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Intelligent Controls: a Simple Way to Optimize Your Data Center Thermal Management System
Management
Intelligent Controls: a Simple Way to Optimize Your Data Center Thermal Management SystemIntelligent Controls: a Simple Way to Optimize Your Data Center Thermal Management System

Combining intelligent controls with data center thermal management systems can yield up to 50 percent higher cooling energy savings and achieve annual mechanical PUEs under 1.2.

byIndustry Perspectives
Aug 19, 2015
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Why IT Automation Matters Today
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Flash Boys, the Capital Markets…and Solving Enterprise Application Performance in the Cloud
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byIndustry Perspectives
Aug 17, 2015
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Prepping Your Data Center for the Internet of Things
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byIndustry Perspectives
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Four Questions to Ask Prospective Storage Vendors
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byIndustry Perspectives
Aug 12, 2015
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Take Control of Hadoop with a Data-Centric Approach to Security
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Aug 6, 2015
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Optimized Flash Storage Platforms: Disrupting the Economics of the Data Center
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Enterprise Storage: How to Manage the Inevitable
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Best Practices for Designing Your Physical Security Infrastructure System
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