Greening IT with Server Consolidation
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Sponsored Content
Matching Server Virtualization with Advanced Storage Virtualization
Read this white paper to learn how the combination of a clustered iSCSI SAN solution with VMware Infrastructure 3 provides availability, reduced complexity, and even better ease of use.
Turning Cost Centers into Dynamic Technology Assets
This white paper discusses how to build a personalized IT plan that embraces data center projects and technology initiatives related to consolidation, along with the initial steps needed to transform your data center into an adaptive infrastructure.
Service-Based Approaches to Improving Data Center Efficiencies
Discover ways to improve cooling efficiencies, lower operating costs, increase capacity, and improve data center reliability.
The Business Value of Consolidating on Energy-Efficient Servers: Customer Findings
This white paper demonstrates that a buy-and-hold server strategy adds costs to the datacenter, while refreshing server infrastructure on pace with newer technology can significantly reduce server costs over time.
Faster, Cheaper and Easier to Maintain: Can You Afford Not to Upgrade Your Servers to Today's Advanced, Energy-Efficient Technologies?
This white paper explores the benefits of today's new, energy-efficient servers, points readers to accelerated refresh cost calculators, and demonstrates how today's servers can contribute toward corporate-wide green initiatives.
HP Expands Server Toolkit — Provides Enhanced Options for Data Center
Read this white paper to learn how the right mix of server products can reduce the TCO of your data center with scalable, energy-efficient options that can consolidate and virtualize your environment.
Blogs
New Power Management Systems at the Ready
Data center efficiency has made great strides in the past few years, driven both by the oil shocks earlier in the decade and the rapid rise of virtualization and other hardware consolidation technology that swept the IT industry. So when we see surveys like the recent one from Kelton Research...More >
More Machines, Fewer Servers
The recession clearly gave a hit to data center technology, but probably the worst hit was the server market. On the one hand, technologies like virtualization came along just in time to help enterprises stretch their capital budgets through the lean times. On the other, it meant dramatically...More >
Articles & Interviews
Virtualization Initiatives Getting Bogged Down?
Server consolidation initiatives created a strong ROI for organizations and proved to be the impetus that server virtualization needed to gain broad market adoption. But as organizations grow their virtual environments, they inevitably run into the same set of issues that force a slowdown.... More >
Striking the Right Balance in Server Utilization
Arthur Cole spoke with Mark E. Stumm, senior vice president of product marketing, nlyte Software . Cole : Recent studies indicate that about 15 percent of the servers in a typical enterprise are drawing power but not performing any meaningful function. Is that a reasonable amount, or should... More >
The Cloud Is Your Friend: Answers to Misconceptions of Cloud Computing
Change can be a source of apprehension for a lot of businesses, especially when it comes to critical data you use to run your operations. New technology definitely meets resistance because it is unknown and not yet understood widely. is one of those technologies that business professionals... More >
Related Topics
IBM Offers Virtualization Security
IBM's new Virtual Server Security product is designed to secure each layer of the infrastructure of a virtual server, reports InformationWeek . The software is built for VMware's vSphere platform for data center virtualization. The offering secures everything from the hypervisor to the operating system to data... More >
Dell Launches Adamo XPS
Dell has officially launched the Adamo XPS , which the company is touting as the world's thinnest. At 0.4 of an inch in thickness, the Adamo weighs in at just 3.2 pounds. The laptop consists of a 13.4-inch display, an ultra-low voltage 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 4GB of memory and a 128GB solid-state drive, reports ... More >
Cisco, EMC and VMware: Partners in Virtual Computing Environment
Cisco, EMC and VMware expanded their partnership with the formation of the Virtual Computing Environment coalition. It's a move that elevates Cisco to the level of data center powerhouses like of HP and IBM. According to ChannelWeb , the trio will leverage the storage, security and virtualization capabilities of EMC and... More >
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