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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 average...
Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT by IBM
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
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...
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...
4 Stages of Green: Mapping Your Way to a Useful Project by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
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...
Storage eZine: Turning Storage Green by SearchStorage.com
magazine provides a guide for storage and data center managers looking to take advantage of green technologies. Readers will find power saving tips and methods that can be used immediately as well as information on leading vendors of green solutions...
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 drivers...
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, trends...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
electricity cost for a typical high-density data center is 42% of OPEX.

3) The third driver is the resource shortage. The pool of qualified senior technical management professionals will shrink by 45%. Like the scarcity of energy there is a scarcity of people with the engineering process and management skills to most efficiently run data centers.

4) The fourth driver is...
Greening the Data Center (Smart Enterprise Article) by CA
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 about the best ways to get started with best practices...
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 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...
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, all...
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 reached the end of the line when it came to adding...
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...
Whitepaper: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization by IBM
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 the organization-dramatically reducing environmental impact and energy costs. This paper explores optimization...
It's Easier Being Green: The business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
illustrates the 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...
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 questions...
IBM Software: A Green Strategy for Your Entire Organization by IBM
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 the organization-dramatically reducing environmental impact and energy costs. This paper explores optimization...
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
This paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center 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...
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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Emergency systems administration from your cell phone by Kyle Rankin, Contributor
as well. In the mean time I'm happy enough with the tiny green-on-black SSH terminal always in my pocket.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Kyle Rankin is a systems administrator in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of a number of books including Knoppix Hacks and Ubuntu Hacks for O'Reilly Media. Kyle Rankin shows you how to handle Unix systems administration in... More...

Mainframe virtualization improves total cost of ownership on IBM z10 by Wayne Kernochan, Contributor
savings than using multiple databases in the same data center, because it simplifies administration. MY TCO studies suggest otherwise: The typical administrative-cost advantage of a lower-cost database reduces TCO more than standardization does.

The effects from data integration and master data management are more subtle. Extending queries to... More...

IT Governance: Visibility of IT to the business by Audrey Rasmussen, Contributor
including those of you in the trenches of the data center. So let's take a quick look at what IT governance can mean for data center personnel.

Business value and visibility of IT departments
The first point is visibility and awareness. It's my contention that IT is not fully valued by the business because much of what you do is invisible to your users... More...

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Experian drills backup water supply to cool data center by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
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The unknowns of well drilling and other backup-water options
Robert McFarlane, a data center design expert and a principal at New York-based Shen Milsom & Wilke Inc. , said that well drilling is an uncommon way to get backup water for a data center, because there are so many question marks.

"The problem with well water is that, until you reach it, you don't know what condition... 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
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... More...