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In this transformative economy, the search is on for new ways to create efficiency… as cliche as it sounds, to do more with less.  Looking at your data center during a move and evaluating the way the data center could be improved is one easy way realize that efficiency, right now.  The best part?  These improvements might not even cost anything!

Commonly, businesses retain the services of a single contractor to build out their space.  Call it what you like – the network closet, computer room, telephone room, or data center.  The contractor is certainly proficient in creating efficient use of space and they have, no doubt, delivered their fair share of these closets.  Let’s keep it simple, efficient, and low cost, right?

• How much space do we need in square feet?
• What type of power do we need to run to this space?
• Do we need an air conditioner in there?

As far as small businesses are concerned, those are some of the key questions that we can expect the contractor to respond to effectively.  Add the services of an outside IT contractor like ANALYSYS if you don’t have an IT department, and the job gets done.

An alternative is to retain the services of a company that specializes in building out data centers.  This is a niche within the technology business.  Here’s a story by Processor Magainze that talks about this concept of using a specialist.  In summary, what can you expect for the additional investment? 

• Confidence that your data center environment will conform to modern security, electrical, and environmental best practices.
• An environment that’s right-sized for you now, but is also scalable to what you might need in the future.
• Assistance in making your data redundant before the move, and completion of the actual transition to the new site within the timeframes necessary to minimize impact.
• A seasoned advocate before the many third parties involved with such an engagement.

What’s the problem with all this, you say?  Well, regardless of how you define the project, there’s downtime, risk involved with moving the technology, and with all these contractors and outside support personnel, it’s just downright expensive.  Who cares, it has to be done anyway, right?  Not necessarily.

Before you dig in, double check whether a buildout is necessary at all.  This is one of the first tests that should come up during the initial planning phases of your move.  You may want to consider hosting your systems in a data center facility.  Commonly called “colocation”, this concept is not a new one, however, recent innovations have made the hosted data center option affordable, much more relevant, and accessible to small businesses.

What Is A Hosted Data Center & What Goes In One?

A hosted data center is a facility designed to house computer systems for many businesses. The company that owns the data center makes money by renting physical space for computer systems, and sometimes charges for certain extras such as the amount of power or bandwidth (internet usage) consumed.

In the past, small businesses frequently used hosted data centers only for the things that were meant to be on the internet. This included systems like electronic mail servers, eCommerce sites and other web servers, and web based applications. This concept commonly known as “rack space”, worked well primarily because of the high cost of reliable internet connectivity.

That’s still true today, but the 2008/2009 economic downturn has brought new innovation to this area of the high technology industry. Server “virtualization”, the concept of running many ‘virtual’ servers on one physical server computer, substantially reduces the amount of actual space required. This reduction in space requirement is one of the biggest enablers of entirely colocated networks, and the term that has emerged to describe this practice of networking over the internet? Cloud computing.

Is Data Center Colocation Right For Me?

Using a third party data center to host your systems substantially reduces the investment you need to make into your own data center build out, or even eliminates it all together. Because you are moving your systems into a failicity that was designed from the ground up to be a professional service provider for other companies information systems, you can expect that you are moving into an environment that is highly reliable where downtime, security breaches, and other violations of industry accepted standards are unacceptable and potentially compromise accreditation.  Finally, the colocation model, practically speaking, is infinitely scalable. You have enough space, bandwidth out to the internet, battery backup power, generators, and environmental conditioning to expand to essentially whatever level of growth you need. In summary…

1. Lower up front investment
2. Highly reliable environment
3. Access to better infrastructure
4. Predictable physical security

Keep in mind however, that you are giving up complete physical control of your systems to a company that will ask for a term commitment. If you are uncomfortable with, or simply cannot have someone else manage certain elements of your network security on your behalf, the concept of a hosted data center is probably not right for you. Another major consideration is how the physical separation from these systems will impact the operation. Amongst other things this means that you need to establish an acceptable level of reliable, redundant connectivity between your premises and the data center. Also, bear in mind that as you scale your presence in the hosted data center upward or downward, you can expect a corresponding increase or decrease in monthly recurring costs. Finally, and arguably most important, you must evaluate the present and expected future financial health of the hosted data center you are partnering with, but ultimately understand that data center facilities, albeit rarely, sometimes go out of business. So let’s consider the drawbacks…

1. Monthly recurring costs
2. Physical separation from systems
3. Dependence upon a third party
4. Term commitment

Setting The Right Expectations Through Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

