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Data center standards and metrics


Find news and advice surrounding various standards, metrics and benchmarks that apply to your data center and its equipment.
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Making sense of metrics
ARTICLE - Making sense of metrics
Fast Guide: Data center metrics and standards
FAST GUIDE - Implementing standards and metrics can help ensure that a data center is run smoothly.
Server energy efficiency standard finalized
ARTICLE - The EPA and industry leaders finished a server energy efficiency standard that would allow end users to compare energy usage for 1U and 2U rack servers.
SPEC benchmarks: Simplify your server search
TIP - SPEC, a non-profit organization whose goal is computer system standardization, offers tools to help make purchasing IT equipment more palatable.
TIA-942: Cookie cutter or cost cutter?
ARTICLE - The Telecommunications Industry Association recently published a standard that attempts to address almost every design consideration in the data center.

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IT wish list: Better ways to analyze data center environmental metrics
SearchDataCenter.com | 06 Nov 2009
ARTICLE - Data center managers are under pressure to collect data center metrics about the physical environment -- and to do something with them.
Buyout could boost Uptime Institute
SearchDataCenter.com | 23 Oct 2009
ARTICLE - The 451 Group acquisition could reinvigorate the data center consulting think tank.
IT pros weigh Gartner Magic Quadrant lawsuit
SearchDataCenter.com | 21 Oct 2009
ARTICLE - Companies that use Gartner's Magic Quadrant rankings in product evaluations are watching ZL Technologies' vs. Gartner with interest.
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TPC-E: New IT benchmarks for OLTP database servers
11 Feb 2009
TIP - The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has released TPC Benchmark E (TPC-E) for online transaction processing (OLTP) database servers.
Ensuring CICS security with the Web Services Security standard
21 Nov 2008
TIP - You can ensure CICS message security with the Web Services Security (WSS) standard, which provides digital signature, authentication and message handler procedures.
DMTF tries to SMASH systems management costs
12 Aug 2007
TIP - Winston Bumpus, president of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) says point products and a lack of standards are driving up systems management costs.
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Fast Guide: Data center metrics and standards
Editors at SearchDataCenter.com | 02 Aug 2006
FAST GUIDE - Implementing standards and metrics can help ensure that a data center is run smoothly.
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  DEFINITIONS: 1 - 3 of 16
CADE (Corporate Average Data center Efficiency)
13 May 2008
WORD - 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 repot from the Uptime Institute and McKinsey that ...
data center infrastructure efficiency (DCIE)
01 Apr 2008
WORD - 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 ...
EDI
26 Jul 2001
WORD - 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 ...
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