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Active Power Management™ for Green Data Centers: A Breakthrough Approach for Energy-Efficient Operation of Your Server by Cassatt Corporation
an overview of the Cassatt Active Power Management Green technology. Today, organizations have many initiatives underway to create more energy and operationally efficient data centers. Many are upgrading to more energy-efficient servers, improving HVAC efficiencies, or investing in smart power distribution systems. However, creating a physical...
Achieving 23-30% total power savings with a server rack designed for excellence in power efficiency by Intel Corporation
reduce space, cooling, networking, 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...
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...
Why Blades? by Dell, Inc. and Intel
pre-wiring already done for network and management connections ▪ Serviceability - ease of blade replacement, etc. In addition, learn how the Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade 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...
IDC Workbook: Assess the Value of Deduplication for your Storage Consolidation Initiatives by Data Domain
need to improve resource utilization with more efficient protection and recovery capabilities, all in the face of increasing capacity pressures. In this paper you will learn about: • Consolidation strategies at the datacenter, server, and storage system levels, including the use of virtualization • How deduplication can help drive efficient storage consolidation, as...
Energy Efficiency for the Enterprise by Hewlett-Packard Company
on the environment. A comprehensive energy-efficient strategy is essential in helping your transformation to an Adaptive Infrastructure -one that enables your organization to optimize and manage your IT infrastructure and automate IT service delivery. An energy-efficient data center is key to sustainable business outcomes. How do you meet the challenges head...
Optimizing Blade Server Capabilities with a Modular Enclosure Architecture by Dell, Inc. and Intel
to standard rack-mounted servers, efficient energy use, upgradable components, and simplified deployment and management. This white paper explores a modular blade server enclosure that offers comprehensive functionality comparable to standard rack-mounted servers, efficient energy use, upgradable components, and simplified deployment and...
Console Management in the Data Center by Avocent
networks of smaller computers, learn why efficient and cost-effective network management, remote and/or local, is critical to today… With the current shift away from large, centralized computer systems to decentralized, dispersed networks of smaller computers, learn why efficient and cost-effective network management, remote and/or local, is critical to today's...
A Service Providers Guide to Accelerating and Monetizing Service Innovation by Alcatel-Lucent
service creation, provisioning and management processes and enables efficient service agility, blending and personalization for a user-centric experience. New services and applications have opened the floodgates to content-creation opportunities for end users and are changing the way that value is created, managed and monetized in communications...
Microsoft Virtualization Fundamentals: Overview of the Microsoft Virtualization Vision by Microsoft
various type of virtualization, 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...
Six Key Problems in the Virtualized Data Center and Tips to Solve Them by Juniper Networks, Inc.
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. While virtualization can reduce costs in many ways, it has a variety of implications in...
How to Reduce Power and Cooling Costs While Boosting Server Performance by Mellanox Technologies
capacity for future growth, efficient scaling of compute, LAN and SAN capacity helping reduce TCO and doing so while enhancing data center agility. Data center cost structures are shifting, from equipment-based to space, power and personnel-based. Total cost of ownership and green initiatives are major spending drivers as data centers are being...
Booz Allen Hamilton: Securing the Mobile Enterprise & Securing Compliance by Lumension Security
s PatchLink Update into their automated patch management system. With PatchLink Update, the IT team no longer has to inspect each laptop, making it much more efficient and cost effective. For laptops that do not access the corporate network for months at a time, the IT team provides remote network access, enabling users to receive automatic patch updates from the road or...
SRM Explained: Companies Try Green Storage Strategies to Reduce Power Consumption by 3PAR
and policies that lead to lower and more efficient energy use. Energy is getting more expensive, and many organizations can’t buy any more power. This potential inability for companies to grow represents substantial risk, and green storage is largely seen as one way of mitigating that risk. Green storage also includes more traditional ecological...
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...
Quest MessageStats™ by Quest Software
Quest MessageStats empowers executive management, Information Technology (IT) managers, and Exchange administrators to perform business-critical analysis and reporting on Exchange e-mail infrastructures. With e-mail at the forefront of corporate communications, the need for Exchange reporting and analysis has become paramount for corporate executives, I.T...
Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center by Intel Corporation
machines (VMs) creates a more energy and cost efficient infrastructure. IT engineers face the significant challenge 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...
IT Process Automation - Improve Processes with ITIL-ITSM Six Sigma or COBIT by Opalis Software, Inc.
a keen understanding of business, a flexible IT management mentality, and the ability to identify and evaluate critical IT processes maturity. Unlike the systems that our teams support, however, organizations and IT managers don’t always adhere to a standard systematic architecture when aligning people and processes to meet the needs of the business. It’s fair to say...
Cross-client Centrino® and Core™ 2 processor with vPro™ Processor Technology Technical White Paper by Intel Corporation
PCs1 deliver built-in security and remote management capabilities to meet critical business needs. The new generation of Intel-based notebook and desktop PCs deliver significantly improved performance for compute-intensive applications and multitasking - all in a power-efficient package that is Microsoft Windows Vista* ready. Desktop PCs with Intel® vPro...
Create Information Value from SAP Now!!!! by Cognos, an IBM Company
Business Intelligence and Performance Management are proven technologies to provide the ability to unify all data, to deliver analytics and create information to support critical business planning and decision-making. Your challenge is to provide... Generating innovative value from investments in SAP is a top priority for SAP Solution Managers and...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources. Computing resources have proliferated over the years due to distributed computing architectures, low costs, mergers and acquisitions, and evolving business models. Yet, while technology itself has become more efficient, the application of technology has done the opposite. Server and storage...
Cassatt 2008 Data Center Energy-Efficient Survey by Cassatt Corporation
in providing software to make data centers more efficient, conducted a survey of 215 IT and facilities personnel in late 2007 and early 2008 to study what changes are underway or planned in the way data centers are designed and operated to combat the energy crisis. The survey and follow-up phone interviews specifically sought answers regarding how many companies are...
Deploying Energy Efficient Hardware in Your Data Center by SearchDataCenter
for assistance with deploying your new energy efficient hardware in your data center? Joe Clabby, from Clabby Analytics examines how much more you can afford to spend for energy efficiency based on local utility costs, data center tier level, remaining data center capacity and other important factors. Joe also explores the following: • How to make life cycle energy...
eBook: Energy-efficient Server Technologies by Dell, Inc.
choose high-volume servers equipped with more efficient power supplies, fans and processors. These technologies lower energy usage per server, and virtualization and other usage scenarios can help reduce the number of servers in the data center. Implementing these approaches in concert can yield substantial energy savings, potentially cutting server energy...
Desktop Delivery: Making Desktop Virtualization Work by Citrix
Virtualization and the impact on desktop management. It explores the challenges for desktop management in a pre-Desktop Virtualization world and issues that are not well addressed by Desktop Virtualization. While Desktop Virtualization puts the desktop into the data center, it is not a panacea for desktop delivery. Desktop Virtualization works best as part of a...
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