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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...
Controlling Corporate Energy Consumption via the Enterprise Network by Cisco Systems, Inc.
initiatives that reduce their electrical power consumption and CO2 emissions in an effort to not only reduce energy costs, but to also be respectful of global environmental concerns. To assist business leaders, IT suppliers are delivering products that consume less energy while offering new IT delivery approaches such as data center virtualization to reduce cooling...
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...
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...
Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers by APC
This white paper addresses common data center cooling challenges and describes five strategies for deploying ultra-high power racks, with practical solutions for both new and existing data centers. Rack power of 10 kW per rack or more can result from the deployment of high density equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult cooling challenges...
The Problem of Power Consumption in Servers by Intel Corporation
also discusses the major components impacting power consumption and where the inefficiencies lie. Capabilities of servers and their power consumption have increased over time. Multiply the power servers consume by the number of servers in use today and power consumption emerges as a significant expense for many companies. This article will explains how servers consume...
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...
Implementing Energy Efficient Data Centers by APC
of methods that can greatly reduce electrical power consumption. Despite the fact that the electrical power costs over the life of a data center may exceed the costs of the electrical power system and IT equipment, electrical power usage is not a typical design criterion for data centers, nor is it effectively managed as an expense. Some reasons for this situation are as follows:

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    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...
    A Quantitative Comparison of High Efficiency AC Vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers by APC
    by comparing the most efficient DC and AC power distribution methods. Recent findings suggest that the latest high efficiency AC and DC power distribution architectures are shown to have virtually the same efficiency, suggesting that a move to a DC-based architecture is unwarranted on the basis of efficiency.

    This paper explains why by comparing the most...
    Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers by APC
    This paper explains how data center efficiency can be measured, evaluated, and modeled, including a comparison of the benefits of periodic assessment vs. continuous monitoring. Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is...
    Power Management for Portable Consumer Electronic Devices by Mentor Graphics
    techniques and how these techniques can reduce power consumption. For manufacturers of portable consumer electronic devices, reducing power consumption is a goal with returns that far outweigh the investment. By utilizing Mentor's Nucleus Power Management facility along with other performance tuning techniques, system developers can help device manufacturers improve...
    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...
    Using enterprise architecture to develop a blueprint for improving your energy efficiency and reducing your carbon footprint by IBM
    a thorough analysis and visualization of power consumption by location, application, processes, strategies and job. For example, IT staff can identify servers and other hardware with the most power consumption and identify targets for replacement or modification. Management can identify "bloat" in the IT infrastructure by highlighting underused or redundant hardware...
    Seven Ways To Lower Storage TCO by Compellent
    to boost efficiency, cut costs and reduce power consumption. Compellent Storage Center - a highly integrated, feature-rich data storage solution- was designed to lower data storage TCO. Read this white paper for more details on how Compellant can save save your company millions of dollars. Organizations of all types and sizes are under pressure to boost efficiency, cut...
    Enterprise Testimonials: Reduce Power Consumption with Intel vPro Technology by Intel Corporation
    discuss the impact of Intel vPro technology on power consumption reduction and energy cost reduction. While at Symantec ManageFusion 2009, we had a chance to talk to IT executives and managers from Disney International, Fox Interactive Media, Las Vegas Sands Corporation and McCormick Spice Company and industry analysts from IDC, Enterprise Management Associates and Ptak...
    HotSchedules Customer Case Study by Dell and Microsoft
    Hot Schedules needed to design and deploy a new data center infrastructure that could accommodate rapid annual business growth while also controlling hardware acquisition and power consumption costs. In this case study read how Hot Schedules needed to design and deploy a new data center infrastructure that could accommodate rapid annual business growth while...
    Best Practices for Power Equipment Startup by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
    the need for a systematized program for new power equipment startup and the best practices and pitfalls that exist with regards to power equipment startup. In order for the electrical power distribution systems within data centers and related facilities to operate properly as designed and intended, it is extremely important that care be given to 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...
    Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart Servers -- The Smart Choice for Optimizing your Data Center by Dell, Inc. and Intel
    of retrofitting or expansion. By lowering power consumption and complexity, Dell PowerEdge Energy Smart servers are designed to deliver what your IT infrastructure needs most: outstanding performance, reduced operational costs, and greater efficiency...
    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...
    Presentation Transcript: Reduce Energy Usage while Increasing Business Productivity in the Data Center with Intel's Xeon processor 5550 series by Intel Corporation
    to avoiding energy use to be green. Minimizing power consumption when server components are not being fully utilized has become a top priority for many businesses. In this transcript, you will discover the most significant green related issues facing organizations from an IT perspective today. Learn the business benefit of Intelligent Power Technology and how it compares...
    Reduce Energy Usage while Increasing Business Productivity in the Data Center with Intel's Xeon processor 5550 series by Intel Corporation
    to avoiding energy use to be green. Minimizing power consumption when server components are not being fully utilized has become a top priority for many businesses. In this podcast, you will discover the most significant green related issues facing organizations from an IT perspective today. Learn the business benefit of Intelligent Power Technology and how it compares...
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    Do dual-power supply servers increase redundancy? by Julius Neudorfer, Contributor
    Power, a basic element in every data center, is sometimes taken for granted by server administrators. Furthermore, power loss or poor power quality is a major contributor to data center server down time. I am not referring to a major utility power failure, just to a common pitfall of power distribution system practice and management.

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    Mainframe capacity planning: More than MIPS by Robert Crawford, Contributor
    planning is a well understood, strategic exercise. But data center managers need to consider strategic versus tactical performance planning to keep high-priority workloads running without problems... More...
    Remote backup for network disaster recovery by David Jacobs
    backups to disk or tape were enough to protect your data, recent disastrous events such as hurricane Katrina should have changed your mind. Backing up to local disk or tape can protect against the accidental destruction of a file but will do nothing to protect you when your facility suffers fire or flooding.

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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...