Data centers have evolved more quickly than the procedures being used to manage them. The pace of change and inability to forecast future demand in your data center remain a challenge. The challenge for data center managers now is to maintain or improve availability in increasingly dense computing environments while reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Take control of your data center's energy use.
Can you recover lost capacity in your data center?
Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, Data Center, Green IT, data center design, cloud computing, kW per rack
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Colocation facilities have long promised organizations the opportunity to buy data center capacity as OpEx, without investing CapEx in a new physical infrastructure. But integrated infrastructure solutions now offer a third option, by enabling organizations to buy efficient, intelligent infrastructures without paying for a lengthy and expensive physical build.
Join Emerson Network Power to discover key financial and technology considerations that will help guide your decision to invest in hosted, traditional or integrated infrastructure solutions. Participants will also see how Smart Solutions from Emerson Network Power offer OpEx savings of 27 percent and CapEx savings of 10 percent or more over a traditional design approach, while providing a level of ownership and control unmatched by outsourced services.
Presenters: Stephen Blakemore, Solutions Sales Manager and John Bearg, Director
October 24, 2012
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Eastern
Topics: Emerson Network Power, data center infrastructure, reduce cost, data center design, private cloud, data center infrastructure management, robust data center, energy, cloud strategy
Columbus, Ohio [October 18, 2012] Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson (NYSE:EMR) and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, today announced that the North American version of the modular, row-based Liebert APMT uninterruptible power supply (UPS) has received ENERGY STAR certification. The Liebert APM UPS is available globally.
A transformer-free, on-line UPS with best-in-class efficiency, the Liebert APM enables capacity on demand with the addition of internal FlexPower core assemblies. The assemblies allow the system to expand for capacity or redundancy in 15 kW increments up to 45 or 90kW within a single cabinet.
Topics: Emerson Network Power, Data Center, Green IT, data center design, kW per rack, data center infrastructure management, robust data center, Green Technology, energy, Energy Star
The fallout from the Sunday September 23rd NY Times front page article entitled Power, Pollution and the Internet which was purported as an investigative reporting piece has begun to spread. In my last blog, I jokingly remarked that the general public would go out and tweet and post Facebook tirades on their newest iPhones. Well it has clearly moved beyond that.
Only a few days later on Sept 27, Ranking Committee Members of the US House of Representatives Henry A. Waxman, Member Bobby L. Rush and Anna G. Eshoo sent letters to the US Department of Energy (DOE) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to request an update on efforts to improve energy efficiency in data centers across the county.
This was posted as an open letter to the US EPA and DOE in effect demanding an explanation of how and why they could allow the apparently flagrant energy and environmental disaster equivalent of the Exxon Valdez oil spill happen, while these two major government agencies ignored the travesty. The letter specifically cited the NY Times article as the cause for their concerns and the motivating force behind the letter. Perhaps by triggering the open letter from members of Congress, the NY Times may feel they have brought justice to the ostensibly polluting, wasteful world of the Data Center Industry, in the same vein as the Washington Posts breaking open of the Watergate scandal.
I agree that there are many "older" data centers that are less efficient than the newest designs. There is no question that there is always room for improvement in almost any system or process and the data center is no exception. However, the NY Times article did not provide both sides of the issue, perhaps because that would have made it less controversial.
Published on 8th October 2012 by Julius Neudorfer, Data Center Dynamics
Topics: data center infrastructure, reduce cost, Data Center, data center design, data center energy, data center infrastructure management, Containment, electrical distribution, reduce downtime
Emerson Webcast: "Outside the Box"
Trends in Data Center Modularity
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | 4 PM Eastern
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As demand for high-availability, rapid-deployment IT infrastructure continues to increase with the proliferation of on demand I T services and mission-critical applications, modular data center solutions have emerged as a favorable option for businesses that need to add data capacity and capability quickly offering users a turn-key solution that is not only portable but flexible and scalable.
Explore emerging market demands for modular data center solutions and how these approaches are being used to achieve cost effective just-in-time growth, serve as satellite data center extensions or become stand-alone solutions. Then see how modular approaches are being applied to power and cooling to extend the efficiencies a modular approach can offer.
Topics: data center infrastructure, Data Center, data center design, data center energy, private cloud, data center infrastructure management, PUE
