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whitepaper Top 10 Ways to Increase IT ROI Without Adding Staff2009-10-12 KACE
  Tough economic times are upon us, and no one knows how long they may last. Today, IT managers are looking for alternative strategies to increase their IT ROI. The first principle is: Simplify operations. This white paper outlines 10 specific strategies for increasing IT ROI.

Tags: Software Development Tools, Data Infrastructure, Government, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper A Quick Primer on Data Center Tier Classifications2009-10-01 Switch and Data
  Today, a number of companies are either consolidating their data centers or implementing new data center projects. Their decisions are often based on the appropriate "tier level" of the IT facility. The tier level is determined by an industry standard classification system for infrastructure performance. A four-tier system rates a facility's ability to support uninterrupted operation of its data processing activities.

The tier classification model provides an academic and objective benchmark that helps describe and compare the functionality, capacity, and cost of data center infrastructures. At times, the drive to align the uptime of the IT facility with the business becomes bogged down in focusing on tier levels. Other factors beyond tier level compliance can impact uptime performance. In this paper, we will first review data center tier levels, then comment briefly on what is and is not critical to tier level attainment, and conclude with some pragmatic advice about facility assessment.

The tier classification system measures the performance of a site's operating infrastructure, which includes power, cooling, emergency backup, and fi re suppression. The power and cooling capabilities of a facility are delivered by its Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing (MEP) infrastructure. This whitepaper discusses the following tiers:
  • Tier-1 Basic Data Center Infrastructure
  • Tier-2 Data Center with Redundant Capacity Components
  • Tier-3 Concurrently Maintainable Data Center
  • Tier-4 Fault-tolerant Data Center
ABOUT SWITCH AND DATA Switch and Data is a premier provider of network-neutral data centers that house, power and interconnect the Internet. Leading content companies, enterprises and communications service providers rely on Switch and Data to connect to customers and exchange Internet traffic. Switch and Data has built a reputation for world-class service, delivered across the broadest colocation footprint and richest network

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Center: A New Approach and Use of an Old Science2009-10-01 Applied Methodologies
  Over the past several years' corporate enterprises and the Information Technology (IT) industry in general have increased their awareness relating to the "Greening" of the data center or the "Greening of IT" for the main purpose of reducing energy consumption and costs. Many standards, technologies and best practices have been developed and put forward from the corporate community, government and IT industry for corporations to utilize in monitoring and reducing energy consumption in their data centers. The cost of energy continues to fluctuate with the almost certain possibility of higher prices encountered in the future. Plus, with a dubious global economic climate, the CEO/CIO are challenged more than ever in finding ways to reduce every dollar of operational cost for the enterprise and remain competitive.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper 10 Ways to Increase Power System Availability in Data Centers2009-09-28 Eaton
  Once, IT was just another important business resource. Today, IT is the business for many companies.

Without it, most organizations would be incapable of serving customers, collaborating with partners, developing new products or performing other basic business functions.

As a result, data center availability has become an essential precondition to competitiveness and profitability.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Green IT Impact Calculator2009-09-22 Dell
  Quantify the Impact of Green IT Virtualization Investments. Welcome to the Green IT Impact Calculator. This worksheet enables you to estimate the impact of virtualization investments to drive Green IT benefits within your organization. Simply check off areas of importance to you and provide your internal estimates. Your input will be used with the business results from more than one hundred peers to quantify virtual server investment impact.

Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Server Hardware, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Mastering Virtualized Environments2009-09-18 IBM
  Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center implementations. Virtualization offers organizations of all sizes the opportunity to reduce the physical footprint of their data centers by enabling IT resource sharing and increasing utilization.

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the pressing need and strategies to master the management challenges of your virtualized environment with a new breed of service management solutions:
  • Discover and visualize the physical and virtual environments and their relationships as well as the need to rapidly provision the virtual environment.
  • Optimize the execution and maintenance of workloads as well as managing virtualized storage efficiently.
  • Learn how to manage software licensing to ensure cost-effectiveness and allocate IT costs appropriately.


Tags: Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting, Data Infrastructure, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Screen Sharing Performance of Web Conferencing Services: Comparative Analysis2009-09-01 Adobe Systems
  As web conferencing becomes increasingly prevalent, users are seeking more sophisticated experiences. Learn about Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro's Turbo Screen Sharing and how it outperforms the industry standard by efficiently utilizing bandwidth and minimally impacting the network infrastructure.

Tags: Internet and Web, Internet and Web, IT Budgeting, IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Emerging Green Intelligence: Business Analytics and Corporate Sustainability2009-08-01 SAS Institute
  This white paper, Emerging Green Intelligence: Business Analytics and Corporate Sustainability, reviews a portion of the research and provides analysis and insights on the topic of business analytics. It is part of a series of white papers for C-level executives intended to facilitate sharing the most important insights from the research.   
whitepaper Microsoft Builds a Green Campus to Save Costs and Reduce Carbon Footprint2009-08-01 Microsoft
  Microsoft planned to expand its facilities in Shanghai, China, beginning in late 2007. It needed to incorporate sustainable building requirements and cost savings into the campus. Microsoft IT worked with other Microsoft teams to build and run a green campus in Shanghai. The teams focused on deriving benefits from the following elements of the campus: offices, data center, labs, desktop and laptop computers, virtual collaboration.

Tags: IT Budgeting		   
whitepaper Designing Green Datacenters2009-07-20 vishalvasu.com
  Until the knock of environment friendly concepts and public concerns, traditional datacenters had fixed their eye on maximum uptime. Times have changed and datacenters are concentrating on conserving energy. This paper provides some tips that can contribute towards building eco-friendly datacenters. It ends saying that it's important to keep a track on the uptime and usage patterns of the datacenter. It basically allows the IT managers to accurately measure the effectiveness of the changes. Moreover, it also assists the top level management to decide on green energy solutions to reduce or eliminate their carbon footprints.

Tags: IT Budgeting