Power and Cooling

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This paper examines how eight companies were able to reduce their annual IT infrastructure cost per user by almost 25% by migrating to blades.

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Read this whitepaper to see how choosing the right energy-efficient HP products can cut your organization's technology energy use and costs.

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This paper outlines eight of the most common problems of data center power management.

This paper explores a variety of practical and affordable options that can significantly improve efficiency.

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This paper examines both methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice.

Historically, no clear standard exists for specifying sufficient cooling to achieve predictable behavior within wiring closets; this paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of cooling for wiring closets.

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Servers are the foundation of a dependable IT infrastructure. You need your IT to be reliable, flexible and ready to support your business through changing times. Read this white paper to see how IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers can offer an outstanding platform for virtualization and consolidation.

This paper explains virtualization, its benefits for mid-sized business and how IBM's virtualization strategy can help mid-sized companies reduce costs, improve services and simplify management.

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The focus of this paper is the power consumed by the support equipment which includes the losses of the power path equipment plus all power used by non-power-path support equipment.

The purpose of this paper is to outline practical and effective strategies of deployment of high density enclosures and blade servers.

In this paper, the real costs of UPS capacity expansion employing a legacy type of UPS will be compared and contrasted to the costs of employing a scalable UPS system.

This paper explains how to quantify the electricity savings and provides examples of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption.

This paper provides an overview of energy cost and carbon allocation strategies and their precision.

This paper defines a standard approach to collecting data from data centers and showing how to use it to calculate PUE, with a focus on what to do with data that is confusing or incomplete.