Data Center

Administering Data Centers: Servers, Storage, and Voice over IP
$65.00
This book does provide some good hands on information related to Data Center design and implementation along with some interesting description of Terms & Glossary, it's worth having in your bookshelf

Best,
Malahat Qureshi Ph.D.

High-Performance Data Centers
$20.00
This report summarizes the discussions that took place and actions recommended at RMIs Data Center Charrette. It is organized to follow the compounding savings from the native loads back up-stream toward the power source.

Build the Best Data Center Facility for Your Business
$70.00
Although somewhat dated these days, this book and Rob Snevely's Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology (Sun BluePrints, The Official Sun Microsystems Resource Series) are two very good primers on planning modern data centers. What we need now is a good guide to energy efficiency.

Grow a Greener Data Center
$45.00
This book is well structured and contains timely and invaluable information on the issue of greening data centers. Each chapter contains appropriate and ready-to-apply information. For example, the power section covers IT gears impacts, power-GHG emission relationships, renewable energies, PDU/UPS efficiency, generators, lighting, and overhead/underneath access. In addition, the cooling section discusses heat recovery/reuse, economizer, VFD, air/water, CFD, and sealing gaps. I was pleasantly surprised that the IT coverage was not skimpy and that the good discussion of consolidation/virtualization covered all three IT gears, namely, server, storage, and network. Chapter 9 alone is good material for discussing what makes for state-of-the-art IT in a data center.

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