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TDC Building Green Data Center in Delaware

The Data Centers LLC (TDC) is building a new green data center in Delaware.
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Visa Data Center Receives Uninterrupted Data Center Power with ZBB EnerSystem

Data centers face challenges of trying to ensure uptime while keeping costs low. Data center power plays a vital role in this balancing act, and companies are experimenting with renewable energy sources and other technologies to prevent downtime, reduce costs and secure data.
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Don't Let 'Stranded Power' Go to Waste in Data Centers

There is an increasing need to make sure power efficiency exists in data centers. Inefficient data centers cost way too much and use up too much energy.
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Server Technology Targets Low-Power Servers and Efficient Data Centers with New 48-Outlet Product Family

Server Technology, a provider of data center power management and monitoring solutions, has added a new family of 48-outlet switched products to its product portfolio to meet high density needs and power more servers in their racks and to help clean up clumps of cords, improve airflow and heat dissipation. The launch of these 48-outlet products is in response to customer demands. Not only did Server Technology respond to customer requests for a bank of outlets that are useful to put a lot of servers in the rack, but it utilized its years of expertise to deliver something more - something innovative that gives customers more than just what they asked for.
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Server Technology to Exhibit and Discuss Fortune 500 Data Center Challenges at Uptime Institute Symposium 2013

Think about what you do every day on the Internet. Millions of blogs, social media updates, e-mails, videos and links are being posted and shared even as we speak. What enables that to happen? Why don't these sites crash as millions of people around the globe load and access them? The answer is the data center.
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Worried About Data Center Power or Total Uptime?

In this age of big data, companies of all sizes are concerned with the speed in which they can collect information and the data centers they have in place to store and manage business intelligence. While this whirlwind of activity populates important applications to drive the business, it also generates considerable data center power.
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Server Technology Powers InteropNet to Provide High-Speed Network Connectivity to Interop Attendees

Every year, there are hundreds of technology conferences held worldwide. Tens of thousands of attendees come together for days of networking, exhibiting, discussing and presenting on numerous topics to better their business and the industry. At these events, one element is becoming absolutely crucial to their success: connectivity.
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Facebook to Build an Estimated $1.5 Billion Data Center in Iowa

Iowa is quickly becoming a data center hub for its affordability, location to a large energy substation and availability of fiber optics. The most recent company to put a data center in the state: Facebook.
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Server Technology to Help Data Center Professionals Overcome Challenges at Data Center World 2013

Today's technology, economy and customer expectations lead to one trend for businesses: learning to do more with less. Data center professionals are among them, and today are working on how to fit more power and density into data center racks. Customers want to pack the most equipment, such as servers, switches and storage, into each and every rack, which, in turn, is leading to issues like capacity planning, load balancing, heat issues, energy efficiency and how to manage all of those things.
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Wireless is the Real Energy Hog, Not the Data Center

Energy consumption is a hot topic when it comes to the data center, but the bigger energy problem might be the wireless networks that bring the data center to the user.
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Four Cities Remain in Nlyte Software, RF Code and Server Technology Seven-City Series on Overcoming Data Center Challenges

To help face challenges in the data center, Nlyte Software, RF Code and Server Technology are hosting a seven-city seminar series to help data center professionals optimize their energy and operational efficiency. Almost a month into the series, the companies are receiving tremendous feedback from attendees and there are still four cities left to visit.
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Data Center Power and the Need for Sustainability

The data center is playing an increasingly important role in the enterprise, but so is sustainability. The growing need for data capture and storage is putting more pressure on the data center, creating a need for greater power usage. If revenue doesn't immediately increase due to this activity, the added cost can be difficult to bear.
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Optimizing Data Center Power with Software-Defined Power and Cooling

Measuring and monitoring data center power volumes is critical for energy efficiency, productivity, cost savings and capacity planning. Without operating with optimized power and cooling, software-defined data centers can cost significantly more.
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SingleHop Out to Take Amsterdam by Storm with New Servers

The rise of cloud computing has brought an increased demand for space and servers, and to that end, SingleHop plans to open up a new data center in Amsterdam backed by fully 2,000 servers to produce the kind of computing power that can help meet the demands of an increasing cloud-hungry community.
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Server Technology, STARLINE and Cooper Bussmann to Present at Data Center World 2013

