Power and Cooling

Get helpful tips to reduce energy use and information on how power quality analyzers verify realized efficiencies.

This guide will outline the specific advantages of the cloud, while also providing valuable insight into planning, building and running your cloud computing infrastructure.

IT virtualization, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data center physical infrastructure.

It is no longer practical or cost-effective to completely engineer all aspects of a unique data center.

This paper discusses making realistic improvements to power, cooling, racks, physical security, monitoring, and lighting.

This research describes what I&O leaders must do to benefit from these structural changes in the storage industry.

In the following sections we will discuss the basic concepts, considerations and approaches in designing, selecting and deploying the appropriate rack PDU for typical data center applications.

This document describes how the Cisco® 40-Gbps QSFP BiDi transceiver reduces overall costs and installation time for customers migrating data center aggregation links to 40-Gbps connections.

Comparing — and combining — IT components into an optimized solution yields many worthy advantages.

A high percentage of today’s data centers use water-based cooling methods to keep them from becoming the equivalent of a Hopi sweatbox in the desert. When you’re planning a new data center you may want to consider the impact of the weather and water availability on your decision.

This paper shows how virtualizing a data center’s IT resources can have certain consequences related to the physical infrastructure.

This paper discusses making realistic improvements to power, cooling, racks, physical security, monitoring, and lighting. The focus of this paper is on small server rooms and branch offices with up to 10kW of IT load.

This white paper helps explain the differences between watts and VA and explains how the terms are correctly and incorrectly used in specifying power protection equipment.

This paper explains how to plan for VoIP power and cooling needs, and describes simple, fast, reliable, and cost effective strategies for upgrading old facilities and building new facilities.

CIOs are on a constant quest to understand what infrastructure will provide the best fit, at the lowest risk and cost. In today’s evolving data center, defining the proper use of data center assets, and how cloud-based platforms may or may not fit into the mix is critical to business success. With the abundance of cloud offerings in the market place, physical infrastructure is no longer an enterprise IT requirement. Cloud has established itself as an excellent option for infrastructure outsourcing.

An infograph outlining HP Cloudsystem capabilities

Read how Citrix NetScaler 10, the latest version of one of the industry’s most respected ADCs, is the first such appliance to support active-active clustering.

In this Advisory, Clabby Analytics looks more closely at the importance of implementing an integrated infrastructure — and its relationship to business analytics. The paper will examine the business analytics workloads, discuss how these workloads put different demands on the underlying systems and infrastructure, and provide guidance designing an integrated business analytics environment that will provide organizations with high performance, resiliency, and a scalable growth path.

Watson’s success in the Jeopardy! challenge was inspiring, but the business impact of optimized systems design is just beginning. With smarter analytics solutions optimized on IBM Power Systems, you can put Watson's technology to work and ensure that you

Learn how to assess your organization’s necessity for cloud services and whether or not it would be a beneficial addition.

Learn how to assess your organization’s necessity for cloud services and whether or not it would be a beneficial addition.

The Dow Chemical Company is a $60 billion enterprise composed of a worldwide network of 13 business units. Although such a decentralized business structure has competitive advantages, it can also create challenges to setting and achieving enterprise-wide goals.

This IBM whitepaper presents facilities management solutions that utilize feature integrated processes and analytics to create smarter buildings. Facilities management solutions can help improve the effectiveness of a distributed workforce, increase facilities utilization and accelerate workplace configurations.

According to a 2012 Ipsos/Reuters poll, one in five employees worldwide now work from home. In another study, two-thirds of those who responded said they, expect their workplace to go fully virtual within the next few years. This IBM whitepaper analyzes the reasons for this shift in the workplace, and its implications for the facilities management of your company. Learn how to manage the growing number of empty real estate inside your company in a smarter fashion, so that your company runs more efficiently, and cuts down on unnecessary costs.

This analyst report provides guidelines for how to plan an effective Enterprise Asset Management strategy, including maturity levels, processes, and technologies in context of IT Asset Management advances.