Resources for IT Managers
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 [...]
Cisco Partner Summit – Cisco today announced plans to grow, motivate and evolve its global community of data center channel partners and customers to further accelerate the market transition toward virtualized data centers. Cisco introduced several channel programs designed to help partners gain new revenue opportunities and evolve their businesses toward a unified data center [...]
Symantec Corp. has announced the findings of its 2009 Green IT Report, a follow up to the Green Data Center report released in late 2007. According to survey data, senior-level IT executives report significant interest in green IT strategies and solutions, attributed to both cost reduction and environmental responsibility. The data points to a shift [...]
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 [...]
Cisco today announced new additions to its portfolio that bolster the network security infrastructure and the delivery of cloud security services, thereby enabling businesses to collaborate with greater confidence even as their workforce and partners become increasingly mobile and interactive. Today’s announcement, being made at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, comes at a time [...]
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 [...]
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, wiring [...]
HP today expanded its Mission Critical Services with flexibly priced and packaged offerings that enable customers to reduce the risk and cost of infrastructure downtime. To help organizations keep their infrastructures up and running, HP Proactive Select offers customers an innovative way to access a variety of assessment, availability, performance, planning and training services. With [...]
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 costs, [...]