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Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - IBRS
IT infrastructure analyst Dr Kevin McIsaac of Intelligent Business Research Services reveals the key points from Strategic Path’s executive peer-group roundtable Strategic Path’s roundtable discussions aim to foster better understanding ...
Strategic Path - Infrastructure Secrets - Roundtable
Strategic Path discusses best practices and IT infrastructure challenges with IBM’s Chris Fasseau and Michael Shallcross, and Dylan Morison of Cisco. This compelling panel discussion was moderated by Kevin McIsaac, following a longer end-user rou...
AFCOM - The Data Centre Comes of Age
…and gets the spending it deserves By Jill Eckhaus, CEO, AFCOM The data centre has a history of not being recognised for the role it actually plays in the success of the overall business. When AFCOM, the leading association for data centre m...
Pacific R&A - The State of Data Centres in Australia
Latest survey results By Clive Longbottom, Head of Research, Pacific R&A At the recent Data Center Dynamics event held in Sydney, Pacific R&A carried out some interesting research, looking at attendees’ approach to and perceptions of ...
Strategic Path - Greening the Data Centre And growing the Bottom Line
Do you actually know how much energy your data centre consumes each year? Neither did South East Water, until they placed a meter on the electrical switchboard that revealed they were using nearly 80KW of energy – day and night. South East Water ...
DMI - Green IT and The Data Centre
Why the Delete Key may be the Greenest Technology You Own By JON WILLIAM TOIGO, CEO, TOIGO PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL LLC, CHAIRMAN, DATA MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE LLC • Assessing the need to reduce power usage in the data centre • Where sto...
Longhaus - Power, water, bandwidth, space and the modern data centre
Why going green gets the green light By Sam Higgins, Longhaus PTY LTD Understanding basic design elements, and their constraints, will determine the success or failure of the best assembled data centre strategy. At present it seems market hype is...
Strategic Path - Green Networking Equipment: Who Leads and Who Lags
Introduction In the data center, the advent of high-density computing equipment has sent power usage soaring. For instance, servers and their supporting infrastructure consumed an estimated 1.5% of US electricity in 2006, according to the Environmen...
AFCOM - Asset Management and Data Centre Optimisation
By William L. Dibella, President, AFCOM The age old business questions never change. For decades, we have asked: how do I lower cost, increase revenue, improve efficiency, lower risk, keep up with change and reduce head count all while continuing to...
Green Grid - Best Practices for the Elements of a Data Centre
The Strategic Path talks with John Tuccillo, a director of The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centres and business computing ecosystems about the quest to improve overall data centre energy efficiencies...
DEHWA - Energy Efficiency and the Regulation of Servers
E3 attempts to harmonise its approach with US EPA approach in building benchmarks for computer servers and data centres. By Shane Holt, Director - Appliance Energy Efficiency Team, Department of Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts. During th...
E3 - Data Centre Energy Issues
E3 attempts to harmonise its approach with US EPA approach in building benchmarks for computer servers and data centres. During the past five years, the increasing demand and use of computer based resources has led to signifi cant growth in the numb...
Strategic Path - The Instant Data Centre
The instant data centre – just add water BDM editor Branko Miletic talks to Chris Schroor, GM of Commercial Projects for the City of Greater Springfield in South-East Queensland about their greenfields data centre project and what he thinks are ...
Strategic Path - Stand and Deliver
Stand and Deliver Many of today’s data centres are struggling to support or deliver under a weight of projects and application deployments, sparking a huge growth in upgrades and Greenfield designs. At the same time, new drivers like blade ser...Vendor Insights
NSC Group - Desktop Virtualization Blueprint
Introduction For several years, industry pundits and thin client proponents have hailed the coming of widespread adoption of "thin client" end user computing models. However, year after year, this adoption has been stalled by a number of i...
NSC Group - Realising the desktop continuum
IT Today—Multiple Challenges, Multiple Opportunities Today, IT organizations of every kind, large or small, public or private face a host of challenges. Pressure to deliver richer IT services while adapting to market, technology and organizati...
Cisco - Sanitarium deploys Cisco WAAS for its IT consolidation strategy
Cisco WAAS has been able to optimise application and file performance at remote sites, help centralise server and data centre infrastructure and allow for greater staff productivity and efficiency. Business Challenge Founded more than 100 years ...
IBM - Talking Data
Strategic Path speaks to Stuart Lewis, Platforms Executive, Systems and Technology Group, IBM Australia/New Zealand 1. What are the challenges or issues your clients are faced with in their Data Centres? Its probably worth first...
3Com - How to apply green principles in network equipment purchase and management
…with the industry’s help By ANDREW HINDMARCH, SENIOR NETWORK CONSULTANT, 3COM AUSTRALIA Of the many trends the IT industry has endorsed, green IT has drawn strongest attention and support, not only from within the industry, but a...
Rittal - Keeping Your Cool
Strategic Path talks to Mark Roberts, Business Development Manager at Rittal, about data centre cooling SP: Companies are under pressure to reduce their carbon footprints in order to enhance their reputations, but what underlying benefits could this...
3Com - Safeguarding the Environment While Advancing Networked Communications
FASTER AND SMARTER COMMUNICATIONS Reducing energy consumption while increasing network functionality is a significant challenge, but typical of the complex issues that 3Com research and development teams are addressing. Because few places are free f...
Chloride - Measuring and publishing UPS efficiency - a dark art?
By Ian F Bitterlin BSc(Hons) DipDesInn MCIBSE MIET Abstract A quick desktop survey of published energy-efficiency data for UPS machines will result in a wide variation of figures - with as much as three percentage-points of difference between...
NDY - How To Build A Real Green Data Centre (Part 1)
How To Build A Real Green Data Centre Part 1: Drivers for Data Centre energy efficiency WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Data centres are the work horses that support internet connectivity, and they are massive power users. Few people understand the re...
NDY - How To Build A Real Green Data Centre (Part 2)
How To Build A Real Green Data Centre Part 2: Energy Efficiency improvements that can save you money TODAY WHAT ARE THE SHORT TERM FIXES? This paper is part 2 of a series for IT and Property professionals who are concerned about energy consumpti...
NDY - How To Build A Real Green Data Centre (Part 3)
How To Build A Real Green Data Centre Part 3: Energy Efficiency strategies for your next build WHAT ARE THE LONGER TERM FIXES? This paper is part 3 of a series for IT and Property professionals who are concerned about energy consumption in Data ...
Internode - Data centre pays off for Empower
Data centre pays off for Empower After spending half a million dollars on new equipment to meet a 1000 percent increase in demand for its online payroll service, Australian human resource company Empower Masterpay sought the right place to put it....