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Mission Critical e-news, October 2007, Issue 2 |
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Mission Critical
Website Launched
I received my first copy of Mission Critical in the mail last Friday, and I hope that you received yours as well. Please add your voice to those emailing their opinions and suggestions to me. And if you haven't received the your copy yet, please click
here for a subscription or visit our newly launched website at
www.MissionCriticalmagazine.com.
We will be using this website to test a wide variety of services to benefit data center owners and operators and backup facility owners and operators. In a short time, we want this page to be the hub of a mission critical community, where professionals from every discipline can exchange ideas and opinions, arrive at consensus, and drive industry-wide improvement.
Our first two experiments? An industry Wiki and a database describing data center practices.
Wiki
Read down the page to become a founder of our Data Center Wiki. For now, it is extremely low-tech, but I promise to roll it out electronically as soon as the professional contributions reach a critical mass. Data Center Database
We're also getting ready to ask for your help developing a user-edited database of data center trends, practices, and standards. Interested? If so, please answer two questions for me: 1. What information do I need to improve my data center? 2. What information would I be willing and able to share about my data center to make this service a reality?
Send the information directly to me, and I will do my best to make this project a reality.
Kevin Heslin
The Editor
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Teladata's October 16th one-day seminar drew a larger than anticipated crowd to the Santa Clara Convention Center to see 14 exhibitors and three full tracks of technical content related to data center management, building automation, and facilities-IT convergence. Meeting highlights included:
- Premiere distribution of Mission Critical
magazine
- Opening keynote by Dr. Wasiq Bokhari, author of "Building of the Future"
- Concluding address by Bill Coleman, Cassatt
In addition, the conference organizers gathered representatives from Google, Sun, and Intel on single panel. The panelists fielded a wide range of questions from the floor during an hour-long session devoted to best practices and the future of the industry.
Teladata also included an on-site meeting of the
Critical Facilities Roundtable.
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 The 7x24Exchange announced that Gene Kranz would be the keynote speaker at
its 2007 Fall Conference, October 28-31, in Grapevine, TX.
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IBM Launches Mainframe Gas Gauge
IBM launched a program that allows mainframe customers to monitor their systems’ precise energy consumption in real-time, in an extension of its
Project Big Green. IBM also said that it would begin publishing typical energy consumption data for the IBM System z9 mainframe. The data are derived from actual field measurements of approximately 1,000 customer machines, determining average watts/hour consumed which can be used to calculate watts per unit -- similar to automobile miles per gallon estimates and appliance kilowatt per year ratings. The data collected for August and September determines that typical energy use can be normally 60% of the "label" or maximum rating for the model of mainframe measures. With this news, IBM becomes the first company to embrace recommendations from a
recent EPA report that encourages server vendors to publish typical energy consumption figures for servers.
Learn more about IBM Project Big Green.
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Sun Launches New Energy-Efficient Data Center
APC announced that it partnered with Sun Microsystems to design a portion of the company's new energy-efficient data center in Santa Clara, CA. Commissioned as part of Sun’s Eco Innovation Initative, the rack-based data center leverages a flexible, scalable APC InfraStruXure InRow cooling solution that enables Sun to effectively reduce the cost and environmental impact of maintaining its high density IT systems. In addition, APC’s software solutions enable Sun to monitor environmental disruptions throughout the data center to ensure the highest efficiency and eliminate costly downtime.
APC provided Sun with 18 InfraStruXure Hot-Aisle Containment Systems for Sun’s new 13,000 square foot software research data center. The 18 hot-aisle containment systems use a total of 450 enclosures, which include 230 APC NetShelter VX and 220 Sun racks.
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State-of-the-Art Data Center, Center of Attention
Identifying the Need By William
Howerth
With an extremely high level of
reliability and a design approach that keeps water as far away as
possible, a Midwest insurance/financial firm is currently operating a
top-notch data center. Plans for the attention-grabbing facility started about 3-½ years ago
when Jackson, with its growing assets and clientele, outgrew the
basement level of the company’s headquarters building, built in 2000.
In addition, the data center floor had suffered a couple of water
leaks, one when a sprinkler line broke, essentially convincing Jackson
that it wasn’t worth the risk. Thus the decision was made to build a
remote, windowless facility just 1,500 feet away from the existing
building, according to Dennis A. Blue, Jackson’s director of corporate
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Keeping High Availability Networks Highly Available
Using the right tools can keep IT operations running and reduce costs
By David Weiss
Unplanned downtime is the bane of all IT departments. With the
ever-increasing dependence on real-time information and 24/7/365
transaction processing, downtime strikes at the heart of corporate
profitability and core mission success. Its highly visible nature
inevitably leads to unhappy customers and upper management questions:
Why did this happen? How can it be prevented? Don’t we already have
procedures in place? When budget time arrives, however, the
redundancies, staffing, and training are hard to come by. The systems
get more complex, and the goal remains the same: keep the network up. Understanding
how to define high availability, setting achievable goals, and
balancing costs form the beginning of a successful plan for maximum
uptime.
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Exploding The Five Biggest Data Center Myths These myths can cost you money
By Chris Crosby
The need for data center space is booming, and in response, a variety
of “ancillary” streams of information have arisen to help guide the
decision-making processes of beleaguered CIOs. The natural by-product
of this onslaught of advice and guidance is the proliferation of the
technical equivalent of urban myths – “solid tips,” “practical advice,”
and “proven best practices” that are inaccurate and misleading. Passed
along or cited by pundits, vendors, and well-meaning associates, these
myths can lead to poor data center planning and decisionmaking. |
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New Technologies
A new pure sine wave output, line–interactive Digital Energy IT Series 600–3,000 VA Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) from
GE Consumer & Industrial's Power Quality business allows owners and managers of server, data storage, networking, telecommunications and point–of–sale applications to
stop worrying about do
 wntime or equipment damage from power outages, voltage fluctuations and transient surges.
Available in 600, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 and 3,000 VA tower and 19-in. rack-mount models, GE's Digital Energy IT Series 600–3,000 VA UPS features pure sine wave, fully–digitized, microprocessor–controlled Automatic Voltage Regulation (AVR) at 50/60Hz and utilizes hot swappable, user–replaceable batteries. |
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Falcon Electric, Inc.
announced a line of SSG Series
Industrial-Grade UPS Plus models from 1.5 to 3 kVA. This regenerative
on-line UPS is a more advanced, robust, and rugged solution that gives
users in manufacturing, automation, assembly, and other industrial
environments a higher level of power protection that can tolerate many
of the elements found in these harsh environments. Due to its rugged
design, the SSG Series is capable of withstanding elevated temperatures
of up to 55 deg Celsius (131 deg F). The SSG Series also provides users
an improved level of battery monitoring and replacement notification,
as well as user-friendly, hot-swappable battery packs, which are the
most elegant in their class.
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 Chatsworth Products, Inc. (CPI),
offers a comprehensive line of cost-effective Cable
Management Products to protect and support the latest cabling
technologies such as Cat 6a and fiber. Proper cable management
is integral to the performance and effectiveness of every network.
Therefore CPI provides Cable Management Products with the critical
support, reliability, and flexibility needed to sustain and grow
network capabilities, including structural designs required for Cat 6a
and fiber. Whether customers are looking to upgrade their current
infrastructure or design a new installation, CPI’s comprehensive line
of cost effective Cable Management Products offer the support necessary
for various types of customer applications.
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A recently released Uptime Institute white paper and the upcoming Charrette: Data Center Energy Efficiency by Design will define and explore the true total cost of ownership (TCO) for data centers.
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