Archive for the ‘Data Centers’ Category

• Buy Soma Online Without Prescription

  On 10.21.10, In Data Centers, GreenIT, IT Asset Management, virtualization, By Walker White

  Buy Soma Online Without Prescription, It’s time for a somewhat benign confession. Australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay, At BDNA, we’ve done a lot of work promoting consolidation, online buy Soma without a prescription, Soma over the counter, virtualization, and green computing as use-cases for our products, buy Soma without a prescription. Buy Soma from mexico, The truth of the matter is that they are all the same thing.

  If you launch a green computing initiative to reduce your environmental footprint, buy cheapest Soma, Soma from canadian pharmacy, you are going to find yourself consolidating servers and most likely virtualizing workloads. If you virtualize, buy Soma online no prescription, Where can i find Soma online, reducing the number of servers and their environmental impact are going to be welcome by-products. Consolidate, and you’ll inevitably to find ways to decouple workloads from specific machines or send them off to the cloud, Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. In short, Soma samples, Order Soma, no matter how you spin this wheel, you will arrive at the same happy result, buy cheap Soma no rx. Order Soma online c.o.d, The pursuit of virtue does not exclude a little Macchiavellian deviousness. If you make the rounds at an organization and tell people that you are on a mission to virtualize their beloved computers, purchase Soma online no prescription, Buy Soma in canada, they are going to be suspicious and wary. If you tell them you are out to consolidate IT, where can i buy cheapest Soma online, Buy no prescription Soma online, expect hostility and protest. But if you package your program as a green computing initiative, where can i order Soma without prescription, Buy Soma online cod, who can possibly object.

  But in the final analysis the results will be the same, order Soma from mexican pharmacy. Buy Soma no prescription, Fewer computers to maintain, electrify, rx free Soma, Purchase Soma online, and depreciate—and most importantly—more money in the bank. Where can i buy Soma online. Buy generic Soma. Online buying Soma. Soma price. Soma pharmacy. Soma for sale. Order Soma no prescription.

  Similar posts: Buy Zyban Online Without Prescription. Buy Levitra Online Without Prescription. Buy Neurontin Online Without Prescription.
  Trackbacks from: Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. Buy Soma Online Without Prescription. Order Soma online c.o.d. Soma for sale. Order Soma no prescription. Order Soma. Where can i buy cheapest Soma online.

  0 Comments

• Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription

  On 10.01.10, In Configuration Management, Data Centers, Data Normalization, IT Asset Management, By Martin Chorich

  BDNA CTO Walker White discusses A Brief Introduction to BDNA Normalize Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription, . Order Wellbutrin SR from mexican pharmacy. Buy Wellbutrin SR from mexico. Online buying Wellbutrin SR. Buy Wellbutrin SR in canada. Wellbutrin SR pharmacy. Where can i order Wellbutrin SR without prescription. Where can i buy Wellbutrin SR online. Purchase Wellbutrin SR online. Wellbutrin SR from canadian pharmacy. Buy no prescription Wellbutrin SR online. Purchase Wellbutrin SR online no prescription. Where can i find Wellbutrin SR online. Order Wellbutrin SR no prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR without a prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR online no prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR no prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR online cod. Wellbutrin SR samples. Order Wellbutrin SR. Wellbutrin SR for sale. Online buy Wellbutrin SR without a prescription. Australia, uk, us, usa, canada, mexico, india, craiglist, ebay. Rx free Wellbutrin SR. Wellbutrin SR price. Buy generic Wellbutrin SR. Buy cheapest Wellbutrin SR. Order Wellbutrin SR online c.o.d. Where can i buy cheapest Wellbutrin SR online. Wellbutrin SR over the counter. Buy cheap Wellbutrin SR no rx.

  Similar posts: Buy Tramadol Online Without Prescription. Buy Propecia Online Without Prescription. Buy Nexium Online Without Prescription.
  Trackbacks from: Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription. Buy Wellbutrin SR Online Without Prescription. Wellbutrin SR over the counter. Buy generic Wellbutrin SR. Wellbutrin SR samples. Buy cheapest Wellbutrin SR. Buy Wellbutrin SR no prescription.

  0 Comments

• Data Center Virtualization and Cost Reduction

  On 03.01.10, In Data Centers, GreenIT, IT Asset Management, By Rajesh Kadam

  GreenIT has brought significant cost saving opportunities by way of increased productivity.  Data Centers have been quick to grab on to this . According to the Green Grid, nearly 60% virtualized their IT equipment. Another 47% consolidated and optimized their servers, 46% bought computer equipment that uses low power / low wattage processors and 40% make full use of power management tools. Virtualization and consolidation of servers and storage devices is a no-brainer—a way to reap productivity gains without sowing investment. The House of Representatives, for example, reduced its energy consumption its data centers by 50% and lowered its installed base of servers! With the state of IT Asset Management today, it’s not uncommon for server utilization to be as low as 2% to 5%. Companies can make-do with fewer servers, increase their rate of utilization and save the energy costs that are otherwise incurred on operating the surplus servers before virtualization reduces their numbers. A growing number of options exist to lower costs—blade servers which save space and energy costs, switch to cloud computing and desktop virtualization. For efficient utilization of energy, the devil is in the details of comparative data of consumption by each piece of equipment and the angel in the overarching view of consumption patterns. Companies need to automatically discover their many assets and all the details of their versions, brand names, parameters of power consumption, etc. They also need to categorize the data for it to be intelligible and map the relationships in the asset classes, compare their baseline consumption with the benchmarks in order to detect opportunities for cost reduction while maintaining service levels. Manual data crunching with Excel sheets is way too cumbersome and slow. Software tools for IT Asset Management are needed to automate data gathering, analysis and visualization for identifying the sources of excess costs and means to lower them.

