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Green Data Center: A Proactive Approach to IT Efficiency by SearchDataCenter
Listen to top green data center experts, as they help you properly identify your current energy efficiency issues and show you the next steps toward increasing your data center performance without breaking the bank. This year, we all are facing the need to cut costs without sacrificing performance. As energy costs are rapidly rising, data...
Five Steps to Successful Data Center Consolidation by BMC Software, Inc
saving an estimated $10 million dollars in data center costs. The term “data center consolidation” can mean different things to different people, from simply reducing the number of physical servers in an isolated location to reducing the global footprint of a company's entire infrastructure (including applications and software licenses, etc.).

One goal of a...
Cost-cutting strategies for a virtualized data center: Blade servers by Dell, Inc. and Intel
and optimize performance in your virtualized data center. Listen to this expert podcast to learn more about how you can consume less power and cut cooling costs. Analysts are reporting that the newest blade servers are helping companies decrease power consumption and improve performance in the data center. In part two of this podcast series on cost-cutting strategies...
Is Your Data Center Running Out Of Power Or Cooling? by Eaton Corporation
Is your data center running out of power or cooling? Read this paper and discover seven ways to extend the value of what you have and optimize the plan for what you need. The challenge. To keep pace with business demands, data centers pack in more power-hungry, heat generating IT systems than ever. Many power and cooling systems are...
IDC: Next - Generation Power and Cooling for Blade Environments by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
play a central role in reducing overall data center operating expenses and improving flexibility and control of infrastructure resources. They also differentiate HP BladeSystem both from competitive blade offerings and from rack-optimized servers.

In this technical brief, IDC examines HP Thermal Logic, a holistic approach to improving power and cooling...
Increasing Power Efficiencies: Fortune 250 Energy Company Turns to ePlus Technology for Server Consolidation and Virtualization by ePlus Technology
to continue working with ePlus to handle its data center needs. After participating in Blade server and VMware pilots, the company discovered that consolidation and virtualization would achieve its objectives - to virtualize 75% of its Intel environment (about 400 file servers). It selected to run VMware software on HP AMD Blade servers...
McAllen ISD simplifies its messaging, storage and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86% by Dell, Inc.
District to simplify its messaging, storage, and backup infrastructure while reducing power and cooling requirements by a projected 86%. CHALLENGE

McAllen Independent School District (MISD) needed to consolidate two separate, legacy email systems and improve the reliability and manageability of its server, storage and backup infrastructure.

