Five Steps to a Green Data Center
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23 metrics you can use to measure sustainability in the data center
By: Schneider Electric
Type: Analyst Brief
The rise of the automated, digital world has spurred the growth of the data center; but with this growth has come huge increases in energy consumption, and a new focus on sustainability and green business.
But how can you embrace this movement to sustainable technology and measure its impact in your data center and the wider world?
Access this white paper to learn 23 key metrics data center operators can use to report on environmental sustainability in a holistic way and discover how these efforts towards green data centers can improve your company’s ecological footprint.
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Essential Guide: Using green computing for improving energy efficiency
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Essential Guide
Green computing is no longer just a white-wash expression, as government schemes like the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) scheme, the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) or the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), are encouraging companies to revaluate their use of IT resources. Finding new ways of improving energy efficiency is no longer a boardroom discussion, but a reality for many UK businesses.
This guide has been designed to help you improve overall energy efficiency, within the IT department, and implement the right green technology for your business.
This green technology guide covers green computing, government legislation and energy efficiency.
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Green initiatives are delivering disappointing ROIs for today's data centers
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
Since controlling power consumption represents a significant expenditure of time, money, and effort, data center managers need to consider all power reduction solutions at their disposal – from flywheels to eco-mode UPS systems to other efficient alternatives.
This expert handbook will help guide you through the decision-making process of “greening the data center”. Readers will learn how these methods—along with others—help to provide a smaller footprint while still allowing for higher power density.
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CW Buyers Guide: Green IT
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: White Paper
This six-page Buyer’s Guide to Green IT helps CIOs and senior IT professionals to identify the issues around going green and explains the pros and cons of using third-party facilities to run IT services.
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Data center sustainability: The race to meet net zero carbon emissions
By: Service Express
Type: Blog
Dive into this blog post to learn how you can get started building a greener data center with the help of Service Express.
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How Service Express is Helping Clients Meet Sustainability Goals
By: Service Express
Type: Blog
Check out this blog post to learn how Service Express is helping business meet sustainability goals with new global secure hybrid cloud solutions.
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Case study: Using pre-fab datacentres to meet Norway's growing demand for colocation space
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Datacentre operator Green Mountain embraces Schneider Electric's pre-fabricated datacentre designs to ensure it is positioned to respond to the growing demand from the hyperscale and HPC communities for colocation capacity in Norway
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Reimagine Colocation Strategy with Sustainability Front Of Mind
By: Schneider Electric
Type: White Paper
For insights into why colocation leaders are recognizing the growing importance of sustainability, and how organizations at the start of their sustainability journeys can launch successful green initiatives, check out this Forrester white paper.
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Data center facilities management: Are you close to total failure?
By: Schneider Electric
Type: eGuide
Here's the thing about data centers: overheated servers and cooling failures are worse than power failures. This e-guide will help you re-evaluate your data center's physical metrics and update your facilities management strategy.
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Computer Weekly – 20 June 2017: Why did British Airways' datacentre crash?
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
After the recent hastily held general election, the former Cabinet Office minster Ben Gummer lost his Ipswich seat to one of Theresa May's close allies, leaving many wondering if a digital future is still a top priority in the new government. Find the answer to this question, as well as information on the cause of the British Airways IT failure.
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Computer Weekly – 28 February 2023: The race to net zero
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine the role of green tech in helping businesses contribute to the government's 2050 net-zero targets. We also talk to Spotify about the importance of open source for the music streaming service and how hybrid working is evolving as the post-pandemic workplace continues to change. Read the issue now.
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Time to Print
By: MicroScope
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide, we discuss the ever-evolving world of print within the digital age. We look at how major print vendors are planning on using the channel to help them grow, how 3D printing is having an impact andwhy cloud-based solutions are increasing.
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CW EMEA - March 2023: How Sweden is accelerating digitisation
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this month's CW EMEA, we find out how the CIO at Dutch company SHV Holdings goes about ensuring his group IT department provides the foundations for a wide variety of businesses to thrive digitally. Read the issue now.
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5 keys to understand modern telco
By: LotusFlare Inc
Type: eBook
According to McKinsey, 70% of digital transformation initiatives in the communications industry have resulted in failure. To circumvent digital migration, communications service providers (CSPs) have begun building external telco brands, which have the benefit of being fully digital from the start. Download this e-book to learn more.
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CIO Trends #2
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Computer Weekly talks to more IT leaders than any other publication, and our reporters gather in-depth insights into the challenges facing CIOs, CTOs and CDOs.
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MicroScope – March 2023: Steering the storage market
By: MicroScope
Type: Ezine
In this issue, read all about how the storage world is continuing to evolve as it looks to the cloud, security and ESG compliance requirements. Also discover six steps to making your business more sustainable and read about how IBM's channel boss is set to make a difference.
