IT teams grapple with some inescapable realities. The cost of operating the data center is outpacing the cost of IT resources themselves. High-density equipment pressures power and cooling systems to the max. Moves, adds and changes can turn the power infrastructure into a deck of cards, at risk of overloads, tripped circuits and unplanned shutdowns. This Eaton paper looks options available to data center managers and designers to better cope with the demands of new generation of enterprises.

J. Guerry Waters and Brian Owenson discuss the trends leading up to the adoption of smart technologies into the utility industry. They list out the challenges that the industry will face as it looks at introducing advance technologies into decades old utility infrastructure.