Research indicates that data center power usage accounts for up to 2.2% of the total electricity used by the United States. This executive brief provides detailed insight into the current state of data center power consumption and reveals simple steps you can take to reduce spending in this area. 

<p>This case study showcases a highly efficient cooling system that enables significant data center savings. Learn more about this platform and hear from one company that implemented it here.</p> 

Managing power consumption in the data center is a huge concern for IT organizations today. In this presentation transcript, learn about the cost benefits of using Windows Server 2008 R2 for power and energy savings in the data center. The speaker will discuss the trends in this area and offer steps to improve power consumption and costs. 

Read this paper for resources to help you determine how much powering and cooling the data center is costing your organization, and learn how the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 can help reduce these requirements. 

This white paper examines various perspectives on energy efficiency and explains how lower-power supplies can address the issue of overprovisioning. Discover actions you can take today to optimize resource utilization, reduce procurement expenses, increase performance, and more. 

Power will be the number-one issue for most IT executives within the next few years. Not only does it represent a significant percentage of data center operating costs, but demand is likely to overtake supply in the near future. This e-guide highlights available courses of action for reducing energy consumption – without sacrificing performance. 

<p>This expert e-book provides strategies to reliably measure the energy efficiency of your data center. Learn how your organization can apply metrics in a consistent way allowing for improved power consumption.</p> 

More organisations are moving towards cloud computing and server virtualisation technologies to meet ever-increasing performance demands. Yet virtualisation can take a significant toll on the data centre physical infrastructure (DCPI), including power and cooling capabilities. This resource discusses the particular effects of virtualisation. 

<p>This solution brief explores the greatest obstacles companies encounter when taking steps to manage power consumption. Learn how you can cost-effectively improve energy efficiency while laying the groundwork for a private cloud.</p> 

As organizations deploy virtualization and increase their use of virtualization throughout the data center, it is critical that they also look at a holistic plan and strategy for managing energy consumption and energy costs. 

This white paper explores common barriers to the adoption of power management technologies and showcases a framework designed to address them. Access data center equipment consumption key findings and learn how to use thermal sensor metrics to appropriately adjust server management controls. 

This resource examines the causes of today’s data center power and cooling crisis and outlines 5 steps businesses can take to remove inefficiencies from their power and cooling infrastructure. 

This resource examines hot-air and cold-air containment methodologies and highlights the reasons why hot-aisle containment is the preferred best practice for new data centres.