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Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
computing. Next, explore recent developments in green computing technology from Dell and Intel: blade servers, processors, and fans designed to boost energy efficiency and IT responsiveness.

Watch this webcast or podcast to learn how to increase efficiency in your data center in the following ways:

  • Virtualization: consolidate to increase utilization, reducing space, power
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How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
computing. Next, explore recent developments in green computing technology from Dell and Intel: blade servers, processors, and fans designed to boost energy efficiency and IT responsiveness.

Watch this webcast to learn how to increase efficiency in your data center in the following ways:

  • Virtualization: consolidate to increase utilization, reducing space, power, and waste
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4 Stages of Green: Mapping Your Way to a Useful Project by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
about other organizations' interests in green computing and the costs they will accept to achieve green returns. Also included is a 4-step explanation of how to reduce data center power consumption by:

  • Assessing current power expenditures
  • Developing a plan and framework
  • Gaining funding commitment
  • Understanding the leaders in green materials and how you can
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IT Briefing: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
44; impacts, trends and economics of greener computing. This document first reviews some general issues around Green IT, including:

  • The drivers for Green IT
  • Where does the power go within your data center?
  • How do power and cooling impact your business issues?
  • Energy trends
  • Economics of energy
  • Recommendations

Next it discusses Dell's approach to delivering a...
Putting the Green in Green IT: How Distributed Computing Delivers Dramatic Cost Savings, as Well as Green IT Benefits, by Leveraging Existing Resources and Curbing Data Center Growth by Univa UD
This paper addresses how distributed computing technologies like grid infrastructures enable companies to avoid datacenter growth and contain power and cooling costs. The payoff is extremely beneficial for both the company and the environment. Companies today are becoming much more aware of their impact on the environment. As part of improving and...
The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
This green data center e-book serves as an all-in-one guide to lead 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...
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...
Editorial: Green, greener and greenest by Storage Magazine
Green, greener and greenest. I'll try to maintain some dignity here by not quoting Kermit the Frog on the subject of green, but it's not beneath me to paraphrase him: It's not easy being a storage manager. I'll try to maintain some dignity here by not quoting Kermit the Frog on the subject of green, but it's not beneath me to...
It's Easier Being Green: The business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
case for transforming your data center with a green initiative. It has tangible examples and tactics that show how to realize cost savings, reduce strain on IT resources and retain better business continuity & availability. Many companies are projected to spend more on energy than hardware over a three year cycle. This is just one of the many reasons why becoming...
Going Green. A Strategic Guide to Green IT Management. by CA
management software solutions as part of your green IT strategy advances your overall sustainability goals. The complexity of today's dynamic IT deployments can make the process of choosing a Green IT strategy and achieving Green IT goals difficult. While Green IT solutions can play a critical role in reducing costs, optimizing performance and supporting...
The Greening of Training: How Sustainability Is Reshaping Organizational Learning by SkillSoft Corporation
Green sustainability is becoming a highly visible part of the corporate strategy. Read this paper to learn how your organization can generate significant cost savings by integrating a green project into an overall change management initiative. Green sustainability is becoming a highly visible part of the...
2008 North American Storage Optimization Green Excellence of the Year Award by Ocarina Networks
Read how the Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence Award in Technology Innovation recipient has demonstrated superior technological advancement which is aligned with a sustainable and environmentally conscious objective. The Frost & Sullivan Green Excellence Award in Technology Innovation is presented to a company that has demonstrated...
Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
environment. Learn how turning your storage green saves money and space for data centers with trapped budgets and limited room. Addressing power, space and cooling issues for storage not only helps the environment, it saves money and space for data centers with strapped budgets and limited room. This "Turning Storage Green" eZine from the editors of Storage...
Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT by IBM
management technologies contribute to green management. This white paper-- along with its companion white paper, "Greening the data center with IBM Tivoli software: an integrated approach to managing energy"-- discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green management...
Greening the Data Center (Smart Enterprise Article) by CA
processes and technologies. Much of today's "green IT" transformation is happening in the data center, and for good reason: Data centers are a significant node on the energy grid. But "green" strategies require careful technology planning. Done right, a green hardware strategy can improve efficiency, cost effectiveness and system reliability. Read...
IBM Fall 2008 Green IT Catalog by IBM
In the IBM Software for a Greener World catalog you'll find stories of actual customers who reduced energy consumption and IT costs - by using IBM software to better manage their people, workloads and infrastructure. Energy consumption in datacenters is expected to double in the next five years. Yet many businesses still don't know how much...
Storage Bin: Shining the Green Spotlight on Storage by Storage Magazine
There's a green movement marching through the data center and the focus is shifting to storage. There's been a lot of hubbub lately about the greening of IT, and it's going to get worse. Unlike most buzz/noise fronts that come and go, this one didn't start in the marketing department. It began with someone finding out that they had...
ESG Report: Emerging Green Initiative and Needs in IT by IBM
operational efficiency, to help meet new green requirements. Learn how a well defined green initiative can not only further your company's business needs, but also bolster its corporate identity. Information Infrastructure solutions from IBM System Storage can help cut energy costs and increase operational efficiency, to help meet new green...
IBM Software: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization by IBM
and higher customer expectations-going green is not only socially responsible, it's an economic imperative. Traditional green IT strategies have focused on the data center alone, which accounts for only 2% of global CO2 emissions. For IT to impact the other 98% requires a new paradigm-one in which software is the key to realizing energy efficiencies...
Whitepaper: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization by IBM
and higher customer expectations-going green is not only socially responsible, it's an economic imperative. Traditional green IT strategies have focused on the data center alone, which accounts for only2% of global CO2emissions. For IT to impact the other 98% requires a new paradigm-one in which software is the key to realizing energy efficiencies...
Webcast: Turn down the Power and Turn up the Profits by IBM
infrastructure virtualization to green supply chain management, with a Smart SOA™ approach and the advanced features of IBM WebSphere® software, IBM can help you make your green strategy a reality...
Creating the Green IT Action Plan by Avaya Inc.
by crafting an action plan for implementing green IT principles...
Blue in the Face about Green: Editorial by Storage Magazine
Blue in the face about green. Maybe The Green Grid expects another consortium to pick up where it's apparently leaving off. But there are some storage vendors who are really doing something to curb power consumption without the aid of a fraternity...
Strategies for Implementing Green IT Management by CA
IT Management (EITM) focus segments for green IT initiatives CA provides integrated solutions within six key Enterprise IT Management (EITM) focus segments for green IT initiatives:

