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Automation for the New Data Center

Overview

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 of resources than in non-virtualized environments, but without automation tools, it may actually increase the management burden

This whitepaper looks at the technology available for automation of the new data centre.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Novell	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2008	Downloads	91
Format	White Papers
Topics	Data Center

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