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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...
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...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
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 environments. Atrato has developed a...
Energy Efficiency for the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company
In data centers around the world, energy costs are rising rapidly and consuming an ever-greater portion of IT budgets. This paper highlights how to reduce energy costs, reduce your carbon footprint all while making the most of your IT investment. In data centers around the world, energy costs are rising rapidly and consuming an...
IDC Spotlight: Ocarina Networks Addresses the Need for Efficient Data Storage by Ocarina Networks
and Reader addresses the need to store data more efficiently. It is an appliance that runs the optimization algorithms. The technology and approach is not about deduplication or compression, which will be explained in this IDC profile. Ocarina Networks has recently entered the market with a product, Ocarina Optimizer and Reader, that addresses the need...
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...
Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center by Intel Corporation
of managing the cost and efficiency of data centers. Servers continue to proliferate, but they are often underutilized, leading to higher capital, maintenance, power, cooling, and software costs. This white papers discusses real world explains of implementing new designs that help reduce power consumption and increase computing performance...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
savings at the rack-level for today's data centers. Incorporating these changes resulted in an overall savings of up to 18 percent measured total power savings when running compute-intensive enterprise applications such as SPECjbb, a warehousing application simulating many transactions at the same time.

Many of these "small" changes are things data...
Moving Into an Energy Efficient Server Environment, an Interview with Joe Clabby by IBM
Joe Clabby, who discusses ways to create energy-efficient servers. Mounting pressure to "go green" means that IT managers are trying to cut power use throughout their IT shops. Fortunately, implementing energy-efficient servers enables you to scale the data center without greatly increasing energy costs. In this videocast, Senior Editorial Events Manager Beth...
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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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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Podcast: Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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 what matters most: growing their business or organization...
Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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 what matters most: growing their business or organization...
Citrix XenServer: Server Virtualization and Dynamic Data Center by Citrix
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 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...
Critical Facilities Services by Hewlett-Packard Company
of designing and operating mission-critical data centers in an era of constrained resources. In November 2006, Gartner, Inc. forecast that by 2008, 50 percent of current data centers would have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment. In the next five years, more than 50 percent of large enterprises will face a shortage of data...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
ultimately create a more flexible, efficient and automated applications workload environment for next generation computing infrastructures. Virtualization continues to be the dominant buzz-word for businesses wanting to reduce IT costs, and ultimately create a more flexible, efficient and automated applications workload environment for next...
Microsoft Virtualization Fundamentals: Overview of the Microsoft Virtualization Vision by Microsoft
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 Virtualization, and Presentation Virtualization and the...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning by F5 Networks
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 an effective and efficient Wide Area Network (WAN) that enables those processes to be accomplished...
Effective Disaster Recovery Planning Using F5 Application Acceleration and EMC SRDF by F5 Networks
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 an effective and efficient Wide Area Network (WAN) that enables those processes to be accomplished...
Related Tips
Server names: A checklist for scalable schemes by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
to mnemonics and can picture Nero fiddling while his data burns.

Pick user-friendly names
Even if you are the only one that accesses these servers by name, and especially if you aren't, you should try to choose names that are short and easy to spell when possible. After all, you will have to type these names in hundreds if not thousands of times. Short... More...

Hash table how-tos for mainframe programmers by Robert Crawford, Contributor
system level code, particularly in exits, must be very efficient. You wouldn't want to do a linear search of a fifty entry table for every file I/O as that would tend to bog things down. Ultimately the answer is to use a hash table.

Hash table basics
The idea behind hashing is to transform the table key into a number that can be used to directly access an entry. That... More...

BMC, CA showdown over CMDB title by Richard L. Ptak, Contributor
fundamental task of the CMDB is to allow easy access to data that accurately describes the operating environment. In ITIL terms, this means the CMDB enables your business to model, discover and populate not just technology-based services, but also the next level of services. This includes both business process services and people-implemented... More...
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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non-IBM x86... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
and even more so with the z10 it introduced this year, IBM has promoted big iron as a server consolidation savior – in particular, for x86 Linux server consolidation.

In the same vein, IBM has hardly been shy about supporting a Linux-only mainframe in which hundreds or even thousands of virtual Linux servers run on z/VM, along with a bunch of Integrated... More...

AMD releases 45-nm Shanghai Opteron processor on schedule by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
and is more cost-effective, said Burke Banda, the product marketing manager of AMD's Server and Workstation Division.

In addition, Shanghai's release comes on schedule with it's processor roadmap, which signals AMD's effort to get back on track after a public drubbing following the release of Barcelona and a subsequent discovery of errors in the processor.

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