In Windows Server® 2008, Microsoft is introducing new features and technologies that will help to reduce the power consumption of server and client operating systems, minimize environmental byproducts, and increase server efficiency. This document describes some of these features and technologies. 

To curb server proliferation and rising electrical costs, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center moved its virtualization infrastructure to the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology, using Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to manage its server landscape. 

This book is intended for anyone who has heard about the many benefits of using HPC (such as streamlining processes or saving money). This book explains what HPC is and shows how it can help you or others within your company. 

Your small business needs a real server. Not a PC that has been tricked out to look and act like a server. PCs disguised as servers are vulnerable to the kinds of catastrophic failures that will cripple your business. Invest now in a real server. It just may be the best thing you can do for your small business. 

This service can help you prepare to take full advantage of server virtualization, which can lower total cost of ownership, increase agility, and reclaim IT staff time. We can provide architectural recommendations and a road map for adopting virtualization through the use of automated discovery tools and best practices. 

When a major acquisition made Layered Tech a larger company with new goals and an opportunity to expand its customer base, the IT team had to revamp its infrastructure to match. Read this case study to learn about the solutions they use to provide the technology and infrastructure that best meets the needs of their customers. 

Read this paper to find out how Instantis managed to accommodate rapid customer growth, deliver outstanding performance, ensure “five-nines” availability for customers around the globe, cut ongoing IT costs, and reduce the environmental footprint of data center operations through reduced energy consumption. 

To increase user uptime while reducing IT support costs, the Erie Insurance IT team decided to deploy PCs based on the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor with vPro™ technology. Access A Policy of Productivity to see how the IT team projects power savings of $45,603 over three years, productivity savings of $161,253 over three... 

This paper demonstrates the importance of keeping your hardware up to date in the data center. When replacing older servers, we have found we can achieve consolidation ratios ranging from 7:1 to 13:1 depending on the workload and other factors, while substantially reducing energy consumption. 

This paper will give an overview of the best servers for virtualization. 

This paper describes performance gains achieved by upgrading to the latest version of SAS v9.2 on Xeon 5500 (Nehalem) platform. SAS Forecast Server workload is utilized. Paper also describes usage of Intel compiler and Intel software tools. 

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. 

Google Inc. today announced its next-generation Google Search Appliance* (GSA) 6.0, which delivers extraordinary search power for the enterprise, powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series. Building on the capabilities of its predecessors, this appliance allows enterprises to search billions of documents.