HP Blade Servers for Everyone
[ Source: HP ]
January 2008-
The move to blades can save companies over a third of the start-up costs of deploying standalone blades. These savings come via both acquisition costs and facilities costs and are enhanced when coupled with HP deployment and support services. Learn the cost advantages in midsize and enterprise markets of two different HP BladeSystems models. Download now.
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 ....
Is Power Your Weakest Link in Data Center Flexibility?: Key Considerations for Power Systems in Adaptive IT Environments
[ Source: Eaton ]
September 2008-
Your IT, networking and telecom systems consume more power than ever. A typical rack or wiring closet of equipment used to consume about 1.7 kW or 2 kW. A few years ago, that would have been high; it would be minimal today. For example, a rack full of Cisco Catalyst 6513 networking equipment consumes 8 kW. A rack of HP Proliant DL145 1U servers consumes 12 kW. Fill that rack with HP blade systems, and ....
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.
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?
....
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.
The Cloud on Your Terms: Your Apps, Where and When You Want Them
[ Source: VMware ]
October 2008-
Get a working definition of cloud computing, get tips to choosing the right cloud computing platform for your business, and learn the advantages of the VMware vCloud solution.
Sun Blade 6000 Modular System Power and Cooling Efficiency
[ Source: Sun Microsystems ]
January 2008-
The Sun Blade 6000 Modular System has been designed from the ground up to deliver far greater efficiency than the corresponding set of rack-mount servers. That’s part of the equation that is making IT organizations everywhere consider blade systems as part of their strategy in battling the space, power, and cooling crunch. What makes IT organizations choose Sun is the additional power and cooling efficiencies they get with the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System over ....
Compiling and Customizing SNMP MIBs With HP Systems Insight Manager
[ Source: Hewlett-Packard ]
January 2008-
This paper discusses the tools provided by HP Systems Insight Manager to integrate third-party (non-HP) SNMP v1/v2 MIBs into HP Systems Insight Manager to provide support for processing and displaying traps from other systems. It also discusses the MIB syntax extensions supported by HP Systems Insight Manager that provide additional value in customizing specific trap information. Finally, this paper discusses the set of MIB’s included with HP Systems Insight Manager to provide out-of-the-box support for ....