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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
Perle Systems Launches a Comprehensive Suite of New Console Server Features and Integrated Hardware
Perle Systems today announced the latest in an already sophisticated suite of features for their best selling Console Servers. The newest feature, Redundant Path Technology, has been added to the full product family of IOLAN Secure Console and Terminal Servers. Redundant Path Technology, unique to Perle, assures serial port access...
Tags: console, data center, hardware
Research articles 2007-03-06
Army Buys Data Center Services from Horizon
The U.S. DoD buys a lot of things. They also sell a lot of things to its members. The military has two networks of stores across the globe, one run by the Army for its and the USAF bases and another by the Navy. Horizon Data Center...
Tags: Data Center, Base, Data Centers, Storage, Sales Strategy, Hardware, Data Management, Sales, Matthew Potter
Blog posts 2008-12-17
Imation Corp., Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Chuck Murphy from Sidoti & Co. Chuck Murphy – Sidoti & Co. You mentioned the pressures that you’re seeing in tape from the open architecture in the deduplication. Can you talk about when that sort...
Tags: Imation Corp., Brand, Data Center, Tape, Sun Microsystems Inc., Call Transcript, De-duplication, Earnings, Data Centers, Branding, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Marketing, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-10-21
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
HP To Take On Cisco
Last week I mentioned how Cisco was entering the server market and how this was just the continuation of a diversification trend we've already been seeing. I also mentioned how more examples would be popping up. Another already has: HP is coming out with data switches built for datacenter applications....
Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Cisco Systems Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-01-28
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
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
Tech Firms Become Conglomerates ... Unsuccessfully
My colleague Michael Hickins wrote an illuminating post yesterday about big business ignoring Cisco's united computing system, which is supposed to be a data center platform that could rival those of IBM and HP. That got me thinking about a number of news items and thoughts that have been kicking...
Tags: Data Center, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Erik Sherman
Blog posts 2009-06-12
SAVVIS Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator instructions]. Our first question comes from Jonathan Atkin, your line is open. Jonathan Atkin - RBC Capital Markets Yes, good morning. I wonder if you could talk a little bit about the competitive environment that you are seeing for both the Managed Hosting products as well...
Tags: Data Center, Call Transcript, Earnings, Savvis Communications, Data Centers, Web Hosting, Managed Hosting, It Services, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Seeking Alpha, Savvis Inc.
Earnings calls 2009-02-04
Cincinnati Bell, Inc Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions. We’ll go first to Jason Armstrong with Goldman Sachs. Jason Armstrong - Goldman Sachs Morning, guys. This is actually inaudible on for Jason. Thanks for taking the question. So, I just want to touch on CapEx....
Tags: Bond, Call Transcript, Cash Flow, Cincinnati Bell, Data Center, Data Centers, Data Management, Earnings, Equity, Finance, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Hardware, Investment, Operational Accounting, Personal Finance, Seeking Alpha, Storage
Earnings calls 2009-02-05
Dinosaurs Like Cisco Need "Mammals" In The Data Center
Cisco, EMC and Dell have done such a good job of filling data centers with their servers and storage devices that in order to keep growing in new markets, they've either got to disrupt their own installed bases or expand into adjacent ones. For the time being at least, these...
Tags: Data Center, Storage Device, Emulex Corp., Server, Cisco Systems Inc., Convergence, Fiber, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Hickins
Blog posts 2009-02-24
Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. F2Q09 (Qtr End 9/26/08) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator instructions Your first question comes from Sandy Harrison from Signal Hill. Please go ahead. Sandy Harrison – Signal Hill Thanks. Good afternoon, guys. Couple of questions, Kirk, I did the macro economic thing we've heard from pretty much everyone out there...
Tags: Data Center, Slowdown, Medical Device, Call Transcript, Zarlink Semiconductor Inc., Earnings, Data Center Interconnect, Data Centers, Healthcare, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2008-10-23
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
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
Does Your Company Need an Energy Czar?
Companies spend a lot of money on energy, and a main source of greenhouse guilt is computer servers. There are three reasons why, according to a report by McKinsey and the Uptime Institute: About 15 percent of the servers in a typical data...
Tags: Data Center, Uptime Institute, Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Michael Fitzgerald
Blog posts 2008-11-10
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
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
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
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