Top Ten things Every Data Center Manager Should Know About Power

The Data Center industry has been a primary focus of energy consumption for many years due to increasing power demands and the need to continuously provision for more power.

Today’s data center has evolved into a complicated mix of servers, storage, networking, load balancers, and other hard ware, all running multiple layers of software.

This paper will identify some key considerations for the data center planner and operator, regarding how to simply and reliably power all the IT hardware in the modern data center.