Written by: Bruce Naegel, John Colgrove, W. David Schwaderer Executive Summary Why You Should Read This Paper In May, 2006, IDC reported its 2005 data center survey results in a telebriefing titled End User Perspectives on Server Blade ...

Written by: Bruce Naegel, John Colgrove, W. David Schwaderer Executive Summary This is the second part of a three part paper on Data Center Power and cooling. It discusses data and disk types and how to match data and disks effectively within ...

Written by: Bruce Naegel, John Colgrove, W. David Schwaderer Executive Summary Why You Should Read This Paper This is the first part of a threepart series dealing with data center power and cooling issues that either are presently, or will ...

Written by: Michael Harding Sr., Product Marketing Manager The world is recognizing that data centers are big users of energy, and many corporations are now dealing with a crisis in power usage, power cost, or both. A Gartner group survey found ...

Written by: W. David Schwaderer Overview Today's IT departments face a multitude of challenges and impending changes. Some of these involve: New multi-core processor offerings Emerging processor virtualization technologies New ...

Written by: Bruce Naegel & Jose Iglesias Business demands on IT are ever-increasing to keep pace with the exponential growth of data throughput and the fast-rising need for data storage. Data centers are struggling to deploy the servers and ...

Written by: Andrew Harrison, Senior Engineering Manager Gartner Group has identified IT power and cooling as the highest priority issue facing IT organizations worldwide. It is a serious and exacerbating problem. Gartner is presently advising IT ...

Executive Summary High-performance IT consumes power and generates heat in enormous quantities—moving IT energy costs up corporate and even national agendas. Environmental, energy-cost, and space-planning considerations all call for conservation ...