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Energy-Efficient Performance for the Data Center

whitepaper Servers continue to proliferate, but they are often underutilized, leading to higher capital, maintenance, power, cooling, and software costs. To determine the potential for reducing data center Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), Intel tested a...

Tags: data center

[15 May 2008]

eBay Drives Explosive Growth Using Sun Technology and Sun Services

whitepaper The company wanted to reduce facilities costs for cooling, power and space and ensure high availability of infrastructure. To power its massively-scaled resource tiers including both commercial and custom databases, eBay relies on a spectrum of Sun...

Tags: high availability

[06 May 2008]

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

whitepaper IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored cooling solution can deliver significant operational savings from the largest user of energy that provides cooling to data center - the chiller plant, representing...

Tags: infrastructure management

[05 May 2008]

Less Is More: The Total Cost of Ownership for High-Capacity Data Center Networks

whitepaper Understanding the total cost of ownership for infrastructure requires analysis of both primary factors such as capital equipment costs and secondary factors such as support cost, power consumption, cooling requirements, physical floor space, and...

Tags: data center

[08 Feb 2008]

Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?

News With a typical data centre consuming a watt in cooling for each watt used in computation, Accenture estimates companies could recoup the money from green calculator initiatives within a year. Companies enter information including the number and...

Tags: green, accenture, data centre, savings

[30 Jan 2008]

Virtualisation cuts carbon and servers

Comment Other parameters include heat production and, consequently, the energy invested in data centre cooling. 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...

Tags: green, data centres, servers, virtualisation

[21 Dec 2007]

IDC Technical Brief: Enabling Technologies for Blade Management

whitepaper Note: Be sure to check out IDC's companion piece to this paper, Enabling Technologies for Power and Cooling, sponsored by HP. In June 2006, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced its next-generation blade chassis, the BladeSystem c-Class, which addresses...

Tags: disaster recovery, idc, class, insight

[12 Dec 2007]

The Real Cost of Protecting Investment in IT

whitepaper In the case of a data centre, the individual cost factors involved in protecting the investment include the necessary infrastructure for providing power, cooling and IT equipment protection. In making a decision to purchase or to invest, it is...

Tags: roi - tco, load, equipment, investment

[24 Oct 2007]

IDC Technical Brief: Enabling Technologies for Power and Cooling

whitepaper Among the concerns addressed by HP's newest line of blade servers is the need to manage power and cooling at the rack level. This IDC Technical Brief discusses this issue at length and explains how HP Thermal Logic technologies, introduced with the...

Tags: high availability, portfolio, class, density

[08 Oct 2007]

IDC Technical Brief: Enabling Technologies for Power and Cooling

whitepaper Among the concerns addressed by HP's newest line of blade servers is the need to manage power and cooling at the rack level. This IDC Technical Brief discusses this issue at length and explains how HP Thermal Logic technologies, introduced with the...

Tags: portfolio, class, density, blade

[08 Oct 2007]

The greening of IT: Why less is more

Comment IDC estimates that for ever dollar spent on IT hardware, 50 cents are spent on energy, and by 2010 the total power and cooling bill for US data centres per year could reach $50bn. If you buy our new servers, in three years the energy savings from...

Tags: pc makers, greenpeace, data centres, green it

[13 Aug 2007]

Maximize Energy Efficiency and Performance Density in Two-Processor, Standard High-Volume Servers and Workstations

whitepaper Two-processor platforms based on the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 53001 series and the Intel Core microarchitecture help companies maximize data center performance and density while reducing cooling challenges.

Tags: processors, intel, processor, core

[11 Jul 2007]

Power Consumption in the Data Center: How NetApp Rises to the Challenge

whitepaper In particular, the power & cooling of IT equipment constitutes a significant portion of any data center's expenditure. By providing the most space-efficient storage solution, NetApp helps data center managers alleviate the poor & cooling issue...

Tags: storage management, space, managers, data center

[11 May 2007]

Enabling Technologies for Power and Cooling

whitepaper The new BladeSystem was designed to address some of the key Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) issues facing the datacenter, including server management costs, interconnect complexity, and power and cooling.

Tags: blades, logic, class, blade

[11 May 2007]

Storage Consolidation Pays Off Big for Priceline.com

whitepaper Download the paper to learn more about Priceline's storage upgrade and how it's enabled the travel service to improve utilization rates while slashing its power, space, and cooling costs. This case study from 3PARdata highlights the growth-related...

Tags: network design, utilization, rates, priceline

[19 Dec 2006]

Energy crisis looming for UK data centres

News They estimate that maintaining the data centre and its cooling environment accounts for 70 per cent of the total electricity output. The rise in costs will make the UK the most expensive place in Europe to run a data centre, according to the Power...

Tags: data centres, energy, energy crisis

[26 Oct 2006]

Forecasting Total Cost of Ownership for Initial Deployments of Server Blades

whitepaper With next-generation HP Thermal Logic technology to reduce energy consumption and improve cooling efficiency, the HP BladeSystem c-Class helps to alleviate power consumption limitations that are emerging in some datacenters.

Tags: data center, class, consumption, bladesystem

[06 Oct 2006]

Technology@Intel Magazine: July 2006

whitepaper Extending the energy-efficient development philosophy first delivered in the mobile Intel Pentium M processor, new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 - based servers provide a critical new resource for space- and performance-constrained data...

Tags: roi - tco, intel, core, efficiency

[01 Aug 2006]

Energy Flow in the Information Technology Stack: Coefficient of Performance of the Ensemble and Its Impact on the Total Cost of Ownership

whitepaper This paper shows a common thermodynamic platform which serves as an evaluation and basis for a policy based control engine for such a "smart" data center with much broader reach - from chip core to the cooling tower.

Tags: consolidation, utilization, data center, physical

[04 May 2006]

How Server Blades can Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

whitepaper Hewlett-Packard’s new server blades products reflect an important change in server architecture in that many blades, which are themselves single-board, self-contained computers, can be mixed and matched in a chassis that provides network access...

Tags: blades, blades, server architecture, idc

[01 Mar 2004]

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