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- September 02 2010
The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Centre
This white paper outlines the current trends and issues relating to IT energy consumption and “green” related activities in the enterprise data center to provide the context of the need for our approach and enterprise energy vision in the IT industry today. We shall delve into the subject on how utilizing our approach and system to redressing some of those issues applies. A brief discussion on the technology behind our approach is included. We then shall cover the value our approach provides not only from a functional and environmental perspective but also from an economic one. Our enterprise energy vision will be discussed and how our resulting products or products developed from others in the IT industry using our system can assist and complement the many valid energy efficiency based products, initiatives and standards utilized today to reduce the energy consumption concerns of the corporate enterprise. - August 25 2010
Web 2.0 Security in the Workplace Study
Ponemon Institute and Check Point are pleased to present the results of Web 2.0 Security in the Workplace. The present global study involves an expert panel of IT and IT security practitioners located in the United States (US), United Kingdom (UK), Australia (AU), France (FR), and Japan (JP). The objective of the study is to understand: What IT and IT security practitioners think about the threat of Web 2.0 use in the workplace. Who should be held most responsible for dealing with Web 2.0 security risks. How much of a priority is the mitigation of threats caused by employees’ when using Web 2.0 apps such as social networks, social messaging, blogs and wikis. - August 06 2010
The Cloud Ready Data Center NetworkCloud computing represents a new way to deliver and use services on a shared IT infrastructure. Previously, applications and hardware were linked, and applications were resident on specifically designated hardware for compute and storage. With cloud computing, the functionality of these same software and hardware products is delivered in a more scalable fashion as services over a network. IT groups can apply the lessons of the cloud to their own IT departments, whether or not they are deploying clouds to achieve optimal results. However, in the highly connected world of virtualized applications and infrastructures, a close examination of the network is required, because simplified networks are the foundation of cloud-ready data centers.
- July 15 2010
Cost Model: Dollars per kW plus Dollars per Square Foot of Computer FloorFor many years, the data center industry has used dollars per square foot of computer room space to benchmark the construction cost of a data center. This has led many data center owners to reduce the amount of space in an attempt to control project costs. This approach generally produces disappointing results because it is based on a false premise. Originally, 16 actual construction projects were used by the Uptime Institute to identify their primary cost drivers and develop a new and more accurate construction cost model. This model emphasizes the “engine” capacity and functionality aspects of a data center, in addition to the space itself. This publication edition features refinements to the first edition, including an update to the cost model—based on four additional data center projects completed since. The content of this publication was jointly developed by Uptime Institute Professional Services.
Revised July 2010
- July 01 2010
The State of Data Center Cooling
This paper provides basic guidance for selecting the right cooling methodology for multiple types of data center projects, as well as varying densities of new servers. We focus on proven cooling technologies you can use right now, rather than emerging technologies. Data center provisioning is a multidimensional problem with a variety of constraints. Those constraints drive the choices, and choices need to be compared based upon a thorough analysis of each option’s total cost of ownership (TCO). In this paper we describe liquid and air cooling solutions and discuss where each is best applied. Liquid cooling generally tends to be more expensive and not necessarily more efficient. Air cooling faces limitations from rack density, though some of these can be surmounted by various airflow segregation strategies. - July 01 2010
Increasing Data Center Efficiency through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage
To increase data center energy efficiency at one of our older data centers in India, Intel IT’s Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a comprehensive approach to metering power usage. We developed methods for identifying measurable efficiency improvements and placed instrumentation to continuously track power usage effectiveness (PUE), the key metric of data center energy efficiency. Using PUE metrics allowed us to make decisions that increased efficiency, helped achieve optimum data center facility utilization, and provided data we can share with other Intel facilities around the world to proliferate energy savings. - July 01 2010
India Business Continuity Survey 2009 - July 01 2010
Estimating a Data Centre’s Electrical Carbon Footprint - July 01 2010
Survival of The Fittest !
