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Four ways to reduce energy costs and environmental impact

With green IT, it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to make an impact in your organization. Here are four ways to get started and see the impact on ROI. by Scott Lowe

Tags: Desktop, Disk, Data Center, SAN, ROI, Server Consolidation Project, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Storage, Data Management, Scott Lowe

Blog posts 2008-07-21

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TechRepublic Tutorial: Copy volumes with Novell's NetWare Server Consolidation utility

If your management is asking you to cut down on the number of servers supported, or if you're planning a server consolidation or upgrade project and have found that you aren’t relishing the volume migration process, you may find Novell’s NetWare Server Consolidation utility an extremely useful tool to add...

Tags: consolidation utility, NetWare 4.2, Novell Inc., Novell NetWare, Scott Lowe MCSE, server, server consolidation

Technical articles 2003-02-05

Six Best Practices for Windows File Server Consolidation

Is storage growth driving up costs in your data center? Are you looking for ways to simplify operations? Server consolidation can help. It can streamline your workload and it's proven to cut costs by up to 60 percent! But what's the best approach to server consolidation? This...

Tags: Consolidation, ONStor, Microsoft Windows, File Server, Best Practice, Taneja Group, Server Consolidation, File Servers, Servers, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-09-01

Maintain Fewer Servers - Overview: Nine Steps to Server Consolidation

Increased automation, e-commerce, Web portals, and Internet traffic have contributed to a rapid growth of server infrastructure for many IT organizations. The result is a mix of disparate environments, server sprawl, and increased management overhead. Infrastructure optimization and server consolidation can help organizations to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and achieve...

Tags: Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware

White papers

Project Management Approach to Server Consolidation/Virtualization

A lot is been written about virtualization and server consolidation theses days. In order to have a successful virtualization, it is important that one has a clear plan of what he or she is trying to achieve. This is definitely one of those projects where one learns as they go....

Tags: Project Management Institute, Server, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Virtualization, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Hardware

White papers 2007-11-01

Server room consolidation project (1 of 3) (Server room showcase)

whoa! the big boys...I am upcoming in the industry and these are what I would like to play with. :) We are talking about a powerful force to reckon with here. Good luck on the consoidation. Stay cool for goodness sakes. Cowabunga!Server room security:For those reasons I cannot produce a...

Tags: LeonaOJ@..., Server Room, server, rack

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

A Project Summary: VMware - ESX Server to Facilitate: Infrastructure Management Services Server Consolidation Storage & Testing With Production Servers

Many companies are spending their IT budget more on maintaining existing system rather than on innovation, virtualization will enable customer to spend more time in improving business. This will happen when customer has his applications running on Virtual Machine; it could be for infrastructure management, testing, or for storage. VMware...

Tags: Infrastructure Management, Server Consolidation, VMware Inc., VMWare ESX Server, Vensoft, Ip storage, It Services, It Management, Servers, It service Management, Hardware

White papers 2006-03-16

Choosing the Best Path to Server Consolidation

Government IT departments are tasked with managing increased processing demands across disparate organizations. As a result of funding rules requiring separate infrastructures for each project and agency procurement habits, system administrators are now burdened with servers that are difficult to manage, underutilized, underperforming and sprawled across facilities. For the agency,...

Tags: Agency, GTSI Corp., Server Consolidation, Servers, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Marketing

White papers 2006-11-01

Run Exchange on a virtual server... but don't go in blind!

If you're considering "virtualizing" some of your various Windows servers to cut down on costs, reduce heat emissions, use less power, and so forth, you might include your Exchange servers in your strategy. As server virtualization gains traction and becomes more common, more and more organizations are reaping...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, Servers, Scott Lowe MCSE, E-mail servers, Server virtualization, virtual server, server, E-mail Administration Tips Newsletter, Microsoft Corp., Hardware

Technical articles 2006-06-16

Database Consolidation Helps Insurance Company Increase Market Share

This short case study from HP describes a data consolidation project undertaken by ING Comercial America, a Mexican company that is a leader in the insurance, pensions, and guaranties industry. Download the paper to find out why ING re-architected its data center on the scalable, Itanium 2-based HP Integrity server,...

