5 easy ways to save power in your data center; Survey reveals data center concerns

Data Center News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by Belden Belden Signal Transmission Solutions Belden is a provider of a wide array of signal transmission solutions -- including cabling, connectivity, cable management and wireless products for commercial networking/data center applications. Key solutions include structured cabling systems, high-density technologies/products, and state-of-the-art wireless LAN systems. Belden's optical fiber, copper and wireless solutions typically exceed industry standards. Network World's Data Center News Alert, 10/16/07 Five easy ways to save power in your data center, 10/10/07: Sometimes the most easy fix to a problem is the most overlooked and conserving power in the data center is perhaps no different. There are five easy and inexpensive ways for you to improve your data center’s energy efficiency and reduce power consumption. Data center power outages, space concerns cited by survey, 10/11/07: There has been a lot of attention to energy efficiency in data centers lately. The latest – a survey from clustered network attached storage vendor ONStor – reveals that more than half of the respondents had run out of power, cooling or space without warning. Podcast: 5 tips for optimizing ROI from a virtualized data center: Chances are before you begin a virtualization project you're going to want to know how you'll show a return on investment. And, of course, the better that ROI, the better for you. Joost Pronk van Hoogeveen, Sun's resident virtualization expert, talks with New Data Center Editor Beth Schultz about how companies can get optimal ROI out of their virtualization projects. (21:29) Storage Trends Explained Learn how IT shops can optimize their current storage systems with new tools and practices in this informative Webcast, Storage Trends and Options. Listen to industry experts explain the latest developments and address the hype surrounding future storage platforms. Click here for more information. How far are IPv6 vendors using IPv6 internally?: IP expert Jeff Doyle to IPv6 vendors: Eat your own dogfood. How The Onion tackles tech, 10/11/07: How The Onion parody newspaper tackles Microsoft Windows, Google, Apple iPods and other technology topics. Google boxes the rest of us in, 10/10/07: It doesn't take a genius to realize that you could build an addition onto your data center by stuffing some equipment in a separate container. It just takes a genius to secure the intellectual property for it. Quantum sues Riverbed over data de-duplication, 10/10/07: Quantum is suing Riverbed Technology for patent infringement over its use of data de-duplication technology, just months after settling such a dispute with Data Domain. Podcast: 4 stages of grid computing: Grid computing is all about scaling out the enterprise IT infrastructure without having to invest scads of money in high-powered systems. But companies don’t typically through their mission-critical business applications on a grid all at once. Songnian Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Platform Computing, understands the enterprise motivation well, having worked with myriad grid computing customers over the years. Zhou sees companies adopting grid in four steps. He talks with Beth Schultz, New Data Center editor, about those steps, including the business goals, challenges and benefits to be gained in each. (25:57) 10G Ethernet tests show promise for data centers10/09/07: Makers of 10G Ethernet products came away from a recent University of New Hampshire Interoperability Lab plug fest with results they think will boost acceptance of the technology in corporate networks. Sun’s new servers powered for virtualization, 10/09/07: Sun is introducing new rack and blade servers Tuesday running its UltraSPARC T2 processors, pitching them as ideal for virtualization and energy efficiency. Also, Sun is developing a software suite that it says can virtualize both competitors’ systems and its own.

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