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Eaton gives you more power over your power

Power equipment manufacturer Eaton has compressed the design for a new three-phase data center uninterruptible power systems UPS, called the Eaton 9390IT, which is 61 percent smaller than units from rival manufacturers. The technology also uses a double-conversion process, which Eaton says helps the 40kVA UPS deliver efficiency of 99...

Tags: Data Center, Eaton, Uninterruptible Power System, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-05

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How much can UPS efficiency save you? Eaton has some answers.

I am growing increasingly fascinated by power distribution and regulating equipment. I know, sick admission. Eaton, one of the big uninterruptible power supply UPS and power distribution equipment vendors, is starting to talk up its new Energy Saver System as a tool that data center operators can...

Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Eaton, NetRiver, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-10-08

Some like it cool: HP/EDS fellow shares data center best practices

I spoke last week with Ed Kettler, a fellow for Hewlett-Packard who comes to the company via HP's acquisition of systems integrator EDS. Kettler has been involved with two major data center overhauls that EDS undertook before it became part of HP, including the retrofit of a facility in Wynyard,...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., Best Practice, Kettler, Tulsa, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-06-18

Battery Technology for Data Centers and Network Rooms: VRLA Reliability and Safety

The Valve Regulated lead-Acid VRLA battery is the predominant choice for small and medium-sized Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS energy storage. This white paper explores how the technology affects overall battery life and system reliability. It will examine the expected performance, life cycle factors, and failure mechanisms of VRLA batteries.

Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Network, Battery, Engineering

White papers 2009-04-08

Xian Network Manager Io SP2 (Windows)

Xian Network Manager is not just another Microsoft System Center Operations Manager management pack or add-on. Xian is an integrated solution that extends the extensive knowledge-based monitoring and management capabilities of Operationas Manager to the other critical components of your computing infrastructure. The combination of OpsMgr/Xian allows you to manage...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Jalasoft, Xian Network Manager, Xian, UNIX, Operating Systems, Networking, Servers, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-04-01

Data Centre Assessments: The First Step to Optimisation

Data centres are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any organisation. Yet the central focus of organisations is often the acquisition and deployment of the IT architecture equipment and systems with little thought given...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Data Centre, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management

White papers 2009-03-01

The Hardware 2.0 survey

The Hardware 2.0 surveyThe question doesn't specify add-on or integratedThe question doesn't specify whether the GPU is an add-on card or integrated.ATI and nVidia both offer integrated GPUs, so the question is valid as worded, but Intel would be a good choice as an option rather than just Other.Intel GPUis...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, hardware, computer

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

More images and products from supercomputing 2007

The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference.  Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...

Tags: Processor, Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Tyan, 1U, TST, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Vista Media Center takes over the living room

[Update 24-August, 2:00PM: By popular request, I've assembled a list of the parts that went into this system, including specs and prices.]  In June, I recounted my out-of-the-box experience with a new Dell PC running Windows Vista, starting with a failed BIOS upgrade, undergoing a successful repair, and establishing that the basic hardware and software...

Tags: Media Center PC, PC, System, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Vista Media Center, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2007-08-24

LinuxWorld 2007 goes green with Green Grid consortium

Fred Stack - Emerson Network Power, David Douglas - Sun Microsystems, Rich Lechner - IBM, Colette LaForce - Rackable, Andrew Kutz - Burton GroupNext generation data center and green computing were common themes at LinuxWorld 2007 and the Green Grid panel brought many of these issues to light.  Pictured above...

Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mainframe, Server, Hardware, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-08-10

Is VoIP burning up your wiring closet?

That's a converged networks wiring closet, from enterprise networks solutions provider Foundry Networks. According to an article in Network World, the temperatures in wiring closets typically used for IP phone AP power supplies can be so high as to be risky.The problem is that in the typical wiring closet, you've...

Tags: BTU

Blog posts 2006-04-13

Software lessons from Mars

Software lessons from Mars"Abstruse aspects"?"the bug wasn't in their code, but was dependent on abstruse aspects of the way the operating system worked"I'd be curious to find out what these "asbtruse aspects" are. What operating system was being used? How could a lower-priority process lock out a higher-priority process, under...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Cable, software, United Parcel Service of America Inc., Java

Discussion threads 2004-01-28