The introduction of new technologies, unprecedented business demands and the need for expanded IT budgets helps form the modern data center, which finds itself balancing efficiency and availability while computing demand and energy costs are increasing and IT budgets are contracting. Switching to high-density, high-efficiency data centers is resulting in higher utilization voltages and higher short-circuit currents in the white space electrical distribution system.
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Servers in Data Centers Operate More Efficiently at Higher Voltages

There are many studies that suggest that servers in data centers operate more efficiently at higher voltages.
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Server Technology's Color-Coded, Alternating Phase Power Technology Simplifies Load Balancing

We're not very far into 2013, but so far, Server Technology, a provider of data center power monitoring and management products and solutions, has made the most of it. It introduced its PDU Power Pivot with a 90-degree rotatable power cord in January, and its master distributor, PDUs Direct, released the ProGrade 42, a 42-outlet high density PDU, just last month. In its latest innovation, Server Technology is unveiling its patented, color-coded Alternating Phase Technology, which helps improve cord routing and simplifies balancing three-phase power, load balancing and cord routing.
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Saving Money in Data Center Power

One walk through a data center and you'll quickly understand why these literal power houses can be rather costly when it comes to just generating enough electricity to run the many racks of servers.
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Apple Data Centers Powered by Renewable Energy, Closes in on 100 Percent Company-Wide

One of Apple's biggest namesakes is its iCloud service, which has in turn caused the company to dramatically expand its data center infrastructure. Last year, Greenpeace International, an independent direct-action environmental organization, targeted Apple and ranked it 12th out of 14 large technology companies in a report, "How Clean Is Your Cloud?" and charged the company for relying on electricity from coal plants. Apple received Ds and Fs in transparency, infrastructure siting, energy efficiency and GHG mitigation and renewable energy investment and advocacy.
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Nlyte Software, RF Code and Server Technology Launch Seven-City Seminar Series to Optimize Data Center Efficiency

RF Code and Server Technology recently partnered up to release an integrated data center solution of RF Code's wire-free Sensor Manager solution with Server Technology's Sentry Power Manager (SPM) data center power monitoring solution via an SPM API integration. The solution makes it significantly easier to monitor and manage the factors that impact the efficient, fiscally-smart running of a data center, which can include power density, proper and continuous maintenance, design capacity, facility occupancy and power loading rate and site location.
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Do We Expect Too Much From Mobile Apps?

With the increasing capability of mobile apps these days, it's not surprising that people expect them to do more and more with every passing day. Mobile devices are finding their way into the workforce and some people even keep multiple types on hand to serve different purposes. But are we reaching a point where expectations are starting to outpace reality? Some recent research indicates that, maybe, we're asking too much from our mobile devices and the apps that drive them.
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Unite Private Networks and Hunt Midwest Announce Long-Term Agreement to Deliver Fiber-Optic Services

Unite Private Networks (UPN) and Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development, Inc. have come together to deliver fiber-optic based Ethernet, Internet and dark fiber services to the tenants and data centers located at Hunt Midwest SubTropolis, the world's largest underground business park.
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Power Consumption in the Data Center a Growing Concern

As I write this article, my homegrown file server is raising the temperature a few degrees while copying a couple terabytes of data. One file server and a few terabytes is pittance compared with a data center, but on a small scale it highlights one of the big issues that data centers face: Power consumption from all the new data that is emerging from mobile devices, cloud services and social media and big data.
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Moore's Law and Murphy's Law Rule in Data Centers

Moore's Law is a rule of thumb developed by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that states the number of chip elements called transistors will double approximately every two years. Transistors are used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power.
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Ohio State University and HP Labs Study Finds Solid State Drives Risk Massive Data Loss

When it comes to managing a data center, it's important to make sure you can ensure uptime and backup data in the event of power loss. Power outages in data centers are common - most recently seen from Hurricane Sandy and winter storm Nemo - and you don't want to realize you're unprepared during a disaster.
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Racktivity Puts Out New Next-Generation AC Sensor

Environmental management and energy solutions company Racktivity just launched its new AC2Sensor, a power monitoring solution made for installation at the AC power distribution board. It can also be distributed in remote locations, such as Points of Presence (PoPs), base stations and as head ends.
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Server Technology and Opengear Deliver Remote Access Solution for System Administrators to Securely Manage Power Infrastructure

