Data center room design and location

MUST READ Data center locations ranked by operating cost ARTICLE - A Princeton, N.J.-based site selection firm recently published a study of 35 top data center locations, ranking the cities by estimated annual operating costs. Learning guide: How to design a server room ARTICLE - Location, location, location. That's one key element to consider when designing a server room. We've broken down this project into eight core elements in a Learning Guide. Time is ripe for data center infrastructure databases ARTICLE - Many data centers track their IT assets in a CMDB, but as they continue to grow, facility items deserve a database of their own. Green data center advice: Is LEED feasible? ARTICLE - Syska Hennessy offers green data center advice and outlines the ramifications of pursuing a LEED data center. Target builds a better data center ARTICLE - Just five years after Target built a new data center, it's building another one to keep up with company growth.

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	HP's POD: The newest containerized data center SearchDataCenter.com | 16 Jul 2008 ARTICLE - HP will soon offer POD, a containerized data center. But unlike Sun's Project Blackbox, Rackable's Ice Cube and other offerings, HP's will support servers from any vendor.

	Data center tour: Equinix shows off its upside down data center SearchDataCenter.com | 30 Jun 2008 ARTICLE - With almost 300,000 square feet in its Chicago-area data center, Equinix has a huge power and cooling infrastructure built to handle its customers' colocation needs.

	IBM to sell building-block, containerized data centers SearchDataCenter.com | 11 Jun 2008 ARTICLE - Now that IBM has a data center in a shipping container -- much like those from Sun and Rackable -- it also offers a building-block data center and a high-density zone service.

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DATA CENTER ROOM DESIGN AND LOCATION EXPERTS
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	Data center cooling optimization in the virtualized-server world 21 Apr 2008 TIP - How many hamburgers can you cook on a blade server? If your servers are literally cooking there are a variety of systems to consider to keep your equipment cool.

	Data center cooling and humidity control: CRAC or AHU? 08 Oct 2007 EXPERT ANSWER - Data center physical environment expert Robert Mcfarlane discusses the best temperature and humidity control choices for a reader's data center.

	Data center facility control systems 10 Sep 2007 TIP - Data centers are mission-critical, but many employ commercial-style control systems. Steve Blaine discusses why they can benefit from industrial PLC/SCADA control systems.

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	ASHRAE data center infrastructure book eases bad vibrations SearchDataCenter.com | 05 Feb 2008 BOOK CHAPTER - ASHRAE's fifth book in its datacom series offers guidelines for easing the effects of shock and vibration on data center physical infrastructure.

	Data Center Library: Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology SearchDataCenter.com | 21 Nov 2006 BOOKS - A review of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology by Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Enterprise Architect Rob Snevely.

	Bob McFarlane: Blogs and more 01 Dec 2005 SPECIAL REPORT - Expert Bob McFarlane recently hosted a blog that tackled the full array of problems that face anyone managing a data center's physical environment. The best of the blog is here.

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WHITE PAPERS

	Transcript: Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs with Data Center Virtualization Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company | 21 Jul 2008 WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes about the virtualization, data center transformation and IT challenges that are driving virtualization and data center transformation.

	Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company | 21 Jul 2008 WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes about the convergence of two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base, and also the four specific drivers that are causing people to think about transforming their data centers.

	Transcript: The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company | 21 Jul 2008 WHITE PAPER - This White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources.

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	Pros and cons of international data center locations 04 Dec 2007 GOOGLE MAP - Google map showing the pros and cons of international data center locations.

	Essential Power System Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers American Power Conversion Corporation | 15 Sep 2003 BEST WEB LINK - This white paper, from APC, presents power system requirements and challenges based on current and past data center designs.

	Requirements for the design of a secure data center SANS Institute | 15 Oct 2002 BEST WEB LINK - This paper outlines a variety of considerations - even ones you might not think of or take seriously - to take into account to design a physically secure data center.

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	Uptime data center tier standards 02 Apr 2008 WORD - The Uptime data center tier standards are a standardized methodology used to determine availability in a facility. The tiered system, developed by the Uptime Institute, offers companies a way to measure return on investment ...

	Modular Datacenter 23 Mar 2008 WORD - Sun Microsystems' Modular Datacenter (known as "Project Blackbox" in the prototype phase) is a mobile and virtualized data center packaged in a standard 20-foot shipping container. The Modular Datacenter (MD) was ...

	water cooling 26 Feb 2005 WORD - In computers, water cooling is a method used to lower the temperatures of computer processors, and sometimes other components such as graphics cards, using water rather than air as the cooling medium. Processor speeds have ...

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	SEE ALSO - Topics Related to Data center room design and location:  Data center fire suppression, Building or renovating a data center, Data center power management, Data center network cabling, Data center cooling, Data center physical security, E-waste and computer recycling