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How to Make Your IT Greener
Our post last month pointing out that servers guzzle as much energy as SUVs got a big response, but many readers asked a very reasonable question: businesses can't be expected to get rid of their IT, so how can they reduce IT energy expenditures? As we pointed...
Tags: Jessica Stillman, Management, Data Management, Hardware, Storage, Strategy, Data Centers, Information Technology, Data Center
Blog posts 2008-01-14
Companies Lose $4 Billion a Year to Data Center Inefficiencies
U.S. businesses are losing $4 billion a year in energy costs through inefficient equipment and operations at data centers, an Environmental Protection Agency report released today reveals. That's one big leak. How much is seeping out of your company's data center? The document entitled, "Report to Congress...
Tags: Data Centers, Data Center, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2007-08-03
Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from William Myers - Miller Asset Management. William Myers - Miller Asset Management In addition to the weak demand, was there any pricing pressure on unit prices? David Hubbard Yes, I think as you can see from the margin...
Tags: Data Center, Call Transcript, Earnings, Alliance Fiber Optic Products Inc., Data Centers, Asset Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-10-21
Equinix Inc. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Jonathan Atkin - RBC Capital Markets. Jonathan Atkin - RBC Capital Markets With regard to the transaction, I wonder if you can comment, qualitatively, on those areas where you expect either top-line synergies, or perhaps SG&A synergies. And then...
Tags: Data Center, Call Transcript, Earnings, Position, RBC Capital Markets, Data Centers, Corporate Law, Asset Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Operational Planning, Seeking Alpha, Equinix
Earnings calls 2009-10-21
Internap Network Services Corp. Q3 2009 Earnings Conference Call
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Just a quick reminder, if you are joining us this afternoon using speakerphone, please make sure that your mute function is off to allow your signals to reach our equipment. Operator Instructions. And we'll pause for just a moment. We take our first question this...
Tags: Data Center, Internap Network Services, Earnings, Eric Cooney, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-11-05
Things to Consider Before Choosing a Primary Site Recovery Approach or Telecommunications Vendor
More and more companies are revisiting the need for business continuity plans. The ability to protect and recover from primary data center failures is no longer a luxury but an absolute necessity for today's businesses. In today's global economy isolation of internal clients and external customers from key corporate data...
Tags: Data Center, Recovery, DISASTER-RESOURCE.com, Data Centers, Telephony, Business Security, Telecom & Utilities, Storage, Telecommunications, Hardware, Data Management, Networking, Business Operations
White papers 2003-01-01
Essential Cooling System Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers
Although IT equipment has always required cooling, the requirements of today's IT systems, combined with the way that those IT systems are deployed, has created new cooling-related problems which were not foreseen when the cooling principles for the modern data center were developed over 30 years ago. In this paper,...
Tags: American Power Conversion Corp., Data Center, Information Technology, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
White papers 2002-03-01
Round-the-Clock Service for Non-Stop Business Operations
The LexisNexis Data Center in Ohio was operating 24 hours a day to supply its customers with legal, corporate, government and academic information. The only exception to this "round-the-clock" service was an eight-hour maintenance window on Sunday mornings, but that too had to be eliminated because it was affecting the...
Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Data Center, Power Measurement, Data Centers, Government, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2002-05-01
Modular Protection Around the Clock
The State of Georgia's Beta Building is a bustling office on the northwest side of Atlanta. Inside the heart of the Beta Building are three computer data centers, one of which is classified as a critical facility. Data processing and record keeping activities go on around the clock, and require...
Tags: Data Center, Generac Power Systems, Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
Case studies
Storage Extension Network Solutions Between Data Centers
Enterprise and government agencies are also interconnecting data centers for consolidation of data between geographically separate data center locations to drive higher efficiency - resulting in data migrations from one data center to another and forcing requirements for high bandwidth connectivity. In support of these requirements, long distance storage replication...
