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WHITE PAPER: This paper contrasts room, row and rack architectures and shows why row-oriented cooling will emerge as the preferred solution for most next generation data centers.

Posted: 01 Oct 2010 | Published: 01 Oct 2010

WEBCAST: Hot spots can seriously reduce the efficiency of an organization's computer equipment. Watch this webcast for expert tips on remediating your data center's hot spots and discover the costs associated with the task.

Posted: 21 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 21 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: By helping your data center more accurately visualize and control energy use, you'll reclaim facility capacity and optimize energy use en route to reducing costs for your organization. Read this white paper for the details.

Posted: 10 May 2011 | Published: 10 May 2011

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: This product overview points out the key constraints on today's infrastructures. Find out how upgrading to multi-core servers can free up space, labor, and power and cooling resources.

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 | Published: 29 Jun 2011

VIDEO: In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges.

Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 01 Jun 2009

WEBCAST: This interactive data center, brought to you by our editors, explores 5 aspects of data center efficiency and provides tips and best practices to help companies make effective investment and configuration decisions.

Posted: 21 Dec 2011 | Premiered: 21 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper explores the similarities and differences between virtualization and cloud computing. Find out how these IT models can help SMB's reduce costs and risks and compare the main features of each.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

WHITE PAPER: Inside, explore 5 questions you need to ask before selecting a high-efficiency, multi-mode UPS for your data center.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WEBCAST: Inside, discover how bad airflow can impact IT equipment resilience and data center loading capacity and learn how engineers, IT and managers must work together to reclaim data center dead space.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Premiered: 10 Feb 2012

EBOOK: The deadline for the UK's Carbon Reduction Commitment scheme has now passed, and companies will begin to receive fines if they can't demonstrate how they've reduced their carbon footprint or are putting processes in place to do so. This expert IT handbook offers detailed information about this new regulation and how organisations can adhere to it.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines hot-air and cold-air containment methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot-aisle containment is the preferred best practice for new data centres.

Posted: 09 Nov 2011 | Published: 09 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: Implementing a private, public, or hybrid cloud computing environment can be complex but if done correctly, can provide significant returns. Whether enterprises take a revolutionary or evolutionary approach, understanding IT infrastructure options is the first step. This white paper offers cloud computing best practices and deployment assistance.

Posted: 23 Nov 2011 | Published: 23 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This paper analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing cloud services, examines the business benefits and risks, and provides the steps you should take for a successful implementation.

Posted: 25 Feb 2011 | Published: 25 Feb 2011

EZINE: The IT in Europe virtual data centre e-zine covers the effects of virtualisation on data centres, including management headaches. Discover the challenges posed by an ever-increasing number of virtual resources and access three case studies from the Best of VMworld Europe 2011 User Awards.

Posted: 08 Dec 2011 | Published: 08 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will provide an overview of some of Cisco’s data center platforms and their virtualization aware features; specifically the Nexus product line of switches (1000V, 2000, 5000, 7000) and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

Posted: 21 Jul 2010 | Published: 21 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: This resource divides the data center management tools into four distinct subsets and provides definitions and examples of each. Learn how you can determine which physical infrastructure management tools are needed to operate a data center.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

PRODUCT LITERATURE: As rack densities rise, cooling systems play an increasingly critical role in protecting sensitive IT systems and maintaining system availability. Using precision cooling and the SmartAisle containment system from Emerson Network Power can help IT organizations efficiently handle heat loads and create a cost-effective data center infrastructure.

Posted: 03 Mar 2010 | Published: 03 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Intel’s new data center strategies shift the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to, instead, focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of their data centers worldwide, enabling a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: Data center managers face increasing complexity and explosive growth in the mission-critical operations they manage. Read this white paper to discover how Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) can create more efficient and highly available data centers.

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 | Published: 08 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Within modern data centers, virtualization has become the means of choice when it comes tooperating efficient server infrastructures for cloud and enterprise computing. On an individualsystem level, this translates into a massive increase of DRAM deployments per server.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: A look at alternative approaches to managing energy for cost and/or sustainability reasons in data centres.

Posted: 16 Jan 2012 | Published: 16 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: These days, IT needs to deliver multiple services in an increasingly complex infrastructure. Data center automation helps, but can be limited by silos. The solution? A pragmatic data center automation environment that meets the needs of both IT and business users.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: The new generation of virtualized data centers demand stringent performance, availability and agility. This white paper reviews the effects of server virtualization on the data center by demonstrating an approach to building more secure and automated networks that fully meet those demands.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: By simplifying and automating deployment, retargeting and provisioning workloads, and managing processes for virtualized systems, the Dell Virtual Integrated System (VIS) architecture empowers end users to access resources when they need them. Continue reading to learn more.

Posted: 25 Apr 2011 | Published: 25 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Oracle Grid computing architecture features many powerful techniques that improve energy efficiency and data center productivity.

Posted: 03 Jun 2011 | Published: 03 Jun 2011

WHITE PAPER: Managing a data center has never been harder for IT professionals due to a number of factors, including cost, complexity and shifting business priorities. Data center consolidation often is a valuable way to overcome those challenges.

Posted: 28 Oct 2011 | Published: 28 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines the causes of today’s data center power and cooling crisis and outlines 5 steps businesses can take to remove inefficiencies from their power and cooling infrastructure.

Posted: 07 Feb 2012 | Published: 07 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Today’s IT pros are being challenged to convert their data centers from costly infrastructures into producers of business value. This resource explores how data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software tools can simplify operational processes, cut costs, and speed up information delivery.

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 | Published: 10 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper offers a guide for presenting the relatively high costs of expanding physical environments and the savings components of virtualization.

Posted: 28 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: The Dell Energy Smart architecture provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance and energy use in new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers - capabilities that are critical to simplifying IT and meeting the power and cooling challenges of enterprise data centers.

Posted: 09 Jun 2010 | Published: 09 Jun 2010

WHITE PAPER: HP’s data center drives simplicity through streamlined network designs and centralized management; enhancing agility with high performance, security, and accelerated provisioning; and saving money with energy efficiency. In this paper, we’ll lay out the challenges healthcare organizations are facing and what to look for in a data center.

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 | Published: 15 Sep 2011

WHITE PAPER: This installment, the second in a three-part series, explores how simplification extends the value of data center standardization efforts and forms a stable, efficient base that can be used to support automation.

Posted: 31 Aug 2010 | Published: 31 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how software vendors are offering virtualization management software that offers robust features and has well defined roadmaps. Read on to learn how to build the next-generation data center and overcome the challenges of managing a virtual infrastructure.

Posted: 06 Apr 2011 | Published: 06 Apr 2011