This document discusses how Windows Server 2008 R2 can help optimize IT and save costs. It focuses on three key areas:
1) Reducing costs through streamlined management, server consolidation, lower power consumption, and reduced WAN bandwidth.
2) Improving IT service levels with increased reliability features in areas like Failover Clustering and Active Directory.
3) Enabling new business scenarios by providing resources and tools for IT administrators to quickly respond to changing business needs.
Early customers report significant cost savings through higher server consolidation rates, lower IT staff hours spent on tasks, and energy savings of up to 18% compared to prior versions of Windows Server.
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager is a server power management system that reports actual power usage and caps power usage to maximize efficiency. It allows data center managers to set power budgets for servers to enable up to 20% more dense deployments. When paired with Intel Data Center Manager, it can help optimize entire data centers by monitoring individual server power consumption and temperatures to link cooling to actual power demand.
ScottMadden has developed an approach for analyzing data center requirements and driving improvements in existing data center retrofits. Our approach takes into account the technological requirements, the physical attributes of a data center, and the requirements for a rigorous measurement and verification program needed to ensure improvements actually capture the energy efficiently gains and the resultant greenhouse gas reductions.
Our approach addresses the latest trends in data center management such as virtualization and cloud computing and provide a framework for developing metrics needed to drive changes in data center performance.
Estap has launced the DC-Book by Estap catalogue which details Estap Datacenter Solutions offer high performance, continuity of work and energy efficiency. Estap provides managed, scalable and high efficiency solutions to datacenter projects. Thanks to ''Isolated Cold & Hot Aisle'' applications, Estap provides high-energy efficiency and low operating costs. Power distribution units -PDUs- serve as a connection point of active devices. PDUs provide energy management and monitoring.
PDU software offers remote access control for environment monitoring and cooling systems.
There is a virtual task of datacenters that requires reliable,flexible and scalable infrastructures with guaranteed performance. Datacenters quarantees a continuity of service quality and additionally, ensures energy savings.
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A More Efficient Way to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director provides a single point of management for Hitachi converged infrastructure elements. It allows administrators to inventory, provision, operate, and monitor all virtual and physical components from a centralized interface. This simplifies tasks, improves efficiency and helps ensure predictable performance, reliability and protection of resources and data.
The document discusses how standardization and modularity can make retrofitting data center infrastructure faster, cheaper, and easier. It outlines two approaches: 1) Using pre-engineered reference designs that simplify planning and reduce risk. 2) Implementing modular, standardized components like UPS batteries, wiring, and infrastructure pods that allow flexible scaling and easier maintenance. Modular designs allow adjustable capacity expansion, quick deployment, and continued flexibility over time. Overall, the rise of standardized modular solutions is revolutionizing retrofitting by driving down costs and complexity.
A data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system collects and manages information about a data center's assets, resource use, and operational status. This information is analyzed and distributed to help optimize the data center's performance and meet business goals. Implementing DCIM solutions such as instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enable proactive management of the physical infrastructure and IT systems. Emerson Network Power provides a comprehensive portfolio of DCIM hardware and software products to help organizations gain visibility and control over their data center resources.
This presentation shows that Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software to a Data Center Manager is what ERP software is to a VP - Manufacturing. This is the 2nd presentation from a series of 3-part series from GreenField Software on the subject: DCIM for High Availability.
DCIM Software charts out the relationship maps for assets by identifying various dependencies among them. Threshold-based alerts on critical parameters, combined with impact analysis of Move-Add-Change, mitigates risks of DC failures.
GreenField Software’s Mission is to help Data Centers control capital expenditures reduce operating expenses and mitigate the risks of Data Center failures. Besides DCIM Software, GFS offers Data Center Advisory Services in the areas of best practices, capacity planning, energy efficiency and business continuity of data centers.
This document discusses Intel's Intelligent Power Node Manager solution for managing power usage in data centers. It notes that power and cooling costs are a major challenge as data needs increase exponentially. The Power Node Manager allows data center managers to set a power budget or "cap" for each server to better utilize existing power capacity and increase compute density. It provides real-time power monitoring and enables power capping to maintain performance within the set limit or adjust if the limit is exceeded. This allows data centers to squeeze more performance from their existing power infrastructure.
Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager is a server power management system that reports actual power usage and caps power usage to maximize efficiency. It allows data center managers to set power budgets for servers to enable up to 20% more dense deployments. When paired with Intel Data Center Manager, it can help optimize entire data centers by monitoring individual server power consumption and temperatures to link cooling to actual power demand.
ScottMadden has developed an approach for analyzing data center requirements and driving improvements in existing data center retrofits. Our approach takes into account the technological requirements, the physical attributes of a data center, and the requirements for a rigorous measurement and verification program needed to ensure improvements actually capture the energy efficiently gains and the resultant greenhouse gas reductions.
Our approach addresses the latest trends in data center management such as virtualization and cloud computing and provide a framework for developing metrics needed to drive changes in data center performance.
Estap has launced the DC-Book by Estap catalogue which details Estap Datacenter Solutions offer high performance, continuity of work and energy efficiency. Estap provides managed, scalable and high efficiency solutions to datacenter projects. Thanks to ''Isolated Cold & Hot Aisle'' applications, Estap provides high-energy efficiency and low operating costs. Power distribution units -PDUs- serve as a connection point of active devices. PDUs provide energy management and monitoring.
PDU software offers remote access control for environment monitoring and cooling systems.
There is a virtual task of datacenters that requires reliable,flexible and scalable infrastructures with guaranteed performance. Datacenters quarantees a continuity of service quality and additionally, ensures energy savings.
Check out and stay tuned !
A More Efficient Way to Automate Cloud Infrastructure Solution ProfileHitachi Vantara
Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director provides a single point of management for Hitachi converged infrastructure elements. It allows administrators to inventory, provision, operate, and monitor all virtual and physical components from a centralized interface. This simplifies tasks, improves efficiency and helps ensure predictable performance, reliability and protection of resources and data.
The document discusses how standardization and modularity can make retrofitting data center infrastructure faster, cheaper, and easier. It outlines two approaches: 1) Using pre-engineered reference designs that simplify planning and reduce risk. 2) Implementing modular, standardized components like UPS batteries, wiring, and infrastructure pods that allow flexible scaling and easier maintenance. Modular designs allow adjustable capacity expansion, quick deployment, and continued flexibility over time. Overall, the rise of standardized modular solutions is revolutionizing retrofitting by driving down costs and complexity.
A data center infrastructure management (DCIM) system collects and manages information about a data center's assets, resource use, and operational status. This information is analyzed and distributed to help optimize the data center's performance and meet business goals. Implementing DCIM solutions such as instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enable proactive management of the physical infrastructure and IT systems. Emerson Network Power provides a comprehensive portfolio of DCIM hardware and software products to help organizations gain visibility and control over their data center resources.
This presentation shows that Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software to a Data Center Manager is what ERP software is to a VP - Manufacturing. This is the 2nd presentation from a series of 3-part series from GreenField Software on the subject: DCIM for High Availability.
DCIM Software charts out the relationship maps for assets by identifying various dependencies among them. Threshold-based alerts on critical parameters, combined with impact analysis of Move-Add-Change, mitigates risks of DC failures.
GreenField Software’s Mission is to help Data Centers control capital expenditures reduce operating expenses and mitigate the risks of Data Center failures. Besides DCIM Software, GFS offers Data Center Advisory Services in the areas of best practices, capacity planning, energy efficiency and business continuity of data centers.
StruxureWare is Schneider Electric's DCIM software suite that integrates various data center management applications. It provides visibility and control of infrastructure assets from the building level down to the server. The software suite monitors and manages key metrics like power, cooling capacity, and IT asset usage. It helps optimize data center performance and efficiency through features like real-time monitoring, capacity planning, and energy analytics. Schneider Electric is a leading DCIM provider due to its comprehensive product portfolio, expertise, and ability to deliver an end-to-end solution for data center management.
DCIM: An Integral Part of the Software Defined Data CentreConcurrentThinking
Do you know what DCIM is? Discover with Concurrent Thinking how to improve your data centre efficiency, how to overcome challenges in data centres and what the future of DCIM is.
Find out more here: http://www.concurrent-thinking.com/
The document summarizes the IBM Power 730 Express server, highlighting its high performance, density, energy efficiency, and ability to run multiple workloads in a virtualized environment. It details the server's POWER7+ processor technology, memory capacity, I/O capabilities, and virtualization and reliability features. The Power 730 Express is a two-socket rack server supporting up to 16 cores, large memory capacity, and various operating systems.
