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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Essential tools for mainframe operation and management
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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...
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United Parcel Service's Tier 4 data center goes green
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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...
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SPEC benchmarks: Simplify your server search
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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...
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After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition?
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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...
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CA announces Mainframe 2.0
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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...
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Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem
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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...
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