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whitepaper Autonomic Virtual Machine Placement in the Data Center2008-02-26 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  This paper presents a high level overview of a virtual machine placement system in which an autonomic controller dynamically manages the mapping of virtual machines onto physical hosts in accordance with policies specified by the user. By closely monitoring virtual machine activity and employing advanced policies for dynamic workload placement, such an autonomic solution can achieve substantial cost savings from better utilization of computing resources and less frequent overload situations.   
whitepaper Dynamic Data Center Power Management: Trends, Issues, and Solutions2008-02-21 Intel
  This paper examines the challenges of increasing data center power consumption and higher energy costs in the face of ever-increasing computing needs. An examination of how power is allocated to computing resources in data centers shows that current methods do not result in optimal use of available data center power and space. It paper identify requirements that server platforms must address to solve data center power problems, and it offers a solution that includes a platform resident Policy Manager (PM). The PM monitors power and thermal sensors and enforces platform power and thermal policies. The paper explains how the PM can be used as the basis of a data center power management solution.   
whitepaper IBM's Vision for the New Enterprise Data Center: A Breakthrough Approach for Efficient IT Service Delivery2008-02-01 IBM
  IBM's vision for the new enterprise data center is an evolutionary model that helps reset the economics of IT and can dramatically improve operational efficiency. It also can help reduce and control rising costs and improve provisioning speed and data center security and resiliency - at any scale. It will allow being highly responsive to any user need. And it aligns technology and business - giving the freedom and the tools one need to innovate - and stay ahead of the competition. Through the experience with thousands of client engagements, IBM has developed an architected approach based on best practices and proven implementation patterns and blueprints. And the own data center transformation provides first-hand proof that embracing this new approach simply makes good business sense.   
whitepaper Automate to Optimize: The Foundation for Data Center Efficiency2008-02-01 Tidal Software
  Data centers experience constant change under pressure from technology and business drivers. IT systems are becoming more, not less complex as new technologies are introduced, and IT staffs are not growing to keep pace with the growth in size and complexity of the typical data center. Windows administrators need to radically simplify both complex and routine tasks if they are going to effectively respond to the constant pressure to deliver increasing value with limited resources. The most effective thing Windows administrators can do to address this issue is to minimize duties associated with maintaining the existing infrastructure. This paper describes an automation solution that can significantly simplify many complex and routine tasks, freeing Windows experts to focus on overall application functionality.   
whitepaper Memory Buddies: Exploiting Page Sharing for Server Consolidation in Virtualized Data Centers2008-01-28 University of Massachusetts
  Modern data centers increasingly employ virtualization in order to maximize resource utilization while reducing costs. With the advent of multi-core processors, memory has become the key limiting resource when running multiple virtual machines on a given server. This paper argues for exploiting page sharing to significantly reduce aggregate memory requirements of collocated VMs and increase the number of VMs that can be housed on a given data center. The paper presents a memory tracer and a novel memory fingerprinting technique - based on Bloom Filters - to concisely and efficiently capture the memory contents of each VM.

Tags: Server Consolidation		   
whitepaper Symantec Energy Efficient Data Center Solutions: An Executive Overview2008-01-12 Symantec
  Data Center power and cooling challenges are a chronic, inescapable fact for many enterprises. While server virtualization will provide some measure of relief, the relief will usually prove temporary. In the final analysis, it is important to recognize that, while hardware produces power and cooling challenges, software is a critical ingredient in its mitigation. Symantec provides a range of software products that enable enterprises to significantly reduce their energy requirements throughout the entire IT infrastructure. These products work with existing, inplace current hardware and can assist enterprises plan for and optimize new hardware as it arrives.   
whitepaper Selecting an Industry-Standard Metric for Data Center Efficiency2008-01-02 American Power Conversion (APC)
  The development of standards for the measurement and specification of data center efficiency is an essential step in the global effort to reduce the environmental impact of data centers. This paper explains some of the metrics that have been used to describe the efficiency of data center physical infrastructure and suggests which metric is the most effective.   
whitepaper Energy-Efficient Computing Using Citrix PowerSmart Utility for Presentation Server (Beta) With HP Integrated Lights-Out2008-01-01 Hewlett-Packard (HP)
  Data center costs for computer power and cooling are staggering. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that data centers used 61 billion kilowatt hours in 2006 - or 1.5% of all power consumed in the United States1 - at a cost of $4.5 billion, the consumption of approximately 5.8 million average households. The no-cost Citrix PowerSmart Utility for Presentation Server (PowerSmart) is designed to reduce the power consumption of a Citrix Presentation Server farm. During off-business hours, PowerSmart intelligently focuses the farm's workload on a few Presentation Servers so that it can power off idle servers.

Tags: Remote Access - RA Servers		   
whitepaper Adaptive Networking - Advanced Data Center Fabric Technology2008-01-01 Sun Microsystems
  The Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) Architecture is an architectural foundation and evolutionary strategy for designing, building, and managing enterprise data centers. A critical advanced technology integrated into the data center fabric is Brocade's adaptive networking. Adaptive networking services will become essential as evolving data center fabrics collapse server-to-storage, server-to-server, and storage-to-storage connectivity onto a common network connecting virtualized devices.   
whitepaper How Cisco IT Achieves Consolidation and Standardization in the Data Center2007-12-18 Cisco Systems
  The need to manage and build isolated islands for each application cost Cisco IT too much in resources and flexibility, and a solution was required. Underutilization of resources is a major factor in high TCO. Like many enterprises, Cisco is challenged to control the costs and improve the inefficiencies of maintaining a number of nonstandard, siloed business application environments. Cisco is undertaking a radical data center redesign with the goal of creating a single high-performance computer-processing environment powering a wide range of applications and services, including security, application optimization, and management. Although the data center has not yet been fully realized, the foundational technologies are being established on the way toward complete decentralization, virtualization, and dynamic provisioning.

Tags: ROI - TCO, Virtualization