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ATEN Fundamentals of Enterprise

Sponsored by ATEN

ATEN's newest whitepaper is a guide to enterprise KVM products. The whitepaper will give you a better understanding of the benefits and advantages of KVM technology. Read about common KVM solutions for the commercial and government facilities

CFD for Mechanical Design Engineers - “A Paradigm Shift for Better Design”

Sponsored by Mentor Graphics

This paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis; the motivations for its use, its value and future, and the importance for making CFD available to all engineers earlier in the product design/development lifecycle. It also describes Mentor Graphics’ FloEFD CFD analysis solution that is designed to provide product designers and engineers with direct access to CFD techniques directly in their design (CAD) environment. The following sections address: * CFD Market Drivers—a brief review of the challenges that affect, and impacts from the early use of CFD within an overall Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategy * Value of Earlier Use of CFD—a brief discussion of the benefits associated with early use of CFD * Mentor Graphics’ Approach and CFD Solution—how FloEFD enables early use of CFD by designers * Summary and Concluding Comments—a brief summary of the paper along with concluding remarks

Compliant Solutions: Best Practices for Secure IT Infrastructure Management

Sponsored by Citirx/Carpathia

This document contains an excerpt from Carpathia Hosting's Best Practices for Secure IT Infrastructure Management, the purpose of which is to help demonstrate the depth of Carpathia Hosting's understanding of and applied knowledge regarding the deployment and maintenance of secured, reliable IT Infrastructure that meets or exceed Federal IT regulations. The excerpted sections in this document are: Deployment Best Practices Sustainment Best Practices

Data Center Availability Comparison Chart

Sponsored by The Data Center Journal

If you have ever wondered what the electrical and mechanical design comparisson is to the percent availability(ex.99.99)of a facility then this one page white paper will put it into perspective.

Emerging UPS Standby Power Sources

Sponsored by Eaton

Though an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) performs many important functions, most users value them chiefly for the emergency energy they provide during a power outage. UPSs give IT personnel the time they need to protect sensitive equipment and data from the effects of an electrical service interruption by shutting down systems in an orderly fashion or starting a backup generator. Today, most UPS products use lead acid batteries to store emergency standby power. A proven technology with many decades of successful service in a variety of industrial settings, the lead acid battery remains the most cost-effective energy storage solution as measured by dollars per minute of backup time. Yet despite these merits, lead acid batteries are unpopular among data center managers due to their size, weight, maintenance requirements, toxic contents and relatively short lifespan, among other issues. As a result, UPS makers have long been searching for an alternative standby power technology that’s smaller, simpler and “greener” than lead acid batteries, yet no more expensive to operate. Today, that hunt just may be nearing its end. Several exciting new standby power solutions, all rapidly approaching mainstream commercial viability, appear poised to give the lead acid battery a run for its money. This white paper will explore the strengths, weaknesses and future prospects of four such technologies: Flywheels, ultracapacitors, fuel cells and lithium ion batteries.

Energy Efficiency in the Data Center

Sponsored by HP

Getting to a more energy efficient data center is a goal shared by many corporations. The techniques to achieve these financial and environmental rewards are based on the unique characteristics of a customer’s architecture and several time tested prescriptions. In this White Paper you will learn what are the best measures for energy efficiency, review performance against those standards by a large survey group of customers, and understand what the payback is by adopting prescribed tactics to improve energy consumption in the data center.

HP BladeSystem increases availability and saves money for Huntington County

Sponsored by HP

Learn how Huntington County Indiana was able to reduce its number of servers by moving to a virtualized blade environment. This transition led to tangible business benefits including a reduction in planned downtime, significant cost savings, a gain in power capacity, and lowered IT staff time needed to manage the system. This case study describes the challenges facing Huntington County with its legacy architecture and the ROI of moving to a more efficient platform strategy.

No Harmony in Harmonics

Sponsored by Eaton

Harmonic currents generated by non-linear electronic loads increase power system heat losses and power bills for end users. These harmonic-related losses reduce system efficiency, cause apparatus overheating, and increase power and air conditioning costs. As the number of harmonics-producing loads has increased over the years, it has become increasingly necessary to address their influence when making any additions or changes to an installation. Harmonic currents can have a significant impact on electrical distribution systems and the facilities they feed. It is important to consider their impact when planning additions or changes to a system. In addition, identifying the size and location of non-linear loads should be an important part of any maintenance, troubleshooting and repair program.

