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 What's New in Mission Critical
Since I last had the opportunity to talk to you, we have made some changes that I think you will want to know about.
For instance, we launched the Mission Critical Online Buyer's Guide. We are looking forward to make this directory as complete as possible. Just click here to be listed.
We also added my ES blog to the Mission Critical website. I'll be posting to both blogs in the future, but all the entries will be available right from our home page.
We also uploaded all the contents from our most recent edition. You can view all the content in html or download the digital edition.
Kevin Heslin
Editor, Mission Critical
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Mission Critical Presents Open Forum on Data Centers
Mission Critical plans to breaks new ground with its November 13, 2008, open-forum webinar. Our staff will soon begin gathering questions for this event, which will produce answers to the questions most on your mind.
We have gathered eight experts in all facets of data center operations, and their will be no presentations, just straight answers to your questions.
Register here.
The expert panel includes Ted Martin, Digital Realty Trust; John Musilli, Intel Corporation; Kevin Dickens, Jacobs' Architecture and Engineering Practice; Scott Good, Turner Construction; Dean Nelson, Sun; Dennis Cronin, Gilbane - Mission Critical; Christopher Johnson, Syska Hennessy Group; and Mark Thiele, VMware. For more information, visit our website.
CFRT Holds Open Quarterly Meeting
CFRT' s quarterly meeting will examine High-Density Computing in the Class-A Office Environment. The event is scheduled for October 17th and will be hosted by Adobe Systems, San Jose, CA. Co-sponsors are Liebert, Cushman & Wakefield, and Nova Partners. Some of the questions addressed include:
"What challenges will you face if you elect to build your data center in a high rise facility?"
"How do capital and operating costs compare to a greenfield project with the same objectives?"
"Do the benefits of keeping your technology at home...outweigh the challenges of operating in a commercial space?"
Adobe Systems has recently completed a data center design and construction project at the well-known Adobe Towers in downtown San Jose.
GE and Google Clean Energy Partnership
GE and Google announced that they would join to develop technologies to address power generation, transmission, and distribution - known as the "smart grid" - and its interface with next generation electric transportation. In a press release, the two companies said their goal is to provide consumers with improved and expanded energy choices, whether it's buying renewable power, driving a plug-in car, or reducing energy bills by managing home energy use.
GE and Google said, "We will advance these goals by launching a policy partnership in Washington, DC, and collaborating on advanced energy technologies. GE and Google will advocate for federal
policies critical to building a 21st century U.S. electricity system.
Initial policy priorities include:
- Planning, siting, and cost allocation for the transmission capacity necessary to enable large-scale deployment of renewable electricity generation in the United States
- Development and deployment of a "smart" electricity grid that will empower utilities and end users to manage electricity more efficiently and with lower emissions
- GE and Google will also collaborate to develop and deploy renewable energy and plug-in vehicle-related technologies.
Initial areas of technology collaboration include:
- Utility-scale renewable energy with an initial focus on advanced geothermal technology
- Software, controls, and services to enable utilities to integrate plug-in vehicles into the grid
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HotLok and KoldLok Solutions from Upsite Technologies Earn the Energy Star
Upsite
Technologies, Inc. announced that its KoldLok products for the raised
floor and HotLok products for IT cabinet equipment have earned them a
Service and Product Provider partnership with the US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) through
their Energy Star program.
As a Service and Product Provider partner
with Energy Star, Upsite is committed to continuing the efforts that
have made it the obvious choice for many Fortune 100 companies in need
of sealing solutions that help their data centers operate more
efficiently, reduce costs, save energy, and protect the environment.
Products that earn the Energy Star prevent greenhouse gas emissions by
meeting strict energy-efficiency guidelines set by the EPA and the DOE.
"Free the Penguins" Initiative Brings Desktop Virtualization to Schools
Omni
Technology Solutions, Userful, and Novell have created an exciting
initiative to bring multi-station Linux Desktops to computer labs and
classrooms around the globe. Every university, college. and school
district in the world is entitled to a free 30-user Userful Multiplier
license (software valued at $2,970, hardware not included). The first
30 customers will also receive a free 30-user subscription to SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop from Novell. Education institutions are invited to contact Omni for their free licenses at (780) 423-4200. Computer labs must be deployed by November 30, 2008.
