SmartBiz IT Research Library

CASE STUDY - The Dell IT group has virtualized more than 5,000 servers and saved the company over US$29 million using a scalable, worldwide virtualization model.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: October 31, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

VIDEO - Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, runs through what it means to really have a green data center and offers suggestions on what you can do to get there.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

VIDEO - Are the products you see advertised real, or is it mostly hype? Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, goes over the products and methods that aren’t as green as they'd like you to think and summarizes ways to extend the life of your data center.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

VIDEO - Everywhere we look, there's another "green" product for the data center. How do you know what really makes a data center "green"? Beth Nicholson, Senior Editorial Events Manager at TechTarget sits down with Bob McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant to take a closer look at energy efficiency in the data center.
Posted: November 23, 2009 | Premiered: November 23, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Supplies

WEBCAST - Watch this webcast to learn key considerations for building a new data center. Receive strategies for each step of your infrastructure construction, from the data center design to finding the right contractor to carry out the project.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Premiered: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers

PODCAST - Listen to this podcast to learn key considerations for building a new data center. Receive strategies for each step of your infrastructure construction, from the data center design to finding the right contractor to carry out the project.
Posted: November 20, 2009 | Premiered: November 20, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Construction | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers

WHITE PAPER - Read this white paper for a discussion of the many benefits of virtualization, how it has evolved, and how it intersects with data center optimization strategies.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software

CASE STUDY - MySpace knows better than anyone the high demands that consumers can make on application and web servers. It maintains two sets of servers depending on application transaction load. Even so, continued transaction growth on these servers was resulting in poor performance. MySpace decided to give Fusion-io a try.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Management | Server Provisioning

WHITE PAPER - The power/density paradox hinders end users from utilizing the very floor space that high density systems were intended to conserve. This brief explores what the power/density paradox is and how IT professionals can mitigate the risk.
Posted: November 18, 2009 | Published: November 18, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Physical Security | Power Consumption Monitoring | Rack Enclosures | Rack Servers | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management | Server Provisioning

WEBCAST - This session describes the emerging and continually maturing state of green energy management world wide from not only a data center view but a view across the enterprise.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Premiered: November 12, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Enterprise Systems | Green Data Center | Green Storage

WHITE PAPER - This white paper describes the importance of managing energy consumption in data centers and provides an overview of the problems and issues associated with "greening" today's data centers.
Posted: November 12, 2009 | Published: August 11, 2008


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | Green Storage | IT Asset Management | IT Service Management

EGUIDE - In this Pocket E-Guide, brought to you by SearchDataCenter.com and Adaptec, you will discover the steps essential for implementing green IT within your organization. Explore which components consume the most amount of power in today’s servers, and learn how this usage can be optimized.
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: November 6, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)

EGUIDE - Today’s businesses are being pushed to consolidate their data centers, address power consumption and implement virtualization in an effort to reduce operating costs and go green. But what are the best routes to achieving these objectives?
Posted: November 4, 2009 | Published: November 4, 2009


Topics:  Configuration Management | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Energy Efficiency | Environmental Compliance | Environmental Standards | Green Data Center | Green Storage | IT Infrastructure | Network Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | Regulatory Compliance | ROI | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Virtualization | Storage Consolidation | Storage Virtualization | Systems Management | TCO

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with Intel® Intelligent Power Technology, delivers up to 50 percent lower idle power. By replacing aging single-core processor-based servers with new, more energy-efficient servers, you can gain capacity to grow and to increase IT performance using fewer servers.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Energy Efficiency | IT Infrastructure | IT Management | IT Managers | Server Appliances | Server Hardware | Server Management

PRODUCT OVERVIEW - The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically reducing operating costs.
Posted: October 6, 2009 | Published: October 6, 2009


Topics:  Cooling Capacity | Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Cooling | Data Center Design | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Energy Efficiency | Server Appliances | Server Consolidation | Server Hardware | Server Management