Server Technology, a provider of data center power management and monitoring solutions, has teamed up with Opengear, a provider of secure remote infrastructure management solutions, to offer a complete remote access cellular solution that is ideal for both data centers and remote locations. The solution, which includes power and out-of-band management, integrates control of Server Technology's smart power distribution units (PDU) with Opengear's infrastructure management solutions to allow network administrators out-of-band control of systems connected to and powered by those products.
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PDUs Direct's ProGrade 42 Provides High Density Outlets with the Flexibility You Need

PDUs Direct, a distributor of Server Technology PDUs for data center environments, delivers just that. The company recently unveiled the ProGrade 42, its first-ever branded product and the first in a series that packs more power and more devices into your data center racks. Appropriately named, the PDUs are professional-grade products offering quality and reliability that few in the market can provide. The 42 outlet smart PDU makes it the one PDU to power blade or traditional servers, has a middle display that can be inverted for overhead or under the floor power and next-generation locking receptacles.
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Meet High Density and Flexibility Needs with PDUs Direct's ProGrade 42

PDUs Direct, a distributor of Server Technology PDUs for server and networked environments, delivers just that. It recently unveiled ProGrade 42, its first-ever branded product and the first in a series that can pack more power and more devices into your data center racks. Appropriately named, the outlet is a professional-grade product offering quality and reliability that nobody else in the market is providing. The 42 outlet Smart PDU makes it the one PDU to power blade or traditional servers and has a middle display that can be inverted for overhead or under the floor power and next-generation locking receptacles.
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Server Technology Helps Box.com Face Data Center Power Challenges

Managing and monitoring data center power is critical to uptime. IT management is a key focus for many organizations seeking to reduce costs and minimize the environmental impact from IT operations, and as organizations grow ever more dependent on IT every day, this trend shows no signs of slowing down. Organizations are discovering that data centers designed to provide the highest level of performance per square meter at the lowest power levels can derive up to 30 percent additional capacity from existing facilities.
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Server Technology to Exhibit Data Center Power Solutions at Data Centre World 2013

Data centers are the core of large businesses, hosting servers and equipment to ensure uptime, and in turn, the business' success. There are many components that contribute to a successful data center, including routers and switches to help servers communicate with each other.
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What Does Your Photography Pixel Count Have to do with Data Centers?

It was only a few years ago that the most common camera you would see out and about was the disposable camera - the winding sounds, temporary flash buttons, developed film and all.
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Can Your PDU Pivot?

According to IDC research, there are more than 2.94 million data centers in use with 611.4 million square feet of floor space. As this little trend called big data continues to grow, reliance on data centers is also increasing. At these data centers, you'll more than likely have too many devices to plug them all directly into your power supply. Power Distribution Units (PDUs) are power strips used to power servers and telecommunications equipment and distribute your site's power to each device by turning power inputs into many power outputs.
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Strangeloop Networks Taken Over by Radware

An increasing number of enterprises have been shifting to software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud-based services as of late, both creating new ways and increasing the distance between end users and their applications. This shift can offer improved output and competence; however, when network latency grows, it unavoidably decreases end-user quality of experience. This has led many Web-based businesses, which greatly depend on customer-facing online applications, to search for online performance acceleration offerings.
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What are You Doing to Optimize Your Data Center Power?

The momentum driving big data has led to the creation of massive data centers responsible for consuming 2 percent of the nation's electrical supply. As this consumption is projected to continue to grow, there is an increased need for data center power solutions that drive efficiency while still meeting the growing needs of the industry.
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Server Technology and Box to Share Best Practices on Managing Power in Data Center Environments at Teledata

Monitoring and managing power in a data center, regardless of size, can improve the efficiency of a facility, reduce costs and reduce the impact on the environment. Server Technology is a provider of data center power monitoring solutions to help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency.
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Server Technology and Box to Share Best Practices on Managing Power in Ever-Changing Data Center Environments

Monitoring and managing power in a data center, regardless of size, can improve the efficiency of a facility, reduce costs and reduce the impact on the environment. Server Technology is a provider of data center power monitoring solutions to help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency.
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What Data Center System Fits Best to Optimize Facility Efficiency?