  • Data Center Automation
  • Application Performance Management
  • Infrastructure Management
  • Service Management
  • IT Security Management
  • IT Governance

There's no question...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
This white paper describes about the convergence of two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base, and also the four specific drivers that are causing people to think about transforming their data centers. This white paper describes about the convergence of two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base,...
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Essential tools for mainframe operation and management by Robert Crawford, Contributor
SAS also has extensive presentation services, from green screen to HTML, and data warehousing facilities.

You can mitigate the cost of SAS through familiar tricks such as running in on the smallest processor you got. The SAS institute sells the software by component so you can just buy the pieces you need. If the mainframe version is too dear, SAS... More...

United Parcel Service's Tier 4 data center goes green by Matt Stansberry, Senior Site Editor
power-saving cooling strategies. Let's face it: A lot of green data center case studies are pretty worthless. Vendors and customers pat one another on the back for buying green products and offer vague promises to save energy in data centers over a period of time.

But the facilities department at the United Parcel Service of America Inc.'s Alpharetta... More...

SPEC benchmarks: Simplify your server search by Frank Trocino, Contributor
based on real-world applications running on modern computing systems. While they are meant to be used as an appropriate gauge for performance in the real world, they should not be the sole determining factor for purchasing, since there are factors such as service, support, compatibility, pricing, etc. that come into play.

Benchmarks suites are designed... More...

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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
On Nov. 18, Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM Corp. announced plans to acquire Los Gatos, Calif.-based Transitive Corp., a privately held technology company whose translation software enables applications written for one kind of CPU and operating system (OS) to run on various combinations of CPU and OS without... More...
CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make mainframe tools more automated and more user friendly. It's the right thing to be doing."

In addition to making its mainframe software easier to use, CA will offer a so-called out-tasking service that, in conjunction with CA service... More...

Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Starting with the IBM z9 mainframe, 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... More...