White Paper Reduce Infrastructure Cost With Microsoft System Centerrajeshchoudhary23281
The document discusses how Microsoft System Center products like Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations reduce IT infrastructure costs through automation, centralized management, and optimization best practices. It provides examples of cost savings from more efficient software distribution, monitoring, data protection, and security/compliance management enabled by these products.
A brief presentation that explains the origin of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software and its role in Data Center operations. With example of a DCIM Software's functional capabilities, the presentation highlights the business benefits and value it brings to an enterprise. The presentation concludes with Case Study of a DCIM Software deployment in a leading financial services enterprise in India.
Multi tiered hybrid data center designMehmet Cetin
This document discusses a multi-tiered hybrid data center design that allows for modular and flexible infrastructure. It proposes designing the data center with separate tiered sections (Tier II, III, IV) that can each be scaled independently as needed. This approach provides a more cost effective and energy efficient solution than a single-tiered design, allows the data center to meet varying operational needs simultaneously, and facilitates future-proofing and scalability as demands change over time.
DCIM tools help data center managers improve planning, lower costs, and speed up information delivery by providing visibility into data center infrastructure and automation of manual processes. They solve problems around maintaining availability and responding quickly to business needs while lowering costs during consolidation and cloud computing initiatives. DCIM tools provide concise summaries of capacity, assets, and performance to help answer questions around planning, operations, and analytics. Their use is important for reducing operational expenses by 10-30% annually while improving productivity.
This document discusses common mistakes that compromise cooling performance in data centers and network rooms. It examines five categories of typical mistakes: airflow in the rack, rack layout, load distribution, cooling settings, and air delivery/return vent layout. Mistakes such as omitting blanking panels, improper rack layout, and obstructed airflow can cause hot spots, decrease fault tolerance, reduce efficiency and capacity, increasing costs by up to 25% over the lifetime of the data center. The document provides solutions to address each problem through standardized racks, blanking panels, proper hot/cold aisle layout, unobstructed airflow, and policies to prevent these issues.
Learn how the IBM i delivers a highly scalable and virus resistant architecture with a stable database and middleware foundation for efficiently deploying business processing applications. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
"ESG Whitepaper: Hitachi Data Systems VSP G1000: - Pushing the Functionality ...Hitachi Vantara
The document is a white paper that discusses the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 storage system. It provides an overview of the business demands driving a need for more software-defined and agile storage capabilities. It then describes the key capabilities of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, which is presented as a solution that provides enterprise-class storage software and functionality to help customers address these business needs. The white paper evaluates the applicability of this storage platform for various market segments.
The document announces the new IBM zEnterprise EC12 hybrid computing system. Key points:
- It provides up to 50% more total system capacity and 101 configurable cores compared to prior models.
- Performance is improved through a new hexa-core 5.5GHz chip design and features like transactional execution.
- New capabilities include flash storage support, encryption, and pattern recognition analytics for system health.
- It supports various workloads and platforms through the zBX blade infrastructure and management tools.
10 Steps to Data Center Infrastructure Management SuccessRaritan
The document outlines 10 steps to successful data center infrastructure management (DCIM) implementation. It discusses choosing a DCIM solution to address key problems, understanding current processes, focusing on features that solve problems rather than all features, gaining cross-functional alignment, starting small and expanding over time, ensuring integration with existing systems, taking advantage of vendor expertise, training staff, and partnering with an experienced DCIM vendor. It also provides case studies of DCIM implementations at several large companies that improved operational efficiency.
The document provides a five-step process for planning a new data center: 1) Determine design parameters like capacity, budget, growth plan, etc. 2) Develop a system concept by selecting a reference design. 3) Determine user requirements like preferences and constraints. 4) Generate a specification. 5) Generate a construction design. It emphasizes involving the right stakeholders, communicating at the right level of abstraction, and avoiding common mistakes like poor budgeting or an IT-focused rather than business-focused design. Following the standardized process can help complete projects on time and on budget by eliminating potential pitfalls.
