Managed 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...

There 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...

With 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...

This 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.

Airflow 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...

The 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...

10GBASE-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...

Increases 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...

Software 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...

The ability to maintain or improve availability while implementing technologies and services that reduce costs and improve design, management and operating efficiency is the most important goal for data center managers in the next 10 years.