Tags: Network Solutions Inc., Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2005-05-01
AtlantiCare: Healthcare Company Uses Virtual Machines to Pare Data Center Costs and Speed Deployment
AtlantiCare, a prominent New Jersey healthcare organization, wanted to expand its technology capabilities without expanding its data center, which was running out of electrical capacity and space. AtlantiCare's IT Company, InfoShare, also needed more test servers and a cost-efficient way to replace aging hardware running Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0-based...
Tags: Data Center, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Virtual Machine, AtlantiCare, Data Centers, Desktop Virtualization, Storage, Microsoft Windows NT, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
Case studies
Data Center Consolidation: Using Performance Metrics to Achieve Success
In the modern business climate, consolidation of IT operations is a common pursuit towards enabling cost reduction and efficiency improvement, technology consolidation, service level management, and qualitydriven best practices. This paper presents a framework for planning and executing data center consolidation efforts to ensure success with minimal risk to the...
Tags: Data Center, Performance, Consolidation, Data Center Consolidation, International Network Services, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2004-10-01
Outsourcing Survey Reveals Data Center Trends
The shorter the contract length, the greater the satisfaction in data center outsourcing efforts. That is one of the conclusions reached by Enterprise Systems and Sourcingmag.com in the 2006 Data Center Outsourcing survey, which solicited data from 463 companies. When reporting how satisfied clients feel toward their data center service...
Tags: Data Center, CTQ Media, Outsourcing Survey, Data Centers, Storage, Outsourcing, Hardware, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
White papers
Research: Trends in Data Center Outsourcing
The concept of outsourcing, while far from passé, is becoming dated. That's not to say that organizations are no longer feeding IT or business process work to third parties. They are - in ever greater numbers. But many companies now have several years of outsourcing experience and have honed their...
Tags: Data Center, CTQ Media, Outsourcing, Data Centers, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers
Remodeling an Active Data Center: Management, Planning & Communications Mitigate Risks During the Project
Remodeling an active data center presents a balancing act of maintaining the business standard of 24/7 uptime and completing the data center remodeling project. While a person may have commissioned his or her data center remodeling project for a number of reasons, the fear that a data center remodeling project...
Tags: Data Center, Sandhills Publishing, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2005-10-14
The Logic of Expertise Location: Tap Into Employees' Backgrounds & Experience to Gain Competitive Advantage
Small to midsized enterprises today need to leverage all of their personnel and technical assets to stay competitive in the marketplace. Typically, an organization tracks an employee's experience and skills in his resume, but the value of employee expertise too often falls beneath management's ongoing attention. Expertise location or expertise...
Tags: Data Center, Competitive Advantage, Sandhills Publishing, Data Centers, Smb/Sme, Strategy, Knowledge Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2005-12-30
Data Centers And Energy Use - Let's Look At The Data
Data centers are prevalent in a wide range of industries, universities, and government facilities. Energy demand in these facilities is thought to be growing as computing technology changes and IT professionals seek to maximize computing per square foot of data center. Research aimed at understanding the present electrical intensity, end...
Tags: Data Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2005-04-22
Reducing Costs Through Data Center Asset Optimization Management
For many companies, the daunting amount of time, money, and people required to manage the traditional active/passive server configurations in their data centers has made managing resources and service availability harder, not easier. Industry-standard hardware and virtualization technologies promise to reduce the traditional requirement of one passive server for each...
Tags: BMC Software Inc., Data Center, Server, Data Centers, Virtualization, Storage, It Management, Hardware, Data Management, It service Management
White papers 2005-10-07
Time-Smart Management Sharpens Data Center Efficiency
Over the past decade, the IT Information Technology landscape and the management of IT organizations have undergone significant transformations. This paper explains HP's BladeSystem with Insight Control management that is designed to deliver dramatic improvements in compute performance and to address many of the inefficiencies that contribute to inflated operational...
Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Time-Smart Management, Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management
White papers 2006-06-01
Data Center Projects: Project Management
In data center design/build projects, flaws in project management and coordination are a common - but unnecessary - cause of delays, expense, and frustration. The ideal is for project management activities to be structured and standardized like interlocking building blocks, so all parties can communicate with a common language, avoid...
Tags: Data Center, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Data Centers, It Operations, It service Management, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management
White papers 2007-04-30
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