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
Learn about IBM PureFlex System: The Future of Data center Management.The ‘Expert Integrated System’ delivers a combination of hardware, software and built-in expertise that makes implementing and applying the power of computing simpler, easier, faster and more effective than ever before.For more information, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
Competitive Strategies Benchmarking in Datacenter Infra IndustryAmit Singh
The document profiles competitive strategies of major vendors in the data center physical infrastructure industry. It discusses Schneider Electric's focus on offering integrated energy management solutions globally through its power quality products and services. Schneider aims to build a competitive advantage in data centers by combining efficient energy technology with engineering and project management solutions. The company maintains its product leadership through R&D investment in areas such as ultra-high efficiency UPS, fuel cells, cooling systems and energy management software.
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Intel's Data Center & Connected Systems Group and Diane Bryant shares the latest news on the latest Intel Xeon E5v2 family of processors and technologies like Intel Network Builders to enable the re-architecture of the Data Center.
The document discusses lessons learned from over 500 modular data center implementations around the world. Key lessons include: (1) Good modular design allows deferring up to 50% of electrical and mechanical capacity costs until needed, saving millions compared to retrofitting; (2) Plans should account for unpredictability over 10-30 years and support 3-5x power density growth; (3) No single cooling approach is optimal for all sizes and densities, requiring tailored solutions.
StruxureWare is Schneider Electric's DCIM software suite that integrates various data center management applications. It provides visibility and control of infrastructure assets from the building level down to the server. The software suite monitors and manages key metrics like power, cooling capacity, and IT asset usage. It helps optimize data center performance and efficiency through features like real-time monitoring, capacity planning, and energy analytics. Schneider Electric is a leading DCIM provider due to its comprehensive product portfolio, expertise, and ability to deliver an end-to-end solution for data center management.
DCIM: An Integral Part of the Software Defined Data CentreConcurrentThinking
Do you know what DCIM is? Discover with Concurrent Thinking how to improve your data centre efficiency, how to overcome challenges in data centres and what the future of DCIM is.
Find out more here: http://www.concurrent-thinking.com/
The document summarizes the IBM Power 730 Express server, highlighting its high performance, density, energy efficiency, and ability to run multiple workloads in a virtualized environment. It details the server's POWER7+ processor technology, memory capacity, I/O capabilities, and virtualization and reliability features. The Power 730 Express is a two-socket rack server supporting up to 16 cores, large memory capacity, and various operating systems.
White Paper Reduce Infrastructure Cost With Microsoft System Centerrajeshchoudhary23281
The document discusses how Microsoft System Center products like Configuration Manager, Operations Manager, and Virtual Machine Manager can help organizations reduce IT infrastructure costs through automation, centralized management, and optimization best practices. It provides examples of cost savings from more efficient software distribution, monitoring, data protection, and security/compliance management enabled by these products.
A brief presentation that explains the origin of Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Software and its role in Data Center operations. With example of a DCIM Software's functional capabilities, the presentation highlights the business benefits and value it brings to an enterprise. The presentation concludes with Case Study of a DCIM Software deployment in a leading financial services enterprise in India.
Multi tiered hybrid data center designMehmet Cetin
This document discusses a multi-tiered hybrid data center design that allows for modular and flexible infrastructure. It proposes designing the data center with separate tiered sections (Tier II, III, IV) that can each be scaled independently as needed. This approach provides a more cost effective and energy efficient solution than a single-tiered design, allows the data center to meet varying operational needs simultaneously, and facilitates future-proofing and scalability as demands change over time.
DCIM tools help data center managers improve planning, lower costs, and speed up information delivery by providing visibility into data center infrastructure and automation of manual processes. They solve problems around maintaining availability and responding quickly to business needs while lowering costs during consolidation and cloud computing initiatives. DCIM tools provide concise summaries of capacity, assets, and performance to help answer questions around planning, operations, and analytics. Their use is important for reducing operational expenses by 10-30% annually while improving productivity.
This document discusses common mistakes that compromise cooling performance in data centers and network rooms. It examines five categories of typical mistakes: airflow in the rack, rack layout, load distribution, cooling settings, and air delivery/return vent layout. Mistakes such as omitting blanking panels, improper rack layout, and obstructed airflow can cause hot spots, decrease fault tolerance, reduce efficiency and capacity, increasing costs by up to 25% over the lifetime of the data center. The document provides solutions to address each problem through standardized racks, blanking panels, proper hot/cold aisle layout, unobstructed airflow, and policies to prevent these issues.
