This white paper examines the TCO of this blade solution at acquisition and at 1, 3, and 5 years. TCO includes hardware, support, management software, IO virtualization, power, cooling, network ports, and data center space. 

A floor plan strongly affects the power density capability and electrical efficiency of a data center. This paper provides structured floor plan guidelines for defining room layouts and for establishing IT equipment layouts within existing rooms. 

This paper examines hot and cold air containment and highlights the reasons why hot aisle containment emerges as the preferred best practice. 

Building the data center to meet the needs of an uncertain future is an expensive and needless exercise in over-engineering. New designs need to be modular, with built-in expansion capabilities. This paper looks at the concepts and benefits of modularity in all the necessary elements of the power system. 

The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series provides a foundation for IT management to refresh existing or design new data centers to achieve greater performance while using less energy and space, and dramatically reducing operating costs. 

Are the products you see advertised real, or is it mostly hype? Robert McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant, goes over the products and methods that aren’t as green as they'd like you to think and summarizes ways to extend the life of your data center. 

This paper shows how next-generation Sun servers, based on the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series, allow IT organizations to meet these challenges by delivering game-changing performance and virtualization improvements that help enable companies to leverage best practices for IT management, application deployment, work processes, and cost control. 

This paper explores the concerns and process roadmap of supply chain executives in high-tech industries. 

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. 

Everywhere we look, there's another "green" product for the data center. How do you know what really makes a data center "green"? Beth Nicholson, Senior Editorial Events Manager at TechTarget sits down with Bob McFarlane, Principal Data Center and Financial Trading Floor Consultant to take a closer look at energy efficiency in the data center. 

Windows Server 2008 R2 is designed to provide better energy efficiency and performance by reducing power consumption and lowering overhead costs. Read this white paper to learn about the new features that deliver real energy savings opportunities for the enterprise. 

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.