The Vector Approach to Data Center Power Planning [ Source: Eaton ]
July 2009- Many data centers, including most of those built before 2001, are at risk of outstripping their capacity to power and cool their IT systems. Already, data centers consume 10–30 times more energy per square foot than the typical office building—a figure that has doubled in the last five years. Energy costs represent the single largest component of operating expense, and a potential barrier to future expansion. Does IT really have a handle on this trend?

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Is an Energy-wasting Data Center Draining Your Bottom Line? [ Source: Eaton ]
November 2009- An unforgiving economic climate has left many organizations struggling to sustain (or restore) profitability. Many of them reacted to the downturn by restructuring, trimming back R&D and marketing, and laying off employees. All of these moves leave a company in a vulnerable position when the market rebounds, which it inevitably will.

Meanwhile, huge potential savings are sitting, untapped, right in the company’s data center.

Data center energy costs as a percent of ....

HP Reference Configuration for Virtualization: HP ProLiant c-Class Half-Height Servers and VMware Infrastructure 3 [ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008- Virtualization has rapidly changed from an emerging technology to a data center, stalwart capable of hosting mission-critical applications and providing levels of redundancy and recovery that were once impossible or cost prohibitive with industry standard platforms. This white paper from Hewlett-Packard graphically represents an enterprise reference configuration for HP BladeSystem c-Class running VMware Infrastructure 3 in the most redundant, rapidly recoverable and highly available configuration.

How BladeSymphony Can Reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) [ Source: Hitachi ]
July 2008- Gartner, a neutral third-party company in the IT industry, was the first to advocate the concept of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). This report is precisely categorized and tabulated based on system operation TCO components defined by Gartner. These TCO components are roughly divided into asset costs and staff costs to demonstrate how BladeSymphony can help reduce TCO.

Blade Server Tech Report [ Source: InformationWeek ]
March 2007- The blade server market has been evolving, and many enterprises today can take advantage of much the improved manageability and facilities savings that blades can offer. The market has offerings from nearly every major vendor and some smaller vendors that can surprise and please both the server administrator and the data center manager. The NWC Analytics Blade Server Tech Report covers the market as it stands and can serve as a guideline for justifying investments ....