Data Center White Papers
Making Green IT a Reality: Customer Perspectives on the Impact of Storage Vendor Decisions on Power, Cooling, & Space in Enterprise Data Centers
Overview "Green IT" is a popular concept today, as data centers worldwide face rising costs for power, cooling, and space and companies strive to meet public demand for improved environmental stewardship. Many IT organizations, however, are just starting to understand the influence that their IT purchase decisions have on data center power, cooling, and space consumption. This paper explores that link, with a particular emphasis on the impact of storage solutions.
| Publisher | Network Appliance (NetApp) | File Format | |
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| Date Published | December 2007 | Downloads | 3 |
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11 things to consider for File Virtualization
As organizations struggle to cope with the exponential growth of data, especially in the unstructured and decentralized file space, the urgency to gain better control, visibility and transparency of file...
An examination of server consolidation: the 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...
IT optimization as a source of sustainable competitive advantage
Over the last ten years enterprises worldwide have transformed the way they do business by investing trillions of dollars in IT. They've expanded their marketplace reach while working more closely...
A Blueprint for Better Management from the Desktop to the Data Center
In the new service-oriented world, virtualization is critical. However, with virtualization comes a new set of management challenges. The introduction of virtual machine operating system “images” as a first-class IT...
Automation for the New Data Center
Is your data centre being squeezed by increasing power and cooling costs? Are your servers underutilised and costly to manage? Virtualization enables data center managers to make far better use...



