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The Digital Realty Trust shows off the features of one of its newest data centers. Check out this video to see how they achieve energy efficiency and reliability.
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For more videos, visit the Mission Critical video archive.
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Featured Blog Entry
In Friday's post on the Open Forum blog on the Mission Critical
home page, I announced a second Open Forum webinar to be held on March 19th. This time we will be focusing on Data Center Cooling. We will be opening registration soon.
The panelists will be Kevin Dickens, Jacobs
Scott Good, CB Richard Ellis
Ted Martin, Digital Realty Trust
Bruce Myatt, Critical Facilities Roundtable
David Schirmacher, Goldman Sachs
Dr. Bob Sullivan, Uptime Institute For those of you unfamiliar with the Open Forum
concept, get your questions ready for these panelists. There will be no
presentations; the Open Forum is a 60-minute Q&A with legitimate
industry experts. They will answer any question you pose on data center
cooling, and time is the only restriction. I expect topics to include
economization or free cooling, hot aisle and cold aisle containment,
liquid cooling, Kyoto cooling, and anything else that comes to your
mind.
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Featured Events
Achieving High Reliability in the Data Center, webinar
January 14, 2009, 2:00 ET
Hosted by Mission Critical
Register now for this 60-minute free webinar featuring Peter Gross and Robert Arno of EYP Mission Critical Facilities and Peter Curtis of
Power Management Concepts discussing factors in achieving high reliability.
2009 BICSI Winter Conference and Exhibition
January 19-22, 2009
Orlando, FL
BICSI celebrates the 25th anniversary of its BICSI RCDD
credential in Orlando, Florida, at the 2009 BICSI Winter Conference.
The event includes:
- Presentations reflecting global best practices
- Vendors with the solutions to your business issues
- Networking with the industry's best and most experienced professionals
Critical Facilities Roundtable
February 6th, 2009
Hosted by SYBASE, INC.
Dublin, CA
Morning Quarterly Meeting with Six Presentations and Q&A
Afternoon Think Tank with Four Presentations & Open Discussion
Teladata's Technology Convergence Conference
February 19th, 2009
Santa Clara Convention Center
Santa Clara, CA
The conference will bring together IT and facilities leaders from across the country to network and share best practices. Participating at this year's conference will be industry experts from Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle, Sybase and VMware.
PK Argawal, Chief Technology Officer, State of California will deliver the conference's keynote address titled "Web 2.0 - The Changing Workforce." Christian Belady, Microsoft's Principal Power and Cooling Architect, will participate in an afternoon panel titled "Green Data Center Strategies and Energy Efficient Computing Environments."
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Featured Technologies
Eaton's new online
Blackout Tracker. It is an interactive and educational
 site that provides a detailed snapshot of reported U.S. power outages and their impacts. As you know, every day in the U.S. thousands of Americans experience interruptions to their electrical service without warning from burrowing animals and human error to
extreme weather and vandalism. These unexpected outages could spell disaster for mission critical facilities. The Blackout Tracker is a neat resource that allows you to view specific outage information by location, cause, duration and number of people affected. Users are invited to submit power outage reports and can also request a Blackout Tracker annual report. These reports can be used to analyze power outage data, helping them assess the risks to valuable equipment and data and plan for future power protection needs.
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 The newly designed
Cellwatch web site has easier navigation, expanded company and news information, and updated product and support pages.
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Point-of-Sale equipment, ATMs, and kiosks are subject to costly failures often  traced to power disruptions. To help combat this growing problem,
Chloride
offers the ONePlus Series Power Conditioned UPS. Compact and affordable, it delivers a high-performance power conditioning system integrated with well-engineered battery backup protection to assure maximum uptime of sensitive electronics in retail environments, as well as those deployed in datacom and telecommunications networks. The ONePlus line spans from 250 VA to 1000 VA and operates in 120 V, 60 Hz or 230 V 50/60 Hz environments, making it a truly global solution. Each unit features patented ONEGround technology to protect equipment against ground skew problems.
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Featured White Paper
Server Technology, Inc. contributed a white paper to the Mission Critical database entitled,
Measuring Power & Efficiency in the "Green" Data Center. The paper describes how to improve energy efficiency using POPS (Per Outlet Power Sensing) and its SPM (Sentry Power Manager) product.
To make better decisions, reduce power consumption and maximize each cabinet installation, more information is needed, per device, per application per cabinet, per groups of cabinets and per facility. The ability to monitor the current draw or power of an individual outlet within a Cabinet Power Distribution Unit as well as the voltage in-feed opens the door for significant opportunities to monitor and maximize efficiency, plan for future installations and determine the best location to allocate additional cooling resources. Monitoring power at the device level provides considerably more detailed information not obtained if the user were to monitor
at the UPS, the floor PDU supplying power to the racks or at the breaker panel.
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Energy Star Data Due January 15
Energy Star issued a reminder that Data Collection forms with IT and energy data through December are due no later than Thursday, January 15, 2009.
Energy Star needs more data to continue the data collection and rating development. They also need additional data centers from either current participants or other organizations with data beginning in July 2008.
Finally, the next-and final-data submission after January 15 will be on June 15, by which time participants should have a full year of data collected. They also plan to hold another update webinar in between these two submission dates to share additional observations from reviewing the data.
Completed Data Collection Forms and any additional questions should be sent to ENERGYSTARdatacenters@icfi.com.
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