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Power Interoperability: The New Standard for Data Centers

By Voices of the Industry - June 29, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Brian Korn of Advanced Energy, explores the shift from simple servers to achieving interoperability in an open standard power architecture.

Tagged With: Advanced Energy, Data Center Infrastructure, Data Center Power, Servers

Custom Power Distribution Solutions for Challenging Environments

By Kathy Hitchens - October 13, 2021

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A new white paper from Server Technology explores how efficiency and sustainability, and even the integration of renewable energy sources, are changing the way data center operators are thinking about power distribution solutions.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Data Center Design, Data Center Power, Edge Computing, Server Technology Inc.

Next-Gen Power Supply for This-Gen Businesses

By Voices of the Industry - December 4, 2020

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Power use growth has been offset through energy efficiency gained by the dramatic shift of compute workloads from legacy data centers to newer, significantly more efficient, enterprise-class colocation campuses and hyperscale cloud data centers. Ben Garrard, Vice President of Product Management at CoreSite, takes a deep dive into the changing landscape of power supply in today’s data centers. 

Tagged With: CoreSite, Data Center Power, Energy

Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring Key to Power Quality

By Julius Neudorfer - December 3, 2020

A power room inside the QTS Ashburn data center. (Photo: Rich Miller)

It is impossible to discuss monitoring power quality without mentioning Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring (DCIM), as well as power monitoring and management systems. The final entry in a  special report series highlights the importance of data center infrastructure monitoring to ensuring power quality in today’s colocation facilities. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report

Perfecting Power Quality Management in Today’s Data Centers

By Julius Neudorfer - November 25, 2020

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Our special report series continues with a look at different elements of power quality management (PQM) for today’s data centers, including ground leakage currents, energy efficiency, the evolution of UPS systems, PDU transformers and more. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report

Power Quality Monitoring & its Impact on Today’s Data Centers

By Julius Neudorfer - November 20, 2020

Power Quality Monitoring

Recently, just as the cost of other digital devices have come down while becoming more powerful; PQM has also become more sophisticated and intelligent. The result, now PQM is far more cost effective and justifiable, even for smaller data centers. This post continues a new special report series and highlights the ins and outs of power quality management (PQM) for today’s data centers and the influence of power quality on data performance and integrity. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report, Systems Monitoring

Data Center Power Quality is Critical for Successful Facilities

By Julius Neudorfer - November 4, 2020

Data center power quality has implications throughout the mission-critical power chain, and can impact the operation of the IT equipment. In this special report series, Data Center Frontier and Powerside examine the key factors in data center power quality.

Tagged With: Data Center Power, powerside, special report, Systems Monitoring

The Growing Need for Remote Power Control for Colo

By Sarah Rubenoff - October 12, 2020

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“With the shift of enterprise-owned Information and Communications Technology (ICT) equipment into multitenant data center (MTDC)/colocation sites and the anticipated growth of remote/edge sites, basic control of power for remotely located ICT equipment is becoming an important consideration in overall power management strategy. That’s according to a new white paper from CPI.

Tagged With: Chatsworth Products, Data Center Power, remote management

Integral Coupling, the Busway & More Highlighted in New Anord Mardix Report

By Sarah Rubenoff - September 28, 2020

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The busway. From starting within the automotive industry in the 1930’s and now evolving to widespread use in data centers, the technology has made its place. A new report from Anord Mardix focused on busways aims to contextualize that evolution and present a fresh approach for 2020 and further. According to the company, “busway offers a high density, flexible power distribution solution for many applications.”

Tagged With: Anord Mardix, busway, Data Center Power, Rack Power Distribution

Exploring the Potential of 415 VAC Power Distribution in Data Centers to Boost Power Efficiency

By Sarah Rubenoff - August 5, 2020

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High physical density and high power density go “hand in hand” when it comes to the data center. That’s according to a new report from Server Technology that contends to maximize both without having to pay for specialty infrastructure, many data centers have found it attractive to deploy 415V 3-phase AC power to the rack.

Tagged With: Data Center Power, Energy Efficiency, Rack Power Distribution, Server Technology, white paper

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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The Affordable Microgrid: Securing Electric Reliability through Outsourcing

Microgrids, which use controllers to connect multiple power generation and storage sources, can provide electric reliability but they can also be too complex and costly for businesses to tackle on their own. Enchanted Rock explains how the reliability-as-a-service model makes microgrids affordable while providing electric reliability.

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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