A small business that is looking to a move to the hosted data center as a way to save money will most likely end up with their systems in only one data center, whereas larger businesses may have redundant systems, also known as “hot sites”. If you are the former, take time to understand this single point of failure.  One good test is to evaluate the Service Level Agreement (SLA) the data center operator offers as part of their standard terms and conditions.  An SLA is the maximum amount of downtime the data center operator promises not to exceed within a certain amount of time. Data center providers normally offer a Service Level Agreement with at least “five-nines” of reliability. This means 99.999% uptime, or no more than about five minute and fifteen seconds of down time per year. If the downtime exceeds this amount, the service provider credits service fees back based upon a certain formula. Some SLAs offer a credit back one hour for each hour down. Expect more. You want something like one day’s credit for every hour down. This seems like a modest change, but the difference is substantial.

This may not approach the costs that your business will have sustained because of the outage, yet, consider this as one visible way the data center operator demonstrates their commitment to the customer. If all customers at the data center receive the same credit for this one day outage, that’s a loss of about 6.5% of the data center’s total annual revenue… that’s an incentive to keep reliability high.

How To Succeed In A Move To Data Center Colocation

Remeber, this story is about doing more with less, so we are going to need to ultimately save money if we are going to succeed. The best way of inventorying your costs is to do so months in advance of your move.

First, what’s the cost of building your own new data center?  Have you been able to elminate or substantially reduce these costs by going to a hosted data center?

What are the present costs of internet access? What would you need when you move your systems into a hosted data center? There is an upside and a downside to internet connectivity. Obviously, the internet access will be required less because the access from the rest of the world to your servers for services like email and websites will be eliminated – that’s going straight to the data center. However, there’s now the cost of connectivity from your office into the data center which should be redundant. Find out what the impact is going to be, positive or negative.

Do you pay for your own power? What is the present level of power consumption, and how much could be saved if the technology in your office was no longer there? Power consumption represents an often surprising cost to the business, and is frequently right behing HVAC and lighting.  ANALYSYS was able to reduce our IT related power costs by 52%, representing an annual savings of $13,000.  Here’s the press release if you would like to learn more. 

How much support does your existing network require? If the systems were no longer located on premises, could certain members on the support team be repurposed, or if you use outside IT help, would you be able to right-size the relationship? Remember, your small business still needs to maintain the systems that go into the data center, but managing complex switches, routers, and firewalls may be a thing of the past.

Can you actually eliminate certain systems entirely? For example, if you own and manage your own email server, consider hosting your email as a service with a third party. This eliminates the requirement to maintain the system yourself, reduces the complexity of the network, and normalizes costs.  Some companies are bringing

Putting It All Together

There are some best practices that, when followed, will yield a highly positive experience. Consider that any ‘improvement’ made is not an improvement if it negatively impacts efficiency of the user base. Now that your company has moved to a hosted data center, does, for example, the technical writer for your company work about half as fast as they used to because of the ten step program involved with opening or saving documents? Because the technology that empowers small business to go to the hosted data center is still somewhat new, the best practices and processes used to set up such an environment are not broadly understood. If your business has an IT department, consider encouraging that the stakeholders call for outside support and guidance at the strategy and design phases of this engagement. If your company customarily outsources its support to an IT consulting firm, ask them to demonstrate their successes with prior clients. Moving to the data center represents systemic change to the way that your business uses its technology, and qualified consultants like ANALYSYS can help this experience yield a reliable solution that costs considerably less.

One of my good friends likened moving a data center to ruining your life.  He’s not too far from the truth, especially if your enterprise data center has any of the following characteristics:

• The enterprise data center has been in place for many years
• Systems and procedures are poorly or inconsistently documented
• Applications are interdependent with multiple interfaces and middle-ware

If you’re faced with moving a data center, doesn’t it make sense to try and make it your last move?  Certain types of outsource data center facilities can offer the ideal environment to build your “final” enterprise data center.

What are the characteristics of these types of outsource data centers?

High-availability: some outsource data center facilities offer 99.995% uptime, which in English means 36 minutes of downtime per year or less.  This is the uptime level defined for the Uptime Institute’s tier IV data center classification.

Carrier neutral data center -  availability of many telecommunications companies at the outsource data center facilities (AT&T, Sprint, TW Telecom, and many others) allows you to choose the best price/value solution for your network needs.

No cross-connect fees – a few outsource data centers charge no cross connect fees to connect to the telecom carriers.  By avoiding these monthly fees, clients can save money on each remote connection.  For companies with many offices and remote connections, this savings can sometimes pay for the computer room space!

