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- Leading Consulting Engineers Discuss Power Factor, Real Power, and UPS Overload
- The purpose of this paper is to document expert opinions from leading consulting engineers regarding various power trends that are occurring in the IT industry.
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., American Power Conversion Corp., Consulting, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- White papers 2008-11-05
- Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management Blanking Panels
- Unused vertical space in open frame racks and rack enclosures creates an unrestricted recycling of hot air that causes equipment to heat up unnecessarily. The use of airflow management blanking panels can reduce this problem. This paper explains and quantifies the effects of airflow management blanking panels on cooling system...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Performance, Airflow Management, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2008-10-15
- New Web calculators from APC help you get a grip on the green impact of certain design and technology choices
- What tradeoffs do you have to make to achieve certain energy efficiency goals in your data center? How will adding that extra rack, for example, skew your electricity usage? Power management company APC aka the big UPS vendor figures that anyone who can help tell you that...
- Tags: Web, Energy Efficiency, American Power Conversion Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Blade.org makes energy efficiency a rallying cry
- The powers-that-be at Blade.org (now representing close to 200 companies) have made advanced energy efficiency the focus of some of the organization's collaborative working groups. The consortium actually has latched onto what it's calling three megatrends that it highlighted at its recent conference in New York:...
- Tags: Energy Efficiency, American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Collaboration, Kell Systems, Data Centers, Groupware, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-06-29
- An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers
- Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-04-03
- This UPS doesn't just save your work when the power goes out, it cuts tech power use
- Underneath my desk, there is a ball of wires and cords that some days resembles sticky pasta in the colander, plus my wireless router, which I kick over at least one time a day. I am embarrassed to admit publicly that while I have a surge protector I have no...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., American Power Conversion Corp., APC Back-UPS ES 750, Scanners, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-01-19
- Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers
- High density IT equipment stresses the power density capability of modern data centers. Installation and unmanaged proliferation of this equipment can lead to unexpected problems with power and cooling infrastructure including overheating, overloads, and loss of redundancy. The ability to measure and predict power and cooling capability at the rack...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-11-21
- A Quantitative Comparison of High Efficiency AC vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers
- This paper presents a detailed quantitative efficiency comparison between the most efficient DC and AC power distribution methods, including an analysis of the effects of power distribution efficiency on the cooling power requirement and on total electrical consumption. The latest high efficiency AC and DC power distribution architectures are shown...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Efficiency, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-11-04
- Holistically (including economics and environment), Moore's Law could be failing
- I'm at a panel discussion at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA, the purpose of which is to discuss the ever-widening gap between the physical success of Moore's Law, and its failings from an economic, environmental, and sustainability point of view. The session was opened by Uptime Institute...
- Tags: Data Center, SUV, Environment, Server, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- Data Center Projects: System Planning
- System planning is the Achilles' heel of a data center physical infrastructure project. Planning mistakes can magnify and propagate through later deployment phases, resulting in delays, cost overruns, wasted time, and ultimately a compromised system. Much of the trouble can be eliminated by viewing system planning as a data flow...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-19
- Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan
- A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. Despite this critical role in data center design, many floor plans are established through incremental deployment without a central plan. Once a poor floor plan has been deployed, it is often difficult or impossible...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Plan, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-04-28
- APC Convection Cooling Notebook Computer Stand
- The APC Convection Cooling Notebook Computer Stand is essentially identical to the APC Forced Air Cooling Notebook Computer Stand we looked at, with one rather major exception. This one lacks the other model's built-in USB-powered fan. Instead, the top face has a small, fan-like circular design stamped right in the...
- Tags: Notebooks, American Power Conversion Corp., laptop computer, APC Convection Cooling Notebook Computer Stand
- Product reviews 2007-04-06
- APC Forced Air Cooling Notebook Computer Stand
- Nearly indistinguishable from the excellent Belkin Laptop Cooling Stand we looked at as part of our recent laptop cooling device roundup, the APC Forced Air Cooling Notebook Computer Stand, $29, offers effective laptop cooling for mid-size and smaller systems. Though it shares the same single-fan, USB-powered design, and ergonomic kickstand...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, American Power Conversion Corp., Belkin Corp., APC Forced Air Cooling Notebook Computer Stand
- Product reviews 2007-04-05
- Power and Cooling Considerations for Power-over-Ethernet (PoE)
- Power-over-Ethernet PoE can cut costs by enabling, for the first time, the deployment of a single Ethernet cable for simultaneous access to both power and data. However, lack of a power and cooling plan to support the PoE implementation can result in unanticipated downtime. This paper illustrates which power and...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Power, Ethernet, Network Technology, Cable, Investment, Networking, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Finance
- White papers 2007-03-15
- Photos: Data center in a truck
- American Power Conversion has built a prototype data center in a truck called the InfraStruXure Express On-demand Mobile Data Center.
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., data center
- Image galleries 2007-01-05
- HP's cool dynamic datacenter cooler
- HP's cool dynamic datacenter cooler60% of Power for Cooling in DataCenter???The whole point of heat pumps for air conditioning is that you don't have to expend 1 watt of power to remove 1 watt of heat from an environment. The statement that "60% of power used in a datacenter is...
- Tags: Data centers, Dynamic Smart Cooling, data center, American Power Conversion Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., United Parcel Service of America Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- Rack Powering Options for High Density
- Alternatives for providing electrical power to high density racks in Data Centers and Network Rooms are explained and compared. Issues addressed include quantity of feeds, single-phase vs. three-phase, number and location of circuit breakers, overload, selection of plug types, selection of voltage, redundancy, and loss of redundancy. The need for...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., High-density, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-10-25
- Cooling Audit for Identifying Potential Cooling Problems in Data Centers
- The compaction of Information Technology equipment and simultaneous increases in processor power consumption are creating challenges for data center managers in ensuring adequate distribution of cool air, removal of hot air and sufficient cooling capacity. This paper provides a checklist for assessing potential problems that can adversely affect the cooling...
- Tags: Audit, American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2006-10-25
- Electrical Efficiency Modeling of Data Centers
- Conventional models for estimating electrical efficiency of data centers are grossly inaccurate for real-world installations. Estimates of electrical losses are typically made by summing the inefficiencies of various electrical devices, such as power and cooling equipment. This paper shows that the values commonly used for estimating equipment inefficiency are quite...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Inefficiency, Efficiency, Modeling, Data Centers, Research & Development, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations
- White papers 2006-08-07
- Orkut Cute (zip)
- With Orkut Cute, you can send scraps (the public messages that anyone can leave on anyone else's profile) to all your friends in Orkut and all your other online social networking communities. The program also informs you when you receive new scraps and new topics in yours communities. This program...
- Tags: Scrap, American Power Conversion Corp., Orkut.com, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion
- Software downloads 2006-07-12
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With key platform innovations built-in, the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series offers more headroom, reliability, and the highest expandability for large-scale server consolidation. See highlights from Summer IDF, SAP Tech-Ed, VMWorld, and more.
