Check out MC's first issue of the new year! Mission Critical is starting off 2014 with a fresh redesign and our cover story this month focuses on data center cooling and we have four great articles that address the topic.
Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) is an emerging form of data center management that bridges the gap between traditional facilities systems and information technology (IT) systems, thereby providing operators with a consolidation of the data gleaned from each.
Back in ancient Egypt, servants kept the Pharaohs cool by waving palm fronds over water-soaked reeds. A couple of thousand years later (on April 19, 2012, to be exact) Greenpeace activists in Seattle unfurled an 800-ft banner that read:
When Janna Bridges, Volusia County Schools data operations manager, first stepped into the district’s data center in Deland, FL, in 1998, she entered a room that contained one mainframe
Putting together a Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) is not about recruiting ‘super-heroes’ – but a matter of balancing skills and exploiting learning opportunities.
Remember when your mom used to tell you that, “no one likes a tattletale”? I often heard this response when I informed her that my sister had com-mitted one transgression or another.
Twenty minutes into the conversation Stephen Madaffari, principal of Data Centers Delivered and HTS New York, was done. He got it. He’d been through it in his head already.
In or around November 2006, I co-authored a white paper with Vali Sorell (vice president, Syska Hennessy Group) that calculated and compared the energy efficiency of cooling strategies employed in most data centers.
Snake Tray’s current monitoring power reception module allows data center managers the ability to observe the current of four independent power receptacles either numerically displayed on the device or offsite using HTML protocol.
GE’s iUPSGuard provides mission-critical customers with an advanced remote monitoring and diagnostics solution for their uninterruptable power supply (UPS).
Daikin Magnitude™ WME chillers with RapidRestore™ make it possible for the chiller to restart 35 seconds after a power failure and reach 80% of full-load in 75 seconds.
ASCO® Multiple Bus Load and Generator Control software makes it possible for a single programmable logic controller (PLC) in ASCO Generator Paralleling Switchgear to reliably operate up to eight independent multiple buses simultaneously with full functionality.