Fair data center pricing model – the outsource data center provider should charge you for power
as you use it.  The pricing model should allow for incremental growth and change.

Benefits of outsource data center facilities also include lower data center capital costs – “renting” data center space exchanges the capital expenses of building a data center into monthly operating expenses.

Consider calling IT Solutions  www.SunriseITSG.com 817-262-2151 before your start the plan for moving your data center.

Les architectures au sein des datacenters sont de plus en plus complexes  et font appel à des compétences multiples.

Cette page du site Cisco appelée “Design zone for Datacenter” est une mine d’or pour trouver des “best practices” et des architectures validées dans un datacenter.

A “bookmarker” !!!!

O site CNet teve acesso exclusivo ao interior de um dos maiores datacenters do mundo. O datacenter, que é de propriedade da Microsoft e usado para a infraestrutura do Windows Azure, fica em Chicago e todo o equipamento fica dentro de containeres.

Leia  AQUI o restante da notícia.

By now I’m sure you’ve read, heard or seen Tweeted the announcement that Cisco, EMC and VMware have come together and created the Virtual Computing Environment coalition . So what does this announcement really mean? Here are my thoughts:

Greater Cooperation and Compatibility
Since these 3 top IT giants are working together, I expect to see greater cooperation between all three vendors, which will lead to understanding between what each vendor is offering. More important, though, is we’ll be able to have reference architecturethat can be a starting point to designing a robust datacenter. This will help to validate that an “optimized datacenter” is a solution that every customer should consider.

Technology Validation
With the introduction of the Xeon 5500 processor from Intel earlier this year and the announcement of the Nehalem EX coming early in Q1 2010, the ability to add more and more virtual machines onto a single host server is becoming more prevalent. No longer is the processor or memory the bottleneck – now it’s the I/O. With the introduction of Converged Network Adapters (CNAs), servers now have access to Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) or DataCenter Ethernet (DCE) providing up to 10Gb of bandwidth running at 80% efficiency with lossless packets. With this lossless ethernet, I/O is no longer the bottleneck.

VMware offers the top selling virtualization software, so it makes sense they would be a good fit for this solution.

Cisco has a Unified Computing System that offers up the ability to combine a server running a CNA to a Interconnect switch that allows the data to be split out into ethernet and storage traffic. It also has a building block design to allow for ease of adding new servers – a key messaging in the Coalition announcement.

EMCoffers a storage platform that will enable the storage traffic from the Cisco UCS 6120XP Interconnect Switch and they have a vested interest in VMware and Cisco, so this marriage of the 3 top IT vendors is a great fit.

Announcement of Vblock™ Infrastructure Packages
According to the announcement, the Vblock Infrastructure Package “will provide customers with a fundamentally better approach to streamlining and optimizing IT strategies around private clouds.” The packages will be fully integrated, tested, validated, and that combine best-in-class virtualization, networking, computing, storage, security, and management technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware with end-to-end vendor accountability. My thought on these packages is that they are really nothing new. Cisco’s UCS has been around, VMware vSphere has been around and EMC’s storage has been around. The biggest message from this announcement is that there will soon be “bundles” that will simplify customers solutions. Will that take away from Solution Providers’ abilities to implement unique solutions? I don’t think so. Although this new announcement does not provide any new product, it does mark the beginning of an interesting relationship between 3 top IT giants and I think this announcement will definitely be an industry change – it will be interesting to see what follows.

UPDATE – click here check out a 3D model of the vBlocks Architecture.

O site C|Net teve acesso exclusivo ao interior de um dos maiores datacenters do mundo. O datacenter, que é de propriedade da Microsoft e usado para a infraestrutura do Windows Azure, fica em Chicago e todo o equipamento fica dentro de containeres.

Cada container tem entre 1.800 e 2.500 servidores e cada grupo de servidores pode ser instalado em menos de um dia, quando normalmente levaria meses para configurar e instalar os servidores. Os containeres são posicionados lado a lado e em pilhas com dois containeres.

O datacenter é refrigerado a água e utiliza um sistema de encanamento com mais de 12 mil metros de canos. Cada container consome aproximadamente três megawatts de energia.

Arne Josefsber, gerente geral de serviços de infraestrutura para operações de datacenter da Microsoft, disse acreditar que este é o maior datacenter do mundo.

