Optimizing the Datacenter for Cost and Efficiency
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
ANALYST REPORT:
The current state of the datacenter, demands a transformation that helps in improving space utilization and lowering power consumption while still providing the scale and availability the business requires. Today, lowering the energy and administration/management costs are two key focus areas of datacenter managers in the Asia/Pacific region.
Posted: 03 Sep 2009 | Published: 03 Sep 2009
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Server hardware: Making the right choice
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
WEBCAST:
In this expert webcast, learn the basic factors that go into choosing a new server for your environment, with details on processors, server types, consolidation options and more.
Posted: 27 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 27 Aug 2009
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Achieving Greater Storage Efficiency with Deduplication
sponsored by Datalink Corporation
PODCAST:
Deduplication can decrease the physical spend on data center footprint, power, cooling, and physical tape and media costs. This podcast defines deduplication and explains how it can make your data center more efficient. It will also shed some light on what factors you should evaluate when considering a deduplication strategy.
Posted: 25 Aug 2009 | Premiered: 25 Aug 2009
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Identifying and Fixing Data Center Hot Spots
sponsored by APC
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
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Data Center Facilities IT Handbook, Ch 4 - Data Center Design and Build Out
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
EBOOK:
A successful data center construction or renovation project requires managers to carefully follow each phase of the process - design, construction, review and acceptance. Read this eBook Chapter to learn more.
Posted: 10 Aug 2009 | Published: 10 Aug 2009
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Reduce Power and Cooling Expenses with HP Reference Architectures for Oracle
sponsored by Hewlett Packard Company and Intel
WHITE PAPER:
IT managers are looking for ways to improve energy efficiency - to reduce power consumption and cooling requirements - to save money. Using HP Reference Architectures for Oracle, you get a modular, inherently flexible, and highly available application platform that accomplishes that. Read this paper for details.
Posted: 30 Jul 2009 | Published: 30 Jul 2009
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Compellent - Harnessing SSD's Potential
sponsored by Compellent
ANALYST REPORT:
Rather than just physically adding solid state disk to its hardware offerings, Compellent has integrated SSD into its existing block-level tiered storage management system, overcoming the major challenge of solid state adoption: ensuring easy and optimum usage of the premium IO capabilities of SSD.
Posted: 24 Jul 2009 | Published: 24 Jul 2009
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Green Special Report Podcast Transcript
sponsored by 3PAR
PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT:
In this presentation transcript, Peter Bachner, Site Editor for SearchStorage.com, discusses green storage with Nick Simpson, an analyst with Burton Group, an enterprise IT research firm focused on infrastructure technologies. Nick has more than 20 years of experience in storage, enterprise servers, and system software.
Posted: 22 Jul 2009 | Published: 22 Jul 2009
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Power and Cooling Capacity Management for Data Centers
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER:
This paper describes the principles for achieving power and cooling capacity management.
Posted: 10 Jul 2009 | Published: 10 Jul 2009
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Business Service Efficiency: The Key to Green IT and Profitability
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Data center energy costs continue to take up a significant portion of IT budgets, and it seems that there is no end in sight. This paper addresses, in a unified and systemic way, many of the power consumption issues that IT has been grappling with in piecemeal fashion.
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009
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CONSOLIDATING ORACLE® SIEBEL CRM 8 ON A SINGLE SUN SPARC ENTERPRISE® SERVER
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE:
Recognizing the need to grow efficiently while scaling Siebel CRM 8 capabilities, Sun created a proof-of-concept solution that consolidates Web, Gateway, Application, and Database tiers on a single Sun SPARC Enterprise® T5440 server, reducing the number of physical machines needed to effectively deploy applications.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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REDUCING COSTS THROUGH BETTER SERVER UTILIZATION
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE T5120, T5220, T5140, AND T5240 SERVER ARCHITECTURE
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Employing the UltraSPARC® T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors - the industry's first massively threaded Systems on a Chip (SoC) - Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5120/T5220 and T5140/T5240 servers offer breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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SUN SPARC® ENTERPRISE T5440 SERVER ARCHITECTURE
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Employing UltraSPARC® T2 Plus processors - an evolution of the industry's first massively threaded systems on a Chip (SoC) - the Sun SPARC® Enterprise T5440 server offers breakthrough performance and energy efficiency to drive Web 2.0 infrastructure and address other demanding datacenter challenges.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Driving Datacenter Efficiency Through Server and Application Consolidation
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
Because business processes are increasingly dependent upon an ever-expanding applications and technology network, many IT managers are seeking a more reasonable IT infrastructure strategy. This paper details several approaches to that end.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Save Money and Improve Agility: Virtualize with Sun SPARC Enterprise Series Servers
sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This paper focuses on business benefits achieved by consolidating and virtualizing environments with Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers. The document describes some of the challenges organizations are facing, and conveys how Sun SPARC Enterprise M-Series servers can help organizations bring day-to-day operations and costs under control.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009
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Key Benefits of Virtualization
sponsored by Dell and VMware
VIDEO:
Discover benefits of virtualization like improving utilization, simplifying operations, and rapidly provisioning new servers. Learn more about the benefits of virtualization by viewing these brief flash overviews.
Posted: 01 Jun 2009 | Premiered: 01 Jun 2009
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Data Center Facilities IT Handbook: Mastering data center climate control
sponsored by Dell, Inc. and Intel
EBOOK:
This SearchDataCenter.com eBook takes a look at how to master the climate control for the data center. Organizations are creating more heat in smaller places which in turn requires efficient and effective climate control. Read this paper to learn more about how to properly cool your data center.
Posted: 29 May 2009 | Published: 29 May 2009
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IBM Rear Door Heat Exchanger
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER:
This IBM white paper helps you to understand what's happening in an overheated system and to see if yours is at risk, it also explains how the IBM Rear Door Heat eXchanger helps to dramatically reduce data center power consumption.
Posted: 27 Oct 2008 | Published: 27 Oct 2008
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Data Center Projects: Establishing a Floor Plan
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER:
A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms.
Posted: 22 Jun 2007 | Published: 22 Jun 2007
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Guidelines for Specification of Data Center Power Density
sponsored by APC
WHITE PAPER:
Specifying data center density has yet to conform to an established standard within the industry. This paper describes the science and practical application of an improved method for the specification of power and cooling infrastructure for data centers.
Posted: 30 Oct 2006 | Published: 30 Oct 2006
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