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How Power and Cooling Is Key to Business Operations

Maintaining and monitoring the power and cooling systems behind your mission critical IT systems need to be priority support actions.

By John Parola
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January 7, 2021
Data Center, Networking

Power and cooling systems for IT equipment are often an afterthought when it comes to day-to-day business operations. Yet they support the backbone of your entire organization, as most everything is connected to IT these days. Departments such as e-commerce, payroll, human resources and communications (think employees’ email or VoIP phones) rely on your servers to be up and running, and your networking equipment to keep everyone connected. A good way of thinking about power and cooling is to think of it the same way you think of your car.

Let’s say you want to take a trip and you forget to check the tire pressure before departing, or you haven’t replaced your tires in a long time and they are heavily worn. Something as small as a nail or a bump in the road can cause your tire to blow out, and now you are stuck changing a tire. The tires, the engine, the brakes, these are all important components of your vehicle, and if you don’t maintain them properly you may end up in some sort of unpleasant event, preventing you from completing your journey. This is similar to how you should be thinking about your power and cooling equipment.

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Maintaining Power During Storm Season

Surge protectors, UPS devices, generators and a power assessment are key to staying up and running.

By Luis Davila
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June 25, 2020
Services, Data Center

North American weather is impacted by what is known as “storm season.” This aligns with hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov. 30. These weather patterns can affect the entire country and they touch our commercial customers in many ways. Power can be disrupted by sudden severe weather conditions that can affect the power grid and produce downtime for your organization.

How can organizations prepare for storm season? Data centers and edge networks need enough capacity and secure endpoints for workers to access their files and applications from anywhere. Employees need access to cloud applications to take full advantage of collaboration tools available to them, and organizations need to protect their power. What follows are some key areas to focus on with storm season preparedness (and a solid work from home strategy), so your users will be able to stay productive and your organization stays functional.

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Eaton IPM: Power Management for Data Center Environments

The Integrated Power Management solution offers great features and plays well with many data center stalwarts.

By Brandon Jackson
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April 19, 2017
Data Center

Today’s post covers Eaton’s Integrated Power Management (IPM) software and how it can benefit data center administrators with managing power across a heterogeneous environment. IPM is a software solution from Eaton that provides a set of tools to monitor and manage power devices in both physical and virtual infrastructures. IPM helps ensure data integrity and…

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IT and the 21st Century Police Motorcycle

How officers leverage IT and mobile data in the field.

By Matthew Parnofiello
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May 1, 2015
Digital Workspace

For over a century, motorcycles have offered law enforcement agencies many tactical advantages over their four-wheeled counterparts. Motor units enjoy greater maneuverability allowing them to zip through congested traffic and crowds. Their smaller size police motorcycle allows officers to patrol where traditional police cruisers cannot. Their acceleration and top speeds put first responder’s on scene…

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Data Center UPS: Current Trends

By Brandon Zimmerman
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December 18, 2013
Data Center

The changes today in the data center with virtualization, blade chassis and storage devices brings changes in how we provide an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) to them. The typical legacy data center was filled with underutilized 2U – 5U servers and networking gear. With Virtualization we have taken what used to be 2-3 racks and…

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HP Moonshot Promises Something Big

By CDW Expert
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October 1, 2013
Data Center

89%, 80%, 77% and 97% are some really exciting numbers that HP wants you to know about. What do they correspond to? 89% less energy, 80% less space, 77% less cost and 97% less complex.

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