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APC by Schneider Electric Whitepapers
While the ICT industry has been heavily promoting a centralisation to cloud or colocation mantra for several years and many enterprises have enacted cloud-first programs, there are legitimate business and technical reasons to now consider placing equipment and applications at the edge of networks to complement cloud approaches.
Demand is rising for micro data centers, designed to handle specific needs at distributed locations, due to increasing IoT workloads at the edge. Technology product management leaders must take advantage of the opportunities by providing MDC and related platforms optimized for IoT workloads.
Data center migrations are often complex and risky. These best practices will help I&O leaders invest the appropriate amount of time and money into planning, execution and testing in order to protect the business and maximize the chances of a successful data center migration.
In this guide, we lay out the qualities, methods and strategies required to build and grow a successful MSP business – from the internal steps providers must take to prepare operations, processes and personnel to the strategic thinking, planning and execution required to play in this market successfully.
IT virtualization, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities that often result can challenge the cooling capabilities of an existing system. Reduced overall energy consumption that typically results from physical server consolidation may actually worsen the data center’s power usage effectiveness (PUE). Dynamic loads that vary in time and location may heighten the risk of downtime if rack-level power and cooling health are not understood and considered. Finally, the fault-tolerant nature of a highly virtualized environment could raise questions about the level of redundancy required in the physical infrastructure. These particular effects of virtualization are discussed and possible solutions or methods for dealing with them are offered.
Looking for a way to increase your sales? Solution-selling isn't just for data centers anymore. In fact, a vast majority of all sales opportunities are hiding at the edge of the network. Secure your status as a trusted energy management partner by expanding your offer with add-on services such as remote monitoring.
What every IT reseller needs to know about today’s must-have data center technology What’s all this talk about virtualization? And how can you use it to expand revenue?
Many of the mysteries of equipment failure, downtime, software and data corruption, are the result of a problematic supply of power. There is also a common problem with describing power problems in a standard way. This white paper will describe the most common types of power disturbances, what can cause them, what they can do to your critical equipment, and how to safeguard your equipment, using the IEEE standards for describing power quality problems.
Small server rooms and branch offices are typically unorganized, unsecure, hot, unmonitored, and space constrained. These conditions can lead to system downtime or, at the very least, lead to “close calls” that get management’s attention. Practical experience with these problems reveals a short list of effective methods to improve the availability of IT operations within small server rooms and branch offices. This paper discusses making realistic improvements to power, cooling, racks, physical security, monitoring, and lighting. The focus of
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