Most data centers consume vast amounts of energy in a wasteful manner. Online companies typically run their facilities at maximum capacity around the clock and as a result, data centers can waste 90 percent or more of the electricity they pull off the grid. With energy prices rising, budgets shrinking and technology choices increasing, energy efficiency is crucial in maintaining high-performance facilities and overall business performance.
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New Jersey's Primary Data Center Power Failure Affected Several State Agency Websites

Last week in New Jersey, the websites of several state agencies, including the Labor Department, were knocked offline due to power loss at a data center. This disrupted access to related state services also caused motor vehicle offices across the state to close early.
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RagingWire Data Centers Earn PCI DSS 2.0 Certification

RagingWire Data Centers, a provider of solutions to power data centers, announced that both of its data center campuses have been re-certified for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) version 2.0.
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New Apps in the Cloud Drive Demand for More Rack Power

With the rapid growth of cloud and virtualization technologies, new applications and supporting hardware needed in the data centers is also rising. The result is the need for more power to support all these new applications in the cloud.
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Server Technology Unveils PDU Power Pivot

When it comes to data center power, managing power capacity, reducing downtime and improving energy efficiency is key. Server Technology is a provider of the highest quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions, manufactured to meet the highest quality standards and 100 percent performance tested for reliability and accuracy.
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Server Technology to Share Best Practices on Data Center Power at Cisco Live!

Behind your favorite website is a data center hard at work. Data centers house computing systems, storage systems, telecoms and many other parts of an enterprise to ensure smooth and quality performance. As networking and communications technologies play an increasingly strategic role for businesses in virtually every industry, keeping up with current technologies and planning for future innovation is essential for IT partners and customers.
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Cummins Power Generation Presents Ratings Classification for Data Center Power Generation Systems

Do you know the factors affecting the generator output ratio in data centers? How can you calculate the total power requirement for datacenter, no matter the size or scale? Sizing the electrical service for a data center needs an understanding of amount of the power requirements of the planned IT facilities.
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Riello UPS Multi Sentry Listed on UK's ETL List of Energy Efficient Devices

The United Kingdom has just given Riello a nod when it comes to energy efficiency.
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Asking the Right Questions When Selecting Data Center PDUs

With mobile traffic exploding, data center power consumption is going through the roof. Consequently, energy efficiency of power units used in data centers has become very critical for several reasons. Besides saving electricity cost, energy efficient power distribution units (PDUs) can also simplify cooling with room for planning. A well thought out data center power distribution implementation can reduce downtime, which is expensive, and also improve power monitoring, management and control capabilities.
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RF Code and Server Technology Team Up to Ease Monitoring Data Centers

Today, the physical infrastructure layer of the data center is comprised of hundreds of hardware and software vendors including systems and network management software frameworks and the emerging category of asset management/DCIM providers, as well as the active hardware offerings from server, storage, networking and security vendors. Server Technology, a provider of data center power monitoring and management solutions, offers a Solution Partner Program, designed to promote the integration of its hardware and software technology with that of other industry leaders.
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AWS Christmas Eve Outage Leaves Netflix Customers without Video Service

Last week on Christmas Eve, according to InformationWeek, Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a power outage that left millions of Netflix customers without video service. Besides disrupting services for Netflix viewers from Canada to Brazil, the AWS outage also affected Amazon's own video-streaming service Amazon Prime and Salesforce.com's Heroku cloud platform.
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BBH Solutions, DAS USA Showroom Achieves LEED Certification

BBH Solutions, a Manhattan-based provider of technology services with a focus on the converged network, unified communications and IP-based Audio Visual solutions, and DAS USA have announced their joint venture trading technology showroom, located at 875 Avenue of the Americas in New York City, is now LEED certified.
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Data Center Power Use Needs to be Efficient Given the Huge Digital World

Every time a person goes online, there's additional energy use, given the widespread need for data centers and networks. In fact, data centers represent at least 1.5 percent of the available worldwide energy for use.
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Data Center Power Use Needs to be Efficient Given the Huge Digital World

