Liquid Cooing: Powerful Cooling for Today’s Data Center Abstract Organizations are increasingly evaluating and implementing liquid cooling solutions to meet the heat challenges of blade servers and high-density computing. Liquid cooling solutions utilize air/liquid heat exchangers to provide quiet, uniform, effective cooling. Many IT professionals list cooling as a top issue in data center management,
KVM Switches FAQ
KVM Switches FAQ – What you need to know. KVM switches come in different sizes and can be used in a variety of environments. Applications range widely-a simple KVM switch with a few ports can permit an administrator to manage several servers, while an integrated KVM switching system can provide hundreds of administrators KVM, console,
Data Center Cooling Strategies
Data center cooling is a hot topic. When you consider the challenges of cooling the latest generation servers, growing cost of infrastructure equipment, and ever growing concern around energy efficiency, it’s easy to understand the focus. Topics Covered: Best Practice Data Center Cooling Approaches Available Cooling Technologies Available Cooling Systems
Enclosure Strategies for Efficiency
Historically, Data Center managers didn’t invest much thought in their deployment of server racks beyond basic functionality, air flow, and the initial cost of the rack itself. Today, the widespread deployment of high-density configurations is causing major hot spot concerns and capacity issues. These factors, along with the high cost of power, require a sound
Data Center Measurement – Building An ROI Baseline
Establishing a baseline measurement of your data center is an important first step in developing a meaningful ROI for any data center project. The cost of energy has recently exceeded the cost of IT equipment; understanding your energy footprint in terms of power consumption and cooling demand has become an important management tool. Measuring and
Chill Off Revisited
Accenture reported on an event hosted by Sun Microsystems assessing four energy-efficient modular, scalable server rack cooling systems for data centers. During this “Chill-Off”, the four solutions were evaluated under a range of conditions reflecting different inlet air temperatures and server loads, and for the appropriate systems, elevated chilled water temperatures. The rack density measured
CAT5 KVM Switch
Top Ten Things to Consider When Choosing a CAT5 KVM Switch What are the goals of your project? This question is pivotal in deciding which KVM management approach is best for you. Reviewing your project requirements with a DirectNET sales engineer can help you chart the proper course. Below are some questions to consider that
42U Webinar: Energy Efficient Cooling Solutions for the Data Center
Accenture recently reported on an event hosted by Sun Microsystems assessing four energy-efficient modular, scalable server rack cooling systems for data centers. During this “Chill-Off”, the four solutions were evaluated under a range of conditions reflecting different inlet air temperatures and server loads, and for the appropriate systems, elevated chilled water temperatures. The rack density
Avocent DSView 3 Upgrades to 3.6
Managing your data center has just become easier! The new DSView 3 includes benefits ranging from labor-saving features such as consolidated access of physical and virtual servers, integrated virtual machine and power management support, and myriad out-of-band hardware support options…all in ONE tool. Dan Baxter, Senior Sales Engineer for Avocent, reviews the new features and
Energy Efficiency Leadership for Data Centers & IT
Data center efficiency is a hot topic! With data center build outs, retro-fits, re-commissioning, expansions and server consolidation reaching a feverish pace, so have the challenges in keeping up with compliance, green initiatives – all while attempting to lower costs, increase scalability and keeping IT operations and Business always on/Uptime. PG&E has fostered a consortium