Tags: Database, Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidation, Insurance, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Hardware

Case studies 2004-07-01

Address the roadblocks of international consolidation

Delivered each Monday,TechRepublic's free E-mail Administration NetNote provides tips, articles, andother resources to help you manage your Exchange server and other e-mailsystems. Automaticallysign up today!Due to falling costs, increasing bandwidth, and improvedreliability of international network connections, it makes sense that morecompanies are connecting their networks and consolidating e-mail systems.However, most...

Tags: e-mail, consolidation

Technical articles 2005-03-25

Data Centre Consolidation at Informatica Trentina

In 1983, following the initiative of the Autonomous Provincial Government of Trento and other agencies in the Trentino area of Italy, Informatica Trentina was created with the task of developing and managing the electronic information system to meet the automation needs of the Trentino Autonomous Provincial Government and the other...

Tags: Informatica, Hewlett-Packard Co., Consolidation, Server Consolidation, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Marketing

Case studies

Optimizing HP Servers with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Microsoft announced SQL Server 2008 on February 27th, and potential users are interested in its capabilities, particularly regarding server consolidation and resource management in order to plan for future deployments. When implementing a hardware consolidation project, one major step involves consolidating corporate data, which is mostly managed by multiple database...

Tags: Microsoft SQL Server 2008, HP Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Corp., Servers, Databases, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Software, Data Management

White papers 2008-02-01

Use virtualization to reallocate storage assets

I sometimes mention specific products in my writing about storage topics.  But, believe it or not, none of the vendors pay a penny for my thoughts.  I tend to write about things I know and I've tried.  Over the past couple of years, I've made occasional use of a physical-to-virtual...

Tags: Asset, Virtualization, Storage, Server, Scott Lowe

Blog posts 2007-08-21

Gritti Gas Rete Increases Flexibility and Cuts Costs With Virtualization

The company has made the choice to outsource the IT infrastructure with the aim of reducing the tasks of its in-house management and system development personnel to a minimum, while keeping a close collaboration relationship with its technological partner in order to ensure rapid adaptation to the changes of operating...

Tags: Virtualization, Microsoft Corp., Disaster Recovery, Server Consolidation, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Collaboration, Groupware, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Enterprise Software

Case studies 2007-03-10

Accelerating Growth With Server Virtualization for Small and Medium Enterprises

This paper examines the process Insight Investments followed in its successful server and data consolidation project. For medium-sized enterprises with limited IT staffs and budgets, it provides real-world feedback about how to use virtualization to increase utilization, improve high availability, minimize routine maintenance, and provide ongoing improvements to a computing...

Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Server Virtualization, Insight Investments, Virtualization, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-08-06

Technology Considerations for P2V Server Consolidation

Surprisingly, the hardest part of a virtualization project is not making the decision to virtualize - hardware utilization and energy cost savings alone often provide a compelling business case to do so. Reliability and management concerns also have been largely put to rest, as virtualization has proven to be a...

Tags: Vizioncore, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2008-02-12

Server Consolidation Supports Departmental Reorganisation at UK Council and Boosts Efficiencies

An organisational restructure at Nottingham City Council created a problem for its IT facility because there was no capacity within the data centre to support expansion. Moreover, the complexity in getting support and maintenance contracts for the existing system meant that it was difficult to offer a reliable IT service....

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Information Technology, Council, Server Consolidation, Strategy, Servers, Blade Servers, Hardware, Management

Case studies 2007-11-15

Get IT Done: Consolidating servers can be stymied by several roadblocks

By John R. Phelps and Carl ClaunchThe major cause of unsuccessful server consolidation is poor planning that does not take account of the possible roadblocks that must be overcome. Although many of the items to consider are small and may not apply in every environment, they can mount up quickly...

Tags: consolidation, Gartner  , Get IT Done, senior management, server

Technical articles 2003-09-25

Craft a detailed plan when migrating to Windows 2000 Server

Moving from Windows NT 4.0 server base to the Windows 2000 platform? These tips on designating your project team and designing your migration plan can help you reduce headaches and ensure success.Windows 2000 Server offers stability, scalability, and networking benefits. A successful migration, however, involves a lot of planning. This...

Tags: Servers, Microsoft Windows NT, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Bill Valle, server, team, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 2000

Technical articles 2001-02-16