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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...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
the level progression. While most enterprise data centers won't need to reach Level 5, moving up the model to the point where virtualization is implemented to achieve the business goal of application delivery is paramount to any enterprise. This White Paper defines the baseline and process of virtualization maturity for the data center...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
people to think about transforming their data centers. This white paper describes about the convergence of two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base, and also the four specific drivers that are causing people to think about transforming their data centers.

Two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base are:

1...
Brochure: Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
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 business processes and new regulations to store larger quantities of data for longer periods of time.

In this white paper learn how the approach to Data Center Transformation is:

  • Enabling the
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Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
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 unplanned- can disrupt critical business processes. New...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
and total cost 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...
Simplifying the Data Center Network Webcast by Juniper Networks, Inc.
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 centers in terms of the new architecture. This webcast also examines financial savings of the new data center...
Demo of the xVM Ops Center Managing Live Data Center Out in Denver by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
used in this presentation is typical of today's data centers - a heterogeneous environment of physical and virtual operating systems and application workloads. You'll learn how this technology uses familiar user interface controls to allow users with typical windows administrator skills to get more control over the data center...
Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT by IBM
importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green management. This white paper-- along with its companion white paper, "Greening the data center with IBM Tivoli software: an integrated approach to managing energy"-- discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how...
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...
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...
Speeding Business Innovation by Hewlett-Packard Company
Center Institute, by 2010 more than half of all data centers will have to relocate to new facilities or outsource some applications. If you're running an IT organization, this and other issues such as the decrease in data center professionals and power availability have serious implications to your business. These issues can hamper your efforts to meet increasing...
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...
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...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
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-accepted interfaces.

You will learn about network virtualization and the...
Government Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
agencies are turning to next-generation data centers that enable reduced operational cost and deliver transparency to citizen services through an open architecture. Leveraging the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), the U. S. government has sought industry input to develop IT solutions that optimize investments in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology...
Maximizing Data Center Investments for Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency by Compellent
center staff to manage it all. Firms build new data centers for a variety of reasons: capacity limitations, modernization, consolidation, and many others. But firms also need an alternate data center that's an appropriate distance away so they can failover critical business operations in the event of a primary site failure. Given the necessary investment, an...
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...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
impossible, and the cost of managing too many data centers is an increasing burden on the business.

Organizations are looking at business and IT transformation initiatives, and within that context data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings through:

  • Improved service levels and responsiveness
  • Reduces support
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The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
impossible, and the cost of managing too many data centers is an increasing burden on the business.

Organizations are looking at business and IT transformation initiatives, and within that context data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings through:

  • Improved service levels and responsiveness
  • Reduces support
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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...
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...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
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 served by these power systems are extremely sensitive to even a momentary loss of power. When a data center has reached the highest level of reliability, those systems...
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Third-party software vendors and the new IBM z10 technology by Wayne Kernochan
and supports creation of XML documents from data. Sirius Software adds SOAP support and a Web server to Model 204. Adabase SOA Gateway provides a Web-service interface to Adabas itself. So, in all of these cases, users find some degree of support for Web-enabling their existing mainframe-database-dependent applications.

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Five software tools and commands you wish existed by Robert Crawford, Contributor
shops live with contradictory goals. On one hand, data centers want to conserve processors by turning off some debugging facilities (e.g., traces). However, management insists on meeting availability goals and never encountering the same problem twice. This conflict is realized when you have a serious outage and a software vendor tells you, "Gee, we could... More...
IT Governance: Visibility of IT to the business by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
including those of you in the trenches of the data center. So let's take a quick look at what IT governance can mean for data center personnel.

Business value and visibility of IT departments
The first point is visibility and awareness. It's my contention that IT is not fully valued by the business because much of what you do is invisible to... More...

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Data center cooling: Air-side and water-side economizers by SearchDataCenter.com
high density (90% CPU utilization) facility. For more information, see the Intel white paper: "Reducing data center cost with an air economizer".

Green UPS Tier IV data center water-side economizers
United Parcel Service's data center facilities team in Alpharetta, Ga., have green data center operations down to a science. Learn how they did it.

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Help desk and asset management tools merge by Megan Santosus, Features Writer
capability, according to Steve Dreyer, president of SMA Management Systems Inc., a White Plains, N.Y.-based provider of ITSM services and products.

"Customers want that 360-degree view of assets and incidents." Dreyer said, adding that customers also want a one-stop shop in which they have to deal only with a single vendor for IT service management needs.

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Prepping data centers for a hot summer by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
a building can be fairly expensive, but the next time it has to be done, don't go black. Go white.

What about installing a so-called green roof with soil and plants?
Harris: The building has to be designed and built to handle that load. By planting grass or trees, you could potentially put a huge load up there. Also, dry dirt is one thing, while wet dirt is another. Aside... More...