… Read more »
In Virtualized Data Centers, Capacity Management is a Must
September 7, 2011
544 views
For all the benefits virtualization brings to a data center – reduced rack footprint and power consumption, greater efficiency and reliability, lower overall costs – enterprises frequently leave other benefits… Read more »
Modular Data Centers Can Help You Stop “Stranding Capital”
May 17, 2012
1,617 views
When the CTO of a big financial firm tells you something is a good investment, it likely pays (literally) to listen. That’s what Matthew Tavares was doing yesterday as Frank… Read more »
Lessons Learned from the 1977 NYC Blackout
October 21, 2011
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By: Eric Gallant 34 years ago the Big Apple suffered a blackout of historic proportions. The blackout, combined with the stresses of a protracted economic depression and a brutal heat… Read more »
Stability is a Stress Free Word
March 21, 2013
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“Stability” is a stress-free word. This is especially true for anyone involved in managing the power grid at any level. This includes medium voltage network operators, who like their systems… Read more »
Overhead Air Conditioning Solution Saves Floor Space and Solves Data Center Structural Challenges
March 16, 2012
3,516 views
All data center designs bring their own set of challenges. Sometimes the scale of the challenge is not reflected in the size of the facility; a small datacenter design and… Read more »
Good Data Center Planning Requires Proper Software Tools
September 9, 2011
606 views
Too often, data center operators make changes to their infrastructure without adequately thinking through all the potential consequences of the change. The result is often overloaded circuits, unintended down time… Read more »
Data Center Capital Cost Calculator – A Tool to Help Align Your Data Center Business Requirements with Your Project Budget
June 28, 2012
4,027 views
The data center capital cost calculator can be an invaluable tool to help ensure that a particular design will be in line with your project’s budget, whether it be a… Read more »
3 Ways a Strong Data Center Operations Program is More Important Than Your Data Center Design
October 21, 2011
471 views
With your data center design in place, shouldn’t your data center run smoothly? As some of you may already have discovered, anything can happen to your data center, nomatter how… Read more »