server utilisation
Green IT: Thrifty CIOs should make it a priority
News A recent study revealed that 83 per cent of server managers admitted they do not have an adequate grasp of server utilisation. Server virtualisation, storage... [29 Oct 2009]
CIOs waste energy and budget as one in six servers go unused
News In its survey of server managers, nearly three-quarters said 15 per cent or more of their servers were not doing anything useful, while 83 per cent of managers admitted they do not have an adequate grasp of... [19 Oct 2009]
Dell's secret to riding out the recession
Comment Now, thanks to virtualisation, the company has boosted processor utilisation rates beyond the 20 per cent it was getting previously and it plans to decommission about 8,000 servers by January 2010 - just under a third of... [04 Sep 2009]
Great Communication Delivers Excellent Results
White Paper The organisation was experiencing explosive data growth and low server utilisation. IT personnel at John Brown spent too much time managing infrastructure issues. Launching development environments was... [30 Jul 2009]
Tesco virtualises 1,500 servers to save costs and carbon
News The virtualisation work will also lead to CPU utilisation of around 70 per cent compared to six per cent previously. Microsoft were no different with respect to things like BizTalk [a server used to... [13 Mar 2009]
Getting your IT department ready for 2009
News Charles Ward, COO of IT trade association Intellect, added: "If you want to do more with what you have got then trying to up your utilisation in this way just makes sense. With datacentre cooling and energy bills going... [29 Dec 2008]
Enabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server VirtualisationEnabling Customer Choice: Sun Mainstreams Server Virtualisation
White Paper As virtualisation is being used more and more to increase utilisation within production workloads, server vendors are responding with platforms, management technologies, and solutions that incorporate... [14 May 2008]
THE SUN FIRE X4600 M2 SERVER AND PROVEN VIRTUALISATION SCALABILITY
White Paper IT organisations with a number of applications running on older, inefficient, and under-utilised servers can consolidate them onto a smaller number of high-performance, energy-efficient servers that can run at higher... [14 May 2008]
SUN FIRE X4150 AND X4450 : SERVER ARCHITECTURE : Breakthrough Density Using Sun and Intel Technology
White Paper This Sun whitepapers looks at how many companies are turning to consolidation and virtualisation to improve resource utilisation and enhance business agility. In recent years, emerging applications and expanding Web... [14 May 2008]
Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?
News Companies enter information including the number and size of their data centres, the energy provider, the cooling and cleaning set-up, centre utilisation and the server storage network. Data centres are... [30 Jan 2008]
Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers
Comment This has been assessed, at current typical utilisation and efficiency levels, to produce 5,540 tonnes of CO2 per annum at a cost of £1.159m for the power consumed," Lidbetter says. Now virtualisation is mainstream, fears... [21 Dec 2007]
Orbicon A/S: Consultancy Firm Strengthens Competitive Advantage by Improving Communication With Clients
White Paper These companies used their financial systems differently, so there was a need to establish a single, shared information system for the entire company, supplying coordinated information to both the management and employees as well as... [06 Sep 2007]
Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation
News Peter Pedersen, CTO at Rank Group, said: "Virtualisation is very much a priority to reduce cost, to increase agility, reduce space requirement and to reduce 'carbon footprint' through reduction in power utilisation for... [04 May 2007]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Outsourcing won't save you money
Comment By outsourcing the function, the outsourcing company could share these skills around, ensuring the engineer had a higher degree of utilisation. Outsourcing, therefore, has no gains in utilisation - a... [19 Jan 2007]
CIO Jury: Thin client is "the way forward"
News UKAEA IT director Chris Broad said this minimises support costs and bandwidth utilisation. Neil Hammond, IT director at British Sugar, said his organisation looked at thin-client computing a year ago and decided against... [20 Oct 2006]
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