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December 30, 2009
Energy Management in Data Centers: Why metrics are so important
A report released by Aperture Research Institute states "that organizations are unable or unwilling to meet the expectations set by the introduction of green initiatives... One reason is a lack of infrastructure for measuring power consumption. We conclude that data centers lack the tools and processes they need if the organization is to effectively balance its environmental impact and its business priorities." |
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November 18, 2009
The New Data Center is Green and Shrinking
The implementation of the 'green' measures hasn't been satisfying so far. A recent report by the Aperture Research Institute observes that while the adoption and implementation of data center energy efficiency initiatives have achieved high levels of adoption, organizations are overlooking significant opportunities to optimize utilization of data center infrastructure resources and staff. |
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November 12, 2009
Lack of resource management is holding back green data center efforts
Companies who are failing to improve resource management and process efficiency are causing a drag on their green data center initiatives, according to a new report from the Aperture Research Institute. |
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November 11, 2009
Aperture Research Institute Finds Many Efficiency Initiatives Overlooking Opportunities to Reduce Costs
While green initiatives have achieved high levels of adoption in the data center space, organizations are failing to fully optimize data center efficiency, a report of The Aperture Research Institute (ARI) released today at Datacenter Dynamics London concludes. |
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October 12, 2009
Aperture Research Institute Releases Report on Data Centers
As data center costs continue to rise and capacity needs continue to increase, companies are turning toward new computing models, such as virtualization, cloud computing, and software as a service (SaaS), for adding computing capabilities, according to a report from The Aperture Research Institute (ARI). |
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October 6, 2009
Emerson Acquires Avocent in $1.2B Deal
Emerson will acquire infrastructure management specialist Avocent Corporation, highlighting the growing focus on tools to help data center operators track and manage the energy efficiency of their facilities. The deal will continue to enhance Emerson's offerings for tracking and managing data center assets, following on last year's purchase of Aperture, which makes capacity planning software. |
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September 25, 2009
Tracking Green IT
Steve Yellen, Vice President, Marketing and Strategy for Aperture, suggests that measures of how much IT work is completed per watt of electricity consumed may be a better way to determine how well a particular green initiative is working. |
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September 14, 2009
Creating an Energy-Efficient IT Infrastructure
At Technology Senate 2009, Sandeep Nair, president, Emerson Network Power India Pvt. Ltd., recommended implementing a solution such as Aperture VISTA to optimize IT infrastructure. |
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September 6, 2009
Five Ways to Save Real Green in the Data Center
Steve Yellen, Vice President, Marketing and Strategy for Aperture, discusses how optimizing resources, energy and people can not only reduce operating costs, but help data center managers create a robust decision support system to monitor and measure productivity and efficiency. |
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September 1, 2009
Keeping Your Data Center Lean, Mean, and Green
In a recent Aperture Research Institute survey, 80 percent of the polled data center managers were confident that they can create at least 10 percent additional capacity through better management of existing IT assets. By having the proper tools in place, companies can keep their data center lean, mean, and green. |
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August 21, 2009
Power, Cooling and Data Center Design — From Square One
Emerson's new corporate data center in St. Louis will utilize Aperture VISTA to model data center capacity and determine the optimum placement of blades, racks and cabinets. |
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August 18, 2009
Cool from the Ground Up
Bob Miller of Emerson Network Power discusses opportunities to couple Liebert SiteScan infrastructure monitoring with Aperture VISTA to build a comprehensive data center infrastructure resource management system. |
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July 28, 2009
Video: Data Center Capacity Plan
Steve Yellen, vice president of market strategy for Aperture, discusses the impact of the economic slowdown on data center capacity planning at the opening of the Emerson corporate data center in St. Louis. |
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July 20, 2009
Emerson's New State-of-the-Art, Energy-Efficient Data Center
Emerson's new 35,000-square-foot corporate data center located at the company's St. Louis headquarters will use Aperture VISTA to enhance data center visibility and performance. |
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July 22, 2009
Report Provides Insight Into how Global Economic Downturn Affecting Data-Center Management
A recent Aperture Research Institute survey found that data center managers are looking to green initiatives to help manage their operating expenses, with 87 percent of those surveyed having a green initiative in place. Of those indicating they have a green initiative in place, thirty-nine percent of respondents do not expect the economic slowdown to have an impact, while 26 percent expect to intensify efforts to go green. |
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July 21, 2009
Emerson St. Louis Data Center
Emerson's new St. Louis data center opened inn July utilizes Aperture VISTA to for facility operations and future planning. |
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July 2, 2009
Rotary UPS solutions - the ultimate green UPS
A study by the Aperture Research Institute says that if gensets aren't up and powering a facility's cooling system within 60 seconds, servers will crash because of thermal overload. |