It is a fact that history is littered with far more business failures than successes. Many of those that succeed have been driven by a desire and capability to fundamentally transform and evolve their businesses. In fact, the biological evolutionary mantra of ‘survival of the fittest’ can just as readily be applied to the business world, although fittest does not necessarily mean the biggest or even the best. From a business context, perhaps adaptability and the ability to evolve when required are more important. Modernizing existing mainframe enterprise applications has provided thousands of organizations with the agility necessary to enable business transformation and achieve significant growth and competitive differentiation. This paper examines three proven mainframe application modernization strategies and the business imperative in considering them. - July 01 2010
Data Center Migration:Perils and Pitfalls, Best Practices and Business Benefits
Let’s lead off this discussion by defining terms. A data center migration is not either a “software migration” or a “data migration,” although both of those things are sometimes carried out concurrently with a data center migration. No, a data center migration (DCM) entails the relocation of a data center—either a local, regional or national center or the relocation of a company’s entire IT operation—to a new and almost always larger facility. Software migrations, data migrations, rolling out new applications enterprise-wide or even adding a whole facility’s worth of new users are in-patient procedures; a data center migration is major surgery. So please be patient [sorry] with us as we outline when and why it makes sense to go under the DCM knife and which providers might have the requisite bedside manner to help you pull through successfully. - July 01 2010
Centralized Data Backup
This whitepaper will help you understand the tremendous shift occurring in data protection. Leveraging the capabilities of WDS, storage specialists are replacing local tape libraries with more scalable and secure network-based systems. Security analysts are no longer drafting extensive procedural documents to manage a growing swarm of loose tape media. CIOs are revising disaster recovery SLAs to reflect new levels of reliability, and CFOs are planning budgets on more practical technology growth. The Steelhead appliance will not only enable IT organizations to efficiently manage the increasingly critical technology infrastructure of today’s business, but will also facilitate compliance with new government regulations mandating the security of sensitive company data. - July 01 2010
China IT Trends 2010
This Springboard Research document covers the key trends and dynamics in the China IT market prevalent in 2009, along with a preview of the top trends that Springboard believes will shape the domestic market in 2010. The insights shared in this document are based on our interviews with 100 CIOs, IT managers and business managers from various vertical industries in China. Further insights are derived from Springboard’s continuous tracking of the major trends and developments in China, and through our analysis of publicly available information on IT companies, products, technologies and services in the country. - July 01 2010
The 5 Critical Planning Steps For an Effective DR PlanIn today’s climate, most enterprises maintain some form of business continuity plan. Business continuity plans are designed to provide a way for an enterprise to continue business operations in the event of a catastrophic disaster, such as a flood, an earthquake, or a widespread power outage, that shuts down business operations at one or more primary locations. Business continuity plans cover information technology (IT) infrastructure recovery, people issues that must be dealt with when business operations must be restarted at a remote location, and physical infrastructure issues, such as re-establishing telecommunications, ensuring physical security, and providing appropriate work areas at remote locations.
IT infrastructure recovery, sometimes referred to as disaster recovery (DR), addresses the issues involved with recovering computing equipment (servers, storage, etc.), data, and application services. DR provides a necessary foundation for business continuity plans, but is not a substitute for them. This white paper focuses on the key elements of creating an effective DR plan, and is appropriate for IT management as well as technical staff.
- May 10 2010
Understanding Data Center CoolingData center energy usage has risen dramatically over the past decade and will continue to grow in-step
with the processor-intensive applications that support business and day-to-day life in the modern world.
The growth of technology has driven the data center into a new phase of expansion, and while data
centers themselves may vary over different industry segments, there are common factors influencing all
of them including a need to do more with the same resources, or in some cases, even less. To this end,
much has been done to increase server efficiency and IT space utilization, but the actual space and
cooling infrastructure supporting these intensified loads has often not been properly addressed to keep
pace with these developments—an important oversight since cooling can represent up to 42% of a data
center’s energy usage. - April 13 2010
Managing Large Data - April 08 2010
A Free Tool for CFD Data Visualisation - March 30 2010
Efficiency Without Compromise - March 24 2010
Allocating Data Centre Energy Costs & Carbon to IT Users - March 23 2010
2010 State of the Data Centre Report - March 23 2010
Dynamic Cloud Infrastructure
