Data Center Technologies, Articles, Webinars, White Papers, Images, & Downloads
Data Center Efficiency Solutions Presentations:
- Re-Engineering to a Green Data Center With Measureable ROI - 2009 Data Center World Presentation.
How to use a systematic, phased approach to self-fund the re-engineering of your data center to be energy efficient, and coincidentally green. Guides attendees through a process of first establishing a power usage effectiveness (PUE) efficiency baseline, implementing low-cost/no-cost efficiency best practices that yield an immediate reduction in energy expense, and then monitoring those savings to move progressively up the efficiency curve through a series of energy efficient technology implementations. Each cycle of the process increases the data center energy efficiency and subsequently the percentage of savings of energy expense.
Data Center Articles and Case Studies
- In Place Upgrade to High Density - 2011 (PDF)
To cope with increasing demand, 42U helps one of California's largest television stations as it moves to a high density data center platform, while maintaining existing environment. - 5 Steps to a Greener Data Center
With a little planning, even older data centers can go green! - Data Center CFD vs. Real-Time Monitoring
Data Center Computational Fluid Dynamics vs. Real Time Monitoring, Which Makes More Sense? - KCSM Expands Television Studio Environment With Help From 42U
42U helped KCSM, a public television and radio broadcaster located in the San Francisco Bay Area, optimize workflow in its master control environment with an Avocent AMX solution. - 42U Assists Catholic Healthcare Partners With Datacenter Upgrade and Optimization
42U has helped CHP update and maintain its server technology in an ongoing effort to provide high-quality healthcare to patients. - Applying Data Center Performance Measurement to Mitigate Challenges
Measuring data center performance is vital to maintaining the network and system availability that internal customers expect. - Capacity Planning: The Top 5 Things to Keep in Mind
Capacity planning is an essential aspect to creating, expanding, or optimizing a datacenter. There are five main factors that you need to consider when performing capacity planning. - Effective Cooling Strategies For Datacenters
Excess heat in a datacenter adversely affects equipment performance, shortens life spans, and leads to a premature end of life for equipment. - Precision Cooling for a Flexible Data Center
Precision cooling allows for scalable, flexible cooling solutions and can greatly increase cooling efficiency.
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Data Center Cut Sheets
- Intelligent Power Management
As IT environments become more diverse and geographically dispersed, intelligent power management solutions provide IT professionals with the information and tools necessary to manage and maintain operations. These solutions leverage hardware and/or software to monitor and control server-level power state and condition. - Environmental Monitoring
In today's business environment, server and network downtime can paralyze an organization. Excessive power consumption, heat, and other environmental factors are leading causes of equipment failure. To insulate the datacenter from such issues, IT professionals require environmental monitoring solutions to proactively monitor and respond to changes. - Centralized Datacenter Management
With ever-increasing data center size and complexity, data center managers and IT professionals require remote management solutions that enable them to quickly and effectively access servers, networking devices, and other mission-critical equipment. A complete management solution integrates KVM-over-IP technology, serial console management, and service processor management to provide console level access for true “lights out” operations. - What is Digital Signage
Learn about digital Signage and see some examples of real-world scenarios where Digital Signage products simplify challenging audio visual installations.
Data Center Solutions
- Data Center Cooling / Rack Cooling
Heat is just one of the many factors severely affecting IT performance. Beat the heat with 42U's scalable climate control solutions. From passive air to active liquid, 42U's flexible cooling concepts are designed according to your requirements to effectively handle unwanted heat loads. - Server Room Air Conditioning
Compact units for cooling computer rooms and server rooms or as back-up for data center cooling. - Power Management
The IT trends of today and tomorrow show increasing rack density as more and more blade servers are installed in standard cabinets. As rack density increases so does the overall rack power requirements. In anticipation of the changing needs of the IT industry, 42U is not only well prepared to address the escalation of cabinet power demands but are also able to do it while reducing installation and operating costs and increasing operational reliability. - Remote Reboot
Remote Power Management products allow you to securely power cycle and power on or off your hung server or device from any place outside your server farm including a remote location anywhere in the world. - Rack Monitoring and Security
The physical security of IT enclosures is one of the essential factors contributing to the high availability of your IT infrastructure. Environmental monitoring sensors, together with sophisticated access control solutions, provide reliable protection against external influences. - Datacenter Management Software
Complete control and management solutions that are easily accessible from anywhere and provide centralized access and secure management of local & remote servers & devices. - KVM over IP
Superior digital KVM over IP switching for multi-platform, multi-location, multi-device access and control. Remotely access all your servers via a secure Internet, LAN/WAN, or dial-up connection. - KoldLok Raised Floor Grommets
By installing KoldLok Raised Floor Grommets, you can optimize the effectiveness of your existing cooling equipment and manage the increasing heat loads. The patented KoldLok sealing system specifically addresses bypass airflow and its detrimental effects on data center cooling. - The Top 5 Things to Keep in Mind When Buying a Server Rack
Selecting the right server rack will help effectively power, cool, and protect your equipment. There are dozens of server rack manufactures all claiming to produce the best rack product. This article details the most important considerations to keep in mind when determining which server rack would be best for your data center needs.
Data Center Webinars / Data Center Web Seminars:
2011 Data Center Solutions Webinars:
- Advanced Environmental Monitoring - August, 2001
A discussion on effective environmental monitoring to improve efficiency and maximize data center availability. -With a Case Study for a Fortune 50 Company with a 3-Month ROI for Monitoring and Optimization. - Key Data Center Benchmarks, and How they are Applied - June, 2011
A discussion on key data center energy efficiency metrics, their application and why they are important. - Includes how to use efficiency metrics for planning, setting objectives and reducing data center energy consumption. - Free Cooling & Economization 101 - May, 2011
Air-side and water-side economizers offer the potential for significant energy savings by using the ambient environment to augment or replace mechanical air conditioning. Depending on your location, environment, data center design and existing infrastructure, implementing a "free cooling" strategy can be extremely challenging. - The Do's and Don't of Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle Containment - March, 2011
A comparison of the benefits from different containment approaches, a discussion on the do’s and don’ts of aisle containment and which approach might be best for a particular data center.
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Green Data Center
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Green Data Center
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Green Data Centers - "Free Air" - Air Economizers
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PUE & DCiE: Data Center Efficiency Benchmarks
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Data Center Efficiency Best Practices
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Data Center Costs
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Server Rack Strategies
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Data Center Power
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Lights-Out Data Center
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Data Center Cooling
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Data Center Security - UPS Systems
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Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle
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Efficiency Best Practice: Hot Aisle / Cold Aisle
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Data Center Bypass Airflow problems (mixing of hot & cold air) - a common cause of power loss
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CRAC / CRAH view from Cold Aisle - Computer Room Air Conditioner & Raised Floor Plenum
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Cold Aisle Containment
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Data Center Curtains - Cold Aisle Containment Curtains
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Hot Aisle Containment
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KVM over IP
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KVM over IP
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KVM over IP - diagram
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Rack PDU's - Power Distribution Units
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Data Center Resources
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Data Center Management
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