3Tera Partners with Citrix to Bring Cloud Computing into the Mainstream
3Tera,
Inc. announced a partnership with Citrix Systems, Inc. to make
enterprise-grade cloud computing solutions available to customers of
all sizes in external hosted clouds or as a platform that can be
deployed in corporate data centers behind customer firewalls. By
combining the new Citrix Cloud Center (C3) solution with 3Tera's award
winning AppLogic Cloud Computing Platform, the companies are elevating
the benefits of virtualization to a new level-from physical servers
and virtual machines to entire virtual data centers and applications
running in the cloud. The initial focus of the collaboration between
the companies will center on the new Citrix XenServer Cloud Edition, a
key component of the Citrix C3 product family. XenServer Cloud Edition
offers the full benefits of the proven Xen-based virtualization
technology enhanced with advanced cloud infrastructure capabilities
specifically defined by 3Tera. 3Tera will also embed XenServer Cloud
Edition in future versions of its AppLogic Cloud Computing platform.
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 Manos Headlines DataCenter Dynamics in Chicago
Microsoft's Mike Manos opened the most recent Datacenter Dynamics event in Chicago with a double session examining Microsoft's new containerized data center in Chicago, IL's suburbs.
Manos' presentation attracted most of the early arrivals at the event and set the tone for a day of serious discussions about containers, automation, and energy efficiency developments in the field by a number of well-qualified speakers.
More than 30 exhibitors displayed advanced data center technologies and rounded out the technology and networking event.
2009 Green
Enterprise IT Awards Program Announced
The Uptime Institute, in partnership with the U.S. Department of
Energy and McKinsey & Company, announced the opening of the 2009 Green Enterprise IT program.
The Green Enterprise IT Awards
serve as an important industry milestone, promoting and celebrating
innovative strategies and best practices for enabling enterprise IT and
data centers to:
• Improve IT productivity
• Improve energy efficiency
• Earn CapEx and OpEx savings
• Reduction in reduce the carbon footprint of enterprise IT
The Uptime Institute says that companies can be recognized as
both an Award Honoree and Winner, achieving global
recognition. Awards Case Study participants will have the opportunity to provide a
formal presentation at the Institute Symposium that will also be posted
on the Institute's Membership Website.
Apply now for the Green Enterprise IT Awards. Awards will be presented at Symposium 2009: Lean, Clean, and Green on April 13-16th at the New York Hilton.
MA to Save $2 Million and 12 Million KW
Executive branch agencies in Massachusetts are required to power down inactive computers as part of the Governor's Leading by Example Program. The state
government is expected to save more than $2 million annually while
using 12 million fewer kilowatts of electricity under a new computer
power management standard that requires that Executive Branch agency
computers be shut down or switched to energy-saving "sleep mode" when
not in active use.
Part of Governor Deval Patrick's Leading by Example
Program to reduce energy use and costs, the Enterprise Desktop Power
Management Standards announced today are among the most far-reaching
computer power standards in the country. Bowles pointed out that state
savings from the new policy could increase significantly if it is
adopted by the 29 state colleges and universities, and dozens of
non-executive branch agencies and authorities. About 80 percent of the
Executive Branch's approximately 40,000 computers are expected to be
covered by the new power management standard.
SDForum Presents Cloud Computing and Beyond
The SDForum announced that it would hold a one-day conference entitled "Cloud Computing and Beyond: The Web Grows Up (Finally)" to be held
October 1, 2008 from 9:00 am-5:15pm at the Network Meeting Center in
Santa Clara. James Staten, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research,
a leading expert on x86 servers and server infrastructure, data center
and server futures, cloud computing, and application-specific
infrastructure trends and technologies, will deliver the opening
keynote.
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News Briefs
Upsite
Technologies, Inc. announced that APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in
integrated critical power and cooling services, will distribute its
renowned KoldLok family of products throughout the world.
