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Insight articles
- Data centre managers explore energy efficiency
The rise in electricity costs, coupled with the increasing power consumption of modern processors, are leading to crippling headaches for data centre managers. A conference last week explored several ways in which data centres could save money.
- The green metrics conundrum
Individual vendors create their own meaning of greenness in measuring how well their equipment stacks up, says one analyst.
- Wireless power-saving - more trouble than it's worth?
Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode sounds like a good way to make laptop batteries last longer. It turns out the savings aren't worth the performance hit.
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How-Tos
- Eight ways to green your existing datacentre
Burton Group analyst goes through some quick tips on how enterprises can use their datacentres more effectively.
- Box reduction
Server virtualisation and a variety of storage technologies can help to significantly reduce the number of boxes in your datacentre. There is less scope in the networking area, apart from port consolidation. Any strategy needs to take a long-term view of information processing and storage growth, otherwise you'll arrive back at square one.
- The ideal datacentre: No low-hanging green fruit
Cooling datacentres more effectively looks like the only non-rip-and-replace method to raise datacentre infrastructure power-efficiency.
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White papers
- Demand and Supply in IT
How to break down the communications barrier between business and IT, so that they can work smoothly together to choose the right applications as well as implementing them in the right way.
- The Forrester Wave: Data Center Automation
Discover why HP leads the pack in a very competitive DCA market. Essential reading from Forrester, for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals.
- Oracle Database 11g Application Development
Explore Oracle Database 11g , a single integrated platform offering high performance and scalability for the most popular technologies used by application developers today.
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Briefings
- Earth Day: Who's the greenest of them all?
Dell, VMware, HP, EMC, Cisco and IBM. Which of these really stuck through their green-commitments and how.
- EPEAT's progress
EPEAT has stronger support from the US government and HP has just announced a raft of EPEAT-registered kits.
- Global Action Plan
Global Action Plan is a charity, run as a small business, that wants to revolutionise IT use by business and make it much more energy-efficient. Can it do this?
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