Mission Critical Magazine, dives into the new Emerson Network Power NXL UPS model. 

“Today’s dynamic data centers require equally dynamic infrastructure solutions that are designed for continuous availability without impairing data center cost management,” said Peter Panfil, global vice president AC Power, Emerson Network Power. “The Liebert NXL 400kVA, 575-600V UPS provides data center professionals an optimized power solution that is quicker to install, highly efficient and cost-effective, while protecting their IT applications with the most reliable UPS system in the industry.”

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It's time to take two great virtual walkthrough tours of Liebert's SmartAisle and SmartRow solutions for Data Centers! 

The SmartAisle infrastructure solution optimizes infrastructure deployment and management with an intelligent row-based system that integrates data center racks, power, row cooling, aisle containment, monitoring and control technologies for spaces with up to 40 racks.

The SmartRow infrastructure solution solves a problem all too common to IT management: addressing IT needs without building new data center space. Think of the SmartRow approach as a data center in a row--a simple, fully integrated row-based infrastructure. The SmartRow offering combines up to six data center racks--with precision cooling, UPSs, power management, monitoring and control technologies, and fire suppression--all in an enclosed system.

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I am not sure at what point I am meant to stop saying happy New Year to people but Happy New Year to you all.

New Year’s resolutions?  Eat and drink less.  Do more exercise.  Keep my inbox below 200 messages and stop being polite to people who don’t install blanking panels in their data centre racks.

I am not sure when, about 2 years ago I think, it became yesterday’s news to stop publishing and presenting the “10 no cost / low cost data centre efficiency improvements”.  I think the original improvement list was much longer and came from the Green Grid but most commercial organisations adapted the original to meet their own needs and reduced it down to 10.

Almost every data centre conference, event, trade show and CPD training session used that list, or a variation of it, to hit home the data centre efficiency message.  It got to the point where you could audibly hear the groans in the audience when the slide appeared.  So I and everyone else stopped presenting and talking about it.  The war was won.  The message 100% received.  Everyone in the industry knew hot aisle and cold aisle was the only way to lay out your racks.  Aisle containment, whatever your preference for hot or cold, should be implemented.  Not installing blanking panels in empty u spaces should carry a punishment of being the tea boy for a month.

But guess what?  The war was not won at all.  Everyone in the industry got weary of the message, nodded their heads.  “Yes we know and we all do it, leave us alone”. It’s similar to using mobile phones while driving.  Everyone knows it’s against the law.  Everyone agrees it’s a bad thing to do and is dangerous but every single day you see people in their cars holding their phones.  I see it every time I drive anywhere and in every country I visit.

It’s exactly the same with blanking panels and many of the other items on the list of basic energy efficiency improvements produced in 2008 by the Green Grid. This is not an exaggeration when I say this.  Every single data centre I have ever visited, and I visit a lot in my line of work, is defective when it comes to the energy efficiency basics.  I am happy to say most are small offenders.  The odd blanking panel missing, the occasional floor tile not sealed correctly, but many are hardened criminals.   I still see on a regular basis racks that all face the same direction.  Entire rows of empty racks with no blanking or side panels.  Medium to high density rows with no aisle containment.

These are the basics people.  If you want to start implementing some of the more creative and complex energy efficiency solutions, reduce your energy consumption and save money, then you have to do the simple stuff first.

So my New Year’s resolution is clear.  I am dusting off the old presentations.  I am going to print out the original Green Grid guide and I am going on a mission.  If you don’t want to see a 4 year old power point presentation on blanking panels then I suggest you dig deep into your 2015 budget and start getting the basics right.

Written By: Simon Brady, Emerson Network Power

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As many of us know, in traditional data centers, approximately one-half of the energy consumed goes to support IT equipment while the other half is used by support systems.

Moreover, complexity and critical conditions have increased in recent years.  Since the cost of downtime is high (a full shutdown costs more than € 500,000, source: 2011 National Study on Data Center Downtime), availability of IT capacity is generally an important metric on which data centers are evaluated. Today, however, data centers must also operate efficiently while providing flexibility to quickly adapt to changes in computing demand.

Emerson Network Power conducted a systematic analysis of the energy consumed in data centers and of the various approaches that lead to energy conservation.

We have identified five best practices that represent proven approaches to improve overall data center performance:

1. Maximize the return temperature at the cooling units to improve capacity and efficiency;
2. Match cooling capacity and airflow with IT loads;
3. Utilize cooling designs that reduce energy consumption;
4. Enable data center monitoring to improve capacity, efficiency and availability;
5. Utilize local design and service expertise to extend equipment life, reduce costs and address your data center’s unique challenges.

Do you know further practices that can serve as the foundation for data center design?

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This article was written by: Matej Kordisch, Emerson Network Power. To read more Blogs by Emerson, please visit: http://blog.emersonnetworkpower.com/