Learn how the IBM i delivers a highly scalable and virus resistant architecture with a stable database and middleware foundation for efficiently deploying business processing applications. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
"ESG Whitepaper: Hitachi Data Systems VSP G1000: - Pushing the Functionality ...Hitachi Vantara
The document is a white paper that discusses the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000 storage system. It provides an overview of the business demands driving a need for more software-defined and agile storage capabilities. It then describes the key capabilities of the Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1000, which is presented as a solution that provides enterprise-class storage software and functionality to help customers address these business needs. The white paper evaluates the applicability of this storage platform for various market segments.
The document announces the new IBM zEnterprise EC12 hybrid computing system. Key points:
- It provides up to 50% more total system capacity and 101 configurable cores compared to prior models.
- Performance is improved through a new hexa-core 5.5GHz chip design and features like transactional execution.
- New capabilities include flash storage support, encryption, and pattern recognition analytics for system health.
- It supports various workloads and platforms through the zBX blade infrastructure and management tools.
10 Steps to Data Center Infrastructure Management SuccessRaritan
The document outlines 10 steps to successful data center infrastructure management (DCIM) implementation. It discusses choosing a DCIM solution to address key problems, understanding current processes, focusing on features that solve problems rather than all features, gaining cross-functional alignment, starting small and expanding over time, ensuring integration with existing systems, taking advantage of vendor expertise, training staff, and partnering with an experienced DCIM vendor. It also provides case studies of DCIM implementations at several large companies that improved operational efficiency.
The document provides a five-step process for planning a new data center: 1) Determine design parameters like capacity, budget, growth plan, etc. 2) Develop a system concept by selecting a reference design. 3) Determine user requirements like preferences and constraints. 4) Generate a specification. 5) Generate a construction design. It emphasizes involving the right stakeholders, communicating at the right level of abstraction, and avoiding common mistakes like poor budgeting or an IT-focused rather than business-focused design. Following the standardized process can help complete projects on time and on budget by eliminating potential pitfalls.
Hitachi Compute Blade 2000 is the preferred choice over any other blade or rack server platform on the market today, presenting a unique combination of built-in virtualization, massive I/O bandwidth, large memory capacity, browser-based point-and-click management, and unprecedented configuration flexibility for companies of all types and sizes.
Learn about IBM PureFlex System: The Future of Data center Management.The ‘Expert Integrated System’ delivers a combination of hardware, software and built-in expertise that makes implementing and applying the power of computing simpler, easier, faster and more effective than ever before.For more information, visit http://ibm.co/J7Zb1v.
Competitive Strategies Benchmarking in Datacenter Infra IndustryAmit Singh
The document profiles competitive strategies of major vendors in the data center physical infrastructure industry. It discusses Schneider Electric's focus on offering integrated energy management solutions globally through its power quality products and services. Schneider aims to build a competitive advantage in data centers by combining efficient energy technology with engineering and project management solutions. The company maintains its product leadership through R&D investment in areas such as ultra-high efficiency UPS, fuel cells, cooling systems and energy management software.
Unified Compute Platform Pro for VMware vSphereHitachi Vantara
Relentless trends of increasing data center complexity
and massive data growth have companies seeking new,
reliable ways to deliver IT services in an on-demand,
rapid, flexible and scalable fashion. Many data centers
now face growing demands for faster delivery of
business services, serious resource contentions and
trade-offs between IT agility and vendor lock-in. They
also have mounting complications and rising costs in
managing disparate islands of technology resources.
Intel's Data Center & Connected Systems Group and Diane Bryant shares the latest news on the latest Intel Xeon E5v2 family of processors and technologies like Intel Network Builders to enable the re-architecture of the Data Center.
The document discusses lessons learned from over 500 modular data center implementations around the world. Key lessons include: (1) Good modular design allows deferring up to 50% of electrical and mechanical capacity costs until needed, saving millions compared to retrofitting; (2) Plans should account for unpredictability over 10-30 years and support 3-5x power density growth; (3) No single cooling approach is optimal for all sizes and densities, requiring tailored solutions.
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This document outlines the steps and requirements for upgrading Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012. It lists the minimum system requirements including a 1.4 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 32 GB free disk space, DVD-ROM drive, and 800x600 display. It then provides instructions for upgrading specific Windows Server 2008 editions (Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter) and versions (R2) to Windows Server 2012 editions, and notes prerequisites like Active Directory, DNS, and forest/domain preparation must already be configured.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise stimulates the production of endorphins in the brain which elevate mood and reduce stress levels.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
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The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help enhance one's emotional well-being and mental clarity.
