Energy Efficiency Reports

EGUIDE: This expert e-guide provides insight into ways to improve energy efficiency in your data centre. Learn how simple steps like powering down servers when they are not in use will drastically lower your energy costs. Also discover how cloud computing will play a future role in data centre management.

Posted: 19 May 2011 | Published: 19 May 2011

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

EZINE: New mandatory initiatives have recently come into play in the U.K., pushing the idea of “greening up” the data centre higher on every companies’ priority list. Volume 1 of the Virtual Data Centre e-zine gives an overview of how these environmental regulations affect U.K. businesses and what can happen if they don’t comply.

Posted: 08 Apr 2011 | Published: 08 Apr 2011

WHITE PAPER: To help you assess both the full costs and overall benefits of datacenter management solutions, this white paper examines the primary inefficiencies found in typical datacenters, and then presents the strategies commonly used to resolve them.

Posted: 23 Mar 2011 | Published: 01 Feb 2010

WHITE PAPER: While already on the lookout for ways to reduce costs, large enterprises are under increasing pressure to use less energy. Inefficient or end-of-life servers can cost more to run than they are worth because they continue to draw power for cooling. Read this white paper to learn the solution to this problem.

Posted: 23 Feb 2011 | Published: 23 Feb 2011

EZINE: Read this month's CIO Decisions for the latest on making data centers more energy efficient and environmentally friendly.

Posted: 15 Feb 2011 | Published: 15 Feb 2011

EGUIDE: Read this E-Guide to learn more about why measuring data center efficiency is important for your clients and what exactly they should be measuring.

Posted: 14 Feb 2011 | Published: 14 Feb 2011

EGUIDE: This e-guide explains the reasons for implementing grounding methods and the problems that can occur if it is done incorrectly. Find out how to design your data center’s power system with key components in mind and how much power to implement in your data center.

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 | Published: 28 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper will help you understand the functionality included with Active Energy Manager and assist you in developing a plan to unleash the potential of an energy-optimised data center.

Posted: 16 Nov 2010 | Published: 16 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: Through this white paper, PTS Data Center Solutions (PTS) personnel validate these energy efficiency savings estimates using the upgrade of the IT system within its own data center facility and operations as a test bed.

Posted: 19 Oct 2010 | Published: 19 Oct 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Join Michael Rowan, Co-Founder and CTO, Viridity Software, and Michelle Bailey, Senior Research Analyst, IDC as they discuss why it’s important to accurately measure how power is being consumed by IT equipment, impending legislation affecting energy usage, and other issues related to the future of energy efficiency in the data center.

Posted: 07 Sep 2010 | Published: 07 Sep 2010

EBOOK: CIOs are under pressure to cut energy costs, but often lack a baseline from which to start their energy management effort. This e-book explores the techniques CIOs can use to measure energy consumption, to help improve data centre operations and the bottom line.

Posted: 20 Aug 2010 | Published: 20 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: With virtualization, businesses can increase IT capacity at a lower cost, reduce energy costs and carbon footprint, and have a computing platform that can easily scale as their needs evolve. This white paper details the benefits businesses can achieve through virtualization.

Posted: 16 Aug 2010 | Published: 11 Aug 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Read this presentation transcript with Michael Rowan, CTO & Co-Founder of Viridity Software, and Marty Stephens, Director of Information Technology of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, as they discuss how Viridity EnergyCenter software helped LexisNexis Risk Solutions improve energy efficiency and lowered their power bill.

Posted: 09 Aug 2010 | Published: 09 Aug 2010

WHITE PAPER: The escalation in data center costs has been driven by the demand for computing. IT has responded to this demand by adding more servers and replacing older servers with newer devices that deliver more power in less space. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: To appropriately apply the principles of DCSM, a comprehensive enterprise solution must be able to provide significant levels of control over the infrastructure. Aperture VISTA® is the only enterprise-wide solution to be able to deliver all aspects of DCSM with a multidimensional perspective.

Posted: 30 Jul 2010 | Published: 30 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: While CIOs are focusing on managing services offerings, managing data center risks and keeping total costs down, forces are at play that will require the CIO to pay significantly more attention to data center energy efficiency and resource consumption. Read this paper to learn more.

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 | Published: 28 Jul 2010

WHITE PAPER: Many IT professionals are finding that dedicated precision cooling is the right solution to provide the ideal environment for sensitive electronics. Read this paper to learn why precision cooling is the optimal choice for keeping data centers cool in the most cost-effective way.

Posted: 13 Jul 2010 | Published: 13 Jul 2010

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: Managing power consumption in the data center is a huge concern for IT organizations today. In this presentation transcript, learn about the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for power and energy savings in the data center. The speaker will discuss the trends in this area and offer steps to improve power consumption and costs.

Posted: 14 Jun 2010 | Published: 14 May 2010

PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Read this solution brief to learn how to drive down cost of ownership and speed up return on investment with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 from Novell and the new generation on Intel Xeon processors.

Posted: 10 May 2010 | Published: 04 May 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Learn how Intel IT defined methods for analyzing computing energy efficiency within our design computing environment, using measurements of actual server power consumption and utilization.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Apr 2010

TECHNICAL ARTICLE: Results of Intel IT's evaluation of Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager and Intel DCM that showed up to a 20% reduction in server power use with no impact on runtime, and potential for increased compute capacity, power savings and business continuity.

Posted: 09 Apr 2010 | Published: 09 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: Data Center carbon emissions are a growing global concern. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cites data centers as a major source of energy consumption in the United States. This paper introduces a simple approach, supported by free web-based tools, for estimating the carbon footprint of a data center anywhere in the world.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 01 Apr 2010

EBOOK: Chapter 4 of this e-book summarizes strategies for lessening the environmental impact of data centers and helps IT managers create a holistic four-phased approach to an energy-efficient data center project that includes persuading C-level executives to pursue energy efficiency, measuring data center energy consumption, and much more.

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 | Published: 30 Mar 2010

EBOOK: Chillers, air handlers, power distribution, backup power - all of the mechanical processes that keep servers running smoothly account for more than half of an IT energy bill. But this is changing. Energy-efficiency best practices and equipment designs are available to help enterprises reduce their data center energy usage.

Posted: 01 Feb 2010 | Published: 01 Feb 2010