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Reduce Cycle Time in Gas Assist Injection Molding by 20-50% with a New CO2 Process
From: Linde North America Inc.Description: Abstract Linde has found that manufacturers can greatly reduce the cycle times in Gas Assist Injection Molding (GAIM) by replacing nitrogen with Carbon Dioxide (CO2 ). With the proper pressure ...
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Ekornes chooses induction brazing equipment
From: EFD Induction a.s.Description: Scandinavia, has selected an EFD Induction mobile 'Minac' heating system to braze steel support bars used in sofas. ...
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Does a larger fluid reservoir give me more cooling capacity and improved temperature stability?
Description: Size does not matter. If an application requires 3 gallons per minute delivered at 20°C, there is no difference in stability whether the source of the water holds 3 gallons or 300 gallons. ...
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I want to use a bath circulator to immerse my vessels. How do I select the right size bath for my application?
Description: Size does matter when choosing a bath circulator for your vessels. Be sure to size the bath based on the size of the vessel and the space needed for circulation. Utilizing the available accessories ...
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Should I get a large reservoir that can absorbShould I get a large reservoir?
Description: Bigger is not better. Good control of the heating and cooling is what makes the temperature of the outgoing fluid stable - not the extra volume of fluid that in bath reservoir. ...
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Understanding a Fog Testing System
Description: Fog testing is a method to recreate automotive interior out-gassing in a timely, measurable and repeatable way, utilizing various standards including DIN, ISO and SAE. ...
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Air Conditioning: How It Works - Glossary
Description: Compressor: A refrigeration or air-conditioning system pump that circulates refrigerant through pipes between an outdoor and indoor unit using pressure. External Static Pressure (ESP): The measure of ...
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Project Report: Ice is the Answer for Interpolymer Corporation
Description: The system makes ice between 9:00 PM and 8:00 AM. During the day, cold water from the (2) TSU-940D Thermal Storage Units is distributed through two heat exchangers to supply low-temperature water for ...
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Get into the "Zone" for Home Heating
Description: Instant where you want it... When you want it. Save energy by heating only the areas you occupy. ...
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Advanced Reactor System for the Fine Control of Properties of Molybdenum Powder
Description: Extensive investigation in the two-stage hydrogen reduction process for fine molybdenum powder synthesis has been con-ducted. Reaction thermodynamic, kinetics, grain morphology transformation ...
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CBEX Elite Boiler Helps Dole Meet Regulatory Requirements
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Dole Packaged Foods, LLC, operates a 700,000-square-foot fruit processing facility in Atwater, Calif., where emissions standards are among the most stringent in the country. The San Joaquin Valley Air ...
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Cleaver-Brooks Develops Plan with Expected savings of $135 million for Wayne State University
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: The Wayne State University campus consists of 13 million square feet of buildings and facilites supported by a local district supplier. Consequently, the university was faced with rising steam costs ...
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Cleaver-Brooks Reduces Fuel Costs Significantly for Borden Chemical
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: This client requested a packaged boiler / burner system that was able to burn a process byproduct (tail gas) with a relatively low heating value (85 BTU/cu.ft.). Compounding the challenges of burning ...
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First Certified Green Building in Massachusetts
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Today, buildings are the number one contributor of carbon dioxide emissions in the United States. Integrating high-efficiency boilers into your heating system is an essential element in reducing ...
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Food Manufacturer Readily Meets California's Strict NOx Requirement
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Emission requirements in certain air districts in California have become more stringent over the past decade. In 2005, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (APCD) mandated the NOx ...
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Largest Shop-Assembled, Ultra Low-NOx Boilers Meet University of Wisconsin-Madison's Steam Needs
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: For many years, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) operated a coal-fired, steam boiler plant at its on-campus powerhouse. Facing stricter emissions regulations, UW-Madison began to ...
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St. Mary's Janesville Hospital Benefits from Hybrid Boiler System Controlled by Cleaver-Brooks HSC
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: In 2011, SSM Health Care of Wisconsin built St. Mary's Janesville Hospital in Janesville, Wis., a 50-bed community hospital that spans 175,000 sq. ft. The design of this state-of-the-art facility, ...
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Uncovering the Myth of the Industry-Standard Boiler Efficiency Measurement
From: Cleaver-BrooksDescription: Today's published boiler efficiency ratings are calculated by manufacturers using a 15% excess air level, regardless of a burner's actual ability to operate at that condition throughout the firing ...
