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Server Lift
Server Lift provides a quick demo of its product at work at Interop 2010.
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Earthsafe Video Reviews for Mission Critical Mag/Website
Earthsafe Systems, Inc. (www.earthsafe.com) has produced a series of videos intended to provide consulting engineers with technical design assistance or "how-to" information regarding fuel system design for critical facilities. They are Not promoting individual products but rather a compilation of best practices intended to provide exceptional technical support to engineers designing complex systems. There are a series of 20 video segments on our site (about 3-4 minutes each) that can be viewed all at once or as project needs require. |
Emerson's Peter Panfil
Emerson's Peter Panfil describes the evolution of attitudes about heating and cooling in data centers and suggests that reliability once again tops the list of most important concerns. |
Hassan Moezzi on the Importance of Cooling in the Data Center
The components in a data center change constantly bring new cooling characteristics and challenges, says Future Facilities' Hassan Moezzi. Combined with increasing power density, meeting the cooling challenge requires sophisticated airflow management.
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Attend the 7x24Exchange Spring 2010 Event
7x24Exchange Chairman Bob Cassiliano talks about the organization's upcoming national conference. The conference takes place from June 6-9, 2010 and addresses the theme "Mission Critical Facilities: The Next Generation." Highlights of the conference include three days of sessions, a keynote address to be delivered by Mitt Romney, and unparalleled networking opportunities.
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Data Aire introduces gForce
Data Aire's gForce includes data center air-cooling system backward-curved plenum fans, energy-efficient rifled coils, improved airflow design, and environmentally friendly refrigerants. In this video, Data Aire describes the product's performance attributes.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Carbon: Risk or Opportunity
Right from the DatacenterDynamics conference in Chicago on October 20th, Zahl Limbuwala, chairman of the Data Centre Specialist Group, BCS, notes that U.S. may repeat mistakes made in the UK as it moves forward on cap-and-trade legislation designed to reduce greenhouse gases.
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Devils in the Details
PTS Data Center Solutions' Peter Sacco talks about data center efficiency after a customer seminar held Nov. 5th at the Prudential Center. Sacco's beloved New Jersey Devils score mid-way through the presentation.
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Scale-IT
Scale-IT: The world¦s first-ever scalable blanking panels. Scale-IT¦s living-hinge design gives users the ability to quickly scale up or down to fill rack unit openings of any size.
www.electrorack.com |
CoolCirc-IT
CoolCirc-IT mounts on top of each enclosure and is a smart, pressure-controlled, high-density heat containment system that dynamically adjusts airflow to match the load in each rack, giving users the ability to determine cooling capacity at the rack level.
www.electrorack.com |
Fiery Result
Cummins Power Generation's innovative High Endurance Mechanism (HEM), designed to ride through a fault condition undamaged and retain its capability to carry 100 percent of the rated load. Magnetic forces developed during a fault cause a typical transfer switch's contacts to blow open, producing an electrical explosion that often results in extensive internal damage to the switch, requiring replacement of contacts, arc chutes and, in some cases, the controller. This video shows one such explosion. |
Shaken Not Stirred
Cummins Power Generation HEM uses magnetic energy to hold the contacts closed during a fault, virtually eliminating arcing, contact damage and performance degradation. It can survive multiple faults of the specified magnitude ¦ listed on the nameplate as the withstand and closing current ratings (WCR) ¦ and continue to carry the rated current without overheating.
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Sun
Sun's Subodh Bapat talks about the relationship between data centers and the smart grid.
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Google
Google's Energy Czar Bill Weihl talks about how Google achieved low PUEs in its data centers.
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Focus on Regulations
Katherine Kaplan, program leader for the U.S. EPA talks about deadlines and coming events in programs addressing energy use in data centers. Of particular interest is a webinar on May 7th, which is an update of efforts to develop an Energy Star Data Center rating system. The registration deadline is May 1. For more information, see the video or email ENERGYSTARdatacenters@icfi.com. |
The 7x24Exchange
Highlights from the 7x24Exchange's Fall event provide plenty of reason to attend their upcoming conference May 31-June 2 in Boca Raton, FL. The conference theme is Managing Data Centers in Turbulent Times.
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Today's Evolving Data Center Technology
CFRT's Bruce Myatt describes how new data center technologies might affect large IT operations, immediately after a panel discussion at Teladata's Technology Convergence Conference in February 2009.
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Innovation in the Silicon Valley
Deborah Grove of Grove Associates blogs regularly about initiatives in the Silicon Valley. In this interview with Kevin Heslin, she tells first hand about changes affecting the industry, immediately following a panel discussion at Teladata's Technology Convergence Conference in February 2009.
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Building at a Bargain Price.
Kevin Heslin interviews Syska Hennessy's James Coe and Robert Ioanna just before their presentation at Data Center Dynamics in New York, March 4th, 2009.
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Teladata
Technology Convergence Update with Bob Brown. |
Datacenter Dynamics
Steven Worn, CTO of Datacenter Dynamics talks about the highlights of their conference in Dallas and features of their New York meeting, scheduled for March 4th.
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Cooling Systems
Emerson’s Steve Madara looks at cooling in data centers and how it affects TCO and overall system reliability.
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Intel’s Air Economizer Proof of Concept
Learn about Intel's investigation of air economizers to optimize power and cooling in their data centers. The proof of concept (PoC) test used 100 percent air exchange over a 10-month period with an extreme range in temperature, humidity, and air quality. The result was an estimated data center power savings of 67% and a potential savings of $2.87 million for a 10-MW data center.
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Power Budgeting for Future Data Centers
Intel researchers are focusing a lot of attention on the many ways to squeeze energy efficiency into future computers. This video, shot at the Research@Intel Day event in June 2008, looks at budgeting energy consumption of the data center.
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IBM Master of Disaster
An animated look at IBM’s approach to business resilience, including disaster recovery and business continuity experience. |
Business Information Optimization|HP
Deborah Nelson explains how Business Information Optimization solutions provide cost-effective approaches for managing, protecting and extracting value from your information assets.
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Tour Sun’s Energy Efficient Datacenter
By using best practices in data center design and hardware consolidation, Sun was able to cut its its utility bill by over 60% and earn over $1M in rebates. See just how Sun did it in this interactive tour of the Santa Clara, CA facility.
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