Tag Archives: Data Center

Data Center Monitoring

Raritan recently contracted with the Datacenter Research Group (part of the Datacenter Dynamics organization) to conduct primary research and produce a white paper on monitoring power and environmental conditions in United States data centers. The key findings are that most … Continue reading

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Data Center Disaster Recovery Tools

There are many types of “disasters” that can occur in a data center.  These can range from an all encompassing failure to the loss of certain critical IT services.  These can happen at any time related to human error, system … Continue reading

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ASHRAE – Colder is Not Better for a Data Center

In my last post, I explained that “it is widely accepted that you can save energy by avoiding over cooling a data center”. That seems like a fair statement to accept, but have had one person question this statement – … Continue reading

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Increase Temperature and Save Energy

Who is ASHRAE and how can they help data center mangers save energy? The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (“ASHRAE”), founded in 1894, is an international organization with 51,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, … Continue reading

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Carbon Cap and Trade & Data Centers

By now you have heard of carbon cap and trade programs, but most likely this was in reference to activity in Japan or Europe.  This blog is notice to you that it will be coming to the United States soon … Continue reading

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