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The current state of sustainability for global manufacturers
By: Sage
Type: Infographic
Global discrete manufacturers are pursuing sustainability with 97% of green manufacturers having adopted a circular economy strategy and 95% expecting a positive impact over 2 years. Access this infographic to learn more about why companies are prioritizing sustainability and servitization.
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Using IT initiatives to save money and reinforce green credentials
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Analyst Report
Analyst Group Quocirca explains how organisations can use web data caching software to save money and improve their green credentials.
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Multi-cloud and Your WAN
By: Apcela
Type: Webcast
Today’s organizations are in need of greater speed and flexibility. Namely, they’re looking for ways to integrate their core data centers, regional offices and remote users with SaaS and IaaS providers, and to extend their traditional WAN to the cloud. Watch this webcast to learn how Apcela’s Arcus Platform may be able to assist.
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Data Center Modernization Starts With Cloud, SDN and Virtualization
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eGuide
This expert guide covers the essentials of modernizing your data center.
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A Computer Weekly buyer's guide to datacentre cooling
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Effective cooling methods are essential for the running of the datacentre. In this 16-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at how to power them efficiently, the potential of a shift to liquid cooling systems and the most cost-effective methods of datacentre cooling.
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MicroScope – September 2022: The green agenda
By: MicroScope
Type: Ezine
Sustainability is now seen as a necessity for business to have on their agenda, so read about how the channel is turning green to capture customer attention. Also discover how the pandemic has changed sales forever and boosted the importance of relationships, as well as learn about how to handle currency fluctuations, rises and inflation.
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine Volume 37: Maximizing Virtual Data Center Consolidation
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: Ezine
Virtualization may be well underway, but it doesn't mean new challenges won't arise as you continue to navigate your initiative. This expert e-zine offers detailed guidance for achieving the right balance in your virtual data center and presents key findings concerning your peers' consolidation objectives for 2012.
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Expert Best Practices: Using Linux for Data Center Consolidation
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
Access this expert e-guide for the top advantages of using Linux in a data center consolidation project. Learn how using Linux can help you more effectively reduce cooling costs, reduce real estate footprint and improve server workload utilization.
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Virtual Data Center E-Zine: Volume 39: Managing Virtualization Patches
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: Ezine
Keeping all of your patches up-to-date is a tedious but necessary task in order to ensure a fully protected data center. This dedicated e-zine highlights tips and strategies for making patch management easier and less time-consuming.
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CIO Trends #2
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Computer Weekly talks to more IT leaders than any other publication, and our reporters gather in-depth insights into the challenges facing CIOs, CTOs and CDOs.
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CW Middle East Oct to Dec 2016
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this quarter's CW Middle East ezine, we feature the IT journeys of three companies in the region with detailed analysis of recent IT projects that were designed to support business transformation in a changing world.
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SDN in the Data Center: What's in Store for the Future
By: TechTarget Security
Type: White Paper
Virtualization of servers and workloads has improved the efficiency of data centers, but networking has lagged behind. This eGuide takes a look at software-defined networking (SDN), and how it has the potential to fully integrate the data center.
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Presenting the Upsides and Downsides of Server Virtualization to Management
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
Convincing top management of the benefits of server virtualization is crucial to the success of your virtualization project. This e-book breaks down the pros and cons of server virtualization. Access now to discover advice on to present the best business case to top management.
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Why MSSPs Can Enhance SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS)
By: Netsurion
Type: Webcast
Your security operations center (SOC) balances myriad responsibilities: threat hunting, trend analysis, risk management and more. When fulfilling all these duties becomes unmanageable, many organizations enlist the help of MSSPs. Why? Watch this webcast to understand how MSSPs can enhance SOC-as-a-Service (SOCaaS).
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11 key considerations prior to a data center upgrade
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
The key to smooth, successful and meaningful data center upgrades is preparation. Know the goals and the path to each goal, and meet the roadblocks along the way to bring huge benefits to the upgrade process. In this e-guide, learn the 11 key steps you must take to ensure neat migrations, good availability, continued security and limited downtime.
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Storage in a Virtual Environment: Expert Answers to 4 FAQ
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This E-Guide explores how you should approach a move to a virtual data center, how that move will affect your data center's storage system performance and how the roles of your administrators will be impacted.
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Expert tips for consolidating servers and avoiding sprawl
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
This expert e-guide from SearchWindowsServer.com explains how you can leverage virtualization and other techniques to reduce the costs of running servers. Plus, obtain exclusive advice and answers to frequently asked questions about developing an effective server consolidation plan.
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Computer Weekly 29 January 2019: A vintage digital transformation for Majestic Wines
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine the digital transformation of retailer Majestic Wines and find out how buying rival Naked Wines led to a cloud overhaul of the firm's IT. We look at the challenges for IT managers as they prepare for the end of Windows 7 support. And our buyer's guide discusses deep learning technology. Read the issue now.
