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Five Things Every Data Center Must Have

June 21st, 2010 / Sarah / 0 comments

Data centers are chock full of various “must-have” assets, including servers, storage systems, switches, cables, cabinets and so on. But what are the other important items that every enterprise-grade data center should have? The list boils down to these five essentials: 1.  Steady Power. Without reliable electricity—delivered directly from redundant, dedicated feeders—a data center is… View Article

Balancing Data Center Power Needs

April 26th, 2010 / Sarah / 0 comments

The phrase “data center power” typically inspires thoughts of clock speeds and other types of CPU and server performance-oriented power. But there’s another even more fundamental type of power–the electrical energy that drives just about every single piece of equipment inside a data center–that’s equally important to supporting reliable IT operations. Electrical power is such… View Article