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Top 10 Ways to Save Energy in Your Data Center by Wright Line
expert tips to increase energy efficiency in your data center? This videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 features Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant. Watch it now to hear McFarlane discuss the top 10 energy saving tactics and address the following topics:

  • Advanced hot-aisle/cold-aisle strategies
  • Best practices for
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Saving Energy in Your Data Center -- Why is it Important? by Wright Line
Why create an energy-efficient data center? This expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 uses real-life scenarios to explain the key benefits, how to meet regulations, and strategies to track and measure energy efficiency. If you're like most busy IT managers, saving energy in the data center is probably not your primary concern. In this expert...
Transform Your Data Center Into An Energy-Efficient Operation by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Data center growth has led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting infrastructure. This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems energy-efficient systems with virtualization technologies. Data center growth in number of users, applications, and data, have all led to...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue. Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and...
Podcast: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
podcast to learn how to increase efficiency in your data center in the following ways:
  • Virtualization: consolidate to increase utilization, reducing space, power, and waste
  • High density computing (Blades): reduce space
  • Improve power efficiency: upgrade UPS and servers to more efficient models
  • Improve cooling efficiency: upgrade hardware and improve data center cooling
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How to Green your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
webcast to learn how to increase efficiency in your data center in the following ways:
  • Virtualization: consolidate to increase utilization, reducing space, power, and waste
  • High density computing (Blades): reduce space
  • Improve power efficiency: upgrade UPS and servers to more efficient models
  • Improve cooling efficiency: upgrade hardware and improve data center cooling
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Akamai's Application Performance Solutions: For a Complete Application Delivery Strategy, Think Outside the Data-center by Akamai Technologies
or considering implementing an ADC in your data-center, that alone will not complete your application delivery strategy. A complete application delivery strategy requires a combination of technologies that look at application delivery from an end user's perspective-all the way from the data-center to the application user.

Akamai's...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 1: Site Selection and Design by Hewlett-Packard Company
Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements. Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This first chapter in a...
Virtualization and Automation Drive Dynamic Data Centers by CA
will also be able to drive consistency across your data center and reduce manual intervention-- freeing up resources for strategic tasks that will help you create further differentiation. The resulting operations and facility efficiencies will translate into better customer experience, reduced environmental impact and increased capacity for future services...
Increase Performance and Efficiency with the HP Integrity NonStop BladeSystem by Hewlett-Packard Company
critical business systems, and by reducing your data center facility costs. In this white paper learn more about the HP Integrity NonStop NB50000c BladeSystem that achieves the same high availability, data integrity, and scalability formerly obtainable only with HP Integrity NonStop rack-mounted systems but offers smaller data center footprint, lower per...
IT Briefing: How to Green Your Data Center from the Server Out by Dell, Inc. and Intel
In this paper virtualization and blade server expert and industry analyst Barb Goldworm discusses the drivers, impacts, trends and economics of greener computing. This document 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
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eBook: Capacity Planning Eases Path to Virtualization by Hewlett-Packard Company
Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery. Virtualizing any aspect of your data center changes the game for compliance and e-discovery. Make sure you know exactly where your applications are running, that your server controls are intact and that your service provider contract provisions are "...
Workbook: Evaluating Data Center High-Availability Service Delivery by FORTRUST LLC
of criteria you might consider when evaluating your data center performance, along with space for noting or collecting information. This workbook is meant to be used in conjunction with the white paper from Fortrust entitled "Evaluating Data Center High- Availability Service Delivery." It provides a number of criteria you might consider when evaluating your data center...
Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network by Quest Software
34;junk" data, the heaps of files clogging your data center. In the Quest Software white paper, "Top Ten Reports to Identify "Junk" Data in Your Storage Network," you'll learn how reduce storage management costs and free up additional storage capacity. See how to gather metrics, create reports, and identify unwanted files and reclaim wasted space across...
Going Green While Reducing Operational Costs, an Interview with Joe Clabby by IBM
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 that plague data center managers and their budget. Joe reveals what technology he feels will have the biggest influence on...
Brochure: Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at the approach to Data Center Transformation and how centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. It highlights data center managers and how HP is helping its customers address them. Not all data centers are ready for the challenges of the global marketplace including environmental concerns, disruption of critical...
A Holistic View of Virtualization in the Data Center by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
will show you how to look at the big picture of your data center and prioritize to select an appropriate virtualization solution for your organization. Each type of virtualization-server, storage, desktop, application, and network-serves a specific purpose and offers its own ROI. These types are all related in some way, and implementation of one type may drive needs in other...
Dell's Sponsorship of a LearningGuide on SearchDataCenter by Dell, Inc. and Intel
you determine if and how blade servers fit into your data center strategy.