A Microsoft falará mais sobre o lançamento comercial do Windows Azure durante a Professional Developers Conference (PDC) deste ano, em Los Angeles.
Algumas imagens do datacenter:

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Fonte: Baboo

Tenemos una noticia que les pondrá los pelos de punta, porque la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos (NSA) planea la construcción un nuevo y enorme centro de procesamiento en el que se almacenarán los datos de sus investigaciones y espionaje de telecomunicaciones.

El mencionado centro de procesamiento de datos tendría una monstruosa capacidad de almacenamiento que se empina hacia el yottabyte, una unidad de almacenamiento a la que no estamos acostumbrados y que equivale a 1024 bytes, lo que es igual a 1024 Zettabytes, que son a su vez 1024 Exabytes y cada Exabyte son 1024 Pettabytes, toda vez que cada Pettabyte es equivalente a 1024 Gigabytes; o sea, un YB equivale a 1.000.000.000.000.000 GB. Muchísima información.

Para ser realistas, este es todavía un plan teórico difícil de llevar a la práctica, considerando la cantidad de energía que un sistema para almacenar un YB necesitaría.

Esta capacidad de almacenamiento es tan monstruosa que todos los discos duros de los computadores domésticos del mundo no alcanzarían ni siquiera a un zettabyte, pero no debemos alegrarnos del todo por el avance que supondría un datacenter de estas dimensiones, porque como muchos saben la NSA ha sido parte del proyecto ECHELON que se encarga de monitorear o espiar telecomunicaciones, por lo que tarde o temprano podríamos vernos afectado cada uno de nosotros.

Es kann schnell teuer werden, wenn nach einem Notfall die unternehmenskritischen IT-Systeme stillstehen. Wenn dann auch noch Lieferanten oder Kunden betroffen sind, kommen zusätzlich hohe Haftungsansprüche auf das Unternehmen zu.
Helfen kann hier die richtige Notfallplanung. Der neue BSI-Standard 100-4 gibt konkrete Hinweise zur Umsetzung eines Notfallhandbuchs, der Notfallplanung und Notfall-Dokumentation.
Im Intensiv-Seminar erfahren Sie von der IT-Dokumentations-Spezialistin Manuela Reiss, wie Sie systematisch und effizient auf Notfälle reagieren und die wichtigen Geschäftsprozesse schnell wieder aufnehmen können.

 Hier gibt es mehr Informationen zu dieser interessanten Veranstaltung.

If anyone knows how to compete against Cisco, it’s Juniper. Juniper redefined core routing and forced Cisco to re-invent their aging portfolio of core devices. My affection for Juniper runs deep. From the outside, I marveled at their ASIC designs, the elegance of JUNOS, and the sheer power of their devices. From the inside, I learned first-hand how talent, hard-work, and passion for an alternative vision of networking can lead a company to not only battle but win against Cisco.

However, since Juniper’s acquisition of NetScreen in February of 2004, and subsequently their yearning for a piece of the Enterprise pie, Juniper is beginning to resemble a long list of Cisco challengers. As Benjamin Franklin said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

Unlike Cisco, Juniper has been either resistant or hesitant to complete their portfolio via acquisition. For example, while Juniper was in dire need of a switch they chose to develop it internally rather than purchase companies like Foundry or Extreme. Subsequently, Juniper has been forced into a best-of-breed scenario whereby they partner with other companies to provide end-to-end solutions. One such example is their partnership with IBM.

Meanwhile, both Cisco and HP are driving towards a one-stop-shop model of providing all the hardware, software, and services required to implement and maintain their respective solutions. Given the success rate of this strategy, IBM may be forced to join Cisco and HP. The danger to Juniper is they simply cannot match the Enterprise reach of these massive companies or the breadth of solutions they offer.

Finally, Juniper is light on public/private cloud computing solutions. Juniper needs to evaluate storage networking, an answer to Cisco’s UCS vision, virtualization, and management solutions. Of course Juniper touts their Stratus Project and just signed another OEM relationship with Dell to team on data center technology. However, Juniper has done this before; remember the Infranet?

In the end, Juniper may end-up being purchased by Dell or IBM. Or, Juniper can get back to their roots by innovating and disrupting the market. Why follow Cisco and HP’s lead? Offer a viable alternative to their strategies. Develop, market, and deploy a real datacenter fabric built on Ethernet and chalk filled with MPLS. Create a new type of Router that can handle the shear speed, QoS, and security requirements of the next generation backbone.

Come on Juniper, Wake Up!

