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Eaton Takes Own Advice for New LEED Certified Data Centers

By William Blausey Jr. and Lennart Jonsson

Helping companies plan, design, operate, and eventually refresh or repurpose their data centers more efficiently and effectively is a core part of Eaton Corporation’s mission. Read More

Feature Articles

The Green Grid’s Original Gets A Sequel

By Julius Neudorfer

Most popular movies spawn a sequel, and it looks like the widely accepted power usage effectiveness (PUE) has achieved a similar distinction. Read More

Building a Private Cloud?

By Dave Mulholland

Cloud computing is the newest technological wave in the data center industry. Read More

The Information Economy Demands Continuous Uptime

By Jack Faett

Information is an incredible source of value, and companies increasingly need information to run their businesses more effectively. Read More

Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system designs have taken a decided turn in recent years as drivers such as lower utility costs and greener technologies become a greater part of every design discussion. Read More

Clean Agents Protect Data Centers From Fire

By Mark L. Robin Ph.D., Al Thornton , and Edward W. Tokarsky Ph.D.

Global demand for IT applications continues to grow, driving the development of additional IT infrastructure, as well as increasing equipment density and power usage in these essential facilities. Read More

Columns

What’s in Your Program?

By Douglas H. Sandberg

This is the second of three columns inspired by a webinar I did for Mission Critical on August 22.

Liability Pitfalls in Data Center Reliability Assessments

By Peter V.K. Funk Jr.

As data centers seek increased levels of availability and efficiency, they are turning to manufacturers and consultants to provide reliability and efficiency assessments.

A Maturing Industry

By Kevin Heslin

Within eight days of each other, the Open Data Center Alliance and the Open Compute Initiative held events in New York City.

More on Digital Safety

By Peter Curtis

Throughout my career, I have experienced many safety hazards from technicians getting minor electrical shocks to being electrocuted and burned over 60 percent of their body. Read More

When Disaster Strikes

"Snowtober” on the East Coast has raised many questions about the managerial reliability of several major utilities. Read More

Anatomy of a First-Time CEO Hire

By Andrew Lane

Dust off the zinc whiskers in your brain and harken back to when you interviewed for your first job. Read More

Departments

HP and AMD Collaborate On Servers

The HP ProLiant G7 server features AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors.

Day Two at 7x24

By Kevin Heslin

Steve Fairfax, president of Mtechnology initiated a high-level series of presentations on day 2 of the 7x24 Exchange conference in Phoenix, AZ.

Heard On The Internet

November 2 @jmwiersma @datacenterpulse Project Quicksilver Finalists Selected - bit.ly/uJGKZY . Congrats to finalists. Going to be kick-ass DC design...

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Gilbane Company Event

The Gilbane Company hosted a wonderful event Monday at Bobby Vans, a wonderful restaurant just blocks from the Occupy Wall Street protests. Nor surprisingly, Gilbane put together a wonderful program that included presentations from Kfir Godrich of HP, Peter Miscovich of Jones Lang LaSalle, and ABB. All the parties had gathered to celebrate Steel ORCA, a new 300,000 sq ft data center in New Jersey that will run on 100 percent solar energy. Dave Crocker, the CEO of Steel Orca, Dennis Cronin, and other company execs were also on hand to tell the story.

11/09/11 2:00 PM EST

Part 1: The Economics of Close-Coupled Cooling in the Data Center

Mission Critical ON-DEMAND: This presentation will detail the economics involved with each solution, CAPEX, OPEX, Total Cost of Ownership and payback to help make a complex challenge fundamentally easier to solve.