Every time a person goes online, there's additional energy use, given the widespread need for data centers and networks. In fact, data centers represent at least 1.5 percent of the available worldwide energy for use.
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas - A Data Center Christmas Story

Server Technology provides the highest quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. Its cabinet power distribution units (CDUs) define the exact location of its products - in the cabinet - as well as describing where its particular power expertise and engineering specialty lies - power management in the cabinet and to your servers. Server Technology offers a range of PDUs, from basic and metered to switched and smart.
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mobily Selects BMC Software Cloud Lifecycle Management Solution

BMC Software provides an IT service management portfolio to support business services and applications across distributed, mainframe, virtual and cloud environments, encompassing business service management and cloud management offerings.
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Server Technology Named to Data Center Top 100 List

Large or small, a data center requires a wide range of building blocks, brought together from a huge list of potential vendor options. Server Technology, a provider of data center power management and monitoring solutions, has been named to CRN's 2013 Data Center 100 list for its intelligent cabinet PDUs. This is the second year the company has been named to the list, as it was also recognized for its intelligent cabinet PDUs for the 2012 list.
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IO Partners with Active Power for Enhancements to Data Infrastructure

Active Power has entered into a partnership with IO to integrate Active Power's PowerHouse and CleanSource UPS product portfolio. IO is changing enterprise data center complexity into a simplified plug-and-play capacity delivery model of quick assembly, lights-out automation, and best-in-class efficiency.
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Where is Your Blogging Data Stored?

Blogging began as a type of online journal for people to share interests, hobbies and thoughts online. Now, blogging has evolved into major publishing businesses and is used by companies to display thought leadership and expertise. The rise of social media has expanded blogging even further, with Twitter commonly called the "micro blogging" site.
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Switch Datacenters Looks to Liquid Cooling to Increase Efficiency

Most people don't take cooling into account when considering energy use in computing, but when it comes to data centers, it becomes a major factor. While air cooling has long been the standard for cooling, liquid cooling is now entering the picture in order to create a more efficient data center.
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EMerge Alliance Unveils Data Center Power Standard for Energy Efficiency

To facilitate the hybrid use of DC power within data centers and telecommunications central offices, the EMerge Alliance recently unveiled a standard for systems that feed 380V DC power straight to IT equipment in data centers and telecommunications buildings.
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Server Technology to Highlight Key Data Center Trends at Gartner Data Center Conference

Escalating demands for ever-more efficient and responsive services have placed heightened pressures on the data center and the Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) organization. The cloud, virtualization, big data and mobility are all trends that the data center is expected to embrace fully. Data center and I&O leaders are being asked to optimize costs, all while modernizing legacy environments. To face these and other data center challenges, Gartner is hosting its annual Data Center Conference next week, from Dec. 3-6 in Las Vegas, NV.
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Server Technology Introduces New and Improved Channel Partner Program

Server Technology today introduced the Server Technology Power Rewards Program, designed particularly for the company's channel partners that target data center customers. This program, according to the company's director of Global Channel Sales, Mike Johnston, is part of an effort by Server Technology to makes it channel partner program more channel focused.
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Giving Thanks to the Data Center: 17 Things to Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving marks the start to the holiday season, commencing a crazy time of the year for family visits, holiday parties, gift shopping and exchanging and ringing in a new year. Before we get ahead of ourselves and fast-forward to the holidays, let's take the time to pause and give thanks this Thanksgiving.
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Flash Memory Means Big Savings for Data Center-Powered Companies

Most every company that runs a data center does so with the cost of kilowatt-hours close to mind. Saving money is always important to the long-term health of any company, and in a bad economy, it only takes on more importance than normal. But for Alibris and Pandora, there were some critical moves they could make that would not only reduce their power consumption, but with that reduce their power expenses and improve their bottom line.
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Much of New York City Powered by Back-Up Post-Sandy

Despite the fact that it has been two weeks since Hurrican Sandy hit the east coast, much of New York City's facilities and data centers are still relying on back-up power to keep systems going. As utility companies fall under official scrutiny for improper preparedness, the responsibility of keeping things seamless has fallen to IT professionals and data center managers for uninterruptible functionality.
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Leviton Manufacturing and Server Technology Enter License Agreement

