Are you looking for a tool that Facilities and IT can use?
"IT has the need to manage the racks so when Facilities takes down services, they know what is effected. The tool will also help them know what resources are available - power, space, and network".
What are the obstacles/challenges of Data Center Infrastructure Management?
See a DEMO of how Liebert/Emerson has integrated server management and control and cooling/power to optimize your Data Center performance through Trellis at DVL on May 9 or 10.
Emerson released a list of 10 common surprises for data center and IT managers and offered tips on how to be prepared for them. The list, released at AFCOM Data Center World Spring, includes information on a surprising cause of data center downtime, what data center managers might not know about that next server refresh, and the growing trend sneaking up on virtually every IT manager.
“When you are a data center or IT manager, very few things are more unsettling than the unexpected,” said Peter Panfil, vice president of global power, Emerson Network Power. “We hope this list helps IT professionals better anticipate these issues and prepares them with the appropriate technologies, solutions and best practices.”
Get Prepared for the Top 10 Data Center surprises (click below).
While many management organizations have already invested in technology resources (people, processes and tools) to manage data center infrastructure, critical gaps still remain in the physical infrastructure, virtual infrastructure and IT workloads. The Trellis platform provides a fundamentally new perspective on managing the entire data center in that it recognizes:
The importance of real-time data to understand the true capacity of available infrastructure
The criticality of interdependencies between logical and physical layers
The need for holistic management capabilities and visibility of IT and physical infrastructures
The need for more powerful management tools that offer a rich, visual view of the infrastructure and can guide design and change management
Check out our Data Center Energy Management Seminar
Is DCIM the monitoring, collection and analysis of real-time, continuous, accurate information from an intelligent infrastructure that allows for immediate action, designed to keep the data center in an optimal state of balance between availability, efficiency and capacity? Is it a framework for operating the data center?
What are economizer systems and how do they improve energy efficiency?
This is the year that discussions around using outside air economization will be heard at many seminars. The introduction of Liebert’s DSE, as well as ASHRAE’s proposal to increase the server air inlet temperatures, will certainly allow considerable energy cost savings to those early adopters. Don Beaty, DLB Associates, recently conducted a US Government seminar on Data Centers speaking to how efficient we can become utilizing outside air as an economization strategy, as well as (dare I say it) primary means of cooling a Data Center. ASHRAE has recently released a study on areas of the United States where outside air, properly filtered and metered for gaseous and particulate contamination, can be considered as your primary source of cooling. Does your outside environment play a role in this decision? Absolutely. A thorough site assessment with a knowledgeable company is well worth the cost. We all need to ask ourselves why Facebook, Microsoft and others are choosing locations conducive to utilizing outside air.
Published on March 7, 2012 | Richard Werner, Comcast, 7x24 Exchange
What energy savings can be expected for different types of economizers?
