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Personal/Company Information |
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First Name *
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Last Name *
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Job Title *
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Company *
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Office Address: Unit No. - Bldg. - Street *
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Country *
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Phone No.
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Email Address *
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I want to join the mailinglist. *
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Describe your job function. *
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If Other:
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Describe your position. *
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Describe your business' industry. *
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If Other:
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Size of Organization *
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Please mark the situations that apply to you: *
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I’m planning a network expansion.
I’m preparing for a regulatory audit.
I’m experiencing power or cooling problems.
I’m acquiring new facilities for review.
I’m not experiencing any of these situations.
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Please mark the laws or regulations
to which you must adhere: *
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Sarbanes-Oxley
HIPAA
Gramm-Leach-Bliley
FISCAM
FFIEC
ISO 17799
Basel II
Unsure
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If Other:
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Where are you in the Energy Logic map? |
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Q1.
Is energy efficiency/optimization a key concern
in your organization? *
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No
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Q2.
Are you presently undertaking initiatives towards
energy reduction in your data center? *
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Q3.
What steps are you taking to optimize/reduce
energy consumption of your data center?
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The following set of questions seeks to determine present practices
in reducing/optimizing energy consumption in data centers.
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Q4.
If your critical services go off line, using a 5 point scale,
rate how critical a quick response time is in your organization.
“1” meaning very critical and “5” not at all critical
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1 – very critical
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5 – not at all critical
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Q5.
Excluding Blade Serves, what is the predominant chip
used in your facilities processors?
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Pentium 486 or equivalent
Pentium 1 or equivalent
Pentium 2 or equivalent
Pentium 3 or equivalent
Pentium 4 or equivalent
Intel Core or equivalent
Intel Core Duo or equivalent
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Q6.
For the past several years, server manufacturers
have included power management features in their products.
Do you enable this feature throughout your facility? *
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No
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Q7.
Have you deployed blade servers in your facility? *
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No
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Q8.
What is the predominant Make, Model
and Chip of your blade servers? *
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Please provide basic information on the status of Blade deployment in your facility:
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Number of Servers prior to blade
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Number of Blade servers deployed
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Deployment period (in months)
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Q10.
Are you employing server virtualization
in your data center?
If NO, go to Q12. *
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No
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How many of the servers been virtualized? |
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Number of servers prior to virtualization
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Number of servers retired
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Number of servers servicing virtualization
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Number of servers yet to be virtualized
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Q12.
Modern IT equipment is designed
to draw air at the front and exhaust air at the
back of the unit. Best practice in Data center design
supports this by recommending
a hot aisle /cold aisle configuration.
Are you presently using this arrangement in your facility? *
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No
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Q13.
Best practice in the Data center calls
for all air paths to be sealed so as to ensure
the integrity of the cooling system.
Are all cable entries and floor and or ceiling panels
sealed and securely in place in your facility? *
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No
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Q14.
Do your racks facilitate front to rear air flow
with perforated doors front and back? *
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Q15.
Do you utilise air flow enhancers
that draw heat to the top of the rack? *
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Q16.
Where a rack is only part loaded, do you
utilise blanking panels in the free space? *
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No
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