Server Technology is a provider of data center power solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. Together with key solutions partners and channel partners, Server Technology provides integrated data center power distribution products, management and solutions for companies around the world.
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Real-Time Power Monitoring for Data Center Optimization

Increasing powering and cooling demands within the data center have made these the topics of choice for data center and facility managers for several years now. Increased power demands are a result of the need for more compute power and the higher density devices that resulted. Improved uptime, greater efficiency and lower costs are the triple crown of data center optimization. How do you get into the winner's circle? Part of the answer lies in implementing advanced data center power monitoring--that magic combination of the right power distribution units (PDUs), the best real time wire-free power monitoring solution and the most advanced power management software.
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Server Technology to Promote Data Center Power Solutions at Datacenter Dynamics London 2012

Server Technology is a provider of the highest quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. It serves the biggest companies in the world with the most demanding network environments, which means Server Technology is constantly on top of its game in the data center power industry.
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Data Center Efficiency in Full Bloom

You would think it was spring and Louie Armstrong was singing "What a Wonderful World." The greening of the data center is in full bloom.
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Google's Finland Data Center Boasts Unique Features

Google is often considered a trailblazer in the technology industry, and rightly so. After the company launched its search engine in the late nineties, it began its massive expansion, acquiring some companies and partnering with others, eventually becoming the Internet giant it is today. To support its many services, Google must employ a number of data centers to store the data that is the backbone to its entire business. Of course, this being Google, these aren't your typical data centers.
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The Effects of Sandy on Data Center Power

Superstorm Sandy may be a thing of the past for East Coast, but its effects are still very much present. Internet traffic and websites worldwide have been hit by the effects of Sandy, which has damaged data centers or cut their power, industry sources said Tuesday. Because of power outages, tens of thousands of Internet sites worldwide are unavailable.
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Server Technology Powers Cobalt Data Centers, Sponsors Upcoming IT Roundtable

Apple plans to build its fourth U.S. data center at Reno Technology Park, a new 2,200-acre business property being developed by the Unique Infrastructure Group and the largest dedicated data center campus in North America with on-site renewable energy generation.
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Hitec Launches Third-Generation UPS with Modular Design

Hitec Power Protection, a designer and manufacturer of rotary UPS (uninterruptable power supply) systems based in the Netherlands, recently launched the follow up to its widely popular second generation UPS product set. The company claims that its third generation of UPS systems is among the most powerful and efficient available, while featuring a modular design.
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Server Technology's Smart Power Monitor Adds Intelligence and Monitoring Capabilities to PDUs

Server Technology is a provider of quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. It offers a variety of cabinet power distribution units (PDUs), including basic, metered and smart PDUs. With Server Technology's Smart Power Monitor, you can take any existing cabinet within your facility and retrofit it to provide intelligent power monitoring capabilities. By adding a device like Smart Power Monitor, users allow for a number of different monitoring capabilities, including understanding capacity planning, redundancy and three-phase load balancing.
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How Sentry Power Manager Kills Zombies

While zombies have had something of a renaissance in entertainment of late, the idea of "zombies" as they relate to power systems is an idea that may be in vogue, but is more infamous than anything. That's why Server Technology's Sentry Power Manager is taking on so much importance in regard to data center power, and taking care of the zombies that so often make appearances.
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How Server Technology is Combining Analytics with Data Center Power

Analytics is a comparatively new term to be entering the collective parlance of businesses, but this practice is also rapidly showing itself to be every bit as powerful as it is new. With analytics technology, businesses have the necessary practices and operations to not only gather data, but also analyze that data and make conclusions about how their businesses should respond from there. Server Technology, meanwhile, is working to make analytics even better by adding some new hardware to the mix.
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380V DC Power in the Data Center

Data centers are looking for ways to increase efficiency and decrease operating costs. Most data centers use power distribution systems in which alternating-current (AC) power from the grid is converted into direct-current (DC) power to charge the batteries, and then converted back to AC for the equipment. The loss of power through multiple AC/DC conversions has been cited as an argument for using DC power distribution.
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Google Goes Direct to Utility to Get Wind Power for Data Center

