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With cuts in IT budgets many IT departments are looking for innovative ways to cut costs in their data centers. Yet while faced with shrinking budgets IT managers are expected to deliver expanded and reliable services to meet the growing needs of the business.
For many this means difficult challenges to try and balance the [...]
Symantec Corp. today announced Symantec Managed Backup Services, a comprehensive offering which provides management of backup and recovery operations, allowing customers to more effectively utilize IT resources and focus on core business priorities.
Organizations have increasingly more platforms, applications, servers, virtual machines and databases to protect than ever before. Out-tasking discrete IT functions such as [...]
Bob Kelly, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Infrastructure Server Marketing, outlines how the right mix of private and public clouds can complement existing IT investments, reduce costs and ease management.
History shows that companies that invest in innovation during recessionary times can emerge healthier and better-positioned for long-term success. As well, IT organizations that invest [...]
HP has unveiled an approach to critical facilities design that can increase data center efficiency and reduce customers’ capital costs by 15 to 25 percent.(1) This new offering enables customers facing the challenges of today’s economic climate to cost-effectively invest in building the foundation to thrive in tomorrow’s recovery.
Multi-tiered hybrid design from HP aligns [...]
Dell has announced that its data center consulting practice will utilize Future Facilities’ 6SigmaDC software suite to design and simulate data centers that maximize space utilization and energy efficiency through the optimal configuration and placement of IT hardware, racks, cabinets and power and cooling equipment.
Dell’s data center consulting practice combines innovative tools and software with [...]
Dell has introduced next-generation data center infrastructure products designed to help customers simplify and manage their data center environment while improving energy efficiency. The Dell PowerEdge 4220 and PowerEdge 2420 rack enclosures support Dell’s broad portfolio of servers and storage systems and can be used in virtually any environment, including data centers, remote offices, [...]
Microsoft Corp. today announced that some business customers around the world have saved on average $470,000 (U.S.) per year through IT projects using Microsoft virtualization software. Microsoft’s business customers have been able to use virtualization to help reduce operations and capital expenses via reduced electrical power consumption and cooling within datacenters, reduced hardware acquisition [...]
Latest Versions of CA NetMaster and CA SYSVIEW Help IT Organizations Reduce Outages and Improve Performance.
As part of its commitment to simplify management of IBM mainframes in heterogeneous enterprise environments, CA (NASDAQ: CA) today announced new releases of its network and systems management solutions that help customers improve performance and increase availability for their [...]
Evergreen Systems announced a new product offer that combines Evergreen’s process improvement consulting with HP’s Data Center Automation enterprise software offering. The integrated, solution-oriented offer guarantees prospects a return on their technology investment through operations cost savings.
Evergreen’s announcement comes one day after HP announced major product upgrades to its Predictive Service Operations software, designed, [...]
In time for Halloween, HP has launched “What Haunts Your Data Center?” – a Halloween-focused education campaign. HP is featuring six animated data center characters that attempt to bring to life the scary monsters that haunt IT managers’ dreams.
Photo by Brain Hancock
The cast of data center monsters include:
Dracula, The Data Center Energy Sucking Vampire
Frankenstein, [...]