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Consolidating Servers to reduce power Consumption

One of the most effective ways to lower energy consumption is to consolidate servers, especially little-used servers. Every major IT site has several -- often many -- small servers that each support a single legacy application that cannot be removed but which few processes use. These servers are prime candidates for consolidation onto a single hardware platform.

By moving these applications onto a single platform, IT sites save almost the entire energy consumption of the original server, the cooling costs of that server, and also gain greater manageability by having applications running on fewer physical machines. Depending on configuration, projections of savings from consolidating vary from several hundred to several thousand dollars per consolidated application per year.

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Source: www.greenercomputing.com

 

NetApp Storage Solutions for Midsize Enterprises

Midsize Enterprises are often asked to make trade-offs between what is right for their business and what their current budget and staff can support. IT projects, like consolidation and virtualisation, are often perceived as being complex, costly, and having no short-term value. Choosing the right storage solution can make all the difference.

View this on-demand Webcast and learn how to:

Consolidate existing IT infrastructures while increasing storage utilisation by 50%
Evaluate virtualisation solutions and what it takes to deploy them
Lower application management costs by 70%
Increase uptime by reducing your backup window by 90%

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Source: www.netapp.com

 

HP Strengthens Desktop Virtualization Portfolio with Support for Citrix XenDesktop

Adding to the industry's most complete portfolio of desktop virtualisation offerings, HP announced it plans to support Citrix XenDesktop^TM upon its availability in May across its industry-standard HP ProLiant server and HP Compaq thin client product lines.

Citrix XenDesktop is a comprehensive desktop delivery solution that allows companies to virtualise Microsoft® Windows® desktops in the data center and deliver them on demand to office workers in any location. Using XenDesktop can dramatically simplify desktop management, enabling customers to provision new users far more quickly, improve data security and save up to 40 percent over the cost of installing and managing desktops on traditional PCs.

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Source: www.hp.com