Jag är just återkommen ifrån ett besök i Dublin och Microsofts nya “mega datacenter” i Europa. Datacentrat är en rigoröst bevakad och säkrad byggnad och ett av världen största och modernaste datacenter ur alla aspekter. Datacentrat kommer vara basen för att driva alla Microsofts söktjänster som Bing, onlinetjänster som BPOS och vår nya molnplattform Windows Azure i Europa. Det är en otrolig känsla att komma in i kärnan av byggnaden och se rack efter rack efter rack ; det ger en insikt om hur kritiskt det är att detta faktiskt aldrig går ner. Utmaningarna för ett datacenter i den här klassen handlar inte bara om att bygga en avancerad serverhall utan om att bygga en struktur som kan supportera servrarna driftsmässigt och säkerhetsmässigt. T.ex måste man hantera ett strömavbrott och ändå kunna mata datahallen via batterier. Batterier som kan skjuta ut ett respektabelt antal megawatt under tillräcklig många sekunder tills man hinner koppla in ett antal gigantiska generatorer som kan ta över. Säkerheten kring att hantera denna energi är prio nummer ett – gör du misstag så blir det inte mycket kvar av dig.

Några fakta om detta otroliga centra:

• Kostnad att bygga: c:a 3 800 miljoner kr
• Ett av de största byggprojektet i Irland på länge med c:a 2 100 byggarbetare och en byggyta på närmare 30 000 m2.
• Ett kylsystem (se gulmarkering på bilden ovan) som endast bygger på kall Irländsk luft ger stora energivinster och en vattenförbrukning som bara är 1%(!) av traditionella datacenter. (första gången Irland har nytta av sitt dåliga klimat )
• Blev i  September utsett som en “best practice” i “European Commission’s Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign”
• 5,4 megawatt effektiv drift ; uppgraderingsbart till 22,2 megawatt
• Energin utnyttjas maximalt och Microsoft är ett av de största leverantörerna som följer “European Union (EU) Code of Conduct for Data Centres” kring utnyttjade av energi i datacentrat.

Säkerhetssystemet i byggnaden är rigoröst med avancerad övervakning och digitala lås. Skall bli spännande att se vad som händer när Windows Azure börjar spinna upp i hallarna.

- Ge det vad det tål !

Here is yet another example of what can happen if you neglect to backup your data. For all you T-Mobile users out there, you probably know that the Sidekick stores all of your critical data in a network datastore and not within the physical device. If something were to happen to any of those servers holding your data, you would lose your data. Scary thought, huh? Well, that is exactly what happened.

Michael Sheehan believes that during hardware upgrades, there was a failure that occurred. Since the upgrade of the SAN proceeded without data backup the result was thousands of Sidekick users stuck without their data. Here are five tips he presents in his blog post, that are critical for any IT department to remember:

La virtualisation n’est-elle qu’une affaire de serveur ?

                Comment mettre en production un environnement virtuel ? 

                                    Comment adapter mes réseaux à la virtualisation ?

 Bonjour,

 Venez nous rencontrer le mardi 10 novembre dans nos locaux pour découvrir comment les dernières architectures de virtualisation de l’offre Data Center 3.0 peuvent vous aider à aligner vos différents chantiers IT avec la transformation de votre business.

 Plus que jamais, les stratégies Data Center autour de la virtualisation reposent sur une approche d’architecture composée de plusieurs briques et qui positionne le réseau comme le fédérateur de la prochaine génération des Data Centers. Bâtir une architecture Cisco de bout-en-bout, basée sur les dernières solutions Nexus et MDS,  apporte aux entreprises l’élasticité et la robustesse d’une solution durable pour virtualiser l’infrastructure Data Center et offrir de nouveaux services.

 Ce séminaire d’une journée sera pour vous l’occasion de connaître comment les solutions Cisco adressent les problématiques opérationnelles rencontrées dans les Data Centers. Nous vous proposerons d’aborder chaque élément de la chaîne de virtualisation : en partant du poste de travail et des serveurs pour finalement arriver aux accès de stockage. Ainsi vous découvrirez les réponses apportées par nos architectures à chaque étape de la transformation d’un Data Center vers la virtualisation.

 La session du matin sera consacrée à l’approche architecturale et le positionnement des différentes solutions. L’après-midi est à destination des populations techniques avec au programme l’approfondissement sur les sujets d’architecture, les technologies et les produits.

PROGRAMME (les différentes sessions sont en langue anglaise)

Si vous souhaitez assister à cette journée, merci de vous inscrire dès à présent pour réserver votre place en précisant vos coordonnées complètes.

