Green Computing

Gains economic, operational and environmental Benefits

Blade servers can yield significant cost efficiencies over rack servers — while taking up a smaller footprint, consuming less power and providing significant advantages in terms of manageability, scalability and flexibility.

This whitepaper talks about the pressures that SMB is facing -including small budgets, limited skill sets among IT staff, and limitations in their existing processes.

This paper provides a primer of the grid, identifies an energy management paradigm shift with distributed energy sources and energy trading that impacts the data center.

TDWI Checklist Report: Consolidating Data Warehousing on a Private Cloud

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2.

Discover why IT Managers are recommending Lenovo's ThinkPad Carbon as an essential tool for a busy workforce that's always on the go.

Download this eBook to discover the best practices of a "green data center" to make sure the colation provider you choose truly is green.

Today's IT organizations are faced with the daunting task of optimizing all aspects of their departments, including people, processes and technology. Optimizing and streamlining server utilization through virtualization represents one particularly exciting example. We found that one of the most popular usage models for virtualization is to drive down server procurements in development, test and production environments. When this model is followed, future server purchases are avoided; instead, new workloads are established on existing systems.

The report outlines the benefits of using HP StoreOnce with NetBackup's integrated Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP) backup capabilities to enhance administrators' abilities to effectively manage NDMP-enabled NAS server backup and recovery.

Evaluator Group worked with HP to access the features, performance and enterprise capabilities of the HP StoreOnce B6200 Backup system. HP labs and equipment were utilized, with testing under the direction of on-site Evaluator Group personnel. Testing focused on validating high availability features, performance, and application integration.

This document provides a high level overview of how to build a high performance, highly available IP SAN with deduplicated disk protection and long-term tape archive. This document will also put that solution into context with the rest of a typical IT environment.

Following the sale of a company division housing its corporate data center, Source Interlink had to relocate core IT operations. Teaming with CDW, they were able to not only relocate, but lower capital and operating costs, reduce their carbon footprint, and increase efficiency.

This report analyzes the longer-term, five-year cost of ownership and value for cloud applications across four categories: CRM, ERP, collaboration (including email), and IT service management.

The Micro Focus terminal emulation report evaluates the current state of this mature market - providing a snapshot of the industry to help customers make better decisions in their IT environments.

This paper describes the various con-figurations for this distribution architecture and quantifies the benefits for the optimal configuration. Note: The methods in this paper only apply in North America and are for problems that are unique to North America.

With a goal of reducing inlet temperatures, BayCare Health System, a major, non-profit, healthcare network in the Tampa, Florida area, installed a cold aisle containment system (CACS) in one section of its data center

This paper describes the concept of Rack Hygiene, which positions the rack as an airflow management device, not an inert commodity.

This white paper sponsored by HP & Intel introduces a solution that can extend tier-1 storage choice to provide a combination of power, flexibility, economy and ease.

Be in the know about the appropriate criteria which will enable your "tier-1" storage to cope and respond to the needs of the "next-generation data center".

This ESG Lab Validation Report sponsored by HP + Intel examines a number of backup and recovery solutions and evaluates their ease of implementation as well as their ability to improve reliability and reduce costs.

In the real world, IT must combine hardware, software, and technologies from multiple vendors to solve business problems. 3cV is the combination of HP 3PAR Utility Storage with HP BladeSystem. Find out more in this white paper.

This paper shows that eco-mode typically provides a reduction of 2-4% in data center energy consumption and explains the various limitations and concerns that arise from eco-mode use. Situations where these operating modes are recommended and contra-indicated are also described.

If your data center is running out of space or power you have 2 options. You can build and operate a new facility, or you can lease the capacity.

Applications are what business lines really care about. Read this white paper to find out how you can make sure you're delivering an application cloud laser-focused on improving business outcomes.