White Papers

Mission Critical boasts one of the industry’s largest independent white paper libraries, as determined by the editor. Feel free to submit your white paper for consideration.

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Fan-less Data Centers: Is It Possible?

May 07, 2012
As the demand for data center space grows, enterprises are looking for more efficient and cost effective ways to build their next generation critical facility.


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Cooling Efficiency Case Study

May 07, 2012
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care installed AdaptivCOOL’s Demand Based Cooling Solution to maximize data center energy and cooling efficiency. Through AdaptivCOOL’s patented redistribution and control of airflow, two of the data center’s CRAC(computer room air conditioner) units were able to be put in hot standby for added redundancy


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Airflow Impedance: The Silent Enemy of Data Center Cooling

May 07, 2012
This white paper discusses data center airflow, impedance and cooling management.


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The Truly Modular Solution

April 19, 2012
The plethora of competing product offerings described as “modular” has led the industry to adopt a term so broad that it includes everything from fixed location buildings to offerings that would probably look most familiar to a longshoreman.


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Colocation vs. Compass Datacenter

April 19, 2012
Newly announced colo provider Compass Datacenters released this new white paper examining the architecture of colo facilities and how it affects services.


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Data Center Rack Level Cooling Utilizing Water-Cooled, Passive Rear Door Heat Exchangers (RDHx)

April 03, 2012
This white paper from Coolcentric discusses CAPEX and OPEX costs of cooling a data center.


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The Optimum Data Center: How Modular Data Centers Transcend Containers

April 03, 2012
Numerous papers have been written delineating the reasons and benefits of both Container and Modular DCs, which translate to saving time and money while increasing efficiency, scalability and maintainability.


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Understanding Load Factor Implications for Specifying Onsite Generators

March 28, 2012
One of the important steps in sizing generator sets for any application is to determine the application’s average load factor.


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The Elephant in the Room is Lost Capacity

March 22, 2012
This 12-page whitepaper from Future Facilities examines how practices that seem to work in the short term can imperil the long-term viability of the entire data center.


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When Good Projects Go Bad

March 22, 2012
Dave Sjogren of DAS Associates and John Diamond of DHS Associates developed this white paper examining the root causes of project failure in the data center industry.


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The Adventures of Kip and Gary

Diane Alber takes a humorous view of data center operations in her comic strip Kip and Gary. In the comic strip, Kip and Gary navigate problems familiar to data center professionals. You can see more at http://kipandgary.com/blog/

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

Mission CriticalON-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.

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