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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...
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...
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 --...
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...
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...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center...
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...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
Wire Enterprises, a 200,000 sq/ft Tier IV data center discusses how its strategic partnership with Square D CPCC contributes to its reliability, uptime and an ultimate success. Power systems in today's data centers represent the highest level in optimization for reliability. This is a necessity, since the computer and IT equipment in these facilities and...
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...
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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...
Managing server virtualization complexity by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
use of virtualization technologies in production data center environments, the reality of managing large-scale, heterogeneous virtualization technologies present a significant challenge. Although server virtualization solves critical issues for IT, it also introduces management complexity because of the different approaches and vendor... More...
Mainframe virtualization: Old friends are often best by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
In addition, IBM's security suite protects the data within the mainframe and within each virtual machine.

It is also worth noting that IBM mainframes have been offering virtual memory for longer than most if not all other platforms, and IBM also provides a virtual tape library solution.

Virtualization has always been a strength of the... 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
even more so with the z10 it introduced this year, IBM has promoted big iron as a server consolidation savior – in particular, for x86 Linux server consolidation.

In the same vein, IBM has hardly been shy about supporting a Linux-only mainframe in which hundreds or even thousands of virtual Linux servers run on z/VM, along with a bunch of Integrated Facility for... More...