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CASE STUDY: Cooling Electrical Systems in Steel Plants
From: ITW Air ManagementDescription: Steel plants require high levels of heat to shape their product. However, excess heat can fry electrical systems and cause plant shutdowns. ...
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Soldering a copper tube to a brass flow valve [IH]
From: AmbrellDescription: To heat 1 3/4", 3" and 6" diameter brass slip rings and a sheathed copper wire assembly to 3600 F for soldering within three (3) to six (6) seconds. Currently production is accomplished by using a ...
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Booklet available: Temperature Control By Means of Fluid Media
From: Regloplas Corp.Description: Content of this booklet: Theory: Temperature control units; Cooling systems for the plastics industry; Control engineering; Data interfaces; Temperature measurement in the plastics industry; Pumps; ...
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Developing Thermal Processes with Energy Efficiency in Mind
Description: Thermal processing is typically the most energy intensive portion of a materials manufacturing process. Opportunities to conserve energy not only reduce ecological impact, but can result in ...
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High Temperature Powder Processing: Advancements in Rotary Furnace Designs
Description: Rotary furnaces are the go-to technology for high temperature processing of powdered materials. They inherently offer significant advantages of throughput and energy efficiency over other forms of ...
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Importance of Anneal for Plating of Solar Cells
From: Despatch IndustriesDescription: One method to achieve low-cost, high effi ciency cells is to replace screen printing with plating. Plating promises to replace high cost silver with that of a lower cost metal, such as copper or ...
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Maintenance-Free Dryer for Solar Cell Metallization Lines
From: Despatch IndustriesDescription: A state of the art metallization dryer should be capable of completely drying cells without contamination of cells, the dryer or the environment. This poster illustrates how the Dritech dryer, through ...
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Megadata
Description: Megadata of Bohemia, New York, is building a worldwide flight data network (the PASSUR network) with an accompanying suite of software to provide airlines and airports with independent, reliable, and ...
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Pasco County
Description: Its redundant rack power configuration with dual UPS systems and PDUs, coupled with temperature sensors to regulate cooling, made the SmartRow approach nearly maintenance-free. This enabled Pasco ...
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Sarasota County - Case Study
Description: Sarasota County IT professionals realized they could cut costs and trim the operating budget by consolidating existing data center spaces into a new facility and shrinking the footprint. The new ...
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White Paper: Comparing Transformer-free to Transformer-based UPS Designs
Description: There is growing interest in utilizing transformerfree UPS modules in high power, three-phase critical power backup applications. This prompts a debate over which architecture-transformer-based or ...
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White Paper: Data Center Users' Group Special Report Energy efficiency and capacity concerns increase
Description: The overarching message that can be derived from the results of the spring 2010 Data Center Users' Group (DCUG) member survey is that data center managers are increasingly concerned with ...
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BayCare Health System - Case Study
Description: BayCare's new data center went live at the end of July 2007-on time and on budget-and the last equipment move happened in early October. The new data center meets each of Lauterbach's objectives and ...
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Bethpage School District - Case Study
Description: With telecommunications costs devouring an increasing chunk of the district's operating budget, the director of technology for the Bethpage School District took advantage of a network rewiring project ...
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Case Study: A Leading Communications Company
Description: The research and development department at a leading communications and media company in the Northeast had outgrown its current building-including its Internet and data capabilities. The lack of space ...
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Case Study: Bay Area Internet Solutions
Description: By 2005, Bay Area Internet Solutions (BAIS) had become an established player in Silicon Valley's competitive co-location industry. Supported by a single, 24,000-square-foot internet data center (IDC), ...
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Cobb Country School District - Case Study
Description: While the Cobb County schools were air conditioned, their HVAC systems were designed for intermittent occupancy, not 24/7 WAN electronics. In the newer buildings, the heating/ cooling units served ...
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Coleman Technologies - Case Study
Description: Reliable, mission-critical power protection is essential to the success of Coleman Technologies Inc. (CTI). According to Kirk Sawyer, CTI chief financial officer, the company relies heavily on its IP ...
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Copeland Corporation - Case Study
Description: Growing global demand has driven Sidney, Ohio-based Copeland Corporation to continue to boost production and efficiency throughout its organization. Manufacturing automation is one way the company ...
