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Managed Hosting Buyer’s Guide
June 6th, 2012 : Michael PottsManaged hosting, in which providers own and manage the equipment, leasing full control to the client, is growing in popularity among data center owners. It offers a variety of advantages to IT organizations and companies. This white paper from Internap provides an everything-you-need-to-know guide to managed hosting, offering an overview of the service, as well as detailed steps to take when deciding if managed hosting is something your data center wishes to pursue. Read More
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How Much Containment Is Enough?
May 23rd, 2012 : Michael PottsThere is no one answer to optimum degree of containment because architectural environments, business objectives, deployment constraints and cost-benefit curves all weigh on the decision. In opting for aisle containment, data center operators can realize very quick returns on the investment. Read More
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Cloud Hosting Buyer’s Guide
May 21st, 2012 : Michael PottsWith the proliferation of cloud service providers over the last few years, organizations are no longer asking whether a cloud solution is appropriate for them, but rather, which cloud solution is. Selecting the right cloud solution requires thorough analysis into the level of security, control, customization and support your business requires. Read More
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Avocent Universal Management Gateway and the Trellis Platform
May 16th, 2012 : Michael PottsThis white paper from Emerson describes the Trellis family of software and hardware for data center infrastructure management (DCIM). along with the benefits of the Avocent Universal Management Gateway, a Trellis hardware appliance. Read More
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Airflow Impedance: The Silent Enemy of Data Center Cooling
May 15th, 2012 : Michael PottsAirflow impedance is a factor that is overlooked when dealing with data center cooling issues. This white paper from ActivCool examines Demand Based Cooling (DBC), a holistic approach that can overcome the airflow impedance in a data center and improve overall cooling efficiency. Read More
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The Modular Data Center Conundrum
May 9th, 2012 : Michael PottsThe term “modular” is so frequently used in today’s data center industry that it can often be confusing for customers to decipher which application best suits their needs. These solutions, no matter how tenuously their relationship to modularity, are the products of organizations’ growing need to add data center capacity. This means that customers must frequently accept solutions that only partially address their requirements. Read More
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10GBASE-T Ecosystem Is Ready for Broad Adoption
May 8th, 2012 : Michael Potts10GBASE-T wiring technology has been greatly beneficial to Ethernet operations, providing great flexibility in network design and requisite backward compatibility that allows most end users to transparently upgrade from 10/100/1000-Mbps networks. The ecosystem is now in place for 10GBASE-T to be widely adopted. Read More
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How to Choose a Green Colocation Provider
May 4th, 2012 : Michael PottsIncreases in energy costs have greatly impacted the operational costs of data centers, especially the costs to cool and power facilities. Going in a more “green” direction within the data center can significantly reduce an organization’s costs as well as its carbon footprint. Deciding which green service provider to choose for your data center can [...] Read More
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Real-Time Power Data and the Bottom Line
May 3rd, 2012 : Michael PottsSoftware that provides model-validated analytics of electrical power systems allows comparison of real-time conditions - like breaker and switch states and load distributions – to a computerized representation of as-designed system in an identical state. This allows data center operators to minimize underutilization of design system capacity and realize future returns on capacity expansion. Read More
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Building A Cloud-Savvy Model for TCO and ROI
How Storage is Shaping The Cloud Data Center
Bringing Colo to the Customer: Modular Gets Local
Microsoft’s $1 Billion Data Center
