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Editorial: Green, greener and greenest by Storage Magazine
being a storage manager. Not too long ago, the only green storage vendors seemed interested in was the kind with pictures of Benjamin Franklin on it that they carried around in their wallets. But now even casual observers of the storage industry know that power consumption and air conditioning are cool issues, and green is definitely the "in" color.

So what should you do when...
2008 North American Storage Optimization Green Excellence of the Year Award by Ocarina Networks
for its breakthrough implementation of a novel storage optimization technique that brings down power, cooling, and storage costs, as well as reduces the digital footprint, and thereby the carbon footprint, involved with online storage. With this remarkable achievement, Ocarina Networks has helped advance a new era of ‘green' storage that brings...
Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
the storage 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Green and Environmental Friendly Storage: Practical Ways to Achieve Energy Efficiency by Storage Decisions and i365, A Seagate Company
This document discusses ways to address power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE) issues and best practices for improving energy efficiency. This document discusses ways to address power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE) issues and best practices for improving energy efficiency...
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...
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...
Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovation by Incentra Solutions
managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power, floor space, and operating costs...
IBM System x Servers - The Right Choice. Open. Easy. Green by IBM
this paper. IBM System x servers: Open. Easy. Green.

Reliable IBM System x servers help businesses stand apart from their competition. Scalable systems and proactive tools help you simplify your IT so you can manage complexity, growth and risk. In addition, energy efficiency, consolidation and virtualization help you lower costs.

Discover the features,...
Energy Efficient Data Storage Systems by Atrato, Inc.
of several types of modern 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...
Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter: Scale and save with Tape Technology Innovations by Sun StorageTek
managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power, floor space, and operating costs...
Green and Environmental Friendly Storage: Practical Ways to Achieve Energy Efficiency by SearchStorage.com
This document discusses ways to address power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE) issues and best practices for improving energy efficiency. This document discusses ways to address power, cooling, floor-space, environmental (PCFE) issues and best practices for improving energy efficiency...
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...
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...
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
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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
...
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...
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
leading businesses can't afford to implement Green IT initiatives that don't also deliver significant, quantifiable savings and/or performance improvements.

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...
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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...

No assembly required: How I lost two days in the data center by Kyle Rankin, Columnist
move the more than one thousand pounds of gear from the storage room to the cage. There was only so much space inside the cage, so I had to break the giant boxes down and carry the gear load by load with a push cart.

Things were going well until I came across "the box"--one of those HP boxes that was so large you could poke a few holes in it and ship the engineer inside... More...

Leasing vs. buying storage: A closer look by Greg Schulz
this tip: To help you decide between leasing and buying storage, this tip looks at the pros and cons of each approach along with some situational considerations.

The fundamental difference between purchasing and leasing storage is that with a purchase, you pay or finance the acquisition in exchange for ownership and equity of the asset. On the other... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Experian, which relied on city water to supply the chillers that cool its McKinney data center.

"We lost all city utility as far as water pressure," said Russ Burlew, the data center facility manager. "It took three and a half days to repair that line, and we were without water. We had vendors come in with water trucks and pumps to keep our tower full."

"When everyone talks... More...

After Transitive acquisition, will IBM shed translation software beneficial to competition? by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer. And check out our data center blogs: Server Farming, Mainframe Propellerhead, and Data Center Facilities Pro.

IBM plans to acquire Transitive Corp., whose translation software enables applications to run on various combinations of CPU and OS. But will IBM continue to enable translation for non... More...
Running Linux and z/OS on a single mainframe poses no problem by Mark Fontecchio, Nes Writer
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 which hundreds or even thousands of virtual Linux servers run on z/VM, along with a bunch of Integrated Facility for... More...