Last week, Google agreed to buy 48 megawatts of power, all generated via wind turbines, from a local electric utility to power its data center in Oklahoma. This deal represents a significant departure from the previous deal that Google made to get in fully 100 megawatts, as in that case, the deal was made with a private wind farm developer as opposed to the utility itself.
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Server Technology to Share Data Center Power Best Practices at AFCOM Data Center World

For more than 25 years, Server Technology has been providing the world's biggest companies with trusted power management solutions to improve uptime and energy efficiency while reducing carbon footprint and operating costs. As a leader in the industry in innovative and cutting-edge technology, it's only fitting that the data center power solutions provider can be found at the hottest IT conferences and expos of the year, including Data Center World this week.
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Server Technology Powers Interop to Empower Technology Professionals

Server Technology is a provider of data center power solutions, including the highest quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. Server Technology provides power management solutions to companies big and small, including the biggest names in servers, search, cloud, wired, wireless, finance and healthcare.
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Sentry Power Manager 5.2 SNAP Feature Makes Managing PDU Network Easy

Server Technology's Sentry Power Manager (SPM) is the most affordable and accurate system available to measure, monitor and trend data center power. It provides companies with a central location to monitor and manage multiple Sentry Cabinet Power Distribution Units (CDUs) that provide power, environmental and other information to enterprise data centers and lab environments to prevent or resolve operational problems, and it helps manage today's biggest data center challenges, including improving uptime, increased power costs, higher density cabinets, capacity planning and green initiatives.
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Data Centers Use Less Energy with Joyent Tools

Data center energy use can be reduced some 25 percent by using Joyent Tools via big data analytics, the company reports.
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Server Technology's SPM Takes the Guesswork out of Data Center Efficiency with Predictive Trending Analysis

In the data center, temperature, power and humidity play a vital role to the success and performance of equipment that keeps the center running. Monitoring and managing these factors ensures stability, efficiency and uptime. But what if you could plan and experiment with changing the levels of these important factors without harming your data center's success? Server Technology does that just - it answers your "What ifs?"
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Mike Johnston Appointed to Director of Global Channel Sales and Marketing for Server Technology

Server Technology is a provider of the highest quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency. For over 28 years, Server Technology has provided the biggest companies in the world with power management solutions.
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Intel Successfully Tests New Ways to Reduce Data Center Power Consumption

Data center power and cooling costs are growing concerns for leading technology companies that host dense data centers that run massive numbers of workloads. They are looking for innovative ways to provide cooling and energy savings to data centers.
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Server Technology's Latest Sentry Power Manager Offers Predictive Trending Analysis, Redundancy Functionality

In the data center, as power costs are going up and power availability is going down, it's really all about power and cooling. The more power you use, the more cooling you need. What if you could overlay the power usage over the temperature in your data center, see the effects in any particular cabinet, and be able to plan your power requirements?
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iTRACS Expands Data Center Infrastructure Management Capabilities

iTRACS Corporation, a provider of enterprise-class Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) and environment monitoring solutions, has released the latest iTRACS Converged Physical Infrastructure Management (CPIM) v2.6.0.
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Seattle Cuts Off Part of Data Center

Recent damage to an electrical busway will take a variety of government services down with it in the city of Seattle, where crews are about to perform repairs. But in order to make those repairs, city officials warned, some services, along with parts of the data center, will have to be shut down for a while.
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Server Technology's Jack Vonich Moves Up to Director of Western US Sales

"My philosophy is that it's not about me, it's really about the customer--what they need, listening to the customer, building relationships so they realize it's not just about the one-time sale, it's really about a relationship with the company that really cares about their interests," explained Jack Vonich, newly appointed director of western U.S. sales for Server Technology.
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Can Raising Data Center Temperatures Save Companies Money?

Many big players in the technology industry are raising the thermostats in their data center, claiming that the equipment can not only handle the increase in temperature but will also save hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs throughout the year.
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Prepping Your Data Center for a Hurricane

Tropical storm Isaac is on the verge of turning into a hurricane that could flood the coasts of four states, with storm surge and heavy rains on its way to New Orleans. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been tweeting Isaac safety tips, including turning to social media to update friends and family in the likely event that phone lines become congested. Since a hurricane or bad storm could hit anyone at anytime, here are some steps to ensure your data center can handle the weather and maximize uptime for your facility.
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Server Technology Power Distribution Unit Series: Switched PDUs

