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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
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
Use of the Signal Reference Grid in Data Centers: Signal reference grids are automatically specified and installed in data centers despite the fact that they are no longer needed by modern IT equipment. Even when installed, they are typically used incorrectly. This paper explains the origins of the signal reference grid, the operating principles and limitations, and why they...; Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2006-05-19
Increasing Data Center Efficiency by Using Improved High Density Power Distribution: A new approach to power distribution for high density server installations saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits. Note: The methods in this paper only apply in North America...; Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, North America, Data Centers, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2006-04-25
Webcast: Why Cooling is the Hottest Issue for 21st-Century Data Centers: Recent advances in server technologies are ushering in a new era of high-performance computing. But the trend toward dual-core microprocessors, blade servers, and ultra-high-density racks can lead to a variety of unique power and cooling challenges for next-generation data centers. Listen as Paul Marcoux of APC and...; Tags: Dual-core, American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Webcast, Data Centers, Storage, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components; Webcasts 2006-03-30
Improved Chilled Water Piping Distribution Methodology for Data Centers: Chilled water remains a popular cooling medium; however leaks in the piping systems are a threat to system availability. High density computing creates the need to bring chilled water closer than ever before to the IT equipment, prompting the need for new high reliability piping methods. This paper discusses new...; Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Density Computing, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management; White papers 2006-03-07
Ten Solutions to Solving Cooling Problems Caused by High Density Server Deployment: The requirement to deploy high-density servers within single racks is presenting data center managers with a challenge. Vendors are now designing servers that will demand up to 20kW of cooling if installed in a single rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW...; Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Rack, Server, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2006-02-01
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 2006-02-01