Green Data Center

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 on...

White paper provides an overview of green data centers, the significant role played by direct and indirect power consumption, the technology aspects of green data center management. White paper provides an overview of green data centers, the significant role played by direct and indirect power consumption, the technology aspects of green data center...

of this e-book, a step-by-step guide to greening the data center is presented. These strategies for going green in the data center are designed to help IT managers create a holistic data center efficiency project. This chapter summarizes strategies for going green in the data center and is designed to help IT managers create a holistic strategy for a data center...

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 infrastructure...

achievable energy reduction goals. Reducing data center costs is always a top priority, and it can also undoubtedly be your most challenging task when dealing with continuing technology upgrades and requirements. In our second session, speaker Kenneth G. Brill, Founder and Executive Director of The Uptime Institute explores several strategies for reducing...

By 2011, Gartner predicts, a quarter of new data centers will be designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum negative environmental impact. According to the Uptime Institute, a consortium of companies devoted to maximizing efficiency and uptime in the data center, more than 60 percent of the power used to cool equipment in the data center is...

will become the most significant IT issue in the data center over the next 3-4 years. RFG believes there are many actions that can be taken immediately to improve the efficiency of… Robert Frances Group (RFG) believes power and cooling optimization will become the most significant IT issue in the data center over the next 3-4 years. RFG believes there are many actions...

about backups, storage consolidation tips, and data migration tips. This magazine issue covers several topics, including industry salary trends, information about backups, storage consolidation tips, and data migration tips. Other topics covered in this issue include Microsoft and DAS, outsourcing and going green, data centers and converged networks, and best...

The data center is often the engine that drives the growth of the enterprise, and energy efficiency is the key. IBM has a decade of experience in owning and managing eight million square feet of data centers around the world. And we’ve been working closely with our clients the past year in implementing energy-efficiency...

approaches to reduce energy consumption in the data center and the additional challenges that come with “going green.” This webcast reviews approaches to reduce energy consumption in the data center and the additional challenges that come with “going green.” You will learn about other organizations’ interests in green computing and the costs they will accept to...

for storage. 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...

This article explains the concepts of green storage, examines deployment issues, looks at one user’s struggles, and considers the future of green storage practices. This article explains the concepts of green storage, examines deployment issues, looks at one user’s struggles and considers the future of green storage practices. Green storage is a...

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...

perspective about the Top Ten I/O Strategies for Green and Virtual data center. In this paper Greg Schulz and Jon Toor talks about the industry trends and perspective about the Top Ten I/O Strategies for Green and Virtual data center. Virtual I/O dynamically deploys connectivity to any server. Data center agility becomes real, because connections, both fiber channel...

The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even “going green.” The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced...

downturn make maximizing the lives of existing data centers more important than ever. Listen to this podcast to understand why airflow and humidity are central to cooling efficiency and what you can do to reduce the thermal bottleneck. Learn about measures you can take to increase cooling efficiency by 30% and infrastructure design techniques that enable the...

downturn make maximizing the lives of existing data centers more important than ever. Watch this webcast to understand why airflow and humidity are central to cooling efficiency and what you can do to reduce the thermal bottleneck. Learn about measures you can take to increase cooling efficiency by 30% and infrastructure design techniques that enable the...

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...

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 throughout...

and learn more about the business case for green IT. You'll learn how HP's own Green Business Technology Initiative is driving strong business results on all three fronts: risk, cost and growth. It's easier being green. . . because it's becoming increasingly true that better environmental outcomes also mean better business outcomes. Whether your primary focus is...

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...

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...

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 throughout...

This report highlights the issues regarding data center asset planning, including managing complexity in the data center. Learn how to drive business benefits while improving energy efficiency. The aim of this report is to highlight the issues regarding data center asset planning, including managing complexity in the data center; how companies are dealing...

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 refreshed. Topping off those challenges is the rapid evolution of information technology as a...