Data Center Power and Cooling
In a recent ESG Brief: QLogic iSR Accelerates Data Migrations, ESG Analyst Bob Laliberte nails the data migration challenges virtualization brings to the data center, and the value QLogic offers with their solution…
ESG Lab tested the iSR 6200 series and documents the results in a just-published Lab Validation report that ...
Optimizing resources through the effective utilization of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solutions can have a major impact on OPEX and CAPEX budgets. While most are consolidating data centers and virtualizing infrastructure, a key piece of the puzzle has been ignored: power consumption. Those in power-constrained geographies are learning all ...
Viridity announced availability of EnergyCenter 2.0 to better address the needs of modern data centers. Its new capabilities deliver more flexible planning scenarios, stronger alignment with the business, and greater usability tied to reporting and alerting. As more organizations understand the value of data center infrastructure management (DCIM) and evaluate ...
Last week I was able to visit one of NetApp‘s newest and highly energy-efficient data centers, so energy-efficient that it earned the government’s first energy star ratings for data centers. What makes this even more interesting is that NetApp isn’t in the business of building data centers–they ...
Published on Monday, January 24th, 2011 at 4:13 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte |
ESG research finds that 82% of IT organizations will increase or maintain spending levels on infrastructure management solutions in 2011, with larger organizations—as measured by both number of employees and number of servers—being most likely to increase their management software investments. Look for spending on tools related to security, network, ...
Authors: Bill Lundell | Bob Laliberte |
Bob Laliberte, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said the tool can give customers some quick and easy insight into their IT environment.
via Data Center Management: Going Lean and Green.
Organizations typically keep their facilities and IT groups separate; however, that may not be the most prudent course of action. With increases in the cost of power and the inability to obtain more of it in some geographies, organizations are taking a closer look at how to optimize the use ...
For most IT organizations, power is taken for granted—until they run out of it or have to pay for it. Organizations have typically relegated power and cooling issues to the facilities department, with IT only providing input on an as-needed basis. IT’s primary concern is focused on ...
While saluting the work of The Green Grid on PUE and standards, Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters said their role remains primarily that of a cheerleader bringing attention to an important issue. For Peters, the smart money is on solid state.
via Green Storage – The Present and the Promising ...
Taking a page out of the Fast Food restaurant play book, HP is hoping to create and deliver modular, scalable data centers. In an attempt to overcome the costly and time consuming process of custom designing a data center to fit a specific need at a specific point in time, HP is ...