Aperture announced a collaboration with Innovative Research, Inc. (IRI), the
provider of TileFlow, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) product
designed for calculating airflow patterns and temperature distribution
in data centers. This effort brings the capabilities of Aperture's
breakthrough data center planning, management and monitoring product,
Aperture VISTA, together with IRI's revolutionary simulation tool
TileFlow. Customers will be able to efficiently predict and identify
cooling problems in their data centers and better plan their data
centers' future designs, avoiding disruptions and saving both resources
and time.
Asigra
Inc. joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The
VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products
with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions
to mutual customers.
The Telecommunications Industry Association and BICSI have renewed a collaborative agreement to
cross-promote one another's services, including certification and
market intelligence programs, standards, case studies, and white
papers. Specifically, the two associations are involved in establishing
resources and information tools that will enable building and
architectural professionals to make better buying decisions while using
qualified and competent services and providers in the information and
communications technology (ICT) and information transport system (ITS)
industries.
Active
Power, Inc. received its single largest order from one of the world's
largest Internet search engine providers for twelve 1200-kVA
CleanSource UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems. This
12-MW sale utilizes 48 flywheels and will be deployed at one of
the customer's newest domestic data center facilities to protect
mission critical IT equipment from power outages. System deliveries are
scheduled for fourth quarter 2008.
Beacon Power Corporation announced
that it has built and tested an integrated matrix of ten high-power
flywheels that operated together to absorb and supply a full megawatt
of electricity. The system, located in Beacon's Tyngsboro, MA,
headquarters, will be the first of up to five megawatts of
flywheel-based regulation capability that will be  produced this year
and commercially deployed to generate revenues from the provision of
regulation services. Until now, Beacon had been building and running
individual flywheels in preparation for its first full megawatt
implementation. Based on internal testing of an integrated matrix of
ten flywheels, the company has now shown that its one-megawatt Smart
Energy Matrix can ramp up and down to absorb and supply a full megawatt
of power. Over the next few weeks, Beacon will begin system testing in
conjunction with ISO New England, during which time the flywheel matrix
will respond to actual ISO test signals to absorb and supply power.
Upsite
Technologies, Inc. filed suit in
US District Court against Sealeze, Inc. for infringement of Upsite's
U.S. Patent 6,632,999. The suit is seeking a judgment against Sealeze
for damages and an injunction against infringement.
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APC by Schneider Electric announced the APC InRow RD, its new 300mm row-based, direct expansion cooling solution for network closets, server rooms and data centers. Key features of the APC InRow RD include real time capacity monitoring and easy operation, as well as variable speed fans that reduc  e energy consumption during off-peak hours. In addition, the modular design provides scalable solutions to add cooling as demand increases, up to 10 kW. With consolidation, power over Ethernet and virtualization making traditional server rooms increasingly complex, a cooling issue can be a contributing factor to ongoing power problems. Designed for installation within the row of racks, the APC InRow RD captures hot exhaust air directly from the aisle and distributes cool air through the front of the unit, which ensures temperatures are held at setpoint conditions.
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 Eaton Corporation introduced the Eaton 5130 uninterruptible power system (UPS). Part of the Powerware series, the 1250 to 3000 VA line-interactive models are specifically suited for protecting servers, routers, switches, workstations, as well as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and EDGE/3G/WiMAX wireless networking equipment against costly power fluctuations and outages. Available in slim 2U (3.50 in.) and 3U (5.25 in.) rack and tower configurations, the 5130's compact size is ideal for dense rack enclosures. In addition, user-replaceable hot swappable batteries allow users to safely install new batteries without powering down the connected equipment or removing the UPS from the network rack. For
applications requiring longer run times, slim 2U external battery modules can be quickly added to provide hours of backup time - especially important for telecommunications, Voice over IP (VoIP), and healthcare systems.
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 Snake Tray 's adjustable Snake Air airflow manager for access floors. Snake Air for computer access floors now comes in an adjustable model to manage airflow in access floors. Snake Air allows cables to go through the access floor while giving the convenience of adjustable airflow for cooling equipment and conserving energy.
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