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This document outlines the steps to upgrade Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008. Key requirements include having Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 installed with Active Directory, DNS, and the global catalog configured and functional level set to Windows Server 2003. The upgrade also requires a bootable Windows Server 2008 DVD and preparing the forest or domain. The document lists compatible upgrade paths between different editions of Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
This document provides steps to install and configure an SSH server on Windows 2008 R2 using PowerShell. It describes downloading and installing the FreeSSHd tool, configuring the Windows firewall to allow inbound connections on port 22, and adding a user for SSH access. Key steps include selecting components during installation, creating an SSH private key, adding a firewall rule to allow port 22, and verifying the SSH service is active.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Windows Server 2008 provides scalability, security, and reliability for enterprise workloads. Key features include server virtualization with Hyper-V, presentation virtualization with RDS, live migration between servers, and boot from VHD files. RDS provides an integrated solution for remote desktop infrastructure with a single broker. Management tools are improved with Windows PowerShell and new virtual machine consoles. Performance and scalability are enhanced with support for up to 256 logical cores and high performance storage.
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This document discusses how Windows Server 2012 can help optimize IT through the Microsoft Cloud OS. It addresses key business needs like agility, efficiency, and data-driven decisions. Technology trends around datacenter resources, new applications, and device proliferation are creating opportunities. Windows Server 2012 takes IT beyond virtualization alone by providing a dynamic, multitenant infrastructure with the power of many servers through a single, easy-to-manage platform. It allows organizations to build and deploy applications on-premises, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment using consistent tools. It also enables a modern workstyle by providing flexible access to data and applications from any device while maintaining security and control.
Windows Server 2012 provides capabilities that help reduce IT costs for organizations. Early adopters expected to realize administration labor cost savings of approximately $220,000 per year on average through centralized management. They also anticipated hardware and infrastructure cost savings such as an 80% improvement in workload density through virtualization and a 44% reduction in server hardware costs. Additional expected savings included a 20-40% reduction in storage space needs and reduced network bandwidth utilization through features like BranchCache.
This document provides a summary of key findings from a Veeam report on data center modernization and availability. It finds that most organizations have modernized or plan to modernize their data centers to enable always-on operations. This is driven by demands for mobility, lower costs, innovation and customer experience. Companies are investing heavily in virtualization, storage, data protection and cloud computing. However, many still face an "availability gap" that costs over $10M annually on average due to downtime. Adopting modern availability solutions can help companies meet recovery time objectives of 15 minutes and reduce downtime costs by over half.
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This document discusses eleven levers that companies can use to significantly reduce IT costs within 12-18 months. These levers include eliminating redundant management functions, simplifying procedures, optimizing project management, capping budgets, standardizing products, industrializing operations, adjusting service levels, simplifying architecture, improving sourcing mixes, and leveraging sourcing power. Implementing cost reduction measures can be challenging due to impacts on headcount and business operations. Measures must focus on both reducing change costs and ensuring costs remain low to achieve sustainable savings. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants can help identify high-impact actions and implement a comprehensive cost reduction program.
Denodo DataFest 2016: ROI Justification in Data VirtualizationDenodo
This document discusses ROI justification for data virtualization. It outlines how data virtualization can lower total cost of ownership through reduced development, testing, IT operations, and non-IT costs. Specific areas of cost savings include faster development times, reduced data replication, lower hardware and staffing needs, and decreased software licensing fees. The document also examines the business impacts of data virtualization, such as enabling digital transformations, improving business processes, and creating new revenue streams through innovations like self-service analytics. Real-world examples are provided of companies saving hundreds of thousands of dollars per year through data virtualization.
This document analyzes the business value of deploying VMware View for centralized virtual desktops (CVD). It finds that organizations using VMware View realized significant cost savings and return on investment compared to traditional desktop management. Organizations saved over $610 per user annually on lower device/IT costs and improved productivity. Those leveraging additional VMware View features saved an additional $122 per user. The document also discusses VMware View editions, features, use cases, benefits, challenges, and methodology for quantifying savings.