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Crawford County Information Technology Services - Case Study
Description: The back-up system, which includes two servers, a switch and a UPS housed in the Liebert XDF cabinet, has performed as projected, providing the system continuity needed for Crawford County's critical ...
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Cyber Development Group International - Case Study
Description: When Cyber Development Group International (CDGI) began to exhaust the physical footprint of its initial Mount Prospect, Illinois data center facility (building 1 in a 5 building campus) in 2010, the ...
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DataCenter.BZ - Case Study
Description: Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, DataCenter.BZ provides enterprisegrade data center and telecom solutions-including high-density co-location, cloud computing, metro-area dark fiber, managed hosting, ...
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General Monitoring Systems - Case Study
Description: The Liebert UPStation GXT systems synchronize with the frequencies of the emergency generators during the weekly tests required for UL Listing as a protective signaling central services station. And ...
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Grand Rapids School District - Case Study
Description: "By dispersing the hardware, we minimized the chance of a single incident taking down the entire network across the whole city," said Ghareeb. The network for the Grand Rapids School District ...
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Greater Harris County 9-1-1 / Case Study
Description: There is no margin of error in 9-1-1 communications. That's why the Greater Harris County 9-1-1 Emergency Network (GHC 9-1-1), selected a dual- redundant power system for the new Houston Emergency ...
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GridWay Computing Corporation - Case Study
Description: To better serve its wide variety of clientele, GridWay, an Ottawa, Ontario-based IT and data center services provider, decided it was time to expand its data center capacity and operations. The ...
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Hartford Hospital - Case Study
Description: With 140 community medical centers at remote locations and a robust and expanding electronic medical records program, Hartford Hospital relies heavily on reliable IT and VoIP systems to help deliver ...
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HESS Corporation - Case Study
Description: HESS increasingly depends on technology to support oil exploration and production. When the company first transitioned from mainframe to blade server technology for its most intense processing tasks, ...
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Hovnanian Enterprises - Case Study
Description: The solution was to temporarily use a Liebert Nfinity UPS, a single-phase redundant unit scalable to 20 kVA in increments of 4 kVA, to support the additional load until a new Liebert 75 kVA Npower UPS ...
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Infinity Insurance Company - Case Study
Description: In the midst of rapid growth for the company, the Infinity Insurance Company data center was at capacity. The company needed to replace its 20-year-old uninterruptible power supply (UPS) unit, set a ...
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International Airport - Case Study
Description: To meet the growing demands of the increasing number of travelers, this international airport embarked on a significant development program to modernize and expand its current facilities and support ...
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International Banking and Financial Services Organization - Case Study
Description: Operations never cease for this global financial services giant. With offices in every time zone, the bank demands true 24x7x365 availability of its information technology resources. A highly flexible ...
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ISC Corp
Description: Founded in 1998, ISC provides basic and advanced technology solutions to organizations primarily in the greater Rocky Mountain area. ISC has offices in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah and supports ...
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Langan Engineering and Environmental Services - Case Study
Description: In the midst of rapid growth and a corporate initiative to become more environmentally responsible from an IT perspective, Langan needed to upgrade its data center. A key part of this effort was ...
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Microsoft Technology Center: Philadelphia - Case Study
Description: Microsoft® Technology Centers are collaborative, state-of-the-art facilities designed to connect customers with innovative technologies and world-class expertise. Collectively, the Technology ...
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NetAlliant Technologies - Case Study
Description: NetAlliant must have peace of mind that its customers' servers will be fully protected against any power loss or damage. Unfortunately, the local utility in its hometown of Chattanooga, Tenn., has not ...
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NetSource One - Case Study
Description: Local Liebert Rep Computer Support Technology, Inc., Troy MI, met with Skrzypczak that same week. They analyzed the needs of NetSource One and inventoried the existing and planned critical load. ...
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Network Solutions - Case Study
Description: Based on its experience, the law firm has initiated further disaster planning for offices in other cities, including standardization on Liebert Foundation™ enclosures, as well as the purchase of ...
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Norton Healthcare - Case Study
Description: In the 1980s, Norton Healthcare inherited a basement data center to support mainframe computer systems. By 2006, the 35-year-old data center, which supported the organization's 13,000 users and 400 ...
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Oklahoma City School District - Case Study
Description: In 1999, the Oklahoma City School District faced harsh realities about its computing infrastructure. After deciding to establish a Local Area Network (LAN) between schools to bring Internet access ...
