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Maria Fuster Receives The Daily Record’s 2011 VIP List – Very Important Professionals Successful Before 40 Award

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Maria Fuster is a recipient of The Daily Record’s 2011 VIP List – Very Important Professionals successful by 40 awards.

Hunt Valley, MD (USA), Friday – October 21st, 2011 — Maria Fuster is a recipient of The Daily Record’s 2011 VIP List – Very Important Professionals successful by 40 awards.

The Daily Record created the VIP List to recognize younger professionals who have been successful throughout Maryland. Winners were selected on the basis of their professional accomplishments, civic involvement and the overall impact of their achievements.

“I’m very proud of Maria and believe the recognition is well deserved. As her business partner, I know first-hand the great ideas she develops for creating and growing businesses, plus the dedication and relationship building skills she has that are critical to being a successful entrepreneur” said Doug Dolan, co-founder of SmallBizMedia.tv.

The editors of The Daily Record selected 40 winners to the 2011 VIP. The winners were honored on Monday, Sept. 26, at a cocktail reception at The Tremont Grand. Winners also were profiled in a special magazine included in the Sept. 30 edition of The Daily Record.

Sponsors of The Daily Record’s 2011 VIP List include Wells Fargo; Alexander & Cleaver; Epsilon Registration; Capitol College; Harford County, Md.; and Saul Ewing LLP.

Maria Fuster is co-founder of SmallBizMedia.tv, an SEO & SEM firm specializing in helping small-to medium-sized businesses broadcast their value proposition and manage their brand online.

About SmallBizMedia.tv:
Search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) give Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) the opportunity to have a big presence online – when performed effectively. SmallBizMedia.tv takes the often confusing, time-consuming, and frequently changing strategies and tactics for Internet marketing and converts them into a simplified and successful process: Strategize. Optimize. Socialize. SmallBizMedia.tv is dedicated to helping Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs) Strategize, Optimize, and Socialize their brands and value propositions via the Internet with its search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) services.

About The Daily Record
For more than 123 years, The Daily Record Company has provided trusted legal and business information to Maryland readers. In addition to the daily newspaper published five days a week, The Daily Record publishes its website, www.TheDailyRecord.com; four blogs, On the Record, Eye on Annapolis, Maryland Business and Generation JD; four e-newsletters, TDR Insider, Real Estate Weekly, In-house Counsel and Auction Notices as well as a variety of special publications on topics of interest to Maryland business and legal professionals.

The Daily Record also honors leading Marylanders through events such as Heath Care Heroes, Maryland’s Top 100 Women, Influential Marylanders, 20 in Their Twenties, VIP List, Innovator of the Year, Leadership in Law, Innovator of the Year and Leading Women.

The Daily Record is owned by The Dolan Company, (NYSE: DM), of Minneapolis, Minn.

Press & Media Contact:
Doug Dolan
Small Biz Media Specialists
Hunt Valley, MD – USA
410-500-6071
contact@smallbizmedia.tv
http://www.SmallBizMedia.tv

Telecom

Future Facilities Announces New White Paper: The Benefits of Supply Air Temperature Control in the Data Center

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Using the Virtual Facility to illustrate the point, David King demonstrates the considerable benefits of controlling air temperature on the supply of the air handler rather than the return. By doing so, temperatures being supplied to IT equipment are more predictable, offering the potential for raised water temperatures and reduced data center running costs.

London, UK, November 18, 2010 — “Controlling temperature in the data center is critical to achieving maximum uptime and efficiency,” says David King, Consultant Engineer at Future Facilities. ( http://www.futurefacilities.com ) “But while data center layouts have moved swiftly to segregate hot and cool airstreams, typical air handler strategies are still rooted in the mainframe and comms room principles that have been in use since the last century.”

The importance of airflow management and close temperature control has become increasingly evident as power and equipment density in the data center has risen. Legacy cooling design strategies have proven unable to meet the cooling capacity requirements of blades and other compact servers. But even as cooling system design issues are addressed the question is raised as to whether temperature is being controlled in the correct place to maximise efficiency and effectiveness.

