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Accelerated Server Refresh Reduces Data Center Cost by Dell, Inc. and Intel
server refresh is part of our broader data center efficiency program, which includes initiatives such as data center consolidation and server virtualization and aims to generate overall savings of USD 1 billion or more. Accelerated server refresh is part of our broader data center efficiency program, which includes initiatives such as data center...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
of ownership in x86 data centers. Cost, power, and data center cooling and space will continue to worsen if no changes are made to the current data center infrastructure. In fact, an estimated 10 power plants must be built over the next few years to accommodate the growing power usage in data centers. This webcast reviews a memory technology that enables memory capacity up to...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
electricity cost for a typical high-density data center is 42% of OPEX.

3) The third driver is the resource shortage. The pool of qualified senior technical management professionals will shrink by 45%. Like the scarcity of energy there is a scarcity of people with the engineering process and management skills to most efficiently run data centers.

4) The fourth driver is...
Brochure: Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at the approach to Data Center Transformation and how centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. It highlights data center managers and how HP is helping its customers address them. Not all data centers are ready for the challenges of the global marketplace including environmental concerns, disruption of critical...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This webcast covers data center capacity challenges such as space and power & cooling and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business...
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Dell, HP, and IBM Blade Solutions by Dell, Inc. and Intel
management software, power, cooling, data center costs, and out-of-box setup. Read this white paper to learn about these different systems and which ultimately has the lowest TCO...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even "going green." The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced...
Going Green While Reducing Operational Costs, an Interview with Joe Clabby by IBM
he feels will have the biggest influence on the data center's costs and what else enterprises can do besides dumping air for water cooling. Where are costs piling up in your data center? What can you do to reduce these costs? Senior Editorial Events Manager Beth Nicholson interviews Joe Clabby, President of Clabby Analytics to discuss these issues and related questions...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling costs are skyrocketing, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity are nearly impossible, and...
Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever. Customers expect to purchase products and access services 24x7. So any downtime-planned or...
Government Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
44; technologies and products that support data center architects and engineers responsible for answering the requirements of designing government agencies' data center networks. Government agencies are turning to next-generation data centers that enable reduced operational cost and deliver transparency to citizen services through an open...
Extending the Life of Existing Data Centers by AdaptivCool
paper provides information to help extend data center useful life and save 30% or more in cooling costs by improving data center cooling efficiency. This white paper provides information to help extend data center useful life and save 30% or more in cooling costs by improving data center cooling efficiency. This document is based on a AdaptivCool/TechTarget webcast...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 1: Site Selection and Design by Hewlett-Packard Company
Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements. Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This first chapter in a...
Speeding Business Innovation by Hewlett-Packard Company
In this white paper, learn how data center transformation can help your organization outsource applications and shift spending from maintenance and management to projects that support business growth and innovation. According to the Data Center Institute, by 2010 more than half of all data centers will have to relocate to new facilities or...
Best Practices for Measuring Data Center Energy Efficiency by IBM
Ken Brill explains how to define and measure data center energy efficiency. Rising power costs and pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of the data center means that most IT managers are taking measures to increase energy efficiency. But how effective are these efforts? And if you can't quantify power savings, justifying an increase in IT spending becomes a real...
Data Center Automation - A Forrester 2008 Report by Hewlett-Packard Company
research brief reviews the top vendors in data center automation (DCA) and rates HP the highest due to the breadth of their solution in the very competitive DCA market. IT departments must spend a significant amount of time provisioning and deploying resources to meet the demands of their business. A key component of overall IT costs and meeting service levels is the...
Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Thermal and Power Efficiencies by Hewlett-Packard Company
of their data's thermal environment, optimize data center temperature controls to lower operating costs... Today's IT managers are facing increasing power and cooling challenges. According to recent IDC studies, over the past 10 years the average cost to power and cool the installed base of servers has risen from $0.25 per dollar spent on new servers to $0.50 per each new...
Operations Energy Management: From Data Center through Facilities by CA
the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Rising energy costs are driving IT and facilities managers alike in all types of organizations to come up with new and innovative ways to reduce the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Using information technology solutions to better manage the data center offers a new perspective and fresh...
Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center by Intel Corporation
capacity without adding servers to the data center. This white paper discusses how virtualization can provide high performance, energy efficiency, and lower operational costs in the IT infrastru... Consolidating four physical machines into one running four virtual machines (VMs) creates a more energy and cost efficient infrastructure. IT engineers face...
Increase Utilization, Decrease Energy Costs With Data Center Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
This webcast explores answers to some of the key questions around getting started with virtualization. It addresses cost savings, weighing benefits vs. risks, transitioning from older platforms to new ones, best practices and more. Many organizations are turning to virtualization technologies that facilitate consolidation and increased...
Saving Energy in Your Data Center -- Why is it Important? by Wright Line
Why create an energy-efficient data center? This expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 uses real-life scenarios to explain the key benefits, how to meet regulations, and strategies to track and measure energy efficiency. If you're like most busy IT managers, saving energy in the data center is probably not your primary concern. In this expert...
Intel IT: Taking Power Management to the Limit--and Beyond by Intel Corporation
power and thermal management in an aging data center to add needed servers--without expensive new infrastructure. Intel's 20-year-old FM1 data center in Folsom, California, was almost maxed out: Even though it had just been through a power upgrade, it already had just about as many servers as its aging infrastructure could support. But Intel IT Global Facilities...
Tideway Foundation ™ Community Edition 7.1.7 by Tideway Systems
estate helps take cost and risk out of critical data center projects. Product Type: Discovery and Dependency Mapping

Target User: IT Managers, System Administrators and Configuration Managers

IT Problem: Tideway automatically maps physical & virtual servers, applications and dependencies to provide an actionable baseline of your infrastructure. This 360-degree...
Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers by CA
Learn how virtualization and automation in the data center will lead to better customerexperience, reduced environmental impact and increased capacity for future services. Adopting a dynamic data center model addresses the problems of over- and underprovisioning resources associated with a lack of automation. You gain operational efficiencies, control costs...
Increase Performance and Efficiency with the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem by Hewlett-Packard Company
business systems, and by reducing your data center facility costs. In this white paper learn more about the HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem that achieves the same high availability, data integrity, and scalability formerly obtainable only with HP Integrity NonStop rack-mounted systems but offers smaller data center footprint, lower per...
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Executive involvement in data center business continuity planning spells success by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
recovery planning and not solely rely on the IT data center managers to make it happen. Richard Jones provides examples of companies with good and bad policies in place, illusrating how and why companies rise or fall because of their disaster recovery and business continuity planning and strategies... More...
IBM z10 mainframes and event-driven architectures: Pull the trigger by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
outside-of-corporate and out-of-enterprise "cloud" data that can be quite useful in giving the enterprise greater agility and speed-to-react.

Two things have changed over the past few years to make event processing more relevant to the mainframe. First, the increasing occurrence of consolidated Linux workloads on the mainframe has tended to... More...

Is Nagios right for your data center? by Roger Rustad, Contributor
In many data center environments, Nagios has become the de facto standard for companies in need of an open source, fault-tolerant solution to monitor single points of failure, service-level agreement (SLA) shortcomings, servers, redundant communication connections or environmental factors. But is this one... More...
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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

"When everyone talks... More...

After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Linux mainframe have more to do with politics than with technology.

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the... More...