Server Technology, a provider of quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency, offers hundreds of power distribution unit (PDU) products. A PDU is a multiple outlet power strip designed to deliver conditioned power to mission-critical networking, server or telecom equipment.
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UK Bank Chooses Compressed Air Data System from Pnu Power

The Co-operative Banking Group in the United Kingdom is part of The Co-operative Group, the UK's largest consumer co-operative. The bank maintains a data center in Stockport, Manchester. The bank recently decided to ditch its battery powered Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and replace it with a system powered by compressed air.
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Facebook Estimated to Run 180,000 Servers in Data Centers

It's anybody's guess as to how many servers are housed in any large data center, and big names like Amazon and Google never talk about how many are running in their data centers. Facebook is equally tight lipped about this. Server information is privy to only the chosen few and these guys play it real close to their chest.
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Cummins Power Generation Releases Four New Diesel Generator Models

Regulation often drives innovation, and in the world of backup generators it has perhaps been the only driver for innovation over the past 10 years. The majority of improvements in generator design during this period have been driven by the need to comply with evertightening emission regulations. Unlike most other technology found in the data center, such as cooling approaches, power supply technology and power distribution, diesel backup generators have stayed pretty much the same aside from improvements in fuel efficiency and reduced emissions.
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Server Technology Power Distribution Unit Series: Smart PDUs

Server Technology, a provider of quality rackmount power distribution and monitoring solutions that help manage power capacity, reduce downtime and improve energy efficiency, offers a variety of PDU products. Its basic PDUs provide reliable power distribution for all of the devices in the equipment cabinet, from 2kW-6kW per cabinet. Its metered PDUs have local LED input current monitoring and allow network engineers to utilize the PDUs' True RMS Power Monitor to precisely measure the current (in amps) that network devices are drawing on the power circuit.
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GreenStar Network Project Uses Green Energy Resources to Power Network Infrastructure

GEANT is the high bandwidth pan-European research and education backbone that interconnects National Research and Education Networks (NRENs) across Europe and provides worldwide connectivity through links with other regional networks. It has helped create a new network that uses a combination of software, renewable energy resources and the GEANT network infrastructure to help create the GreenStar Network (GSN) project, which uses green energy resources to power network infrastructure.
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Server Technology Power Distribution Unit Series: Metered PDUs

A power distribution unit (PDU) is a form of equipment that is used to manage the allocation and distribution of power to multiple recipients. Rackmount or cabinet PDUs control and distribute power to servers and other equipment in the rack in the data center. Using this type of device helps to ensure that all essential equipment receives a sufficient supply of power even if the main power source is temporarily not available.
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Server Technology's Thoughts on Uptime Institute Data Center Industry Report 2012

The Uptime Institute, a provider of education, publications, consulting, certifications, conferences and seminars, independent research and thought leadership for the enterprise data center industry and professionals, conducted its second annual data center industry survey, collecting data on Digital Infrastructure deployment trends, procurement plans, measurement and standards practices and other topics that impact the mission-critical data center industry. The paper primarily focuses on the 1,100 owners and operators from around the world.
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Sever Technology Power Distribution Unit Series: Basic PDUs

A Power Distribution Unit (PDU) is a multiple outlet power strip designed to deliver conditioned power to mission-critical networking, server or telecom equipment. In a networking environment, devices need to be powered continuously, either from a whole site generator or rack-mounted UPS power source, and since many networking devices in use today are fitted with dual redundant power inputs, the total plug count can approach 80 or more-with many requiring two power sources to further mitigate the risk of power failure. PDUs are commonly built for permanent placement inside rack enclosures and generally functions as the entry point for power into a rack.
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Power Distribution, Inc. Announces New China Office

Power Distribution, Inc. (PDI), a Smiths Interconnect business and provider of mission-critical power distribution equipment for data centers, alternative energy, industrial and commercial power markets, announced that it has expanded power distribution sales force.
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Data Center Surveys: More Detailed and More Often

As data centers continue to evolve, with trends such as virtualization emerging, so does the information on them. Surveys on the data center industry are becoming more detailed and more frequent. A recent Sever Technology blog explores the trend and discusses two recent research surveys by Datacenter Dynamics and the Uptime Institute.
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