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Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
helps customers worldwide solve their power and cooling challenges and meet the demands of business growth with industry-standard solutions. They offer solutions you can deploy right now, as well as the right mix of tools, partnerships, and services to help you get the most from your existing infrastructure. Dell's end-to-end approach helps customers...
Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability by BMC Software, Inc
Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion. Energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT...
Storage Magazine April 2009: The State of Replication by SearchStorage.com
Data replication has taken center stage in hot storage technologies and is a fundamental component of DR and backup and recovery operations. This issue's cover story explores where best to deploy replication: in the array, network or servers. Plus, check out features on power-smart disk systems, value-based data...
Associated Newspapers Solves Data Centre Challenges with Data Domain and Vizioncore by Data Domain
around space, power and cooling in its primary data centre, Associated Newspapers implemented VMware Infrastructure to consolidate its physical server estate. With its virtual infrastructure in place and growing rapidly, Associated Newspapers required a completely new approach to disaster recovery. Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) is the management...
Expert Tips For Energy-Efficient Rack Servers: Green E-Book by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
to combat the IT energy crisis in your data center. This expert e-book from the writers at SearchDataCenter.com details strategies to reduce energy usage per server and decrease the number of servers. Rack servers represent the largest portion of the IT energy load-between 50% and 75%--so they also signify the biggest opportunity to combat the IT energy crisis in...
E-Guide: A Guide to Managing Data Center Power Outages and Consumption by APC
you will discover best practices for managing data center power usage, how to prevent power outages and learn how to ensure your data center has enough power to operate at optimal capacity. It'll also discuss 5 essential steps for reducing data center power consumtion. As businesses continue to pack more high-density computing gear into their data centers, power...
Driving Efficiency and Green Efforts Within Your Data Center by Data Domain
ESG analyst Brian Babineau examines how data deduplication can effectively contain the costs associated with massive data growth, improve capital and operating efficiencies and bolster green initiatives. While IT executives are buffeted by a multitude of demands, dealing with annual data growth of up to 60% is at or near the top of the list. In this...
Data Protection for Virtual Server Environments: Exploring Options and Technologies for Backup and Recovery of Virtual Machines by Datalink
advice and considerations surrounding backup and recovery of virtual server infrastructures. A dizzying range of technology choices awaits IT organizations trying to master the art of data protection for virtual server environments. Those choices range from whether to use familiar technologies, something new, or a combination thereof in order to...
HP white paper: Complete Data Protection for VMware Virtual Environments by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector. This paper examines the issues of backup and recovery in VMware virtual server environments, and outlines the key features of HP Data Protector. This software automates backup and recovery in VMware...
ITS Group Consulting Offers "More 9's" and Killer RTO/RPO with Replay AppImage by AppAssure Software
Replay AppImage delivered a huge value in their data center where it's all about power and cooling. For ITS Group AppAssure not only runs as a virtual server, but they used it to convert their Exchange servers into virtual servers to really reduce the overall datacenter footprint. Replay AppImage's ability to restore messages and systems quickly and with little...
Optimizing Oracle RMAN and ASM Environments with FalconStor VTL and Integrated Deduplication by FalconStor Software
deduplication technology offers advanced backup and global deduplication capabilities that support Oracle Recovery Manager and Automatic Storage Management. The importance of adequate backup and disaster recovery (DR) for Oracle databases cannot be emphasized enough. These databases continue to grow and drive additional business processes...
DELL™ PowerEdge™ Half-Height M610 and Full-Height M710 Blade by Dell, Inc. and Intel
product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. The Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade servers help cut operating expenses through energy efficiency, product flexibility, and efficient use of data center space. These M-Series blades use the Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series Processor. This processor series adapts to your software in real time, processing more...
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...
Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency by SearchDataCenter
installed is driving the biggest global boom in data center construction history. The OpEx and CapEx costs of these new data centers are creating significant financial challenges for many IT intensive enterprises. This session identifies the three primary drivers of ever increasing facility costs and identifies the three strategic actions required by CFOs and...
Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers by APC
Installing blade servers in an existing data center stresses the power and cooling systems. This paper reviews five methods to deploy blade servers and avoid common pitfalls, helping you select the best power and cooling approach for your IT shop. The installation of blade servers—which drastically increase the electrical power used per rack and heat...
Data Center Facilities IT Handbook: Mastering data center climate control by Dell, Inc. and Intel
look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations are creating more heat in smaller places which in turn requires efficient and effective climate control. Read this paper to learn more about how to properly cool your data center. This SearchDataCenter.com eBook takes a look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations...
The Complete Data Center Solution by ePlus Technology
Are your data center needs outgrowing your space and capacity? Are you planning to consolidate data centers or branch office servers? ePlus can help transform your facility into a next-generation data center that will accelerate your business. Read this paper for details. Are your data center needs outgrowing your space and...
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IT automation that works by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
given enterprise's history of viewing IT only as a cost center and IT productivity improvements is a strongly stated benefit of all automation solutions. Enterprises that do not back up their "business-IT alignment" strategies by shifting staff activities to proactive decision-making once automation is in place will find their automation... More...
Is your disaster recovery plan out of date? by Richard Jones, VP and Service Director for Data Center Strategies, Burton Group
corrupted or the recovery process was corrupting the data. The tech-support team was convinced that the data on tape was good after accomplishing their troubleshooting.

So my colleague was dispatched on site. By now, nearly two days had passed and the company was really frantic. He determined that the data on tape was good and that the restored data... More...

Windows Server 2008: PowerShell basics and top commands by Microsoft PowerShell Team
Server 2008 Beta 3, Exchange Server 2007, System Center Operations Manager 2007, System Center Data Protection Manager V2, and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

For the first time, Windows PowerShell is included as part of the Windows operating system and is one of a slew of new manageability features in Windows Server 2008 including the... More...

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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...