Controlling the temperature in the data centre largely takes return air temperature as an indication of the ambient air temperature in the space. It is often forgotten that the purpose of cooling is to provide air of an acceptable temperature and humidity to IT equipment at its inlet. It seems obvious then that return air temperature is not an appropriate measure of the IT inlet temperature. Whilst this is not a new idea, adoption of the strategy has been slow.

To model the thesis, a computer-generated Virtual Facility has been constructed. The Virtual Facility is an accurate 3D representation of the data center, incorporating ACUs, IT equipment, PDUs, racks and other familiar data center equipment. Using Future Facilities’ ( http://www.futurefacilities.com ) 6SigmaDC software for data center design and operation, CFD analysis of the space provides an accurate account of the thermal performance of the facility layout. The benefit of modelling in real life is that decisions regarding equipment placement can be tested to ensure thermal effectiveness before any work is carried out in the data center, reducing risk to the load.

In “The Benefits of Supply Air Temperature Control in the Data Center“, a Virtual Facility is created for a typical 652m2 data center with 200 equipment racks, which is modelled under various load conditions. The Virtual Facility is used to measure thermal efficiency and effectiveness when the cooling system is set up using return air control, and to test the improvements which can be obtained controlling supply air temperature with a sensor in the supply air stream.

The paper demonstrates that there are significant advantages switching to a supply temperature control strategy. Since many modern cooling units are set up for this approach, or can be modified very simply, the cost and control improvements make a compelling argument for its implementation. The strategy is able to manage an expanding IT estate, keeping server temperature within a tighter band and enabling more predictable headroom between chilled water and supply air temperature.

The potential for energy and running cost savings are facility-specific, and data center managers are encouraged to contact Future Facilities to discuss how these can be modelled and maximized. For a copy of the new White Paper “The Benefits of Supply Air Temperature Control in the Data Center” or to find out more about the Virtual Facility and 6SigmaDC data center design and operations software suite please visit http://www.futurefacilities.com or call Future Facilities on +44 (0)207 840 9540.

About Future Facilities:
Future Facilities ( http://www.futurefacilities.com ) is a leading provider of powerful design, optimization and management software for mission critical facilities and data centers. The company’s solutions are applied to ensure all capacity, efficiency and reliability criteria are met throughout all phases of the facility lifecycle.

For Further Information:
Hassan Moezzi
Future Facilities Limited
1 Salamanca Street
London SE1 7HX UK
hassan.moezzi@FutureFacilities.com
+44 (0) 20 7840 9540
http://www.futurefacilities.com

Press & Media Contact:
Damien Wells, Director
SPA Communications Limited
1 – 3 Lime Hill Road
Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1LJ UK
dwells@spacomms.co.uk
+44 (0) 7900 302102
http://www.spacomms.co.uk

Software

Announcing Release 6 of 6SigmaDC: Future Facilities Simulation Software Maximises Data Centre Space, Power and Cooling Utilisation

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6Sigma DC Release 6 enables better capacity planning and management of data centre space, power and cooling resources, through simulation, predictive modelling and real time view of the critical environment.

London, UK, October 19, 2010 — Future Facilities breaks new ground with the introduction of Release 6 of its 6SigmaDC data centre design and operations software suite. Hassan Moezzi, CEO, Future Facilities said, “Release 6 enables better management of data centre design, cabinet layout and equipment updates, so that physical constraints and efficiency can be maximised and the lifecycle of critical facilities extended. 6SigmaDC ensures that IT equipment can be deployed with full confidence that power, cooling, rack space and connectivity requirements can all be met.”

Release 6 of 6SigmaDC greatly simplifies the task of modelling complex facilities, as well as providing a broader toolset for on-going data centre management. In addition, software tools for IT equipment design (6SigmaET) have been further developed so that the detailed models produced by the application can also be used at room scale to simulate and manage airflow in racks and rows.

The 6SigmaDC software suite comprises a range of applications including 6SigmaRack, ( http://www.futurefacilities.com/software/6SigmaRack.htm ) 6SigmaRoom ( http://www.futurefacilities.com/software/6SigmaRoom.htm ) and 6SigmaFM ( http://www.futurefacilities.com/software/6SigmaFM.htm ). The software is used to develop a detailed 3-dimensional Virtual Facility©, within which power usage, equipment configurations, thermal behaviours and other important design variables can be accurately modelled and evaluated before physical implementation.

