Data Center Data center design and infrastructure guide:
Data center design and infrastructure guide
This All-In-One Guide on data center design and infrastructure offers information for managing data center facilities. If you're looking to build a new data center, check out our tips on data center room design, power and cooling infrastructure and energy efficiency.
New in this guide
- Data center power and cooling revamp success story at CRIS (Data center power consumption)
- DOE's new data center energy-efficiency tool on cusp of release (Data center power consumption)
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Chapter 1: Data center site selection and design
Chapter 1 focuses on site selection and data center design elements. Where should you locate your data center facility and what kind of design strategy should you employ?
Learn more: Chapter 1: Data center site selection and design
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Chapter 2: Data center power management
Data center power management: This chapter on power management explores the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable, and yet less expensive ways to power IT infrastructure.
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Chapter 3: Data center cooling
This guide offers the latest advice from data center cooling experts. Stop wasting your data center cooling capacity; learn about high density cooling technologies in this guide.
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Final exam
Take our final exam and see how well you really know data center facilities.
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