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Data Center Initiatives

Multi-site Visibility In addition to managing their core data centers to exacting standards, many large enterprises must also manage other types of facilities to the same standards, including regional compute facilities, branch offices, server closets and labs. In effect, enterprises must manage all of these facilities as a single "network" of data centers, often shifting loads from one site to another based on available capacity… [More]

Capacity Management  Managing and forecasting energy and data center performance requirements to support new services, applications or throughput are high-stake endeavors. Misjudging capacity can bring business to an abrupt halt, as evidenced by unscheduled data center outages. Likewise, underutilizing data center resources can bring business to a slow death by quietly hemorrhaging budgets day after day, month after month. Either scenario is extraordinarily costly and enables competitors to leap ahead, which is why heads roll when data center capacity is mismanaged… [More]

Power Management  Today, energy has become the most costly resource in the data center behind headcount, which means on-going, granular power management can no longer be avoided. Monitoring energy consumption and other performance data in the data center had been a herculean undertaking. So much so that many data center operators shunned it.  The challenges include: harmonizing with a wide range of instrumentation, managing disparate data formats, and working with rigid or inflexible vendor technologies…  [More]

Green Data Center  Sustainability is no longer a fringe topic. Companies are investing time and resources to understand how sustainability impacts business. A progressive number of companies are vying for ENERGY STAR® labels, LEED® certification, and other sustainability proof-points for data centers… [More]

Baselining and Real-time Monitoring  The old management proverb, “You cannot manage what you cannot measure,” rings particularly true with data center managers. Let’s be honest. If you lack the visibility and insight required to measure success, to quickly troubleshoot, to assess root cause, or to identify potential issues before they turn into real problems, then it is clear that you are relying more or less on guesswork… [More]

Optimization Roadmap  The value of an optimization roadmap immediately resonates with anyone who has worked on a long-term IT project, like managing a data center. All too often failures occur because the project team did not have the foresight to discern how their technology implementation might evolve over time. Having a roadmap ensures a sound approach to attaining optimization capabilities that can be logically divided and accomplished in incremental steps. These steps deliver tangible benefits that can continue to be leveraged as data center capabilities mature. The data center’s operational maturity increases with the level of strategic relevance it provides to the enterprise, from stage 1 to stage 3…[More]

Single Tenant Data Center

Veterans of data center operations tell us that having visibility and decision support to gain better control over the critical infrastructure throughout their entire facility is the key to maximizing data center efficiency... [More]

Mixed Tenant Data Center

For many data centers, determining total energy consumption may be surprisingly difficult. A common situation is a data center in a mixed tenant environment, such as a corporate campus or an office tower, in which the “mechanical yard” is a shared resource… [More]

Facility-centric

Behind the power draw of IT equipment, cooling the data center frequently consumes the largest amount of energy. As such, it represents a significant opportunity to improve efficiency… [More]