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Your Microsoft Office 365 Productivity Cloud and the Backup it Deserves
By: Barracuda
Type: Webcast
Check out this webcast to learn about Barracuda’s Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, SaaS that provides unlimited storage and retention for Microsoft Office 365 so you can ensure your workloads remain protected.
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The Cloud is the New Center of Data
By: Apcela
Type: Resource
Some enterprises have closed down their data centers, but it doesn’t seem likely that another 7 out of 10 enterprise data centers will go offline in just five years. In this brief, learn why a new paradigm is needed to extend the WAN beyond the data center to the multi- and hybrid cloud environment in which the modern enterprise operates.
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ITIL lifestyle management: Benifits to consolidation strategy
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
Access this expert e-guide for an in-depth look at each of these strategies and determine which one is best for your business. Download now and learn how ITIL lifecycle management can benefit your consolidation strategy.
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Modern Infrastructure e-zine CIO edition: Managing the next-generation data center
By: TechTarget CIO
Type: Ezine
This special CIO edition of Modern Infrastructure e-zine demonstrates how today's data center technologies are fully intertwined with business strategies. Read now to uncover why CIOs should be considering cloud computing and data center transformation as a business issue first, and a technology issue second.
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Selecting a data center in a major city: 7 considerations
By: Quality Technology Services
Type: White Paper
This whitepaper provides an in depth look at key considerations to keep in mind when selecting a data center provider in a major city. It looks at how a data center provider with a global footprint can offer you access to comprehensive data solutions, and help you meet your data needs today and in the future. Access it here.
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CW Nordics November 2016
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
This quarter, we look at the impact of Nokia layoffs on Finland, and in particular the city of Espoo which is home to both Nokia and Microsoft's Finnish headquarters. We also look at how Denmark's Bang & Olufsen is taking control of sales data with cloud-based software.
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Explore the benefits of an on-prem micro data center at the edge
By: Schneider Electric
Type: White Paper
This white paper explores what’s driving the move to edge computing and how it benefits companies, as well as the advantages of on-premises edge computing using micro data centers. Access it here to get started.
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IT Handbook: Security Best Practices for Server Virtualization
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eBook
Without the right plan for managing security, much of your proprietary data and information is at great risk. Access this expert resource, from the editors at SearchServerVirtualization.com, to learn the essential best practices for maintaining security in your virtualized data center.
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SDN Across the Data Center and the Network: Expert Insight
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eGuide
The relationship between data center network fabric and software defined networking (SDN) will become increasingly important as engineers begin using these for manageability in high performance data centers. This expert E-Guide compares SDN and network fabrics roles in the data center and potential strategies for each.
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Is an SDDC the next step for your enterprise?
By: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Type: eGuide
This expert guide delves into the challenges of adopting and managing software-defined data centers. Discover how to overcome these challenges with a successful plan for implementation so that your enterprise can support the needs of a software-defined world.
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Keep your data center skills sharp
By: TechTarget
Type: Resource
As a data center admin at your company, you'll be expected to accommodate increasingly complex hybrid and multicloud, DevOps, and AI workloads. So, why not take this time to sharpen your data center skills by reading our exclusive DC skills e-guide? Get it here!
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Watson Can Power Your Application. What Will You Do With It?
By: IBM
Type: Webcast
View this webcast to see experts discuss and demonstrate the new IBM Watson services available on Bluemix.
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IT Handbook: Energy Efficient Cooling
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
This expert handbook explains how to set up a data center cooling monitoring system, while looking at how increasing server inlet temperatures can optimize cooling efficiency and outlines methods for building hot-aisle/cold-aisle containment systems. Lastly, explore detailed criteria for selecting and implementing economizers in your data center.
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Data Center Facilities for IT E-Book, Chapter 4: Data Center Design and Build Out
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
In this expert e-book, learn how to visualize each phase of your data center construction project and its energy usage. Use this guide to help ensure that your data center renovation project will go as smoothly as it can. Discover strategic topics such as: the true cost of construction, design firm selection criteria, and much more.
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SHL US LLC Video 1
By: SHL US LLC
Type: Webcast
68% of candidates think the hiring process reflects how a company treats its employees. In this webinar, SHL provides an analysis of how the hiring process affects candidates’ opinions of an organization. Watch the full webcast to learn more and use your hiring process to change the way talent sees you.
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How KPIs can benefit the management of your data center
By: Colt Data Centre Services
Type: eGuide
This expert eGuide breaks down some of the benefits that using a KPI to measure your data center workload balance, what business relevant aspects to measure, as well as generating periodic reports that show KPI data overtime. Also, review examples of how KPIs can measure your data centers IT infrastructure, transactions and efficiency.