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How to Compare VMware and Amazon Cloud Services

What makes the most sense for your business?

How to solve the data challenge, with environmental efficiency

Manage the growth of data in a green way.

Case Study: Water-cooled servers gaining steam

The secret lies in its efficiency.

Case Study: A pair of green-IT users

Austin Energy and WellPoint show how to grow your green credentials.

Case Study: Polysius: Concrete results with NetApp's de-dupe software

Cement equipment vendor's data stripped by 47 percent

Case Study: IBM helps Africa climate change research

SETI-like volunteer grid project

The ideal datacentre: No low-hanging green fruit

How do you make datacentres more power-efficient?

Case Study: EPEAT - one of the most solid green ratings

Hiding its light

How to optimise teleworkers

Policies, technologies and goals are all needed.

Power-efficient datacentre guidelines

What the Green Grid thinks

Case Study: Data centre hotspots put IT managers on the spot

Airflows modelled to avoid meltdowns

Case Study: Building a corporate network with discarded hardware

There's a lot you can do with cast-offs.

Case Study: Five more ways to screw up virtualisation

Don't try this at home...

How to get started with virtual machines

Get many of the benefits of having multiple computers without much of the cost.

Testing Wi-Fi's Power Save Mode

PSM is supposed to save power, but does it?

Six techniques to encourage green habits

Empowering staff for the geener good

Eight ways to green your existing datacentre

No need to re-invent the wheel.

How to reduce your boxes

Picking the low-hanging green datacentre fruit

Case Study: Putting your datacentre on an energy diet

What methods are datacentre managers using to cut energy usage?

Case Study: How NetApp IT achieved 60 percent disk space utilisation

While saving 40,000 kWh per month

Case Study: Solar-powered web hoster used by Live Earth

IBM, AMD, VMware and NetApp used by Live Earth web site

Case Study: City of Boston saves $25 worth of electricity per PC per year

Uses PC power management software

Case Study: NHS gets a 91 percent de-dupe ratio

Lucky Quantum gets brilliant de-dupe customer ref

Ten common mistakes when consolidating servers

CIOs and data centre managers use server consolidation to help save costs. But that doesn't mean that it's easy to execute.

Case Study: Greening up is about more than just energy

How are businesses reducing the impact of their data centres on the environment?


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Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

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Service-oriented security

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Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

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Unlock the power of the mainframe

This whitepaper presents the notion of CICS as an integration hub based on a component-based, service-oriented architecture supporting Web services. Highlights will review the challenges and contrasted support for Web services natively in CICS.

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COLT White Paper

Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
This white paper is your guide to ensure you get right the VoIP service and details the pitfalls which businesses would do well to avoid.

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Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

Explore the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and the criteria for selecting consulting services
By following ITIL practices, your IT organisation will become more closely integrated with the business. We recommend making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through execution of a strategic transformational roadmap.

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