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Featured Video
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Featured Blog Entry
At Mission Critical's last open forum webinar, Bruce Myatt asked the following question, which could be the subject of an entire webinar: "With
modern parallel processing, disaster recovery, and other IT fail-over
technologies available ... why do some owners continue to specify high
tier reliability in their data center facilities designs?" -Bruce Myatt
Critical Facilities Solutions, Inc.
I
know Bruce would like to hear opinions on this issue, and I suspect he
has his own opinions, which I would invite him to share. I'd also like to open the discussion. Will cloud computing cause owners to relax their Tier requirements in the future?
We received this reply at our LinkedIn Mission Critical Open Forum Discussion Group:
Matching the tier level to the business needs has a cascading
effect from CAPEX to OPEX. Every user thinks they need 100%
availability, but for some R&D the impact to the company may be the
same as a generic office when workers can't use their PC because the
power went off. So why pay 4X when 90% availability is good enough? An
example is our new center with 360 racks, 6kw/rack Uptime Tier III, and
1800 racks 12kw/rack Tier 0 (no UPS, no generator). This is a
multimillion dollar savings every year.
Please join the discussion and look for more details about our next Open Forum on Cooling, March 19th.
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Featured Events
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."
Datacenter Dynamics
March 4th, 2009
Hilton New York
New York, NY
The
DatacenterDynamics Conference & Expo is New York's largest
gathering of professionals involved in the design, build and
operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT facilities. It is an
unrivalled education & networking opportunity for the industry,
where the regular audience is characterized by senior representatives
of the financial sector, trading firms, service enterprises and other
Fortune 500 companies operating in the New York Metropolitan area.
Data Center World
March 8-12, 2009
Paris Hotel
Las Vegas, NV
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Featured Technologies
APC announced the Modular Three-Phase Power Distribution Unit (PDU). APC's
 modular PDU brings right-sized scalability and flexibility down to the rack level in the first ever fully modular PDU. Featuring hot-swappable modular circuit breakers, the PDU allows electricians, facilities engineers, and data center managers to add and replace circuit breakers, cordset, and branch current monitoring without disruption to other
circuits or mission critical applications. The ultra-high efficiency design of the PDU allows for removal of traditional isolation/step-down transformers, and replacement with highly efficient autotransformer technology. The net results are removal of heat, and the addition of usable floor space in the data center.
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At CeBIT 2009, Rittal is presenting a new software solution that the company
has developed in cooperation with Microsoft. It allows comprehensive monitoring and control of data centers with the goal of saving costs and improving security. The software provides comprehensive monitoring of data centers developed in cooperation with Microsoft. It integrates RiZone--Rittal's new management software for the IT infrastructure--with Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager for servers. This provides IT managers with a comfortable tool to monitor and control the entire data center, from the server load and server consumption through to the entire IT infrastructure with cooling, power distribution and back-up, and access control, etc.
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Market Central
shipped its first micro-mirror fiber optic switch in 1986. Of many thousands of micro-mirror switches shipped since that time, none has ever failed. That first switch from 1986 would work perfectly in a 10 gigabit fiber optic network application today. Resistance to obsolescence is one of several aspects of our fiber optic switches that underpin their unique performance with exceptional economic value. Today's Market Central SecureSwitch Fiber
Optic A/B/C Switch Revision A and Revision B incorporate the same micro-mirror technology. Revision A manages a full duplex fiber optic connection to three classified
and unclassified networks and also serves other applications with mixed security levels. Precise micro-mirror optical movements combine the
security of an all-optical data path and reliability of
rugged electromechanical operation, eliminating the
vulnerabilities of complex electronic and hybrid fiber
optic switches. Revision B
has been enhanced with remote control and
signaling interfaces and a timed, switched ac outlet. The enhanced feature set
of SecureSwitch Fiber Optic A/B/C Switch Revision B simplifies the integration of the new DVS II digital video conferencing system.
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Featured White Paper
Now available on the
Mission Critical website is a white paper from Rittal Corporation
. Increasing power requirements for new servers have created the need
to support higher density computing platforms in existing data centers.
With kW per rack averages increasing from 3kW/rack to, in some extreme
cases, more than 30kW/rack, the need for providing more efficient ways
of cooling IT equipment is imperative. A number of rack
manufacturers, and data center operators alike, are now advocating the
use of "air containment" systems for meeting this challenge. By
preventing the mixing of hot and cold air streams, data center cooling
can be made more efficient and Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC)
performance can be significantly improved. When deployed in
well-designed and operated facilities, these containment systems look
promising. This report documents the testing of a cold aisle
containment system in a "live" data center. The goal of the test
program was to benchmark the performance of Rittal's Cold Aisle
Containment (CAC) system by comparing data collected in the same data
center operating under identical conditions with and without
containment. Eaton released a white paper, Parallel UPS configurations: Connecting Multiple UPS Modules for Added Capacity or Redundancy, that is available from Eaton or the Mission Critical website.
In this paper, Eaton reports, "Today's firmware-based paralleling offers particular advantages, compared to traditional paralleling approaches. For one, there is no system-level single point-of-failure. With a peer-to- peer control strategy, each UPS module operates independently and is not reliant on an external master controller or a complex web of inter-module control wiring."
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 New from
Mission Critical
Mission Critical editor Kevin Heslin announced two additions to the magazine's editorial advisory board, David Schirmacher, vice president with
Goldman Sachs & Co., and Jim Smith, chief technology officer at Digital Realty Trust. "Schirmacher and Smith bring unique perspectives to the Mission Critical
board and both are accomplished professionals who influence data center practices in positive ways," Heslin said.Schmirchacher is globally responsible for strategy, operations and risk management relating to the Goldman Sachs' critical systems infrastructure. Since joining the firm in 1998, he has worked closely with the Technology and Business divisions in Asia, Europe, and the Americas to define strategy for development, management, and expansion of global data
 center and trading operations.
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