Server Technology’s new white paper 'Top 10 Concerns of Data Center Managers in 2018' is a comprehensive summary of the 10 things that keep the typical DCM up at night and make their jobs harder. But we’re not here to commiserate. We’re here to say this: toughen up and avoid chugging over to mamby-pamby land. After all, it’s those things that put the ‘manage’ in ‘data center manager.’
Read MoreTopics: density, power density
An increasingly common conversation within the data center industry revolves around the need for flexibility balanced against the desire to save money. It’s getting harder to make the case that your enterprise needs more land for capacity expansion. At the same time, 27 percent of data center costs are for power, according to a DCD report in 2014. As you can imagine, the result has been a drive for proportionally higher server and power densities across the globe.
Read MoreTopics: Data Center Density, data center power, power density
Topics: power density, data center consolidation, all-in-1 pdu
Take, for example, this graph, produced way back in 2005 by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
Read MoreTopics: power density, data center power
Topics: power density, data center power density
Up until now, you were able to power your servers and applications using a 30A single phase, 208V power distribution unit (PDU) that contained two 20A circuit breakers. This power cord feeding this PDU contained two power wires and a ground wire. In order to properly distribute 30A of power without overloading any branch, you needed two 20A branches with an equal quantity of outlets per branch.
Topics: power density, PDU, Server Technology, power usage efficiency, 30A, Alternating phase, single phase
