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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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- 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
- Optimizing IT through Server Consolidation - Seven Keys to Success
- To help ensure that server consolidation results are long-lasting and predictable, it is important that consolidation projects are logically and thoroughly planned. If done correctly, server consolidation does work, and can help businesses lower costs and maintain or improve service delivery quality. However, since every organization...
- Tags: Information Technology, IBM Corp., Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2002-08-02
- Top 3 Reasons for Server Consolidation
- Server consolidation can help both increase efficiency and decrease total cost of ownership TCO, yet many agencies still pass up the opportunity to consolidate, possibly because they fear it will be a costly and time-consuming project. However, the benefits of server consolidation can be achieved in a short time with...
- Tags: TCO, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, Servers, Hardware, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2005-05-01
- 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
- Getting the Most Out of IT Consolidation
- How does one manage the new infrastructure after IT consolidation? In this webcast one can see how HP customers addressed their needs in several consolidation scenarios to include application consolidation, server and storage consolidation, IT management consolidation and datacenter consolidation. From managing the network, systems and applications to managing the...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Consolidation, IT Consolidation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- Webcasts
- A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
- This paper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also provides an introduction to workload profiling and portability technology which has helped thousands of organizations accelerate their consolidation initiatives and optimize...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Data Center, Data Center Consolidation, Consolidation Initiative, Data Centers, Server Consolidation, Roi/Tco, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2007-03-12
- A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
- This whitepaper provides an overview of the factors driving consolidation initiatives and considers best practices for ensuring a successful consolidation initiative and a maximum return on investment. It also provides an introduction to workload profiling and portability technology which has helped thousands of organisations accelerate their consolidation initiatives and...
- Tags: Data Center, Citrix Systems Inc., Data Center Consolidation, Consolidation Initiative, Server Consolidation, Data Centers, Roi/Tco, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- White papers 2008-09-03
- Successful Server Consolidation: It's All in the Preparation
- IT departments are unable to implement a server consolidation effort without showing economic justification first. While a server consolidation effort provides IT departments many operational and strategic advantages, often the most important aspect of a successful consolidation is the financial value. This paper highlights the technological advantages of server consolidation...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Server Consolidation/Virtual Server 2005
- This webcast discusses strategies for server consolidation. The topics include heterogeneous and homogenous consolidation approaches, server sizing, virtualization technologies, and management tools.
- Tags: Virtualization, Server Consolidation, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Hardware, Storage
- Webcasts
- An Examination of Server Consolidation: Trends That Can Drive Efficiencies and Help Businesses Gain a Competitive Edge
- This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. It also looks at the potential cost savings associated with server consolidation and offers information on how organizations can sustain the advantage they...
- Tags: Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-12-01
- An examination of server consolidation: trends that can drive efficiencies and help businesses gain a competitive edge
- This white paper provides a starting point for organizations contemplating server consolidation. It includes an overview of server consolidation concepts and techniques and provides guidance on methodologies. It also looks at the potential cost savings associated with server consolidation and offers information on how organizations can sustain the advantage they...
- Tags: Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2008-06-11
- Server Consolidation Technologies - A Practical Guide
- This paper talks about server consolidation, which describes a variety of ways of reducing capital and operating expenses associated with running servers. Gartner research divides consolidation projects into three categories: logical consolidation means implementing common processes and management across a range of server applications; physical consolidation means collocating servers in...
- Tags: Consolidation Mean, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2002-11-12
- 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
- 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
- Workload and Server Consolidation
- One might be considering an exercise in server consolidation for a variety of reasons. On the face of it, the meaning of the term 'Server consolidation' seems pretty straightforward. The most obvious interpretation would be that it means having fewer servers and by implication cutting costs. And there's the rub!...
- Tags: Exercise, Metron Technology, Server Consolidation, Servers, Hardware
- White papers 2006-07-05
- Consolidation and Virtualization: Business Strategy for a Successful Consolidation Implementation
- For all the incentives to enterprise consolidation, there are also some powerful lines of resistance to overcome. Because many organizations don't have a centralized IT budget, Logicalis Senior Infrastructure Consultant observes, individual departments are often less than enthusiastic about surrendering hardware they have purchased with their own money to the...
- Tags: Information Technology, Consolidation, Business Strategy, Datatec, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2007-05-01
- 5 Steps to IT Consolidation Whitepaper
- CIOs are making the strategic choice to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into central data centers. But consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organization, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. This paper, presented by Riverbed, presents a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is...
- Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Information Technology, IT Consolidation, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2007-11-21
- 5 Steps to Successful IT Consolidation
- CIOs are making the strategic choice to consolidate remote site IT infrastructure into one central location. But consolidation projects are fraught with technical, organizational, and implementation challenges that require a well thought-out strategy. This paper, presented by Riverbed, presents a clear 5-step approach to making sure every consolidation project is...
- Tags: Riverbed Technology Inc., Information Technology, IT Consolidation, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2006-06-22
- A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
- Once viewed as a "once-and-done" IT project, server and data center consolidation has become a long-term strategic imperative. Faced with rising energy costs, looming power and cooling shortfalls, and corporate mandates to go green, it is highly likely that data centers will begin to consolidate more and more of their...
- Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Data Center, Server, Data Center Consolidation, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-08-20
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