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Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits by APC
though, come new challenges to the power and cooling infrastructure. Virtualization is an undisputed leap forward in data center evolution - it saves energy, it increases computing throughput, it frees up floor space, and it facilitates load migration and disaster recovery. With these benefits though, come new challenges to the power and cooling...
Cutting datacenter costs with server and infrastructure offload - A technical guide by Citrix
run out of available floor space or power and cooling capacity. For those already at their limits, this approach also means having to get by as best they can for the next two to three years, or however long it takes for their new data centers to be designed, approved, constructed and eventually brought on line. Without the capacity to readily deploy new applications, a key...
REDUCING COSTS THROUGH BETTER SERVER UTILIZATION by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating...
Driving Datacenter Efficiency Through Server and Application Consolidation by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
have left many organizations facing power and cooling, floor space, and administrative challenges. By embracing application and server consolidation strategies, IT managers can gain real efficiencies that lower costs and streamline operations. Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers offer the scalability required to tackle consolidation projects. These...
Matching Data Deduplication Approaches to Workload Characteristics: The Quantum DXi7500 by Quantum Corporation
in hardware and software purchases, but also in cooling, floor space, administration, and network capacity (bandwidth) expense. The most commonly deployed SCO technology is data deduplication, and there has been considerable controversy among vendors about the "best" approach to deploying deduplication technology.

The primary deployment environment today for...
Presentation Transcript: Business Benefits of Boosting Web hosting Efficiency and Optimization by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
In this transcript industry expert Greg Schulz explains the challenges and benefits of optimizing your web hosting. While optimizing your web hosting environment can help your organization gain a competitive advantage, it can also be difficult to do. In this paper, IT pro Greg Schulz explains the top challenges of this task, and explains how you...
PODCAST: Business Benefits of Boosting Web hosting Efficiency and Optimization by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
In this podcast industry expert Greg Schulz explains the challenges and benefits of optimizing your web hosting. While optimizing your web hosting environment can help your organization gain a competitive advantage, it can also be difficult to do. In this podcast, IT pro Greg Schulz explains the top challenges of this task, and explains how you can...
Business Benefits of Boosting Web hosting Efficiency and Optimization by Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Intel Corporation
In this webcast industry expert Greg Schulz explains the challenges and benefits of optimizing your web hosting. While optimizing your web hosting environment can help your organization gain a competitive advantage, it can also be difficult to do. In this webcast, IT pro Greg Schulz explains the top challenges of this task, and explains how you can...
Real-time Shop Floor Integration, Simplified: The Right ERP System Can Make It Happen by IQMS
and quickly in real-time. Real-time shop-floor integration is possible without the complications and added costs of integrated third- party solutions. The right ERP system can make it happen, even in complex manufacturing environments and across globally distributed supply chains.

A single-source solution, EnterpriseIQ is written, developed, and...
Raising Inlet Air Temperatures in the Data Center: Pros and Cons by APC
Matt Stansberry, Executive Editor of SearchDataCenter, talks with Robert McFarlane, Principal and Data Center Expert for Shen Milsom and Wlke, to discuss the tradeoffs of using warmer server inlet air temperatures to save energy. Some data center operators are using increasingly warmer server inlet air temperatures to save energy and expand...
Increasing Data Center Efficiency by Using Improved High Density Power Distribution by APC
for high density server installations saves floor space, simplifies power cabling, saves capital cost, reduces weight, and increases electrical efficiency. This paper describes this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits. High density server installations where racks can draw from 10 kW to 40 kW per rack place significant strains on...
Ten Cooling Solutions to Support High-Density Server Deployment by APC
depending on the deployment, they can present a cooling challenge. This paper provides ten approaches for increasing cooling efficiency, cooling capacity and power density. Blade servers use less powerful than traditional servers, but when housed compactly in a single rack, the increased power required and heat dissipated creates hot spots. In fact, many high...
Cooling Strategies for IT Wiring Closets and Small Rooms by APC
This paper explains the five methods of a proper cooling closet and outlines the basic principles of cooling small, distributed IT environments. Improper cooling systems can cause overheating and equipment failure. For most IT closets, ventilation is the most effective and practical cooling strategy. Learn how ventilation systems that are specifically designed...
Energy Efficient Cooling for Data Centers: A Close-Coupled Row Solution by APC
became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also increasing. The trend of increasing heat densities in data centers has held consistent with advances in computing technology for many years. As power density increased, it became evident that the degree of difficulty in cooling these higher power demand loads was also...
Is Your Data Center Running Out Of Power Or Cooling? by Eaton Corporation
Is your data center running out of power or cooling? Read this paper and discover seven ways to extend the value of what you have and optimize the plan for what you need. The challenge. To keep pace with business demands, data centers pack in more power-hungry, heat generating IT systems than ever. Many power and cooling systems are reaching their limits. Older power...
Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence through Real-time Performance Management and Continuous Improvement by SAP America Inc
all manifest themselves on the plant floor and throughout the enterprise. Life Sciences manufacturers are feeling new pressure on their operations from many directions. Dynamic market needs, increased compliance requirements, more distributed manufacturing operations, rapid product innovation, lean manufacturing, and the approaching...
Avoidable Mistakes that Compromise Cooling Performance in Data Centers and Network Rooms by APC
prevent them from achieving their potential cooling capacity and prevent them from delivering cool air where it is needed. These problems are generally unrecognized because computer rooms have typically been operated at power densities well below their design values. However, recent increases in the power density of new IT equipment are pushing data centers...
Strategies for Deploying Blade Servers in Existing Data Centers by APC
an existing data center stresses the power and cooling systems. This paper reviews five methods to deploy blade servers and avoid common pitfalls, helping you select the best power and cooling approach for your IT shop. The installation of blade servers—which drastically increase the electrical power used per rack and heat generated per rack—into an existing...
Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management™ Blanking Panels by APC
explains how this problem compromises the cooling process and the benefit of using air blanking panels. IT equipment mounted in racks cools itself by drawing ambient air from the data center or network room. If the heated exhaust air is allowed to return to the air inlet of the equipment, an undesirable overheating condition may occur. Data centers and network...
IDC: Next - Generation Power and Cooling for Blade Environments by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
a holistic approach to improving power and cooling efficiency in the IT infrastructure, designed to help companies reduce energy consumption, reclaim unused datacenter capacity, and extend the life of their datacenter. The HP BladeSystem features three fundamental technologies:

  • HP Insight Software for infrastructure management
  • HP Virtual Connect for
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The Web Hacking Incidents Database 2008: Annual Report by Breach Security
Read this white paper to learn about the Web Hacking Incident Database (WHID). The WHID's purpose is to serve as a tool for raising awareness of web application security problems and provide information for statistical analysis of incidents. While financial gain is certainly a big driver for web hacking, ideological hacking cannot be ignored...
Air-Cooled High-Performance Data Centers: Case Studies and Best Methods. by Intel Corporation
Designing an air-cooled data center has been challending and costly for many businesses. Read this white paper to learn how Intel Corporation achieved breakthrough power and heat densities of 15 kW per cabinet and more than 500 watts per square foot of server room area.

Designing an air-cooled data center has been challending and costly for many...
Cooling Strategies for Ultra-High Density Racks and Blade Servers by APC
This white paper addresses common data center cooling challenges and describes five strategies for deploying ultra-high power racks, with practical solutions for both new and existing data centers. Rack power of 10 kW per rack or more can result from the deployment of high density equipment such as blade servers. This creates difficult cooling challenges in a data...
Save Money and Improve Agility: Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise Series Servers by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
challenges within many datacenters include floor space limits, excessive energy costs, administrative complexity, and shrinking budgets.

Read this white paper and learn the business benefits that can be achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. It also includes the challenges organizations are...
Data Center Facilities IT Handbook: Mastering data center climate control by Dell, Inc. and Intel
more about these sources, other parts of the cooling system, and how to best manage the climate of your data system.

This chapter also includes:

  • Schematic diagram of a cooling system
  • A Google case study on eliminating chillers
  • Five tips for improving CRAC efficiency
  • Dell resources and solutions
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IPMI Tutorial: Are you using it? Do you know how? by Ben Rockwood, Contributor
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) is everywhere. In fact, this year will be the 10th anniversary of the 1.0 Specification. If you've purchased new systems in the last four years -- and we know you have -- there it is. But are you using IPMI? Do you know how? Don't worry, SearchDataCenter.com has you covered.

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DMTF tries to SMASH systems management costs by Matt Stansberry, Site Editor
managed and deployed

Even the data center power and cooling crisis will affect systems management, as new instrumentation to monitor and control IT energy consumption comes online and becomes an IT issue.

Bumpus said standards should be driven by customers. "IT managers need to stand up and tell vendors 'Do it the same way or we're not going to buy your... More...

SHARE wrap up from Robert Rosen by Robert Rosen, Columnist
storage gets heavier and heavier and the data center floor might not be able to physically hold it. I spoke to someone at the meeting whose company brought in a brand new high-density storage unit. They wheeled it onto the data center floor and they came in the next morning to find that their floor had collapsed. No one thought to find out how much weight... More...
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CA announces Mainframe 2.0 by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
experienced IT staff, to create greater uniformity among products, and to provide a service to remove mainframe burdens.

Rich Ptak, an analyst at Ptak, Noel & Associates, believes that CA's initiative is a good idea.

"It's a step in the right direction," Ptak said. "CA is in competition with mainframe-focused tools from BMC and IBM. They're all working hard to make... More...

TPC eyes energy consumption and virtualization benchmarks by Bridget Botelho, News Writer
systems are idle."

TPC will also offer new ETL (extraction/transformation/loading and service-oriented architecture (SOA) measurements. Further, the organization plans to offer a series of workshops on using performance benchmarks to make server hardware and software buying decisions. The workshops will be held in various locations throughout the U.S., and... More...

HP announces Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant servers by Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
Capping, HP also announced the following:

Energy-efficiency analysis and design service, much of which is culled from the HP acquisition of EYP Mission Critical Facilities last year. A redesign of the ProLiant BL460c server blade so it uses 44 fewer watts. A new HP 24,000W High Efficiency Hot-Plug Power Supply for its BladeSystem c7000 Enclosure, which HP... More...