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What is the greatest facility problem with your primary data center?
Data Center Services is here to help answer and fix your facility problems. We are a highly trained extension of IBM's own development lab and have the most current knowledge of the products and solutions that span the IBM platforms.

We provide customized solutions in your data center and can answer questions such as:

What are the best power, cooling and I/O data center best practices?
We are nearly out on power in our data center. How can IBM help?
How can virtualization help reduce energy demand in our data center?
Where can I find the power and heat load values for my specifically configured server system?
How do IBM products compare with competitors based on performance/Watt, performance and SWaP metric?
What are the power trends of the IBM product line?
How should we integrate IBM products when our data center limit is 5 kW per rack?
What is the IBM approach for reducing carbon emissions? European laws are requiring us to show a year-to-year reductions.
How should I design a new data center for the best cooling and power?
Should I consider water cooling in a new data center?
What raised floor height, ceiling height, position of CRACs, position of cable trays, etc should I employ in my data center?
How can I take advantage of IBM system and storage device capabilities to help manage power demands and thermal load?

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Asset Management, Business Resiliency, Information Infrastructure, Security, Service Management, Virtualization & Consolidation

Dynamic Infrastructure® Workshop

Energy Efficiency

Active Energy Manager Implementation Jumpstart (160KB)

Active Energy Manager Implementation Jumpstart with Tivoli Monitoring for Energy Management
Data Center Power and Cooling Planning for iDataplex™

Data Center Readiness for Rear Door Heat eXchanger (115KB)

Data Center Thermal Analysis and Optimization (135KB)

IBM Measurement and Management Technologies (MMT) Data Center Thermal Analysis (339KB)

Since IBM Research first deployed Measurement and Management Technologies (MMT) in 2007, IBM has completed measurement of approximately 1.4 million square feet of client data centers worldwide. This work has uncovered 38 million kWh of potential saving for IBM clients, the majority of which is achievable with little or no capital expense investment.

Recently, this tool was put to the test in conjunction with Southern California Edison (SCE) to address power and thermal management. "Through a pilot project using this advanced technology from IBM Research, we were able help one of our large commercial customers reduce power consumption for its data center cooling by 10 percent," said Lynda Ziegler, SCE senior vice president, Customer Service. "As one of the nation's leading utilities for demand response and energy efficiency programs, we are always interested in tools and partnerships that help address energy and environmental issues.