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How vStorage Enabled SANs Will Help Maximize VMware Investment by Dell and VMware
greater virtual server performance and more efficient management. Traditionally, virtual machines and SANs have lacked advanced integration, making ongoing management, data protection and disaster recovery more complex. VMware and Dell are leading the way in delivering automated tools integrating virtual servers and virtual storage together to achieve a comprehensive...
The Green Data Center 2.0: Energy Efficient Computing in the 21st century by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
point of view for creating a green and energy efficient data center. Chapter 4 of the eBook, Green Data Center, picks up where the other previous chapters left off in the plan for going green in the data center. This chapter takes a step back and looks at the project from a holistic point of view for creating a green and energy efficient data center.

The three major sections...
Achieving 23-30% Total Power Savings With a Server Rack Designed for Excellence in Power Efficiency by Intel Corporation
as moving to servers equipped with new energy-efficient processors, converting to DC power delivery to servers, activating Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology in the BIOS, and using more efficient 2 GB memory modules--can deliver significant savings at the rack-level for today's data centers. Incorporating these changes resulted in an overall...
Five Basic Steps for Efficient Space Organization with High Density Enclosures by APC
Crowded enclosures are not only unsightly, they also diminish efficiency and uptime in the data center. This paper provides a five-step roadmap for standardizing and optimizing organization within both low and high density enclosure, with special emphasis on how to plan for higher densities. Crowded enclosures are not only unsightly, they...
Flash Technology on Storage by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
architect storage systems. Flash is fast, cost-efficient, and power-efficient. This video reviews the new developments in flash technology on storage. Flash is the most exciting thing to happen in storage in about 50 years. It's the first new physical medium that has allowed developers to rethink how they architect storage systems. Flash is fast, cost-efficient, and power...
ESG: Realizing and Maximizing E-mail Archiving ROI by EMC Corporation
including lower storage costs as well as more efficient compliance, electronic discovery, and data protection operations. This white paper discusses the benefits of evaluating solutions to achieve the statuses mentioned above. ESG research indicates that organizations with e-mail archive implementations experience several measurable benefits, including...
Business Value of Virtualization: Realizing the Benefits of Integrated Solutions by Hewlett-Packard Company
virtual migration which promotes uptime and efficient resource usage. This IDC white paper will look at how the IT industry is changing from static x86 server configurations to a more integrated approach. The introduction of modern solutions, such as blade architectures, allows systems to accommodate both physical and virtual migration which promotes uptime and...
Sun Fire™ X4170 Server: Ultimate in enterprise performance for database management or Web applications by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Microsoft
price/performance in a compact, space- and energy-efficient 1U form factor. Your business is under increasing pressure to deliver more services and to support more users with a shrinking IT budget. To help meet those increasing demands, the enterprise-class Sun Fire X4170 server offers optimal price/performance in a compact, space- and energy-efficient 1U form factor. Able...
Meeting Compliance Objectives in SharePoint® by AvePoint, Inc.
and implementing a comprehensive, reliable, and efficient compliance strategy appropriate to their organizational needs. This document will first briefly review the general principles underlying today's regulatory and legal environment, then analyze how these principles can translate to concrete SharePoint compliance strategies. Though the regulatory...
Expert Tips For Energy-Efficient Rack Servers: Green E-Book by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
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 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...
What Data Domain is Doing to Storage by Data Domain
and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to tape-based methods. This paper outlines the impact of data deduplication on data protection, and specifically how Data Domain pioneered the combination of storage system interfaces and software to make the disk-based solution an efficient and cost-effective alternative to...
Responding Quickly to Changing Markets: Anticipate, Adapt, Excel by SAP America Inc
of your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. Learn how to predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands. This paper examines how to tap into the potential in your nimbler organization by instituting efficient operations. By helping you predict and respond quickly to changing market trends and customer demands...
De-Mystifying VMware Storage Consumption by Quest Software
174; makes storage in VMware environments more efficient and cost effective. Read it today. Did you know storage utilization decreases dramatically with the introduction of host virtualization? A comprehensive storage capacity management solution can help maximize your data capacity, saving you time, money and resources.

