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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...
Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In this webcast and podcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers...
How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
trends and economics of greener computing. Data center complexity and the ever-growing number of servers are the primary drivers of increased energy consumption, making them the most important targets for energy efficiency efforts. In this webcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends...
The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
This green data center e-book serves as an all-in-one guide to lead you through the process of creating an energy-efficient data center. Today's average data center is 12 to 15 years old, reaching end of life, and unable to meet today's power demands. Studies show that data center power requirements are increasing by 8% per year on average...
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 consolidation...
Creating a Green Data Center to Help Reduce Energy Costs and Gain a Competitive Advantage by IBM
The data center is often the engine that drives the growth of the enterprise, and energy efficiency is the key. IBM has a decade of experience in owning and managing eight million square feet of data centers around the world. And we've been working closely with our clients the past year in implementing energy-efficiency...
Top 10 Ways to Save Energy in Your Data Center by Wright Line
Watch this expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 to learn the top 10 energy saving tactics. Review advanced hot-aisle/cold-aisle strategies, tips for power distribution optimization, and more. Want to learn expert tips to increase energy efficiency in your data center? This videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 features Robert McFarlane...
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...
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...
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
program with a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure... In 2005, Hewlett-Packard faced many of the same challenges its customers face in their business technology infrastructure. The company had too many individual data centers-85 in total-too...
eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
s power consumption with its performance. Data center managers want to decrease power consumption in their IT shops, but how much of their efforts are actually paying off? Measuring energy efficiency is tricky, especially since most IT business units don't pay the power bill. And, the scarcity of virtual benchmarks in place means that virtualization adds...
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...
Doing More With Less: The Art of Data Center Automation by CA
of the next five years. In this webcast learn how data center automation can help you do more with less in your infrastructure management plans. Simplification and standardization of infrastructures will be the dominant themes of the next five years. In this webcast learn how data center automation can help you do more with less in your infrastructure management plans.

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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...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
This chapter focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect... Chapter two of this three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure All-in-One Guide focuses on power management. The...
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...
Servers and the data center by Hewlett-Packard Company
their offerings and the performance and efficiency differences. Discover the efficiency trends for the future and what they might mean for your company. How do you consolidate your servers or data centers and still plan for growth? Server consolidation is about more than virtualization. There are advantages to consolidating the physical locations where...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
efficient, secure, scalable and flexible data center network. Data center managers are challenged with designing data centers that centralize servers and applications while keeping them accessible from a variety of locations. This white paper shows you how to create a best-in-class virtualized network environment that uses open standards-based and industry...
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...
Profitably Improving Site Infrastructure Energy Efficiency by Upsite Technologies, Inc.
in huge cost savings. One measurement of data center's site infrastructure energy efficiency is the ratio of all power consumed by all electrical and mechanical systems supporting the computer equipment load divided by the computer equipment load. There are several ways to reduce the amount of energy consumed in your data center. Learn about the causes of...
IT Briefing: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
delivering a blade solution focused on energy efficiency. It summarizes the energy-efficiency advantages derived from Intel technology and discusses the Intel development model that has offered those advantages at low risk to the customer.

It explores the ways in which the Dell M-Series blades offer the lowest total cost of ownership over the competition. It...
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...
Akamai's Application Performance Solutions: For a Complete Application Delivery Strategy, Think Outside the Data-center by Akamai Technologies
what happens to data once it leaves the data center and traverses the Internet to a highly dispersed user base. Akamai makes your applications Internet ready, by providing an end-to-end Web acceleration solution that fills the gap left by not addressing the Internet cloud with an ADC...
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...
Reducing Data Center Energy Consumption by Intel Corporation
without exceeding the thermal limits of its data center, CERN is taking a comprehensive approach to improving energy efficiency. This paper outlines key strategies, including a move to Intel Xeon processors. Improving data center energy efficiency is becoming a fundamental requirement for most organizations, not only to contain operating costs, but also to...
Related Tips
Negotiating a successful data center outsourcing arrangement by Brad Peterson
The following presentation was given at Data Center Decisions Spring 2005 in New York.

Data center outsourcing can be a way to save money, improve service and focus on your core business. However, it can also be a way to increase costs, lose control of your company's central nervous system and increase business risk. Structuring and negotiating... More...

COBOL in CICS tip roundup by SearchDataCenter.com, Staff
programming language in COBOL, but how do I pass data from one task to another?

Will CICS TS 2.2 run existing load modules compiled in COBOL II or OS/VS COBOL?
COBOL version conversion and other questions about running COBOL on CICS are discussed in the expert response. There is no shortage of mainframe shops running COBOL applications on CICS... More...

Business service management forces systems management evolution by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
application mapping technologies. In addition, data analysis can synthesize valuable information that administrators wouldn't be able to do manually.

Because vendor integrations are occurring vertically, as well as horizontally across technology silos, increased visibility can span across the broader integrations. This can provide... 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...