Many of the performance increases now available in the HP DL380p Gen8 come from Intel’s March release of the Xeon E5-2600 processors and the C6xx chip set family. IT managers have competitive choices, including the Dell R720 and the IBM System x3650 M4, both of which use the E5-2600 family processors. HP DL380p Gen8, a…
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Utilities Subsidizing Server Consolidation Efforts
How’s this for a simple way to trim your IT budget: use virtualization to reduce the number of servers in your data center and get your utility to pay for up to 50% of the project’s cost? Utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) are dangling rebates in front of their customers to help sell…
Running IT Like the Business It Is: Next-Gen Asset Management
When it comes to asset management, financial planning and service planning, IT departments are stumbling with fragmented tools, confused directives, and in some cases just a lot of bad advice from consultants. But, this just means that many IT organizations are ripe for new technologies and new ways of working to bring the traditional realm…
Green is the New Black
Black is the fashion industry’s never-fail color. For every other industry, green is the color that can’t lose—environmental green, that is. Once little more than window dressing for mollifying the environmental lobby, green has become big business. Despite the some governments’ resistance to environmental warnings, the business community and the public have caught green fever….