Quest's technical brief discusses how...
Reduce Storage Spending with Quest Horizon by Quest Software
174; makes storage in VMware environments more efficient and cost effective. Read it today. Did you know storage utilization decreases dramatically with the introduction of host virtualization? A comprehensive storage capacity management solution can help maximize your data capacity, saving you time, money and resources. Quest's technical brief "De-Mystifying...
Tick-less Clock: Another Benefit to the Intel® Xeon® 5500 Processor Family by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
when OpenSolaris is idle it is really energy efficient. Despite this, there is actually background activity that does exist. The majority of this background noise is from a clock feature that fires periodically, 100 times a second that does all sorts of house keeping such as tick processing and clocks. Currently when OpenSolaris is idle it is really energy efficient...
Server Virtualization, Business Continuance and Disaster Recovery by Storage Decisions
and the storage products that enable efficient, flexible green and virtual data centers. Server virtualization has the potential to bring sophisticated business continuance (BC) and disaster recovery (DR) techniques to organizations that previously didn't have the means to adopt them. Likewise, virtualized as well as cloud environments need to be included...
Green IT: beyond the data center -- How IT can contribute to the environmental agenda across and beyond the business by Accenture
running IT assets and services in a more energy efficient way. And they will be happy to supply new equipment to enable the CIO to do this. This agenda has had two results. One is that the whole discussion around IT's ability to drive energy savings has tended to focus narrowly on data center operations. The other is an upsurge in marketing of IT hardware and systems that...
An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers by APC
that uses such high-efficiency equipment in an efficient manner, and reduces over-sizing, is just as important as efficient hardware itself. In fact, by combining high-efficiency equipment with an effective architecture, your IT shop can save up to 40% of the total electrical power of the data center. This white paper shows you how to get started...
Focus on Your Business, Not Your Backups by Iron Mountain Digital
for data protection and recovery, email management and archiving, intellectual property management and eDiscovery. Founded in 1980, Geokinetics grew quickly through acquisition, and by 2006 was a conglomeration of five independently managed entities with offices on six continents. Geokinetics provided 3-D seismic acquisition and seismic data...
Integrated Infrastructure and Performance Management for Virtualized Environments by CA
the use of virtual servers also increases the management challenges associated with maintaining infrastructure reliability and ensuring service-level agreements. For peak efficiency, the new environment requires the use of integrated tools that can proactively manage infrastructure fault, performance and capacity issues within hybrid environments...
Holistic and Efficient Protection for Oracle Databases with FalconStor CDP by FalconStor Software
such as Oracle demand advanced data storage management. In an enterprise Oracle environment, FalconStor® Continuous Data Protector™ (CDP) optimizes application and data availability as well as storage management capabilities. This white paper explains how FalconStor CDP delivers a comprehensive backup, restore, and recovery regime for Oracle that...
Cloud Computing - What is its Potential Value for Your Company? by Google
are proving that cloud computing "is a far more efficient way of running IT systems. ... The current economic malaise will increase the pressure on companies to become more efficient. More has to be done with less, which is cloud computing's main promise...
Reaping the Rewards of a Comprehensive SAP Data Management Solution by Informatica, formerly Applimation
this is by adopting smarter application data management solutions that proactively manage and optimize precious resources. Saving Costs, Managing Growth and Data Security for Production and Non-Production Data

More than ever, organizations are looking for ways to cut costs and maximize the use of every dollar. One way leading companies are doing this is by adopting...
IDC Research: Enabling Efficient SAN Performance Management by Virtual Instruments
This document explores the role Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Enterprise monitoring and analysis technology plays in reducing the cost and complexity of managing the datacenter cloud - and the large heterogeneous and virtualized infrastructure within it. This document explores the role Virtual Instruments' NetWisdom Enterprise...
Presentation Transcript: The Efficient Next Gen Datacenter: Doing More with Less by HP, Intel and Oracle
Read this Presentation Transcript to learn how to build a dynamic IT infrastructure and pro-actively manage your data center. Today's economy presents a significant amount of data center challenges that may prohibit a company's ability to perform well. While information is growing at a fast pace, budgets, staff and other IT resources are shrinking...
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Mainframe performance management: Linux adds complexity by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
What is mainframe performance management? In the past, neither mainframers nor non-IBM IT types would have had any difficulty in answering that question: mainframe performance management is that part of application and system management that focuses on performance, not RAS (reliability, availability, serviceability). However... More...
Can Microsoft take over the systems management market? by Jasmine Noel, Contributor
For as long as I've being watching the systems management market, Microsoft has been waiting in the wings almost ready to take advantage of its server OS dominance in mid-sized enterprises. So why hasn't this happened? What makes its latest push any different?

For too long, Microsoft has considered systems management a product rather than a set of... More...

DMTF tries to SMASH systems management costs by Matt Stansberry, Site Editor
com sat down with the president of the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), Winston Bumpus. He explains how systems management standards, like the Systems Management Architecture for Server Hardware (SMASH) Initiative, can make life easier in the data center.

Listen to our audio Q&A with Bumpus.

The DMTF keeps a low profile, but its leadership... More...

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HP's new server aims for cloud, Web 2.0 apps by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
of users, Martino said..

BigStockPhoto.com, a website that lets users upload and download photos, supports between 10 million and 20 million pages of content monthly. Its compute needs are less aggressive than the large scale-out companies HP targets with this system, but like the bigger Web 2.0 companies, BigStockPhoto is "growing constantly, so a... More...
Grow a green business: Cut costs and improve energy efficiency with green IT by Erin Kelly
the challenges businesses may face and offers energy-saving solutions. A free download of Chapter 1 of The Greening of IT, "The Importance of Green IT," is available for review.

Chapter 1 states many companies talk about reducing their total energy requirements, but are not actually going green where it counts. Why do you think this is true, and how can your... More...
IBM doubles refund for Sparc migrations: News in brief by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
could save about 4% on a server's power consumption.

The updates also include a way to download HP-UX from high-bandwidth replicated servers to reduce deployment time and allows users to update the operating system while still online, needing only a standard reboot to switch to the new version.

AdaptivCool offers 30-day trial
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