Eaton’s Power Quality division has published a white paper that explores the impact cloud computing has on IT infrastructures and outlines some strategies for optimising an IT infrastructure accordingly. The paper, written by Chris Loeffler, Data Centre Applications Manager, Distributed Power Solutions, Eaton, is available to download from the Technology & Applications page on the company’s website (www.eaton.com/powerquality/UK ).
Organisations of every size and description are rapidly adopting outsourced software, platform and infrastructure solutions in order to drive efficiency up and costs down. Despite this, one area that is still overlooked is the impact that cloud computing has on IT infrastructures and, in particular, the unique power, cooling and availability challenges that cloud architectures present.
Entitled Optimising your Infrastructure for Cloud Computing, Eaton’s latest white paper on this topic looks at some of the forces behind the rising adoption of cloud-based solutions, explores how cloud architectures impact data centres and discusses a series of concrete practices and technologies that can help companies collect the benefits of cloud computing without compromising uptime or overwhelming their power and cooling systems.
The paper concludes that, in order to take advantage of the power of cloud computing reliably and cost-effectively, organisations should adopt technologies and techniques to increase the reliability and redundancy of their physical and virtual environments, including their power and cooling systems. It also recommends that proper monitoring and control of physical and virtual systems will help organisations manage their infrastructure more easily.
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Editor’s Notes
Eaton’s electrical business is a global leader in power distribution, power quality, control and automation, and monitoring products and services. Eaton’s global electrical product series, including Cutler-Hammer®, Moeller®, Powerware®,Holec®, MEM®, and Santak® provide customer-driven PowerChain™ solutions to serve the power system needs of the data center, industrial, institutional, public sector, utility, commercial, residential, IT, mission critical, alternative energy and and OEM markets worldwide.
Eaton Corporation is a diversified power management company with 2010 sales of $13.7 billion. Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2011, Eaton is a global technology leader in electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment; aerospace fuel, hydraulics and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use; and truck and automotive drivetrain and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy and safety. Eaton has approximately 70,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com.
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