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The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
meet today's power demands. Studies show that data center power requirements are increasing by 8% per year on average, and 20% per year in the largest centers. Indeed, creating an energy-efficient data center is paramount to curbing runaway power consumption and accommodating greater data center capacity.

This green data center e-book serves as an all-in-one guide to lead you...
4 Stages of Green: Mapping Your Way to a Useful Project by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
is a 4-step explanation of how to reduce data center power consumption by:

  • Assessing current power expenditures
  • Developing a plan and framework
  • Gaining funding commitment
  • Understanding the leaders in green materials and how you can dispose of old materials
eGuide: Managing Power Consumption in Today's Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
performance metrics to compare a server'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...
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...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
cabling, and management costs - as well as total power consumption - compared to low-density configurations having far few servers per rack. The Eco-Rack Proof of Concept demonstrates how server-level changes--such as moving to servers equipped with new energy-efficient processors, converting to DC power delivery to servers, activating Enhanced Intel...
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...
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...
Podcast: Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
servers with Intel Xeon Processors address data center pain points by delivering one of the most manageable, flexible, and energy efficient blade server products on the market. Designed from the ground up to help customers be more efficient with their time, budget, power consumption, data center resources, and performance, Dell's blade solution allows users to focus on...
Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
servers with Intel Xeon Processors address data center pain points by delivering one of the most manageable, flexible, and energy efficient blade server products on the market. Designed from the ground up to help customers be more efficient with their time, budget, power consumption, data center resources, and performance, Dell's blade solution allows users to focus on...
Rack Powering Options for High Density by APC
rack enclosure power consumption in the data center or network room varies widely and is expected to grow in the next few years. Rack enclosure equipment is replaced 5 or more times during the life of a data center in a piecemeal manner. This situation requires a rack enclosure power distribution system that can cope with the changing requirements. Key...
Messaging Security Goes Virtual: Improve Email Security and Lower Costs with Virtual Appliances by Proofpoint, Inc.
additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of hardware costs ... It doesn't take a degree in accounting to understand that the ability to increase server and storage capacity without having to invest a dime in additional hardware translates into huge cost savings. Savings not only in terms of hardware costs, but also in the power...
7 Tips that IT can use During the Economic Downturn by Microsoft
solutions from reducing server and desktop power consumption to consolidating applications on servers. Expert Mark Minasi will deliver information that SMBs can use right now to achieve enhanced IT value. Mark Minasi, noted author, MVP, and self-proclaimed alpha-geek will present "7 Tips that IT can use During the Economic Downturn." These practical tips are designed to save...
Global Asset Sustainability: Breakthrough Lean Best Practice Counters Rising Energy Costs by Infor
practice, provides the required visibility and control, and answers to eliminate this waste. Global Asset Sustainability (GAS), a new breakthrough approach that incorporates energy consumption into an asset management practice, provides the required visibility and control, and answers to eliminate this waste. In this example, Global Asset...
Questions and Answers on Data Center Cooling Issues by Upsite Technologies, Inc.
that is likely to get much worse as server-farm power consumption rises due to increased rack heights, more equipment within racks, and increasing equipment power consumption. Uneven cooling is a very common problem that is likely to get much worse as server-farm power consumption rises due to increased rack heights, more equipment within racks, and increasing...
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...
Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT by IBM
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 systems management technologies contribute to green management. The paper provides an overview of green data centers and the significant role played by...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
This whitepaper presents the power consumption characteristics of several types of modern disk-based data storage systems in large data centers. Disk drives consume a significant amount of power and consequently place a considerable load on the cooling resources in large data centers. The type of disk drive and associated packaging play a key role in...
Data Center Demo (Flash Educational Tool) by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
components and operation of a typical Tier IV data center power system. Interactive tool demonstrates the components and operation of a typical Tier IV data center power system...
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...
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...
Operations Energy Management: From Data Center through Facilities by CA
the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Rising energy costs are driving IT and facilities managers alike in all types of organizations to come up with new and innovative ways to reduce the amount of energy used to power and cool the data center. Using information technology solutions to better manage the data center offers a new perspective and fresh...
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...
Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center by Intel Corporation
of implementing new designs that help reduce power consumption and increase computing performance...
Dell Transition Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 by Dell, Inc.
management and offers power savings for the data center. Dell offers world-class Power and Cooling hardware solutions and is a leader in environmental strategies. Windows Server 2008 features simplified power management and offers power savings for the data center. Dell offers world-class Power and Cooling hardware solutions and is a leader in environmental...
Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Dell, HP, and IBM Blade Solutions by Dell, Inc. and Intel
power, cooling, network ports, and data center space. Enterprises of all sizes are deploying or considering deploying blade systems as a way to consolidate resources and lower their total cost of ownership. These solutions tend to be easier to deploy and manage than traditional rack servers and offer lower energy consumption for both server power and...
Related Tips
Six tips for designing a cost-effective data center by By Christopher Johnston, PE, National Critical Facilities Chief Engineer, Syska Hennessy Group Inc.
will be higher for three facilities than for two.

2. Base data center site selection on utility costs
Consider the present and estimated future costs of utilities in site selection. Sustainability must be considered in every project.

The best sources of information on utility rates for data centers include: Knowledgeable national specialists such as... More...

Are you operationally ready to recover from a nondisaster? by Bill Peldzus, Contributor
more apparent: Most customers don't have their current data center in an acceptable state of operational recovery readiness.

This situation becomes even more obvious with plans that pursue an aggressive recovery time and/or recovery point objectives. When referring to operational recovery readiness, I'm specifically talking about the ability to... More...

Five mainframe myths busted by Robert Crawford, Contributor
programmers.

IBM recognized this problem years ago and has several outreach programs for getting students' hands dirty on big iron, such as its work with Share, whose zNextGen team promotes mainframe skill-building. They also are working with colleges to put more mainframes on campuses.

The mainframe is old technology
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Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
resources aren't shared when they shouldn't be, he said.

Finally, Porell said there is a storage benefit to running z/OS and Linux on the same box. In particular, zLinux can take advantage of the hot-failover capabilities of z/OS, because z/OS can also manage the data of a Linux environment on the mainframe. "So it's instantly available should the system fail," he said.

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AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
2 MB on the Barcelona chip.

Shane Rau, the research director, computing, networking, and storage semiconductors at Framingham, Mass.-based IDC, said having 6 MB of L3 cache is ideal for workloads that require a lot of memory like those for virtualization. The hardware-assist "support for virtualization is also key because it helps make a server more efficient in... More...

How will data centers weather the economic downturn? by Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
Only mandatory buys will go on (in order to meet regulatory compliance, storage demand).

I think we'll see server life cycles stretched. Even the government will cut back. We're on a Continuing Resolution which keeps budgets at the same level, but since there are cost-of-living increases, it effectively cuts the budget for everything else.

The drop in... More...