  0 Comments

• Cloud Computing and Datacenters

  On 02.23.10, In Data Centers, IT Asset Management, By Ido Sarig

  Enterprise datacenters are not any longer the one place to go for computing assets; they are the pivot of a choice of on-demand internal and external clouds or collocation facilities that an enterprise taps. If this seems too complicated, virtualization makes it simple by providing a single view of the physical resources on a screen. With drag and drop commands, the enterprise can call in on-demand computing resources when surges in traffic overwhelm the datacenter. All this sounds cool till you find out that the data on the physical assets in the virtualized environment is often incomplete or not descriptive enough of the business ownership, the life of the asset, etc.  You rummage through several spreadsheets and databases to painstakingly find the data you need. This one chink could well defeat the goal of quickly finding the resources you need when you need them. A virtual IT asset management solution automates the collation of data on the hardware and the software available in the virtualized environment. In a perfect world, enterprises would rather wash their hands off the messy business of managing datacenters. The reality is that the treasure trove of consumer and financial information or intellectual property is something enterprises want to zealously guard within their own datacenter. They need to redirect non-critical data to the cloud when they experience traffic spikes. There are also instances when companies want services but don’t want to invest capital resources to get them. As their assets are spread out over several locations and cloud vendors, it is harder to know what is available where and in what form. Traffic can shoot up during a market promotion, consumer buying during holiday seasons or something quirky like a victory of a sports team. Sony Entertainment was caught off-guard when demand surged for Michael Jackson’s music following his unexpected death. The surge in traffic could have been managed by letting customers browse the catalogue on a cloud service while reserving the enterprise datacenter for the purchases. Fear of losing control of critical data like customer information to cloud service providers is well founded in facts of recent history. The Linkup, an online storage services provider, closed down after it lost access to 45% of its customer information that was stored with Nirvanix, an online storage service company which shut down. Virtualization of data centers or the emergence of internal clouds is the foundation for their synchronization with external clouds. An effective inventory of Assets with appropriate offline market data associated with each piece of hardware and software inventory is a precondition for effectively leveraging the resources available in a virtualized network.

  2 Comments

• Datacenter Consolidation: Management of Latent Inefficiencies

  On 02.16.10, In Data Centers, GreenIT, IT Asset Management, By Rajesh Kadam

  Over the past few years, datacenters bought a grab bag of servers and other IT equipment in a bunch as if from a clearance sale. But then Datacenter managers woke up to the fact that they were running up soaring bills for energy, software licensing, maintenance, duplicate applications, higher cost of space and staff to manage the assorted equipment. A garage sale of servers followed as applications were consolidated on fewer servers and data center managers grabbed the low hanging fruit of higher server utilization. Now the time for a slog has come---the gains from server consolidation and virtualization in recent quarters have diminished. Global sales of virtualization software fell 18.7 %, according to IDC data, in the second quarter of 2009. Analysts at IDC and Gartner agree that this was not due to the economic recession alone. The Gartner analyst concludes, “data center managers are still not paying sufficient attention to the process of measuring, monitoring and modeling…….”. Currently, equipment in datacenters is largely monitored manually with excel spreadsheets which is something like highway police tracking traffic without radar. A Computerworld survey revealed that 63% of enterprises rely on excel spreadsheets to assign IP addresses. As the size of the datacenter increases, the excel plodding gets more excruciating and the single largest component of the operations cost according to IDC. In consolidated and virtualized dataceters, the price of any outage is jolting. A single outage in Amazon was estimated to have cost $1.86 million per hour. More applications are deployed on fewer but more powerful servers which consume more electricity. If they are underutilized, the loss from malfunctioning of applications and loss of electricity is a whole lot more than with older servers. Virtualization lowers visibility into performance of individual units of equipment as capacity is assigned randomly by unseen electronic means to whichever unit working at less than full capacity. Manual monitoring of capacity use would be like recording the movement of a submarine with binoculars. Capacity assigned by electronic means is best read automatically by software able to sense the signals on the network. A consolidated and virtualized data center subsumes the previously siloed physical pieces of equipment and depends on on its many inter-connected moving parts working together for optimal performance. Any chink anywhere in the network has a cascading effect on the entire system and brings it down like a house of cards. Automated discovery and monitoring is like a medical device reading the pulse of the body and forewarns against failure and finds the root cause if the damage is already done.

  0 Comments

• Green IT: Measurement and Analysis

  On 01.29.10, In Data Centers, Data Normalization, GreenIT, By Ido Sarig

  Measurement and analysis of energy utilization is a pre-requisite for energy cost reduction. The challenge today is that the sources of soaring energy costs in data centers and IT networks are lost in the maze of countless servers, storage devices and computing equipment sprawled in the data centers of large corporations. Measurement of the sum total of energy costs, their breakdown by each category of equipment and related software and relationships between the components provides cues for lowering costs.  CIOs hard-pressed by the Great Recession have been startled when the facts of energy consumption are revealed to them. Relief follows shock when they realize they have an opportunity to increase productivity by reorganization of their data centers and networks. Just how much impact visibility has on energy efficiency decisions was revealed in a survey by The Green Grid, a global alliance of IT companies and professionals seeking to lower energy costs in data centers and business computing ecosystems.  Completed in November 2009, the survey found that 90% of the 151 respondents had taken steps to reduce energy consumption following measurements of their energy consumption. Yes, 90%! A rude awakening for sure, a number that high is otherwise rare in surveys.

  0 Comments