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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 on...
Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT by IBM
management. The paper provides an overview of green data centers and the significant role played by direct and indirect power consumption in today's data centers, as well as technology aspects of green data center management. It then describes the specific ways IBM Tivoli solutions can help optimize energy use in the data center...
Creating a Green Data Center to Help Reduce Energy Costs and Gain a Competitive Advantage by IBM
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 solutions. Based on our firsthand experience implementing energy-efficiency projects, IBM has identified five strategic building blocks companies can use to take action today to begin...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
disk-based data storage systems in large data centers. Disk drives consume a significant amount of power and consequently place a considerable load on the cooling resources in large data centers. The type of disk drive and associated packaging play a key role in minimizing the energy required to store and access data in these environments. Atrato has developed a...
4 Stages of Green: Mapping Your Way to a Useful Project by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
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 achieve green returns. Also included is a 4-step...
Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
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 magazine provides a guide for storage and...
Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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 and podcast, virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the...
How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
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, and also the four specific drivers that are causing people to think about transforming their data centers.

Two significant trends that we are seeing across our client base are:

1...
Greening the Data Center (Smart Enterprise Article) by CA
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 about the best ways to get started with best practices culled from experts in the field...
IT Briefing: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
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 blade solution focused on energy efficiency. It summarizes...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
the level progression. While most enterprise data centers won't need to reach Level 5, moving up the model to the point where virtualization is implemented to achieve the business goal of application delivery is paramount to any enterprise. This White Paper defines the baseline and process of virtualization maturity for the data center...
An Inconvenient Balance? Can the Data Center Go Green without Stifling Corporate Growth? by Crossbeam Systems
technologies that can positively impact the data center's energy consumption without sacrificing performance, and exactly how to calculate the energy and cost savings. Enterprise IT organizations are mercilessly put in the spotlight to save the day and provide the business with both bottom line cost improvements and top line company competitiveness,...
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...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
impossible, and the cost of managing too many data centers is an increasing burden on the business.

Organizations are looking at business and IT transformation initiatives, and within that context data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings through:

  • Improved service levels and responsiveness
  • Reduces support
...
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...
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 While Reducing Operational Costs, an Interview with Joe Clabby by IBM
he feels will have the biggest influence on the data center's costs and what else enterprises can do besides dumping air for water cooling. Where are costs piling up in your data center? What can you do to reduce these costs? Senior Editorial Events Manager Beth Nicholson interviews Joe Clabby, President of Clabby Analytics to discuss these issues and related...
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...
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...
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...
Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever. Customers expect to purchase products and access services 24x7. So any downtime-planned or unplanned- can disrupt critical business processes. New...
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...
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...
Intel's Drive to Green IT by Intel Corporation
explains how to optimize all of the elements in a data center in order to deliver the best energy efficiency. Intel Premier IT Program members can review this presentation which explains how to optimize all of the elements in a data center in order to deliver the best energy efficiency...
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Chilled-water production optimization for data center cooling by Mike Flaherty, Contributor
so the price of the coal, oil or gas required to cool most data centers has increased as well.

Every ton of cooling consumed by servers must be generated by the chilled-water system. Efforts to improve cost should look at both reducing the amount of cooling needed as well as efficiently producing the chilled water.

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Is Nagios right for your data center? by Roger Rustad, Contributor
In many data center environments, Nagios has become the de facto standard for companies in need of an open source, fault-tolerant solution to monitor single points of failure, service-level agreement (SLA) shortcomings, servers, redundant communication connections or environmental factors. But is... More...
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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
to backup water is to dig a retention pond, which Experian also considered. For those data centers that have the highest demands for availability, those retention ponds usually are large enough to supply water to chiller plants for a week or so. At that point, the company will need to decide whether they'll be able to bring that primary site back on or transfer to a... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
Linux mainframe have more to do with politics than with technology.

"Most large data centers have mainframes with z/OS, and just about all organizations have Linux stuff that is a candidate for consolidation," said Wayne Kernochan, a senior research analyst at Aberdeen Group. At the same time, Kernochan explained that there is a lot of "graying of the old... More...