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The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
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, and 20% per year in the largest centers. Indeed, creating an energy-efficient data center is paramount to curbing...
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...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
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 minimizing the energy required to store and access data in these...
Energy Efficiency for the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company
and automate IT service delivery. An energy-efficient data center is key to sustainable business outcomes.

In this white paper from HP read how they can help you:

  • Reduce your energy costs
  • Reduce your carbon footprint
  • Make the most of your IT investment
IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage by Ocarina Networks
resulting in lower power consumption, smaller data center footprint and an overall cost reduction...
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...
Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center by Intel Corporation
capacity without adding servers to the data center. This white paper discusses how virtualization can provide high performance, energy efficiency, and lower operational costs in the IT infrastru... Consolidating four physical machines into one running four virtual machines (VMs) creates a more energy and cost efficient infrastructure. IT engineers face...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
time.

Many of these "small" changes are things data center managers can do today. Specifying best-in-class, energy-efficient components in everything from server processors to PSUs and memory modules can go a long way to saving energy and reducing TCO. So can utilizing power optimization features and settings. Other changes, such as DC power components,...
Moving Into an Energy Efficient Server Environment, an Interview with Joe Clabby by IBM
efficient servers enables you to scale the data center without greatly increasing energy costs. In this videocast, Senior Editorial Events Manager Beth Nicholson sits down with Joe Clabby, President of Clabby Analytics to discuss ways to create energy-efficient servers. Watch this interview to learn more about water cooling and find out the role density should...
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...
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...
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...
Citrix XenServer: Server Virtualization and Dynamic Data Center by Citrix
way to virtualize servers and deliver a dynamic data center - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. Citrix XenServer is the simplest and most efficient way to virtualize servers and deliver a dynamic data center - a flexible aggregated pool of computing and storage resources. Citrix XenServer extends the development and testing resources of...
Critical Facilities Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
of large enterprises will face a shortage of data center floor space.

In short, data center requirements worldwide are rapidly increasing, fueling a demand for new "greenfield" or upgraded facilities with energy-efficient power and cooling technologies and modern, spacesaving layouts that provide operational continuity.

In this white paper, read how to meet the...
Six Key Problems in the Virtualized Data Center and Tips to Solve Them by Juniper Networks, Inc.
of servers is the strongest trend in today's data center. Boiling down racks of servers into smaller, cheaper, and more efficient virtual machine farms is a key direction. Virtualization of servers is the strongest trend in today's data center. Boiling down racks of servers into smaller, cheaper, and more efficient virtual machine farms is a key direction...
Hyper-Efficient Operations for the Next-Generation Data Center by Oracle Corporation
building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization. Join Oracle CIO, Mark Sunday, and Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven, as they share best practices for building and operating the next-generation data center using advances in virtualization, Linux, high-performance application architecture...
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...
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...
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...
IT Briefing: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
detail some of the aspects of Dell's energy-efficient chassis design and power management system. Finally it presents two customer case studies illustrating the cost savings that can be achieved with Dell blades...
Forrester on Virtualization: Unraveling Advanced Virtualization Architectures & Techniques by IBM
will address what's keeping IT Executives and Data Center Managers awake at night and how advanced virtualization techniques can help deliver on the core business drivers, technology imperatives and challenges that will shape next generation computing infrastructures.

Microsoft Virtualization Fundamentals: Overview of the Microsoft Virtualization Vision by Microsoft
44; the benefits of management using System Center and how virtualization results in more efficient resource utilization and supports greater flexibility. This session will explain the basis of Microsoft's virtualization vision. This session will serve as introduction to each virtualization product: Server Virtualization, Application...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning by F5 Networks
involves protecting business-critical data through backups and data replication. Such replication and backup processes may occur between data centers, branch and home offices, or primary and backup sites.

A successful business continuity/DR plan has two key components at its core: a solid replication product to manage replication processes, and...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning Using F5 Application Acceleration and EMC SRDF by F5 Networks
involves protecting business-critical data through backups and data replication.

Such replication and backup processes may occur between data centers, branch and home offices, or primary and backup sites. A successful business continuity/DR plan has two key components at its core: a solid replication product to manage replication processes, and...
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Turn to collaborative tools for systems performance management by Michael Coté, Contributor
the firewall, pulling in help from outside of the data center payroll.

Sharing configuration
In the broadest sense of the term, here configuration means settings, customizations, reports, alert thresholds or anything that customizes how a given piece of IT management software is used.

By far, the most popular shared configuration is around reports... More...

Can Microsoft take over the systems management market? by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
monitoring tools. It has become easier to find robust data collection tools for a wide variety of operating systems and network devices. Thus Microsoft doesn't have to deliver monitoring agents for non-Microsoft technology – the open source community will.

Yet this is an advantage only if third-party integration is easier. If systems... More...

Data center consolidation: 10 takeaways from the pros by Adam Trujillo, Assistant Editor
Data center consolidation can be an effective way to cut costs by eliminating obvious wastes, such as paring down the application portfolio, eliminating unused files, and retiring or putting to work under-utilized hardware. However, cutting costs by way of consolidation requires more work than... More...
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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
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 about Tier IV [data center], they talk about power and cooling redundancy," Burlew continued. "But they... More...

After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
HP and Sun customers to their platforms," said Charles King an analyst at Pund-IT, "which is what I suspect [the Transitive software] will end up being used for here. What will happen to the software that translates [applications] over to their competitors' platforms is anyone's guess," King said.

Certainly, IBM didn't offer promises about... More...

CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
to make its mainframe management software easier to use for less 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... More...