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Data Center Power and Cooling

In today's "always on, always available" world where businesses can't stop and downtime is measured in dollars, American Power Conversion (APC) provides protection against some of the leading causes of downtime, data loss and hardware damage: data center power problems and temperature. As a global leader in network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI) solutions, APC sets the standard in its industry for quality, innovation and support. Its comprehensive solutions, which are designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the manageability, availability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communications and industrial equipment of all sizes.


whitePaper Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms
The physical and power infrastructure of data centers and network rooms is typically oversized by more than 100%. This paper examines avoidable mistakes that are routinely made when installing cooling systems and racks in data centers or network rooms that compromise availability and increase costs.
Download Now		 whitePaper Data Center Projects: Systems Planning
Despite its crucial importance to the success of the project, system planning has historically been considered unstructured and difficult, carried out as art rather than science, with opportunities for missteps, wrong assumptions, and miscommunication that can have serious consequences in later phases of the project.
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whitePaper Determining Total Cost of Ownership for Data Center and Network Room Infrastructure
An improved method for measuring Total Cost of Ownership of data center and network room physical infrastructure and relating these costs to the overall Information Technology infrastructure is described, with examples. The cost drivers of TCO are quantified. The largest cost driver is shown to be unnecessary unabsorbed costs resulting from the oversizing of the infrastructure.
Download Now		 whitePaper Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits
Virtualization is an undisputed lead forward in data center evolution – it saves energy, it increases computing throughput, it frees up floor space, it facilitates load migration and disaster recovery. Less known is the extent to which power and cooling infrastructure is optimized to take advantage of further savings opportunity offered by virtualization.
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whitePaper Creating Order from Chaos in Data Centers and Server Rooms
An IT professional faced with the challenge of managing a chaotic data center now has some available options for solving the problem. Download this white paper to learn what these solutions are and how they can help your company.
Download Now		 whitePaper Deploying High-Density Zones in a Low-Density Data Center
In the past it was a major challenge for IT personnel to successfully deploy a mix of high-density and low-density equipment in the same data center space. Now, this process has been simplified. Download this white paper to learn how.
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whitePaper Making Large UPS Systems More Efficient
This paper discusses the common errors and misunderstandings in evaluating UPS efficiency. UPS efficiency curves are explained, compared, and their cost implications quantified.
Download Now		 whitePaper The Advantages of Row and Rack-Oriented Cooling Architectures for Data Centers
This paper contrasts room, row, and rack architectures and shows why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most next generation data centers.
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