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		<title>Data Center Assessments and Upgrades:  Don&#8217;t Get Caught in a Digital Black Hole</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/data-center-assessments-and-upgrades-dont-get-caught-in-a-digital-black-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Assessment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a post not long ago, we cited some Gartner figures on IT spending and expectations regarding growth in storage. Here’s the line that really stuck out at us: In 2017 alone, more external-based storage will ship than has cumulatively shipped prior to 2013. That got us to thinking about what companies need to be doing to prepare to have a data center that can scale and handle all that data. To get some answers, we turned to Jonathan Caserta, a Physical Infrastructure Solutions Architect with Carousel Industries. Data Center Upgrades Start with a Frank Assessment Simply put, Caserta says&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/data-center-assessments-and-upgrades-dont-get-caught-in-a-digital-black-hole/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Carousel Cuts Energy Use In Half With In-Row Cooling and Hot Aisle Containment</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/carousel-cuts-energy-use-in-half-with-in-row-cooling-and-hot-aisle-containment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Savings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Physical Infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRAC Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hot aisle containment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[in-row cooling]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/?p=3604</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Along with helping our customers with all things IT, here at Carousel Industries we are focused on staying on the cutting edge and creating best practices within our own physical infrastructure and data center. Lately much of that job falls upon Derek Herard, a convergence technician in our Rhode Island headquarters. After 10 years as a field technician, about 2 years ago Derek started working inside Carousel’s offices, doing everything from building cubicles to running cabling and building out the demo room at headquarters. Along with the rest of the Carousel support group, he helps maintain facilities such as HVAC&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/carousel-cuts-energy-use-in-half-with-in-row-cooling-and-hot-aisle-containment/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gartner Predicts Increased Concern about Carbon Footprint and Green IT</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/gartner-predicts-increased-concern-about-carbon-footprint-and-green-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/gartner-predicts-increased-concern-about-carbon-footprint-and-green-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Savings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IT Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Reduction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gartner]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/?p=3576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout the seemingly endless presidential campaign we just witnessed in the U.S., the issue of climate change hardly came up at all. It’s just not an issue that’s front and center these days, at least among politicians. But in its report, “Predicts 2013: Green IT and Sustainability,” Gartner predicts the issue will once again be on the table in a big way in coming years as government and industry gear up to meet promises made in 2011. The effect will be a renewed focus on low emissions from data centers and alternative sources of energy. One of the reports strategic&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/gartner-predicts-increased-concern-about-carbon-footprint-and-green-it/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Dirty Are Data Centers?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/how-dirty-are-data-centers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/how-dirty-are-data-centers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that may not have seen it, last week the New York Times ran a very well researched, scathing article about wasteful energy usage by major data centers and Cloud service providers. The article, titled Power, Pollution and the Internet, takes an in-depth look at so called &#8220;cloud factories&#8221;, the massive data centers that provide services many of us take for granted from organizations like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon and others.  While they don&#8217;t do a great job of defining the difference between the many different types of data centers in the world, their findings are surprising&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/how-dirty-are-data-centers/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Software Defined Networking (SDN) &#8211; An Extreme Overview</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/network/software-defined-networking-sdn-an-extreme-primer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/network/software-defined-networking-sdn-an-extreme-primer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extreme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[networking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/?p=3179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Software defined networking is generating lots of buzz these days as the next step in virtualization. Essentially, it’s a way to “virtualize” network infrastructure, in much the same way that most companies have already virtualized servers and perhaps storage and desktops. To get a handle on what SDNs are all about and the role they can play, we talked with Sameer Mohile, a senior product manager with Extreme Networks. Extreme is a network infrastructure vendor (and Carousel Industries partner) that in July announced some new initiatives relative to its own SDN strategy. Explaining Software Defined Networking SDNs bring to network&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/network/software-defined-networking-sdn-an-extreme-primer/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>3 Potential Pitfalls to Avoid in Virtual Desktop (VDI) Deployments</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/3-potential-pitfalls-to-avoid-in-virtual-desktop-vdi-deployments/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/3-potential-pitfalls-to-avoid-in-virtual-desktop-vdi-deployments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desktop Virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Practices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desktop virtualization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/?p=3064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve written previously about the various benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) technology, including simplified management, improved security and increased mobility. But successfully deploying VDI such that you get to realize those benefits means avoiding some pitfalls along the way. To learn more about how to ensure success with VDI, we talked with Phil Magnuszewski, Director of Virtualization and Cloud Solutions for Carousel, who quickly pointed to three potential pitfalls. Perform Due Diligence on VDI Use Cases “Performing analysis to determine which use cases will be a good fit for VDI is probably number one,” he says. “Do your due&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/3-potential-pitfalls-to-avoid-in-virtual-desktop-vdi-deployments/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>3 Keys to Deploying Effective Containment Systems in Your Data Center</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/network/3-keys-to-deploying-effective-containment-systems-in-your-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/network/3-keys-to-deploying-effective-containment-systems-in-your-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 19:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Network Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[containment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[containment systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cool Aisle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Cooling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the price of energy and the energy density of data centers continue to rise, energy efficiency in data centers is becoming an ever hotter topic (no pun intended).  Containment systems, or keeping hot air and cool air from mixing in a data center, is critical to keeping costs low, improving Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), and ensuring up time.  We recently had the opportunity to catch up with Jamie Davis, Carousel Industries&#8217; Director of Physical Infrastructure to discuss the keys to deploying an effective data center air containment system. Data Center Containment: Assessment As with with most technology projects, Davis&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/network/3-keys-to-deploying-effective-containment-systems-in-your-data-center/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>CFD Modeling Podcast:  Get a Handle on Your Data Center Airflow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/cfd-modeling-podcast-get-a-handle-on-your-data-center-airflow/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/cfd-modeling-podcast-get-a-handle-on-your-data-center-airflow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Podcasts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CFD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Computational Fluid Dynamics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CRAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Center Cooling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Efficiency]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/?p=2563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen to the Computational Fluid Dynamics Podcast Jamie Davis as been working in and around data centers for some 25 years, so when he gets excited about any given data center technology, you can bet it’s with good reason. And he is absolutely excited about how computational fluid dynamics (CFD) technology is being used to create 3-dimensional models that help data center engineers make solid decisions on data center layout and cooling infrastructure.  Listen to this information packed Podcast to get all the details. “Gartner says by 2013 all data center design is going to be done with 3D modeling,”&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/cfd-modeling-podcast-get-a-handle-on-your-data-center-airflow/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>4 More Tips for an Effective, Efficient Data Center</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/4-more-tips-for-an-effective-efficient-data-center/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/4-more-tips-for-an-effective-efficient-data-center/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For last week’s blog post on data center design, we talked with Jonathan Caserta, Physical Infrastructure Solutions Architect with Carousel Industries.  If you’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with Jonathan, you know he’s a fountain of information on data center topics. True to form, in the course of our conversation he offered up not only more than we needed on the data center design topic, but a number of other tips that can help customers operate a more effective, efficient data center. Centralized UPS &#8211; How it Saves You Money Too many data centers, often smaller ones, have uninterruptible&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/data-center/4-more-tips-for-an-effective-efficient-data-center/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Role of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) in Proper Data Center Design</title>
		<link>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/the-role-of-cfd-computational-fluid-dynamics-in-proper-data-center-design/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/the-role-of-cfd-computational-fluid-dynamics-in-proper-data-center-design/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Savings]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long gone are the days when companies would design their data center by scratching out a diagram with pen and paper. Today, most firms use tools such as the Microsoft Visio diagramming software or a computer-aided design (CAD) tool such as Autodesk Revit. Either tool will enable you to create a nice, accurate depiction of how your data center will be laid out, says Jonathan Caserta, Physical Infrastructure Solutions Architect with Carousel Industries. If you follow industry best practices in terms of data center layout, you’ll likely be able to create a good, energy efficient data center. At least at&#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://blogs.carouselindustries.com/green-it/the-role-of-cfd-computational-fluid-dynamics-in-proper-data-center-design/" rel="nofollow">Continue Reading &#8250;</a>]]></description>
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