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Explore thought leadership surrounding mission-critical network protection, and gain in-depth knowledge about mission-critical power and cooling technology. Click on the title and download the white papers in .pdf format.
Energy Efficiency
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Evaluating the Economic Impact of UPS Technology
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The sensitivity of electronic systems to power disturbances and the likelihood of interruptions in utility power make it easy to justify the purchase of an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to protect business-critical systems. As a result, UPS systems have become standard in just about every data center and server room.
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Enhancing Business Resiliency Through Adaptive Power and Cooling Support for IT System
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This paper focuses on the critical power and cooling systems that create the foundation for IT resiliency, and ultimately dictate the level of operational resiliency and flexibility that can be achieved in a given organization |
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A Flexible Approach to Protecting IT System Availability
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This flexible approach is scalable, reliable and efficient in terms of energy, cost and space while sacrificing neither floor space or reliability. With proper planning and use of next-generation equipment, data center operating costs can be held steady or even drop, even as network availability becomes more critical.
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Protecting the Retail Information Chain
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The retail supply chain must support two interdependent processes:
• Product flow
• Information flow
An effective and efficient product supply chain depends heavily on an integrated, visible, “always-on” information chain. Keeping that information chain “always on” is one of the key challenges facing many retailers.
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Choosing the Right UPS for Small and Midsize Data Centers: A Cost and Reliability Comparison
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A dependable uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system is essential to protecting data centers and server rooms from unplanned downtime and equipment damage. |
IT Adaptability
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Data Center Space Optimization: Power and Cooling Strategies to Optimize Space in the Controlled Environment |
With data center rack densities increasing exponentially and blade servers promising to pushthem much higher faster than many expected, IT managers are facing difficult decisions regarding critical system infrastructure. |
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Managing Extreme Heat: Cooling Strategies for High-Density Systems
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As computer manufacturers pack more and more processing power into smaller packages, the challenge of data center cooling becomes more complex – and more critical. New servers and communication switches generate as much as ten times the heat per square foot as systems manufactured just ten years ago.
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Seven Ways Precision Air Conditioning Outperforms Comfort System in Controlled Environments
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Efficient, reliable operation of business critical computer systems is essential to the success of companies in virtually every industry. The cost of downtime is high, with even a short interruption causing the potential loss of productivity, profits and customer goodwill. And, business critical computers are no longer clustered only in one centralized location. Many organizations today have multiple data centers, including smaller centers at remote locations.
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Blade Servers and Beyond: Adaptive Cooling for the Next Generation of IT Systems
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High-density servers and communications switches, increased emphasis on business continuity, the convergence of voice and data, and new support system technologies are all driving change in the traditional data center. |
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Application Considerations for Cooling Small Computer and Server Rooms
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Too often, precision air conditioning is only considered when humidity control is required. If the application does not demand humidity control, comfort cooling is installed. In fact, the combination of recent economic conditions and an increasingly competitive market have led to a rise in the number of server rooms and data closets being served by traditional comfort cooling |
Critical Systems
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Are "Mission Critical Applications" in Your Datacenter Outrunning Your System Protection?
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Corporate datacenters – even small ones – are supporting more critical business applications such as integrated data/voice/video networks, real-time interaction and e-commerce support for Web sites, and sophisticated knowledge management systems. The backbone of these applications is the new-generation server switch capable of managing gigabit-scale information loads. These rack-mountable switches can become part of a scalable support for a wide range of company and customer-facing functions
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Five Questions to Ask Before Selecting Power Protection for Critical Systems
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In an ideal world, electrical utilities would deliver clean, reliable power to business critical systems. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Appropriate systems are required to ensure necessary power availability and quality is achieved as simply and cost effectively as possible. |
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Secure Remote Monitoring of the Critical System Infrastructure
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Enterprises seeking to improve the availability of business-critical systems can now utilize the Internet to dynamically control service access into their protected networks, while still shielding their assets from ongoing security threats. |
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Regulatory Compliance and Critical System Protection
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Regulatory compliance has become a legal and necessary extension of business continuity and disaster recovery planning for IT departments as they take steps to ensure their companies do not run afoul of an increasingly complex set of laws and regulations relating to data integrity and availability. Business continuity and systems security are also being driven by the Department of Homeland Security for both government and commercial operations. New laws and regulations not only mandate effective integrity, availability, and accountability of systems and processes relating to data, they set severe civil – and in some cases, criminal – penalties for failure.
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Balancing Scalability and Reliability in the Critical Power System: When Does N + 1 Become N + Too Many?
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Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) protection can be delivered through a single-module approach or through redundant systems. Redundancy enables higher availability of critical systems and is typically achieved through either an N + 1 or 1 + 1 design. While 1 + 1 systems deliver a significant improvement in availability over N + 1 systems and are regularly specified for the most critical applications, N + 1 remains a viable and popular option for applications seeking to balance cost, reliability and scalability.
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IP Telephony
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IP Telephony and Reliability: Are Your Mission-Critical Phone Systems Safe From Power Threats? |
IT managers who are used to implementing power protection for IT network or data center applications face new challenges in protecting their enterprise IP telephony systems. Users demand the same high level of reliability for IP telephony and its converged voice/data/video applications as they demand from the analog telephone systems that IP telephony replaces. Accordingly, IT managers must provide a much higher level of power protection available only through the use of double-conversion online UPSs. When IP telephony equipment is installed in a data center, additional environmental protection may also be necessary
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The Always-On Network: Strategies for Achieving High Availability of IT Systems
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Managing the availability of mission critical systems requires an understanding of the risks and costs of losing access to business critical information or services balanced against the cost of achieving a certain level of availability |
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Power and Cooling Best Practices for IP Communications
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IP telephony and Power over Ethernet (PoE) are driving the requirement for increasing uptime levels, power capacity and the need for dedicated precision air conditioning across the network. High-availability environments, such as data centers and computer rooms, may have the power and cooling infrastructure in place to handle these changes, but in many cases, equipment rooms and wiring closets do not. Power and cooling considerations must be factored into IP telephony to ensure required availability levels can be achieved
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