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The document discusses the benefits of converged systems over traditional siloed IT infrastructures. It outlines key challenges with complexity in today's IT environments and how converged systems provide advantages like reduced costs, faster deployment times, and improved performance and availability. The summary highlights that Hitachi Data Systems provides converged infrastructure solutions called Unified Compute Platforms that integrate servers, storage, networking and software to optimize support for mission-critical applications.
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DeltaRail is a software company that provides solutions for the rail industry. The document discusses DeltaRail's IT strategy to modernize its aging infrastructure and applications. It plans to migrate key systems like finance, SharePoint, and CRM to integrated Microsoft solutions hosted in a scalable infrastructure. This will simplify processes, improve productivity and collaboration, and reduce costs over 3 years. The strategy involves virtualizing servers, renewing agreements with a single managed service partner, and implementing Dynamics NAV and other online Microsoft solutions.
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to being able to deliver real business value. As
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business and IT, one of the most important shifts
that we see is the strategic positioning of the
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dots to a complete business service delivery
infrastructure.
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3. Table of Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................. 4
In IT, Success is Measured Differently .................................................................................................. 5
Decreasing TCO with Streamlined Management ............................................................................... 6
Data Center Power Management ......................................................................................................... 7
Increased Reliability Without Increased TCO ...................................................................................... 8
Exciting New Scenarios .......................................................................................................................... 9
A New Networking Experience ........................................................................................................... 10
Remote Desktop Services and VDI ..................................................................................................... 10
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................. 11
Additional Resources ........................................................................................................................... 11
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4. Introduction
Customer feedback is clear: A key goal for the next
several years will be to reduce technology costs. At
the same time, however, IT technology has become “Windows Server 2008 R2
a competitive cornerstone for a broad swath of with the improved Hyper-V
commercial and non-commercial industries alike. can support more than 30
Maintaining that competitive edge in a fast [workloads]. From a fixed
changing business landscape is also a requirement. capital asset perspective
These goals require a new approach to IT and data alone, that’s a savings of
center management emphasizing automation and $60,000 to $80,000 per
optimization. Windows Server 2008 R2 was Hyper-V server.”
designed and built with these goals in mind. - Jason Foster, Systems Architect and
Director of Technology,
Windows Server 2008 R2 addresses cost savings Continental Airlines
across a number of areas, including streamlined
management, less reliance on expensive third-party
software, more scalable application serving and
lowered WAN bandwidth costs. Customers have seen server consolidation rates up to 3-to-1 as
well as up to an 80% decrease in IT man-hours spent on rote administrative tasks like file system
management. Power efficiency is also improved over Windows Server 2008 and again over
Windows Server 2003 R2. Early adopters of Windows Server 2008 R2 have documented
significant savings in this regard, up to 18% over Windows Server 2003 R2.
IT managers are also provided with new tools to more quickly and easily respond to changing
front-line business requirements. Customers have reported software deployment operations
using Terminal Server that used to take weeks, can now be performed in less than 30 minutes
using the new Remote Desktop Services and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technologies in
Windows Server 2008 R2. New administration tools address ease of management and custom
automation of common tasks. Powerful new virtualization capabilities enable rapid response to
changes in demand for virtualized workloads—without interruption of service. With R2, virtual
servers have been deployed from scratch in under 15 minutes in early customer deployments. In
addition, the extension of this virtualization vision to the desktop and individual applications
allows even small IT departments to more efficiently roll out entire new application toolkits in a
fraction of the time it takes to deploy such suites on every local desktop.
Combining cost savings and increased IT agility means optimizing your IT infrastructure and
data center. Windows Server 2008 R2 addresses those needs directly and can quickly set
customers on the right path to a competitive IT environment and a streamlined IT budget.
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5. In IT, Success is Measured Differently
IT priorites are changing fast, and not simply because of a challenging economy. More attention
must be paid to IT expenditures in this economic climate, but cost savings across the IT budget
have long been a concern to customers. What makes this goal more challenging is that while
boardroom business management demands cost savings, they have also grown increasingly
dependent on IT infrastrucutre for both day-to-day operations as well as competitive response.
