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The Green Data Center: Energy-efficient Computing in the 21st Century: Chapter 1, 2008 Update by Rackable Systems
This green data center e-book serves as an all-in-one guide to lead you through the process of creating an energy-efficient data center. Today's average data center is 12 to 15 years old, reaching end of life, and unable to meet today's power...
The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the Virtual Data Center Stack by F5 Networks
The goal of virtualization in the data center is to help the enterprise achieve a business goal, whether that goal is consolidation, reduced management and head count costs, disaster recovery, or even "going green." The goal of virtualization in the data center is to...
Transcript: It's Easier Being Green: The Business Case for Green IT by Hewlett-Packard Company
cost for a typical high-density data center is 42% of OPEX.

3) The third driver is the resource shortage. The pool of qualified senior technical management professionals will shrink by 45%. Like the scarcity of energy there is a scarcity of people with the...
Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
paper looks at HP's approach to Data Center Transformation and how it can help enterprise data centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. In today's connected global marketplace, data centers are more important than ever...
Meeting the Power and Memory Demands of Today's Data Center by Spansion, Inc.
in x86 data centers. Cost, power, and data center cooling and space will continue to worsen if no changes are made to the current data center infrastructure. In fact, an estimated 10 power plants must be built over the next few years to accommodate the growing power...
Simplifying the Data Center Network Webcast by Juniper Networks, Inc.
discusses what's happening in the data center today, including Juniper's vision to address data center challenges and gain an understanding of data centers in terms of the new architecture. This webcast discusses what's happening in the data center today...
Demo of the xVM Ops Center Managing Live Data Center Out in Denver by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
and managing a set of servers in data center out in Denver. Check out this webcast to watch the VP of Sun's xVM line show a demonstration of the xVM Ops Center software that is managing a set of servers in a Denver data center. The live data center used in this...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 3: Data Center Cooling Search Data Center by Hewlett-Packard Company
Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up to 60% of its cooling capacity. This final chapter in a three-part Data Center Design and Infrastructure guide delves into this issue. Recent studies show that your data center could be wasting up...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 2: Data Center Power Management by Hewlett-Packard Company
focuses on power management in the data center. Learn about the mounting pressure on data center managers to find more reliable-and yet less expensive-ways to power IT infrastructure, achieve energy savings, and avoid elect... Chapter two of this three-...
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Chapter 1: Site Selection and Design by Hewlett-Packard Company
Data center facility planning and design is one of the most complex and important undertakings for any company. This chapter focuses on site selection and data center design elements. Data center facility planning and design...
The Green Giant: Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This webcast covers data center capacity challenges such as space and power & cooling and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage...
Speeding Business Innovation by Hewlett-Packard Company
In this white paper, learn how data center transformation can help your organization outsource applications and shift spending from maintenance and management to projects that support business growth and innovation. According to the Data Center...
Thermal Zone Mapping by Hewlett-Packard Company
of a "greenfield" or existing data center, allowing for easier and more complete understanding of this behavior. Thermal Zone Mapping (TZM) is a visualization tool developed to present in graphical format highlevel thermal metrics developed by HP and...
Brochure: Data Center Transformation by Hewlett-Packard Company
This paper looks at the approach to Data Center Transformation and how centers reduce costs, manage risks, and support business growth. It highlights data center managers and how HP is helping its customers address them. Not all data centers are ready for the...
Transform Your Data Center Into An Energy-Efficient Operation by Insight and Sun Microsystems, Inc
Data center growth has led to sprawling server, storage, and supporting infrastructure. This white paper describes how to achieve better utilization and more eco-efficient systems energy-efficient systems with...
Implementation Guide: Using a High Performance Network Backbone to Meet the Requirements of the Modern Enterprise Data Center by Juniper Networks, Inc.
44; secure, scalable and flexible data center network. Data center managers are challenged with designing data centers that centralize servers and applications while keeping them accessible from a variety of locations. This white paper shows you how to...
Government Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
and products that support data center architects and engineers responsible for answering the requirements of designing government agencies' data center networks. Government agencies are turning to next-generation data centers that enable...
Maximizing Data Center Investments for Disaster Recovery and Business Resiliency by Compellent
recovery considerations in data center design and build-out-- site integrity, site selection, and site recovery. Building a data center is a massive investment. It requires investment in real estate, reinforced facilities, raised floors, state-of-...
Best Practices for Measuring Data Center Energy Efficiency by IBM
explains how to define and measure data center energy efficiency. Rising power costs and pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of the data center means that most IT managers are taking measures to increase energy efficiency. But how effective are these...
Transcript for Data Center Consolidation by Hewlett-Packard Company
White paper describes about the data center capacity challenges; and how data center consolidation and centralized management of IT resources can offer huge savings and reduce strain on IT resources. Server and storage utilization is low, power and cooling...
Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5 by Virtual Data Center eZine - Volume 5
According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions Survey, server selection and disaster recovery (DR) are front-burner issues for data center decision makers. According to the Data Center Decisions 2008 Purchasing Intentions...
Extending the Life of Existing Data Centers by AdaptivCool
information to help extend data center useful life and save 30% or more in cooling costs by improving data center cooling efficiency. This white paper provides information to help extend data center useful life and save 30% or more in cooling costs by...
Saving Energy in Your Data Center -- Why is it Important? by Wright Line
Why create an energy-efficient data center? This expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 uses real-life scenarios to explain the key benefits, how to meet regulations, and strategies to track and measure energy efficiency. If you're like most busy IT...
Raging Wire & Critical Power Competency Center by Square D Critical Power Competency Center
44; a 200,000 sq/ft Tier IV data center discusses how its strategic partnership with Square D CPCC contributes to its reliability, uptime and an ultimate success. Power systems in today's data centers represent the highest level in optimization for...
Intel IT: Taking Power Management to the Limit--and Beyond by Intel Corporation
and thermal management in an aging data center to add needed servers--without expensive new infrastructure. Intel's 20-year-old FM1 data center in Folsom, California, was almost maxed out: Even though it had just been through a power upgrade, it already had just...
HP Data Center Transformation Case Study by Hewlett-Packard Company
a focus on five initiatives: global data centers, portfolio management, technology workforce effectiveness, building a world-class technology infrastructure... In 2005, Hewlett-Packard faced many of the same challenges its customers face in their...
Realizing the Value of the Green Data Center by Integrating Facilities and IT by IBM
companion white paper, "Greening the data center with IBM Tivoli software: an integrated approach to managing energy"-- discusses the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and how systems management technologies contribute to green...
How to Collapse Tiers in the Data Center Network by Juniper Networks, Inc.
to collapse switching tiers in the data center network with a two-tier switching architecture from Juniper Networks. When data center consolidation is used to centralize servers and applications from remote sites, providing adequate rack space and power...
Top 10 Ways to Save Energy in Your Data Center by Wright Line
Watch this expert videocast from Data Center Decisions 2008 to learn the top 10 energy saving tactics. Review advanced hot-aisle/cold-aisle strategies, tips for power distribution optimization, and more. Want to learn expert tips to increase energy efficiency...
Data Center Projects: Growth Model by APC
way to develop a capacity plan for a data center or network room. Long term data center or network room capacity planning may seem impossible in the face of evolving IT technology and business requirements. Nevertheless, data center facilities have a lifetime...
Related Best Practices
How to implement snapshots
risk to your data cannot be ignored. Save the snapshots to a different storage platform in the data center, or move the snapshots to a remote storage platform across the WAN. If you absolutely must store snapshots on the same array with original data, be sure to consider snapshots in your backup or other data protection scheme.

