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Cooling the data center can amount to approximately 50% of the operating cost in the data center. Increasing rack densities, mission critical devices, and a focus on energy efficiency in the data center make the cooling decision significant.

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This worksheet allows enterprises to profile their data center precision cooling requirements and generate a rank ordered vendor shortlist from a fixed list of vendors. Vendor profiles are based on Info-Tech's recent in-depth review of the data...

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Now that 10G Ethernet is available at lower prices, data center technical staff is pushing it for day-to-day infrastructure. As with all new technologies, there is an optimal time for upgrading. Use this solution set to understand what needs to...

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To support key consolidation, performance, and reliability objectives, enterprises must plan to evolve from disparate networks for compute and storage traffic to a converged data center networking infrastructure. This shift represents a major...

(9-Oct-09) People in general may have an innate fear of the dark, but for IT managers, this impulse can reach sheer frenzy in a matter of minutes. Very few enterprises are comfortable with the idea of sitting in the dark with all operations...

Due to the rising costs of electricity and the supply limitations of certain utility providers, small enterprises must evaluate their energy consumption and find ways to reduce it. The server room presents an optimal target for power reduction...