Release 6 Enables Better Capacity Realisation, Risk Free:
Important new features of 6SigmaDC Release 6 include 6SigmaExchange, which adds the capability to integrate any Data Centre Integrated Management (DCIM) application, monitoring software, and/ or building management system (BMS) tool with the Virtual Facility. This effectively provides a ‘live’ model and, for the first time, engineering/ facilities can work side-by-side with IT operations to manage the data centre as a single, integrated system.

The 6SigmaITM and 6SigmaFM tools also make it easy to investigate install requests that may have previously exceeded the blanket design limits of the facility. With comprehensive analysis tools and extension of the cooling capacity tests to include zonal limits, it is now possible to allow for more flexible installation. Adjusting cooling limits and load capacity on a case-by-case basis can allow better utilisation of physical capacities without compromising IT equipment or operational integrity.

Pro-active airflow and cooling management is made easier and more practical, allowing data centre managers to control cooling system efficiency, ensure IT availability, reduce annual operating costs and realise the full design capacity of the facility.

The 6SigmaITM interface has been remodelled and extended to make it easy for IT professionals to view the facility and propose changes to the IT configuration. These changes can now be based on quantitative data about the facility including space, power, cooling, network and weight considerations – all of which are available to view at the click of a button.

More Detailed IT Equipment Design with 6SigmaET:
The second major release of 6SigmaET ( http://www.futurefacilities.com/software/6SigmaET.htm ) adds more functionality to the state of the art CFD simulation tool for designing and packaging electronic components and systems. A key feature enables the detailed models constructed with 6SigmaET to be imported directly into 6SigmaRack for cabinet configuration and updates. This creates a more realistic and therefore accurate model for room scale simulations, enabling better placement and utilisation of rack capacity and cooling provision.

The new release also allows for more complex thermal modelling including liquid cooling components such as pumps, ducts and pipe work. More detailed modelling is enabled through the addition of 2R and Detailed model options. In addition, users can opt to model using a simple average PCB or more complex, multi layer substrates which can be refined and upgraded as the design progresses.

Modelling Enhancements Bring the Virtual Facility Even Closer to Real Life:
Specific improvements have also been made to address ease of use, making the modelling process more straightforward. 6SigmaRoom now supports far more detailed internal ACU modelling, bringing far more realistic airflow characteristics to the Virtual Facility models. Ducts with Circular or rectangular cross-sections are now simple to include, even when flow is required inside them. These ducts have the full capability of the originals, allowing vents, transition pieces and branches to be added as required.

The inclusion of new objects, such as internal walls, lights on walls, rotated raised floors and roof panels, allows the user to create a Virtual Facility model that is more representative of real life than ever before.

6SigmaDC’s huge library of detailed vendor specific equipment and cabinet models has been further enhanced by the introduction of equipment catalogues. Cabinets can now be made up from a catalogue of readymade parts, bringing consistency and variety to the user in a far simpler package.

The 6SigmaNetwork model now allows the 6SigmaFM model to include the full connectivity of the IP network, and a new auto-routing feature decides the best route for new cables. To learn more about Release 6 of 6SigmaDC and how it can help increase data centre availability and efficiency please call the company on 0207 840 9540 or visit http://www.futurefacilities.com.

About Future Facilities:
Future Facilities (http://www.futurefacilities.com) is a leading provider of powerful design, optimization and management software for mission critical facilities and data centers. The company’s solutions are applied to ensure all capacity, efficiency and reliability criteria are met throughout all phases of the facility lifecycle.

For Further Information:
Hassan Moezzi
Future Facilities Limited
hassan.moezzi@FutureFacilities.com
+44 (0) 20 7840 9540
http://www.futurefacilities.com

Press & Media Contact:
Damien Wells, Director
SPA Communications Limited
1 – 3 Lime Hill Road
Tunbridge Wells, TN1 1LJ, United Kingdom
+44 (0) 7900 302102
dwells@spacomms.co.uk
http://www.spacomms.co.uk