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Pace University - Case Study
Description: Pace University is one of the largest universities in New York state, and its data center houses mission-critical servers, mainframe computing capabilities and networking and telephone applications. ...
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Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center - Case Study
Description: A four-year project to implement an integrated workflow management platform introduced new technology into the data center that increased heat loads, but also threatened current operations and future ...
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Qoncert - Case Study
Description: In November 2010, Qoncert was primed to take the next step forward. Staff size and space needs had exceeded its current building capacity and the lease was about to expire. Officials at Qoncert ...
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Raging Wire - Case Study
Description: RagingWire Enterprise Solutions was founded in May 2000 to be an enterprise-class Managed Services Provider (eMSP) that could provide and support colocated data center services for Fortune 1000 ...
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Research Institute - Case Study
Description: Space constraints in an existing data center were challenging this research institute to meet requests for deployment of new technologies and increased performance reliability. When a new construction ...
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Safelite Auto Glass - Case Study
Description: Safelite Glass planned a dual expansion at its headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, including relocating one of two national customer contact centers and expanding the data center by 60 percent. Both the ...
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San Diego Supercomputer Center - Case Study
Description: Within this facility, SDSC maintains two data centers totaling approximately 19,000 square feet. The larger of the two data centers, at approximately 14,500 square feet, is also the older of the two. ...
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Sandia National Laboratories - Case Study
Description: Sandia National Laboratories supports United States national security by providing science-based solutions to address threats from terrorism, cyber attacks, uncertainties over energy security and ...
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Sequent - Case Study
Description: An increase in the demand for outsourced human resources support placed Sequent at the doorstep of opportunity for achieving significant business growth. An increase in the use of information ...
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SkyPort International - Case Study
Description: SkyPort's goal was to "raise the bar" in terms of efficiency, reliability, redundancy and customer service in the traditional satellite industry. Accomplishing that required developing a world-class ...
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Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company - Case Study
Description: SFBCIC provides property and casualty insurance across seven states that historically have been vulnerable to severe weather. These conditions make continuous operation of mission-critical technology ...
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Spring Arbor University - Case Study
Description: New technology has allowed many organizations to save money and provide a more efficient communications system by implementing IP Telephony systems. Combining both telephone and data communications ...
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Terminix - Case Study
Description: Streamline a data center facility from four racks to two while implementing a more consolidated, flexible power solution and a more efficient cooling solution within the racks. ...
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Time Warner - Case Study
Description: The major electrical outage that occurred in the United States in August 2003 represented a major test of business continuity plans and UPS performance. The combination of huge fluctuations in power ...
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Tuscany Casino - Case Study
Description: Prior to opening Tuscany Casino, the resort's management decided to implement an all-digital surveillance system that would eliminate tedious processes, such as tape swapping every eight hours and a ...
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U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - Case Study
Description: After just a half-year in operation, the Challenger gained the complete trust of the Museum staff. "We monitored the temperature and humidity for six months. It was straight in line, so we don't even ...
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University of Illinois - Case Study
Description: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducts highly technical research requiring massive computing performance to support fields ranging from molecular biology to electromagnetic theory. ...
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University of Maryland, Clark School of Engineering - Case Study
Description: The Clark School of Engineering, situated on the rolling, 1,500-acre University of Maryland campus in College Park, Md., is one of the premier engineering schools in the U.S., with graduate and ...
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University of Phoenix - Case Study
Description: Enrollment at University of Phoenix and other Apollo Group subsidiaries more than doubled between 2001 and 2005, driving the need for a new data center. Because the organization's educational model ...
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University of Wyoming - Case Study
Description: Unreliable utility power is a fact of life at the University of Wyoming. But it can't be allowed to affect IT systems, especially when those systems are supporting IP telephony. The university's IT ...
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US Internet - Case Study
Description: In the highly competitive colocation business, maintaining continual operation of critical systems is not only important to the business, it is the business. Customers expect 24/7/365 availability of ...
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Victoria Theatre Association - Case Study
Description: The Victoria Theatre Association needed improved power protection for the critical switches and telecom equipment that serve the theatre and an adjoining performing arts complex. The main server room ...
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Virginia Tech - Case Study
Description: When Virginia Tech initiated plans to build a supercomputer by clustering hundreds of desktop computers, it had ambitious goals for the performance of the new system and a very aggressive schedule. ...
