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Energy Efficiency – A Hot Topic

According to Jeff Clark of The Data Center Journal, it is now more expensive to operate a server over a lifetime than it is to outlay the initial capital for the server. With operating costs exceeding the capital expense it … Continue reading

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Improve Data Center Power Efficiency

Summer is here and IT’s thoughts turn to keeping its data centers at an ideal temperature while managing data center energy costs, here is a look at five ways to improve data center power efficiency gathered by Jon Gold of … Continue reading

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Cloudy Wednesday: Greening up Enterprise IT

Welcome to “Cloudy Wednesday”. Each Wednesday, Evolving Solutions will focus on the latest news and information on cloud computing. There have been a host of recent studies regarding greening up enterprise IT that point to energy efficiencies and environmental impacts … Continue reading

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Data Center Leaders: Grow A Greener Data Center With Douglas Alger From Cisco

“Green IT is ultimately about resource efficiency – maximizing what you have and optimizing how it is consumed.  Beyond the admirable environmental benefits from being green, such optimization lets you accomplish more and spend less.” This is just a sampling … Continue reading

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Data Center Leaders: Grow A Greener Data Center With Douglas Alger From Cisco

“Green IT is ultimately about resource efficiency – maximizing what you have and optimizing how it is consumed.  Beyond the admirable environmental benefits from being green, such optimization lets you accomplish more and spend less.” This is just a sampling … Continue reading

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Data Center Leaders: Cost Efficient Storage Consolidation & Networking With Rajeev Bhardwaj From Cisco

Behind labor, energy costs are emerging as the second highest operating cost in most data centers worldwide. Operating in an economy still in the early stages of recovery, companies must explore all options available for reducing data center energy costs. … Continue reading

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Data Center Leaders: Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery With John “Traenk” Traenkenschuh, Part 1

In a recent interview with Lawrence Webber, we discussed the ‘hows’ and ‘whys’ of business continuity and disaster recovery planning.  This week, our Data Center Leaders Interview Series drives home the importance of this topic during our two part interview … Continue reading

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Data Center Leaders: Storage Consolidation, Networking & Green IT With Greg Schulz

As businesses in any industry grow, they often find themselves with both more data to mange and more costs to contain. Storage consolidation, networking and Green IT can all make for effective solutions if implemented in line with overall business … Continue reading

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Data Center Leaders: Green IT & Data Center Cost Avoidance With Author & Senior IT Architect John Lamb, PhD

Green IT is a subject we have dedicated significant (virtual) ink to on this blog.  In discussing Green IT, we strive to illustrate the link between eco-friendly energy management and significantly lower business costs. Helping us illustrate this link is … Continue reading

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Do Virtual IT Environments Equate To A Utopian Physical Environment?

Last month, we at Evolving Solutions celebrated Earth Day. In the spirit of the day, I conducted an online search on Green IT to see how others in the industry are discussing green initiatives, and found the excellent post, “Saving … Continue reading

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