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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...
[16 May 2008]
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...
[16 May 2008]
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.
[16 May 2008]
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.
[16 May 2008]
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?
[16 May 2008]
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...
[16 May 2008]
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...
[16 May 2008]
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...
[15 May 2008]
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...
[15 May 2008]
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...
[15 May 2008]
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.
[15 May 2008]
whitepaper To help its enterprise run more efficiently, Gates Corporation, a leading manufacturer of automotive and industrial belts and hoses, needed a monitoring system that could provide comprehensive reporting data on its 400 business-critical servers.
[15 May 2008]
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...
[14 May 2008]
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. The city's IT department, which manages the entire...
[14 May 2008]
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. This paper describes common business problems...
[14 May 2008]
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...
[11 May 2008]
whitepaper Using VPIMS, VUMC staff members have been able to improve patient care by having quick access to accurate patient data. By analyzing data generated by VPIMS, VUMC continues to improve on all metrics. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is...
[06 May 2008]
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...
[05 May 2008]
whitepaper IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational efficiency. It also can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and...
[05 May 2008]
whitepaper The company's challenge was to improve performance of compute grid to accommodate compute-intensive research to reduce IT expenses to maintain internal cost efficiency. They wanted to improve data center space utilization to lower energy costs and...
[05 May 2008]
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