VIDEO - IT pros often lack an understanding of the importance of energy efficiency in the data center. This videocast explores how operational efficiency can enable your organization to reduce infrastructure costs and improve resource utilization.
Posted: November 30, 2009 | Premiered: November 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Cooling | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Power Management | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Management | Server Virtualization | UPS

CASE STUDY - Read this paper to find out how Instantis managed to accommodate rapid customer growth, deliver outstanding performance, ensure “five-nines” availability for customers around the globe, cut ongoing IT costs, and reduce the environmental footprint of data center operations through reduced energy consumption.
Posted: November 24, 2009 | Published: August 24, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Consolidation | Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Server Consolidation | Server Management | Storage Management

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 | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Power Consumption Monitoring | Power Supplies

WHITE PAPER - While energy consumption of overall data center operations and server-related equipment is generally understood, the story is quite different when it comes to storage systems. This paper offers practical advice on how to measure storage system efficiency and compares the efficiency numbers of several common storage solutions.
Posted: November 19, 2009 | Published: August 1, 2008


Topics:  Backups | Cooling Equipment | Data Centers | Databases | Disaster Recovery | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Storage Systems | Storage Virtualization | Tape Libraries | UPS

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

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

WEBCAST - View this webcast to learn how green IT is successfully being implemented in enterprises today and to gain understanding of green IT from cost, compliance, investment, and customer perspectives.
Posted: November 11, 2009 | Premiered: October 15, 2009


Topics:  Business IT Alignment | Business Process Management | CIOs | Energy Efficiency | Enterprise Resource Management | Enterprise Systems | Green Data Center | Investments | IT Management

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - This session will look at various techniques and strategies to optimize either on-line active or primary as well as near-line or secondary storage environment during tough economic times, as well as to position for future growth, after all, there is no such thing as a data recession!
Posted: November 6, 2009 | Published: September 25, 2009


Topics:  Backups | Cooling Capacity | Cooling Equipment | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Green Storage | Power Supplies | Storage Best Practices

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)

PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT - Read this transcript featuring guest speakers Doug Washburn, Forrester Research Analyst, and co-presenter John Skinner, Intel's Director of Marketing, Eco-Technology, as they discuss the scope of energy-efficient computing, and how new incentives can be leveraged to accelerate the ROI of your technology investments
Posted: October 30, 2009 | Published: October 30, 2009


Topics:  Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency | Data Center Management | Energy Efficiency | Green Data Center | Network Best Practices | Network Management | Power Consumption Monitoring | Server Consolidation | Server Management

WHITE PAPER - The challenge of saving power while maintaining server performance has become a primary concern within the IT environment. But, the latest generation of Adaptec RAID controllers provides Intelligent Power Management software and supports a variety of techniques that, together, enable significant savings without compromising performance.
Posted: October 29, 2009 | Published: October 27, 2009


Topics:  Backup Software | Backups | Data Center Management | Data Center Power Management | Data Centers | Green Data Center | Green Storage | RAID

WHITE PAPER - HP has a long and proud tradition of partnering with technology leaders to help ensure success in both good economies and bad. This paper provides practical advice and insight into the rules these leaders followed to realize the full potential of virtualization.
Posted: October 28, 2009 | Published: July 25, 2009


Topics:  Cloud Computing | Compliance (Systems Operations) | Configuration Management | Data Center Management | Data Centers | Disaster Recovery | Green Data Center | Server Virtualization | Server Virtualization Software