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Influence of Cabling Systems on the Availability of Data Centers

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Overview Today, the availability and reliability of data centers is vital for the entire market development. Stock exchanges, company processes, commerce, traffic and many other services rely on the smooth operation of data centers. The data volumes to be processed are constantly increasing and require performance maximization in data centers. At the same time, operators must keep operational costs under control, increase profitability and eliminate error sources, which might result in failures. Statistics show, that the largest portion of failures in data centers can be attributed to a passive infrastructure or human mistakes. Thus, this must be addressed at the infrastructure planning and cabling stages in order to increase availability. The current standards with their high quality requirements form the basis for this.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Reichle & De-Massari	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Data Center

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