Keeping datacenters agile is key as IT organizations support dynamically changing business priorities and cope with economic pressures. By consolidating systems onto the latest server technology and taking advantage of virtualization techniques, enterprises can optimize datacenter efficiency, gain flexibility, and reduce operating costs. 

This APC eBook will discuss power consumption trends in the data center, why energy efficiency matters, how to reduce your power footprint, and benchmark metrics that will help you measure your progress. 

Developing reliable metrics for comparison of energy-efficiency performance is the first requirement. 

Some of the most useful benchmarks and metrics in evaluating server performance are provided in this article along with descriptions to help IT managers identify the ones that best fit their organization. 

Watch this video and hear IT professionals from the Symantec ManageFusion 2009 conference discuss the impact of Intel vPro technology on power consumption reduction and energy cost reduction. 

Read this white paper to hear how the authors tackle the ever-increasing problem of the cost of energy consumption in an enterprise. They show how the use of remote power-management technologies allows a business to manage energy consumption while ensuring that systems can be awakened in a reliable, secure manner. 

Servers based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series provide a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers, achieving greater performance and energy efficiency. The Intel Xeon processor 5500 series brings intelligent performance to the world's most trusted server architecture. 

Reduce data center carbon footprint and expenses even in times of enormous data center growth by implementing Intel Xeon processor 5400 servers. 

This paper examines a new approach to data center cooling known as "phase change" or "two-phase" low-pressure pumped refrigerant cooling. It details the advantages of this approach over traditional computer room air conditioning (CRAC) methods, and it identifies the specific benefits. 

Many organizations lack visibility into the physical and virtual infrastructure in their data center, preventing them from achieving effective infrastructure management. This webcast explores how dependency mapping addresses this issue by enabling you to track and control configurations, model and test proposed changes and execute failure analysis. 

This SAP Executive Insight examines specific concerns that confront utility executives in today's economy. Further, it describes how gaining greater business visibility and transparency can enable organizations to execute decisively and effectively in this challenging climate. 

Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, runs through what it means to really have a green data center and offers suggestions on what you can do to get there.