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June 29, 2009
Energy Efficiency Remains Priority In Spite of Economic Troubles
The Aperture Research Institute of Emerson Network Power has released the results of a study showing that, despite the global economic downturn, energy-efficiency is still a top-of-mind objective for many data centers. |
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June 27, 2009
Emerson Survey: Data Centers Strive for Energy Efficiency Despite Economy
"With the global economy in a downturn, data center managers are being faced with the combined challenge of rising demand for IT services and tightening budgets. This is forcing them to find new ways of doing more with less," said Steve Yellen, principal of the Aperture Research Institute. |
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June 25, 2009
Emerson Survey Shows Global Economic Downturn Not Slowing Pursuit Of Data Center Energy Efficiency
A survey from the Aperture Research Institute of Emerson Network Power revealed that 87 percent of data center managers have implemented energy efficiency initiatives in their facilities, but only 22 percent believe that the economic downturn will slow the pace of these efforts. |
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June 23, 2009
Emerson Survey Shows Global Economic Downturn Not Slowing Pursuit of Data Center Energy Efficiency
A survey from the Aperture Research Institute shows that, despite the global economic downturn, data center managers are investing in energy-efficiency initiatives to help manage operating expenses and reduce environmental impact. |
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June 23, 2009
Emerson Survey Shows Global Economic Downturn Not Slowing Pursuit of Data Center Energy Efficiency
A survey from the Aperture Research Institute of Emerson Network Power revealed that 87 percent of data center managers have implemented efficiency initiatives in their facilities, but only 22 percent believe that the economic downturn will slow the pace of these efforts. |
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June 23, 2009
Energy Efficiency on the top of list of Data Center Ops
A survey conducted by the Aperture Research Institute found that even though IT spending has been cut as a result of the economic downturn, energy efficiency initiatives are still being implemented. According to the survey, 87 percent of data center managers have implemented such efficiency initiatives in their facilities, but only 22 percent believe that the economic downturn will slow the pace of these efforts.
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June 6, 2009
Steve Yellen on Data Center Challenges
In this video, Steve Yellen, the vice president of market strategy at Aperture, talks about Aperture as well as some of the challenges he sees in his discussions with data center managers. |
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June 5
A Look At The Market For Environmental Monitoring Equipment
Aperture VISTA is ideally suited for data centers with a need for holistic central management, planning, and automation from a single suite of software. |
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May 2009
Top 5 Monitoring Strategies
Steve Yellen, Vice President, Marketing and Strategy for Aperture, offers five tips for selecting an infrastructure monitoring system. |
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March/April 2009
Chop Data Center Power Bills
Data centers are becoming more power hungry, and energy prices are high. It is a combination that threatens to see power bills spiral out of control. Managers are being tasked to cut energy consumption in the data center, but how?
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March 31, 2009
Data Center Energy Beast: Tamers Needed
With energy austerity becoming the way of the future, IT groups will need energy management systems and features like never before. Will more energy control help your IT group reshape itself to sell processing and storage as a service to the business?
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March 27, 2009
The Rise & Fall Of Raised Flooring
Today, many data centers use raised floors to carry cables, electrical wiring and cooling equipment. However, more data centers are being built without them. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of using raised floors in the data center and why some data centers are seeking other design concepts.
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March 15, 2009
Overlooked Data Center Efficiency Opportunities
In the February issue of Today's Facility Manager, Steve Yellen writes that every watt saved at the computing device level results in a cumulative savings of 2.84 watts at the facility level. His article does a good job explaining how this savings is accumulated and what actions are needed to capture the savings. |
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March 16, 2009
10 Stats that Sum Up the Current State of Corporate IT
Robin Bloor explores 10 statistics from Gartner, Forrester, IBM, the Aperture Research Institute and other industry leaders that best illustrate the state of the data center today.
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February 2009
Services & Maintenance: Data Center Energy Efficiency
Contributor Steve Yellen writes about how the interconnection of facility and technology concerns in this space require a comprehensive approach.
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February 2009
Data centre strategies for telcos: how to capitalise on the opportunity
The demand for data centre services is expected to remain strong, driven by the ever-increasing amount of digital data, and the need for facilities in which to store it, together with many businesses' reluctance to make the large investments required to build and operate these facilities. As abundant network connectivity is obligatory for data centres, this industry offers telecoms operators great opportunities.
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January 2009
Taking a holistic approach to data centre management
Many data centres continue to utilise various ad hoc systems to document and communicate changes within the data centre. Steve Yellen, Aperture Technologies, explains why this is a bad idea and why data centre service management (DCSM) is the way forward.
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