Data Center: Data Center News and Management Resources: Cabling Installation and Maintenance

Data center management is a multi-dimensional, ongoing challenge as managers must keep data traffic and airflow moving in the right direction. Here you will find information on high-speed cabling systems as well as news and information on data center power and cooling techniques and technologies.

Data center curtains reduce energy use for healthcare provider (Aug 31, 2010)

Separating hot air from cold, plus humidity-level adjustments, reduced energy use by 14%.

Dell'Oro expands 10G Ethernet switch reporting (Aug 30, 2010)

According to the report, less than half of current Ethernet Switch vendors offer purpose built 10GE top-of-rack solutions.

CapGemini breaks seal on 'World's Greenest' data center (Aug 24, 2010)

Capgemini will next month be opening what it calls the "world's greenest" data center in Swindon, UK.

Emerson launches Liebert GXT3 on-line UPS 5-10kVA models (Aug 24, 2010)

The latest Liebert UPS models are available now in North America.

California seeks data center cabling installation bids (Aug 23, 2010)

Department of Mental Health soliciting fiber-optic and telephone cabling installation services.

Data center efficiency explained in Anixter paper (Aug 19, 2010)

The paper's best-practice recommendations cover cooling systems, pathways, UPS and PDU devices as well as system right-sizing.

Rittal rack systems enable energy efficient architecture for Brocade's San Jose data center (Aug 19, 2010)

The Brocade data center was designed from the ground up to incorporate Rittal rack systems for providing key elements of flexibility and energy efficiency.

Rittal rack systems enable energy efficient architecture for Brocade's San Jose data center (Aug 19, 2010)

The Brocade data center was designed from the ground up to incorporate Rittal rack systems for providing key elements of flexibility and energy efficiency.

Energy Summit focuses on data center power efficiency (Aug 18, 2010)

Featuring IT Power Experts From Federspiel Controls, Power Assure, Raritan and Teladata

Panduit providing data center infrastructure for IBM enterprise modular platform (Aug 18, 2010)

Panduit is provding IBM with data center infrastructure for its enterprise modular data center (EMDC) platform.

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by Patrick McLaughlin & Matt Vincent

Another materials supplier raises prices for cable manufacturers

Today Dow Wire and Cable announced price increases on several cable-manufacturing compounds. The increases will take effect October 1 and affect Dow's customers in North and South America.Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE) based specialty compounds,...

FEP supply situation - Let's blame China

For several years China's ravenous consumption rate of just about everything has made an impact on supply-and-demand levels of, well, just about everything. In the past we have reported about the price of copper being affected by China's consumption of...

Is a TIA Cat 7 standard on the horizon?

A source with connections to the Telecommunications Industry Association's TR-42 Engineering Committee says that sometime next year, the group may take up an issue it has long tabled - the development of specifications for Category 7 twisted-pair cabling...

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