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Data Center Design:
Construction,
Container,
Data Center Outages,
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Power and Cooling
Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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Building Cost-Effective Data Centers
Data Center Knowledge (Aug 31 2011) Cloud Computing
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For organizations wrestling with increasing demands for power, greater performance and efficiency and cost savings, building and operating a data center represents a culmination of almost innumerable initiatives. The prevailing IT trends of virtualization, private clouds and increasing storage requirements all represent enormous pressure to do more with less. As a result, the data center has become significantly more than a building that merely houses “expensive computer equipment.”
To keep pace with the business requirements for more power and cooling, enterprises often attempt to take one of three paths:
Retrofitting an existing data center location
Creating new data center space from available room or real estate
Looking for property to build a new data center facility
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