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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...
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...
An Inconvenient Balance? Can the Data Center Go Green without Stifling Corporate Growth? by Crossbeam Systems
technologies that can positively impact the data center's energy consumption without sacrificing performance, and exactly how to calculate the energy and cost savings. Enterprise IT organizations are mercilessly put in the spotlight to save the day and provide the business with both bottom line cost improvements and top line company competitiveness, all...
Best Practices: Pull the Plug on High Energy Costs by Storage Magazine
Storage systems account for a big chunk of the data center electric bill. Here are some ways to reduce your costs. There's been a flurry of activity among IT vendors to develop lower energy products and with good reason--the cost of electricity continues to rise in every part of the country. Energy experts' opinions differ on the size of the rate hikes, but one thing remains...
Webcast: Turn down the Power and Turn up the Profits by IBM
This webcast will answer your questions pertaining to savings from energy reductions and process efficiencies. This webcast will answer your questions like:

  • Do you want cost savings from energy reductions and process efficiencies?
  • Wouldn't you like to achieve specific environmental and strategic business goals?
  • What about monitoring
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Total Economic Impact Of VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - Healthcare Industry by VMware, Inc.
and reduced PC downtime.

4. Electricity savings from purchased thin client machines.

Qualitative Benefits

  • Improved data and endpoint security by storing information centrally and locking down computers.
  • Improved user experience for hospital staff, and physicians.
  • Better business continuity and disaster recovery.

This study illustrates the...
Kansas City Power & Light Energizes Network with Motorola's PTP 600 Series Fixed Broadband Solution by Motorola, Inc.
find out how the leading regulated provider of electricity in the Midwest has continued to provide high levels of reliability and satisfaction by employing the use of unlicensed spectrum wireless networks and how your enterprise can benefit from a similar transition...
Run Storage as a Utility by Storage Magazine
units in the way an electric company delivers electricity to homes.

Going from a distributed to a centralized storage infrastructure, which is needed to dispense different levels of storage services throughout the company, typically entails a multiyear effort that requires overcoming people, process and technological issues. Not all CIOs and IT managers are ready...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Simplifying the Data Center Network Webcast by Juniper Networks, Inc.
This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data centers in terms of the new architecture. This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data...
Demo of the xVM Ops Center Managing Live Data Center Out in Denver by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Center software and managing a set of servers in data center out in Denver. Check out this webcast to watch the VP of Sun's xVM line show a demonstration of the xVM Ops Center software that is managing a set of servers in a Denver data center. The live data center used in this presentation is typical of today's data centers - a heterogeneous environment of physical and virtual...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue. Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Thermal Zone Mapping by Hewlett-Packard Company
behavior of a "greenfield" or existing data center, allowing for easier and more complete understanding of this behavior. Thermal Zone Mapping (TZM) is a visualization tool developed to present in graphical format highlevel thermal metrics developed by HP and targeted for use as part of the HP Data Center Thermal Assessment service. This tool uses data...
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...
Transform Your Data Center Into An Energy-Efficient Operation by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Data center growth has led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting infrastructure. This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems energy-efficient systems with virtualization technologies. Data center growth in number of users, applications, and data, have all led to...
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...
Maximizing Data Center Investments for Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency by Compellent
disaster recovery considerations in data center design and build-out-- site integrity, site selection, and site recovery. Building a data center is a massive investment. It requires investment in real estate, reinforced facilities, raised floors, state-of-the art power and cooling, and IT infrastructure such as networks, servers, and storage --...
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CICS and Web services: Ready to go by Robert Crawford, Contributor
find this helpful? Write to Matt Stansberry about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. CICS is well-prepared for the future of IT: Web services. When a client creates and sends a SOAP message from CICS, and inside the SOAP header is a URI identifying the desired Web service. CICS receives the request and parses the SOAP header to find the... 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...

Implement IT process controls to improve data center operations by Gene Kim, Contributor
Enforcing internal processes and policies can be a headache. As long as I'm passing the SOX audits, do I really need to care about every day operational compliance?

I have spent a great deal of time talking with very skilled and experienced auditors who work with IT people day in and out. Many have expressed concern and disappointment that we've missed a good... 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...