Video Archive - Mission Critical

Tour IBM's New Data Center
IBM's new $360 million 60,000 sq ft data center in Research Technical Park, NC, is one of the most energy efficient and technologically advanced in the world. Advanced software analytics enable the facility to adjust and anticipate client data and energy workloads.

Symantec's 2010 State of the Data Center study
Symantec Corp. released the findings of its 2010 State of the Data Center study.

Syracuse University Opens Innovative Green Data Center
IBM produced this video tour of a new data center at Syracuse, NY. The facility will be both a test bed and working data center.

Tour the PhoenixNap
Jordan Jacobs, Director of Operations, Phoenix NAP, discusses the unique features of the PhoenixNap from an office within the almost completed data center.

Learn What's New with the Tier System
The Uptime Institute's Executive Director Pitt Turner discusses the Tier System, which the Institute pioneered to align data center topology with business purposes. Pitt talks about how this history helps users achieve their business goals and why more users do not get Tier certified.

Accredited Tier Designer Training: What Is the Tier System
Vincent E. Renaud, ATD instructor at The Uptime Institute explains the four tier levels and how operational sustainability is key to the robustness of Tier services.

Automatic Transfer Switches, Part 1
Teresa Steel of Schneider Electric Data Center Solutions talks about the rapid and reliable transfer of power sources during certain situations. She says that the design of these systems is sometimes given less emphasis that than the design of other systems. In this video, Schneider outlines the design considerations for automatic transfer in the mission-critical power environment and recommends how these considerations can be reliably implemented into an automatic transfer system.

Automatic Transfer Switches, Part 2
In this video Teresa Steel of Schneider Electric Data Center Solutions furthers the discussion on automatic switching in data center applications and focuses on equipment specifications. She also reveals some common misconceptions related to ATS.

rPath offers eight IT predictions for 2010
If 2009 was the year that changed enterprise IT, the eight predictions for 2010 suggest that many trends will continue but in less depressing environment. The humor, along with quotes from Plato and Thomas Hobbes, make for a very entertaining presentation.

Model, Map and Manage Your Data Center Energy Usage
Dr. Joshi, professor and John M. McKenney and Warren D. Shiver Distinguished Chair of the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology talks about Energy Efficient Thermal Management of Data Centers and the facilities at the G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering.