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ABSTRACT:
Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime that may span many generations of IT equipment, so planning - or lack of planning - can have a large impact on the effectiveness of investments. Many unnecessary costs can be avoided with simple planning strategies, and even uncertainty itself can be incorporated into a plan. This paper shows a simple and effective way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room.
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Authors
Neil Rasmussen
Chief Technical Officer
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APC
Neil Rasmussen is the Chief Technical Officer of APC. He establishes the technology direction for the world’s largest R&D budget devoted to power, cooling, and rack infrastructure for critical networks. Neil is currently leading the effort at APC to develop high-efficiency, modular, scalable data center infrastructure solutions and is the principal architect of the APC InfraStruXure system.
Suzanne Niles
Senior Research Analyst
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APC
Suzanne Niles is a Senior Research Analyst with the APC Data Center Science Center, where she develops white papers and presentations on technical and strategic topics that support the APC mission. She studied mathematics at Wellesley College before receiving her Bachelor’s degree in computer science from MIT, with a thesis on handwritten character recognition.
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Server Virtualization Research Library
