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 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 now power consumption more than ...
Data Centers: 2 Ways to Save Money
[ Source: Eaton ]
November 2009-
Your data center houses servers - and savings. This white paper presents 2 ways data center managers can improve end-to-end energy efficiency so you can start taking advantage of the savings present in your data center.
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Delivering Value from the Network Edge to the Core
[ Source: HP/AMD ]
November 2011-
HP Thermal Logic represents a step forward in managing the energy consumption of today's data center. It plays a key role in the HP Data Center Smart Grid initiative to deliver an end-to-end portfolio of energy-efficient technologies reaching from the server to the entire datacenter.
Its holistic approach extends beyond simply squeezing additional energy efficiency out of individual servers or managing to specific benchmarks to include instead focusing on increasing the efficiency of ...
Virtualization Infrastructure Reference Guide
[ Source: Dell & Intel ]
January 2010-
This handy white paper provides an overview of the recommended servers, storage, software, and services. It can be used to plan, scope, and procure the required components to set up a virtualization infrastructure.
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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Best Practices for Implementing a Data Warehouse on Oracle Exadata
[ Source: Oracle ]
June 2011-
Increasingly companies are recognizing the value of an enterprise data warehouse (EDW). A true EDW provides a single 360-degree view of the business and a powerful platform for a wide spectrum of business intelligence tasks ranging from predictive analysis to near real-time strategic and tactical decision support throughout the organization.
Ensuring the EDW will get the desired performance and will scale out as your data grows you need to get three fundamental things ...
Dell Dukes it out with IBM and HP Blade Solutions: The Winner Is…
[ Source: Dell & Intel ]
January 2010-
This report reveals the total cost of ownership for three blade solutions by Dell, IBM and HP. Get comprehensive costs on hardware, support, management, software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space.
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 ...