Explore this learning guide to learn what experts are saying about the following questions, and more:

  • Are blade servers a viable alternative to rack servers?
  • Has blade technology-specifically licensing considerations, workload capacity, and vendor lock-in-matured far enough?
  • How do
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Breakthroughs in Enterprise Server Architecture by Dell, Inc. and Intel
Can your data center support current and future server, storage, networking, and management technologies? This white paper reviews a modular server enclosure that incorporates the latest advances in power, cooling, I/O, and... Does your data center have the capability to support current and future server, storage,...
An Overview of PAN Manager by Egenera, Inc.
software (PAN Manager) to dramatically reduce data center complexity and deliver an agile, highly-available infrastructure. You need a data center optimization strategy that ensures high availability, simplifies operational complexity, adapts to your existing environment, and delivers a secure and responsive computing infrastructure - all while lowering TCO.

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Cool IT Equipment Efficiently to Lower Energy Use and Cut Costs by Upsite Technologies, Inc.
To optimize your data center infrastructure, consider these four practical best practice steps that Upsite's engineers have devised for solving cooling inefficiencies through proper airflow management. To optimize your data center infrastructure, consider these four practical best practice steps that Upsite's engineers...
The Four Security Risk Gaps of Mainframe Console Access -- And How To Close Them by I/O Concepts Inc.
This podcast can help you be sure your company's commitment to security includes all levels of mainframe access. For many years, the mainframe has been considered inherently secure-behind a locked door with restricted access. The realities of today's enterprise, with wide network access of mainframe resources, have exploded the foundations of this...
Rightsizing Blades for the Midmarket by Hewlett-Packard Company
in the mid-market and how to apply blades to your data center in a cost effective manner. Blades are one of the fastest-growing segments in the IT industry. Already accounting for nearly 10% of all server shipments, blades are expected to grow to represent more than 25% of server shipments by 2011.

For all this success, however, blades have been primarily limited to...
Webcast - Closing the Four Security Risk Gaps of Mainframe Console Access by I/O Concepts Inc.
presented in this webcast can help you be sure your company's commitment to security includes all levels of mainframe access. For many years, the mainframe has been considered inherently secure-behind a locked door with restricted access. The realities of today's enterprise, with wide network access of mainframe resources, have exploded the foundations of this...
CA Data Center Automation Manager: Overview of Practical Examples of Data Center Automation by CA
Considering implementing automation in your data center? Watch this webcast to learn about the benefits - cost control, improved agility, better service quality, to name a few - and the top three use cases. Watch this webcast to learn how automation increases efficiency using informed automation for provisioning and configuration management of diverse IT environments...
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Is effective performance management in the data center possible? by Richard L. Ptak, Cofounder and Managing Partner, Ptak, Noel & Associates LLC
enterprise demands on and expectations from IT and data center services continues to grow despite flat budgets and static staffing.

Stronger operational links to and impact on business operations means enterprise IT faces increasing pressures to deliver business services that are more reliable, adaptable, faster and innovative in function and... More...

Modernizing mainframe applications: Old dog, new tricks by Robert Crawford, Contributor
you find this helpful? Write to Matt Stansberry about your data center concerns at mstansberry@techtarget.com. Do you have mainframe applications hanging around from the 1970s? Are they starting to show their age? Robert Crawford looks at the pros and cons of application modernization... More...
CICS program list tables: PLTPI and PLTSD programs by Robert Crawford, Contributor
stalls or ABEND's. If you're relying on PLTSD to save some data you'd better have a backup plan.

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There are a few restrictions on what a PLTPI program can do. Since there's no terminal associated with the PLTPI transaction, a program may not do any terminal I/O, including IRC or ISC. A PLTPI program shouldn't put itself into any waits, internal or... 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
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...