Be selective about what to snapshot

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How to implement disk-to-disk backups
platforms don't just emulate tape. Files can just as easily be copied to a disk array in the same data center or located on the other side of the world. Storage administrators can then recover individual files as needed without opening and searching an entire backup volume.

Of course, disk platforms also have limitations as backup targets. Storage space is finite, which... More...

How to improve tape backup performance and reliability
The role of tape is clearly changing, shifting away from everyday data backup and moving toward deep archiving or offsite storage, but tape is still an important element of many data centers. Storage professionals must contend with concerns about tape performance and reliability that have remained almost unchanged for decades. In... More...
FAQ's
Which data deduplication appliances and backup software do you view as enterprise ready?
If you have 20 TB of data to backup, I would say most data deduplication appliances on the market today can handle that without too much of a problem. When you start scaling to 50 TB, 100 TB, 1 PB of backup data, the dynamics really change. You have backups going... More...
Are there any instances where data deduplication will not provide any benefits? Superior benefits?
a lot of new images being created, then you'll see very little benefit from data deduplication. In that case, you're better off just running differential or incremental backups.

As far as areas in which data deduplication can provide superior benefits, databases have a lot of redundant data and... More...

What is server-free backup, and how does it work?
this is accomplished, and they generally have an alternate copy of the data, such as a business continuous volume (BCV) or a split-mirror, or perhaps a snapshot, and then present that data to some other system or device that can copy the data to tape. The typical way that this is done is via a dedicated backup... More...