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- Online carbon footprint and power consumption calculator
- The online carbon footprint and power consumption calculator from Logicalis will help organizations estimate the advantages of virtualization. An excerpt from TechWorld: The tool is only for U.S.-based IT users. Users enter the state location of their data centre, followed by the numbers of PCs, servers,...
- Tags: Data Center, Power Consumption, Tool, Carbon Footprint, Data Center Efficiency, Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-12-23
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- Selecting an Industry-Standard Metric for Data Center Efficiency
- The development of standards for the measurement and specification of data center efficiency is an essential step in the global effort to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. This paper explains some of the metrics that have been used to describe the efficiency of data center physical infrastructure and...
- Tags: Data Center, Industry, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-01-02
- Electrical Efficiency Measurement for Data Centers
- Data center electrical efficiency is rarely planned or managed. The unfortunate result is that most data centers waste substantial amounts of electricity. Today it is both possible and prudent to plan, measure, and improve data center efficiency. In addition to reducing electrical consumption, efficiency improvements can gain users higher IT...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-11-12
- Data Center Efficiency in the Scalable Enterprise
- Energy efficiency is a top concern as IT managers struggle with rising power bills, cooling problems, usage limits imposed by local utilities, or requirements to deploy additional servers without expanding an existing data center or building a new one. To address energy efficiency effectively, data center managers must look at...
- Tags: Data Center, Energy Efficiency, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Powering Compute Platforms in a High Efficiency Data Center
- This presentation provides steps toward realizing a High Efficiency Data Center at both the platform and data center level. The presentation provides results from a demonstration project of a DC powered data center in which Intel participated, in conjunction with Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and other industry partners.
- Tags: Data Center, Intel Corp., Presentation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Presentations 2006-09-25
- The Green Grid Data Center Power Efficiency Metrics: PUE and DCiE
- The Green Grid is an association of IT professionals seeking to dramatically raise the energy efficiency of data centers through a series of short-term and long-term proposals. This is an update to the very first white paper published by the Green Grid in February 2007 called "Green Grid Metrics: Describing...
- Tags: Data Center, Green Grid, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-10-24
- 10 Techniques for Improving Data Center Power Efficiency
- How to implement a power-efficient data center depends on the specific conditions. For example, when elevating a temperature set point, one needs to consider the temperature tolerances for the cabling that supports the IT equipment. Remember, too, that implementing power efficiency in the data center doesn't require expensive, high-tech solutions....
- Tags: Technique, Data Center, NetApplications.com, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-11-01
- Managing Data Center Power and Cooling
- Managing Data Center Power and Cooling Optimizing the overall power efficiency of the data center requires a comprehensive approach that focuses on technologies and strategies to minimize power consumption and maximize power efficiency at every level within the infrastructure, including CPU chips, power supplies, servers, storage devices,...
- Tags: Strategy, Data Center, Power Consumption, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Accelerate Your Data Center Initiatives
- Transforming the data center to capture new business opportunities can be a smart strategic move. This webcast examines how Cisco Data Center Services can help to accelerate the data center initiatives, increase efficiency, and scale the data centers.
- Tags: Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts 2007-12-01
- An Improved Architecture for High-Efficiency, High-Density Data Centers
- Data center power and cooling infrastructure worldwide wastes more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year of electricity that does no useful work powering IT equipment. This represents an enormous financial burden on industry, and is a significant public policy environmental issue. This paper describes the principles of a new, commercially available...
- Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2008-04-03
- Championing Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: An IBM Server Consolidation Analysis
- Energy efficiency has long been a top priority at a large natural gas and electric utility headquartered in the United States. Many organizations around the globe are looking to reduce power consumption and many are even facing a data center power scarcity. This utility company, teaming with IBM, is currently...
- Tags: Data Center, Analysis, IBM Corp., Energy Efficiency, Data Centers, Server Consolidation, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-04-20
- Effectively Managing Change Across the Data Center
- BMC® Data Center Optimization Solutions allow IT to reduce service disruption risks and improve efficiency of implementing complex data center changes. Request, plan, implement and verify change automatically while reducing configuration costs by up to 40 percent or more.
- Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, It Management, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management
- White papers 2006-07-01
- The Cisco Enterprise Data Center Architecture - Data Center Security Solutions
- Data center managers consolidating data center resources for greater efficiency must consider how these changes affect security. Cisco Systems offers an integrated, defense-in-depth data center security strategy that enables managers to partition data centers into security "Zones" that apply appropriate security policies to each application, while containing the potential impact...
- Tags: Security, Data Center, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-11-01
- DC Power for Improved Data Center Efficiency
- The mission of data centers in use today calls for them to be much more energy intensive than other office buildings. Recent reports prepared by this project team for the California Energy Commission estimated that the US annual energy consumption by the equipment in these centers can use up to...
- Tags: Data Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Five Strategies for Cutting Data Center Energy Costs Through Enhanced Cooling Efficiency
- As electricity prices and IT power consumption continue to rise, IT-related energy costs are getting increased scrutiny. Cooling accounts for approximately 37 percent of electricity usage within a well-designed data center and, in many cases, represents a significant opportunity to reduce IT energy costs. This paper presents five strategies for...
- Tags: Data Center, Energy Cost, Data Centers, Storage, Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-04-17
- Increasing Data Center Cooling Efficiency and Capacity
- The requirement to deploy high-density servers within single racks is presenting data center managers with a challenge. Vendors are now designing servers which will demand up to 20kW of cooling if installed in a single rack. With most data centers designed to cool an average of no more than 2kW...
- Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Google talks up its data center and green IT plans
- Google is known as a search titan, but its real business is running data centers. On Wednesday, Google handed out a few key tips as it touted its data center efficiency and sustainability efforts. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Google Inc., Data Center, Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Energy Efficiency Advantages for the Data Center
- The attendee of this webcast will understand energy efficiency advantages for the data centers.
- Tags: Data Center, EMC Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts
- IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - Data Center Stored Cooling Solution
- IBM IT Facilities Assessment, Design and Construction Services - data center stored cooling solution can deliver significant operational savings from the largest user of energy that provides cooling to data center - the chiller plant, representing about one-third of the data center's total energy requirements. This stored cooling solution is...
- Tags: Data Center, Information Technology, Construction Service, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Construction, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-05-01
- A Power Benchmarking Study on the IBM System z9: Applying Energy Efficiency Metrics to Performance
- Over the past few years energy efficiency in the data center has become one of the top concerns for IT managers. As the cost of power grows significantly, the application of energy efficiency to systems performance becomes a metric that can not be ignored. IBM has long been a champion...
- Tags: Performance, Benchmarking, IBM Corp., Energy Efficiency, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
- White papers 2007-10-04
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