Rappel synthétique

Séminaire « Virtualisation du Data Center » – Langue anglaise

Date et heure : 10 novembre 2009, de 08h30 à 17h00

Lieu : Cisco France, 11, rue Camille Desmoulins Issy les Moulineaux 

Au plaisir de vous rencontrer à ce séminaire,

Cordialement,

Data Center HP

A HP inaugurou, nesta quarta-feira (7/10),seu novo data center na região de Alphaville, Barueri (SP). Com um espaço de mil metros quadrados, instalado na antiga sede da EDS, a meta é chegar a 80% da capacidade ocupada até o final de 2010.

Por enquanto, a unidade conta com dois clientes: Medial Saúde e Camargo Correa. Ambos possuem um parque de 300 e 500 servidores, respectivamente, alocados no centro de dados.

Sem revelar o valor do investimento feito, o vice-presidente da HP Enterprise Services – novo nome dado a EDS – para o Brasil, Célio Bozola, explica que a expectativa é ter mais três clientes ainda este ano, utilizando solução de recuperação de desastre.

A expansão da infraestrutura de data centers – que hoje soma três unidades no País, todas em São Paulo – faz parte de uma estratégia da companhia em ampliar sua atuação no mercado de terceirização dos serviços de tecnologia da Informação ou ITO (da sigla em inglês, information technology outsourcing).

De acordo com Bozola, esta é uma área chave para a HP, que tenta neste momento abrir outra frente e conquistar empresas de médio porte. “Como a EDS sempre focou em grandes corporações, nosso objetivo é aumentar nossa esfera de atuação”, afirma. Com isso, a HP espera dobrar o número atual de clientes, que hoje chega a um total de 100.

Segundo o executivo, o movimento nasce de oportunidades surgidas pós-aquisição da provedora de serviço pela gigante de TI, anunciada em 2008. De acordo com Bozola, consolidação das operações abriu novos mercados à EDS, tradicionalmente focada em clientes de grande porte.

O espaço em Alphaville funciona como um backup para máquinas das companhias hospedadas no data center da HP na Anchieta (SP).

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Fonte: ComputerWorld

Green IT in the Datacenter
Datacenter refers to the building, room, closet, or corner of the office that houses the majority of the physical resources that make up the enterprise infrastructure. An obvious target for applying green principals to the modern datacenter is the power and cooling distribution design. Advances in datacenter cooling have led to more precise systems that are placed ‘in-row’, much closer to the heat source, and can therefore eliminate less efficient Computer Room Air Conditioners (CRACs).

Variable power distribution modules and intelligent standby battery power units can also add more efficiency to the datacenter via right-sizing, the process of deploying only the amount of equipment needed. Idle power distribution equipment consumes power whether there is an IT load on it or not. By leveraging variable power distribution units (PDUs), you can ensure you are not consuming more power than is needed to drive the loads. Right-sizing has the potential to eliminate up to 50% of the electric bill in real-world installations, which is pretty compelling.

Green IT can mean many different things and speaks to many functions of the technology lifecycle from procurement to disposal. The most commonly understood application of the term is efficiently utilizing IT workloads to maximize the usage of available physical resources in order to reduce overall consumption. There are many aspects of the enterprise infrastructure that can be targeted for these usage scenarios and can be broken down into the datacenter as a whole, servers, and the universal access devices used to access and operate this infrastructure. The next three blogs will be dedicated each of these scenarios. Enjoy!

Alexandre Verkinderen, System Center Operations Manager MVP bij RealDolmen,vertelt in een interview over de monitoring oplossing die hij implementeerde bij het AZ Sint Maarten, een groot Belgisch hospitaal.  Samen met Sigurd Corluy, System Engineer bij het AZ Sint Maarten, vertelt hij  waarom het hospitaal een monitoring oplossing nodig had en waarom ze gekozen hebben voor SCOM 2007.

Het hospitaal heeft verschillende business critical toepassingen, zoals patiëntenregistratie- of patiëntendossierbeheertoepassingen die gemonitord dienen te worden en waarvoor het hospitaal custom made management packs heeft laten ontwikkelen.  In hun NOC gebruiken ze Savision Livemaps om diagrammen te tonen over het datacenter en de business processen, wat resulteert in een eenvoudig te interpreteren grafische voorstelling van de gezondheid van de racks en business processen.

Beiden worden  geïnterviewd door Arlindo Alvesn IT Pro evangelist bij Microsoft.

Bekijk het interview op Microsoft Technet.