Solving the System-Level Thermal Management Challenges of LEDs

Sponsored by Mentor Graphics

The Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor Graphics (formerly Flomerics) provides the world's most advanced computational fluid dynamics products. Our simulation software and consultancy services eliminate mistakes, reduce costs, and accelerate and optimize designs involving heat transfer and fluid flow before physical prototypes are built.

Sun's data center energy efficiency and modularity

Sponsored by DCJ

This white paper looks at Suns approach to data center energy efficiency and modularity. Virtually every Information Technology (IT) organization, and the clients that they serve, have dramatically different requirements that impact their datacenter designs. Sun is no exception to this rule. Learn more about the growing interest in modular and Pod design in data centers by downloading this white paper.

The 5 Must Have Keys to Enterprise Cloud Computing

Sponsored by Carpathia Hosting

Cloud computing, sometimes referred to as the "third revolution" in the IT industry, follows the personal computer and internet "revolutions" and is already transforming the way we think about computing. But what is it? Gaining agreement on the definition of cloud computing in the tech industry is approaching the level of a religious war, with definitions running the gamut - describing everything from simple shared infrastructure, to software as a service, to pay-as-you-go computing power and storage space, to a systems architecture abstracted from physical location ownership.

IDC- Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions

Sponsored by HP

In this White Paper IDC sees the use of static x86 server configurations as quickly becoming an outdated concept with the introduction of modern solutions based on blade architectures, which can offer both intelligent configuration and management and the ability to perform physical-to-virtual migration to promote uptime and efficient resource usage. When combined with the quickly maturing x86 hypervisor technologies available from a variety of solution providers, the synergy of blade architectures and virtualization offers customers the ability to dramatically increase utilization of their server investments, boost uptime, provide a more resilient and available infrastructure, and roll out new infrastructure and services more quickly.

The Vector Approach to Data Center Power Planning— How to avoid unplanned obsolescence in the power distribution infrastructure

Sponsored by Eaton

It is time to rethink how data center power infrastructures are planned. This white paper describes an approach that considers the major milestones and thresholds in data center power requirements—and how planners should adjust their strategies and recommendations for data centers as they pass through different evolutionary stages.

Power Monitoring 101 Supervisory, connectivity and protection options that add an umbrella of protection over your entire IT infrastructure

Sponsored by Eaton

Monitoring options are now available for organizations of any size. You can remotely monitor and manage a single uninterruptible power system (UPS), an enterprise-wide network of many UPSs and power distribution devices, or a complete IT support infrastructure, including generators, environmental systems and detection devices, and other components from multiple vendors. This white paper discusses the imperatives of intelligent power monitoring.

3 Phase in the Data Center

Sponsored by Server Technology

High density computing with increased server implementation, greater equipment densities, increased power demands, cost reduction initiatives, green directives and redundancy are driving the demand for 3-Phase power in the data center equipment cabinet. Several years ago just talking about 3-Phase power distribution at the equipment cabinet would have brought laughs and looks of amazement from your fellow data center employees. Today, there are several simple facts within the data center environment that have created demand for 3-Phase power in the equipment cabinet.

5 Questions to Ask Before Selecting Power Protection

Sponsored by Emerson Network Power

Power protection is an important part of your data center. Before selecting a system be sure to review this white paper.

5 Steps for a Successful Data Center Relocation

Sponsored by Transitional Data Services

Driven by insufficient power, space and cooling - data centers are on the move. However, since a data center move is often a "once in a career" event, many companies experience the same avoidable and costly mistakes. Data center relocations require excellence in planning and execution. In this white paper, we discuss the pitfalls to avoid as well as the site selection, facility design, and relocation techniques that can make any data center move a success.

7 Reasons to Identify Non-productive Servers

Sponsored by Viridity Software

Data center, IT and Facilities Managers are finding common ground in the effort to reduce energy consumption and optimize space in the data center. Identifying non-productive equipment is often the first step in this effort. This white paper provides a pragmatic approach to identifying non-productive servers, as well as the business case and benefits of eliminating or repurposing these assets.

7 Ways to Make Your Data Center Infrastructure More Efficient

Sponsored by Datalink

Economic pressures place a great emphasis on IT organizations to make wise infra-structure decisions that ensure the best ongoing use of resources. Striking the correct balance often comes down to developing strategies that not only solve the most press-ing IT issues, but that also help drive greater efficiency in the data center infrastructure (including the servers, networks and underlying storage that fuel a company’s core applications). This white paper outlines some of the top ways that organizations can achieve great efficiencies in their environments and drive benefits ranging from steep capital savings to streamlined operations. It also illustrates how Datalink customers have implemented these methods in their architectures.