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Customer Experiences With NetBackup PureDisk and VMware

whitepaper Data deduplication and server virtualization help storage, backup and IT managers improve efficiency within the data center. How can these two technologies work together to provide customers with even greater benefits?

Tags: back-up

[17 May 2008]

TechNet Webcast: Overview and Architecture of System Center Essentials 2007 (Level 300)

whitepaper This webcast provides an overview of System Center Essentials 2007 and describes how it enables IT professionals in mid-sized organizations to proactively manage their IT environments with increased efficiency.

Tags: monitoring systems

[17 May 2008]

Reducing Energy Consumption in Data Centers - A Software Based Approach

whitepaper The presenter of this webcast will discuss a new software based approach that will help to increase efficiency of servers and storage to reduce energy consumption. Increasing energy consumption in the data center is causing problems for data center...

Tags: storage management

[17 May 2008]

Data Center Efficiency in the Scalable Enterprise

whitepaper Energy efficiency is a top concern as IT managers struggle with rising power bills, cooling problems, usage limits imposed by local utilities, or requirements to deploy additional servers without expanding an existing data center or building a new...

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

Selecting an Industry-Standard Metric for Data Center Efficiency

whitepaper The development of standards for the measurement and specification of data center efficiency is an essential step in the global effort to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. This paper explains some of the metrics that have been used...

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

Championing Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: An IBM Server Consolidation Analysis

whitepaper This utility company, teaming with IBM, is currently undertaking a server consolidation of their data center with the explicit goal of greatly reducing power consumption and increasing their own energy efficiency.

Tags: server consolidation

[16 May 2008]

Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan

whitepaper A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. Despite this critical role in data center design, many floor plans are established through incremental deployment without a central plan.

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

AC Vs. DC Power Distribution for Data Centers

whitepaper This paper explains why high efficiency AC will likely emerge as the dominant choice for data center power distribution. DC power distribution has been proposed as an alternative to AC power distribution in data centers, but misinformation and...

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

Fuel Transporter Improves IT Efficiency and Security With New Management Tool

whitepaper By deploying Microsoft System Center Essentials 2007, the company significantly reduced the amount of time necessary to manage its network. Explorer Pipeline managed its distributed network with a variety of tools, but the IT staff still had...

Tags: monitoring systems

[16 May 2008]

The Green Data Center - More Than Social Responsibility: A Foundation for Growth, Economic Gain and Operating Stability

whitepaper Faced with increasingly urgent warnings about the consequences of the projected rise in both energy demands and greenhouse gas emissions, governments and businesses alike are now focusing more attention than ever on the need to improve energy...

Tags: data center

[16 May 2008]

A Power Benchmarking Study on the IBM System z9: Applying Energy Efficiency Metrics to Performance

whitepaper Over the past few years energy efficiency in the data center has become one of the top concerns for IT managers. As the cost of power grows significantly, the application of energy efficiency to systems performance becomes a metric that can not be...

Tags: mainframes

[15 May 2008]

Korea Food Service Corporation Installs Web-Based Ordering System for Greater Efficiency

whitepaper KFSC has always searched for innovative ways to improve operational efficiency. Founded in 1997 as a delivery center for McDonald's Korea, Korea Food Service Corporation (KFSC) expanded its activities to include food manufacturing and distribution.

Tags: erp

[15 May 2008]

Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center

whitepaper IT engineers at Intel face the significant challenge of managing the cost and efficiency of the data centers. To determine the potential for reducing data center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Intel tested a virtualization solution, comparing new...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

Automotive Parts Manufacturer Boosts Efficiency With Enhanced Monitoring, Reporting

whitepaper By migrating to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, Gates is benefiting from object-level server monitoring and accurate, reliable in-depth reporting. To help its enterprise run more efficiently, Gates Corporation, a leading...

Tags: monitoring systems

[15 May 2008]

Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency

whitepaper This paper presents five strategies for increasing data center cooling efficiency. Coupled with emerging technologies such as higher-efficiency processors and new chip-based cooling technologies, these measures can keep energy costs in line as...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership of Your Virtual Data Center With BMC Software and VMware Solutions

whitepaper Business scenarios describe how a combination of BMC applications and best practices - with virtualization technology from VMware - can address data center problems and improve overall efficiency. VMware technology works with the current...

Tags: data center

[14 May 2008]

City IT Department Improves Data Protection and Backup Process Efficiency

whitepaper Southlake implemented the beta of Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2007 and achieved continuous data protection, greatly increasing the efficiency of its IT operations. Southlake, Texas, is a small, growing city of 26,000 people.

Tags: monitoring systems

[14 May 2008]

Automate to Optimize: The Foundation for Data Center Efficiency

whitepaper IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical data center. Data centers experience constant change under pressure...

Tags: data center

[11 May 2008]

Surgery Intake and Tracking System Boosts Efficiency, Patient Safety, Bottom Line

whitepaper Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is Tennessee's largest and most prestigious medical facility. A decade ago, its anesthesiologists initiated the development of an easy-to-use, electronic anesthesia documentation solution that has evolved...

Tags: application servers

[06 May 2008]

IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - Data Center Stored Cooling Solution

whitepaper This stored cooling solution is designed to optimize the efficiency of equipment that is often overprovisioned and running at low utilization and efficiency. IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored...

Tags: infrastructure management

[05 May 2008]

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