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  • Best practices for server benchmark testing

    Following the scientific method when benchmark testing a server will help reduce variables and produce accurate performance results.

  • What to look for when conducting benchmark tests

    Microsoft's PerfMon benchmark tests measure a wide range of processes and server aspects, but it can be difficult for IT professionals to understand the numbers and interpret the results.

  • Server benchmarking tools and stress testing

    Admins should turn to several tools to perform benchmark testing and compare results to verify accuracy. This tip outlines the role of stress testing and lists several tools available to engineers.

  • A server refresh guide

    When it’s time for a server refresh in your data center, our guide will give you everything you need to know – from selecting the right hardware to capacity planning advice.

Data center standards and metrics

  • A server refresh guide

    When it’s time for a server refresh in your data center, our guide will give you everything you need to know – from selecting the right hardware to capacity planning advice. 

  • Gartner Data Center Conference 2010 coverage

    Check out our coverage of Gartner's 2010 Data Center Conference, including the latest on data center infrastructure and cloud computing, unified computing, and IBM's zBX. 

  • Book Excerpt: 'IT Systems Management' notes best IT infrastructure practices

    Featured here with a chapter excerpt, Rich Schiesser's 'IT Systems Management' is a useful guide for for IT leaders in implementing best IT infrastructure management practices. 

  • SearchDataCenterTV

    SearchDataCenterTV is a new video segment that will air twice a month on SearchDataCenter.com. Hosted by Matt Stansberry and Mark Fontecchio, the show features data center strategy experts discussing best practices, industry trends and new technologi... 

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  • Fast Guide: Data center metrics and standards

    Implementing standards and metrics can help ensure that a data center is run smoothly. By clearly defining metrics a business can increase its productivity; however, if metrics are unorganized or poorly defined a company can begin to slide down the s... 

  • Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulation (WEEE)

    Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulation (WEEE) is a directive in the European Union that designates safe and responsible collection, recycling and recovery procedures for all types of electronic waste.  

  • CADE (Corporate Average Data center Efficiency)

    CADE (Corporate Average Data center Efficiency) is a metric used to rate the overall energy efficiency of an organization's data centers. CADE was introduced in a joint Uptime Institute and McKinsey report that proposed the metric as a single key per... 

  • data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE)

    Data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE) is a metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center. The metric, which is expressed as a percentage, is calculated by dividing IT equipment power by total facility power. (Continued...) 

  • EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)

    EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) is a standard format for exchanging business data. The standard is ANSI X12 and it was developed by the Data Interchange Standards Association. ANSI X12 is either closely coordinated with or is being merged with an i... 

  • ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)

    The ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) is a globally recognized collection of best practices for information technology (IT) service management. The United Kingdom's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency (CCTA) created the ... 

  • Energy Star

    Energy Star is a government-backed labeling program that helps people and organizations save money and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by identifying factories, office equipment, home appliances and electronics that have superior energy efficiency. (... 

  • data center services

    Data center services is a collective term for the supporting components necessary for the proper operation of a repository for storage, management and dissemination of data organized around a body of knowledge or pertaining to an enterprise... (Conti... 

  • sensor network

    A sensor network is a group of specialized transducers with a communications infrastructure intended to monitor and record conditions at diverse locations... (Continued) 

  • TIA-942

    TIA-942 is a standard developed by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) to define guidelines for planning and building data centers, particularly with regard to cabling systems and network design...(Continued) 

  • Linpack benchmark

    The Linpack benchmark is a method of measuring the floating point rate of execution of a computer by running a program that solves a system of linear equations. 

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