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White Paper: Achieving Energy-Efficient Data Center Cooling - Does Reducing Fan Speed Always Result in Energy Savings
Description: Energy efficiency is a top criterion when selecting a data center precision cooling system, but determining the actual energy efficiency of cooling units is not a simple matter. On the surface, it may ...
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White Paper: Are Your UPS System Batteries Really Ready to Load Test
Description: In a critical power application, stationary batteries should be properly installed, inspected, commissioned and tested before being placed into full service. Unfortunately, some installers hurry ...
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White Paper: Avoiding Trap Doors
Description: Addressing each of these issues with your solutions provider can help ensure the UP'S system delivers the expected uptime. but also meets organizational requirements for manageability, serviceability ...
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White Paper: Better Network Management Through SNMP
Description: As we move past the middle of the decade, the trend continues away from host-based to clientserver systems. It's no secret this operational migration has caused as many new network management problems ...
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White Paper: Calculating Data Center Costs Related to Downtime
Description: Ponemon Institute and Emerson Network Power are pleased to present the results of the Cost of Data Center Outages. The purpose of this benchmark study is to determine the full economic cost of ...
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White Paper: Capacitors Age and Capacitors Have an End of Life
Description: High quality capacitor manufacturers all around the world provide a capacitor service life rating. The service life rating is, at best, a guideline. The number lacks sufficient accuracy to be used as ...
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White Paper: Cloud Computing for the Scalable Data Center
Description: The ability to dynamically scale enterprise compute workloads while running a "right-sized" private infrastructure has long been a priority of CIOs. Therefore, it is hardly a surprise that few trends ...
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White Paper: Computer Cooling Using Economizers and Free Cooling
Description: The strategic business importance of today's data center requires a more complex and thoughtful approach to environmental control planning than ever before. Intelligent control to maintain the data ...
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White Paper: Conducting an Accurate Utility Cost Analysis Based on UPS Efficiency
Description: Efficiency ratings of Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) play an increasingly central role in the decisions of data center managers looking to cut energy costs. However, while these ratings remain ...
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White Paper: Cooling Cost-Saving Strategies
Description: Computer systems are critically sensitive to extreme variations in temperature and humidity. High heat or humidity can cause failure. degrade performance and shorten equipment life. Important ...
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White Paper: Data Center Cooling Assessments - What They Can Do for You
Description: Managing data centers and IT facilities is becoming increasingly complicated as the push to "Go Green" is being felt worldwide. IT managers are faced with the challenge of consolidating power through ...
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White Paper: Data Center Cooling Using Cold Aisle Containment
Description: Energy efficiency is a top and growing concern for data center professionals today. Emerson Network Power's Data Center Users' Group survey respondents ranked energy efficiency their second highest ...
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White Paper: Data Center Precision Cooling - The Need For A Higher Level Of Service Expertise
Description: Today's data centers are changing rapidly, and it is more important than ever to ensure that each component of the support infrastructure is operating at maximum efficiency and reliability. The ...
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White Paper: Data Center Solutions to Maximize Efficiency, Capacity and Availability
Description: As the business needs and drivers of today's enterprise companies continue to evolve, so too do the demands and challenges placed on their IT infrastructures. Today's data center manager is challenged ...
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White Paper: Directed Circuits Meet Today's Security Challenges in Enterprise Remote Monitoring
Description: With continued efforts to reduce overhead, more companies are looking to outsource the monitoring of critical data center infrastructures as a way to cut costs and gain the expertise of service ...
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White Paper: Evaluating the Opportunity for DC Power in the Data Center
Description: With data center managers struggling to increase efficiency while maintaining or improving availability, every system ¡n the data center ¡s being evaluated ¡n terms of its impact on these two critical ...
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White Paper: Five Questions to Ask Before Selecting Power Protection for Critical Systems - A Guide for IT and Data Center Managers
Description: In an ideal world, electrical utilities would deliver clean, reliable power to business critical systems. Unfortunately, this is not the reality. Appropriate systems are required to ensure necessary ...
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White Paper: Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency
Description: getting increased scrutiny. Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT ...
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White Paper: Focused Cooling Using Cold Aisle Containment
Description: A number of options are available to facilities professionals looking to improve cooling efficiency and reduce resources consumed by their data centers. Beyond implementing basic measures such as ...