Instead of being merely a support technology for back-end operations, IT has evolved in the last
ten years to be a crucial factor across a variety of core business scenarios, including servicing
increased customer demand, competitive marketing, reacting to mergers and acquisitions, and
more. At the same time that IT managers are tasked with decreasing their expenditures, the
successful IT executive is also looking for ways to increase agility and improve response times to
better react to changing business needs. Decreasing costs is certainly one priority, but
increasing value is just as important.
Windows Server 2008 R2 helps enterprise customers achieve these seemingly conflicting
initiatives through new and enhanced features, with special attention paid to addressing three
key IT priorities:
Reducing costs: Windows Server 2008 R2 addresses cost savings across the gamut of
standard IT expenses, including management, server consolidation, power consumption,
and WAN bandwidth.
Improved IT Service Levels: The new server platform also allows IT administrators to
increase the reliability of server-based resources by adding new capabilities to features
such as Failover Clustering, , Server Core, and Active Directory.
Enabling new Business Scenarios: Perhaps the most exciting thing about Windows
Server 2008 R2 is the host of new scenarios it enables for IT administrators so that they
can offer all-new resources and productivity tools in response to new business
requirements.
Faced with the double-edged sword of cost savings and increased functionality, many IT
managers might throw up their hands in frustration. But implementing Windows Server 2008 R2
will take customers a long way towards achieving this difficult balance; reliably, and with the
same platform their IT workers have been using for years.
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6. Decreasing TCO with Streamlined Management
IT agility is certainly one half of the new optimized data center vision. However, with today’s
challenging economy weighing heavily on the minds of all senior business executives, cost
savings can be said to have a slight edge in priority, at least in the short term. A recent IDC study
of top CIOs and other senior IT managers found a ―significant shift toward cost reduction rather
than revenue generation‖1 across enterprise data center expectations. Windows Server 2008 R2
focuses heavily on helping customers achieve real costs savings not just with new features, but
also through best practice implementation, guidance, and tight synergies with other Microsoft
products and technologies.
Simplifying server management is an important first step in lowering the total cost of ownership
(TC) in the data center. Creating a more simplified environment, however, requires several key
steps:
Centralized management and automation tools that cover both physical and virtual
server infrastructures,
Management consoles that can monitor and
diagnose problems across multiple server
platforms,
“With virtualization, we will
Integrated and granular desktop management,
save about 50 percent of
More secure and flexible remote access
management, and
our annual energy budget
Built-in identity and access capabilities for cooling and electricity”
- Lukáš Kučera, IT Services Manager
accessed and monitored by the same LukOil Oil Company
management tool set.
Windows Server 2008 R2 addresses all these needs
directly. Hyper-V, for example, has an updated management interface and includes powerful
new features, in particular, Live Migration, which allows IT managers to move server workloads
to different physical hosts in seconds and without interruption of service. Hyper-V also has
improved support for PowerShell, which helps simplify remote management of virtual servers as
well as enable custom automation of management tasks specific to your business workflow.
Additionally, support for the new Hyper-V capabilities has been integrated into System Center
Virtual Machine Manager. This combination has allowed early adopter to reduce overall server
footprint in their datacenters by an average 3-to-1 ratio, with associated cost savings across
1
A Survey of IT Fundamentals: Six Quarters into the Recession, by: Anna Toncheva; IDC, July 2009
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7. power management and reduced IT man-hours. In fact, Hyper-V and System Center Virtual
Machine Manager put Microsoft at feature parity with VMWare at 1/3 the cost.2
Active Directory, still one of Windows Server customers’ most mission-critical features, also sees
management updates in Windows Server 2008 R2, while continuing to provide unparalleled
identity and access management. New Active Directory Group Policy Objects enables greater
control over Windows servers and desktops, while offering new power management capabilities
as well. To make these features as easy as possible for IT mangers to implement, Windows
Server 2008 R2 includes the new Active Directory Administrative Center, which is built in the
familiar Windows Server Microsoft Management Console interface, and which consolidates
many of the more critical Active Directory consoles and wizards in a single place. Active
Directory Administrative Center also includes some new management features, such as the
Active Directory Recycle Bin, which allows an administrator to easily recover from accidental
objection deletions. Like many of Windows Server 2008 R2’s new management consoles, Active
Directory Administrative Center is also built entirely on top of the updated Windows PowerShell.
Windows PowerShell is another management feature introduced in Windows Server 2008 that is
significantly enhanced in Windows Server 2008 R2, with new functionality added based on
customer feedback. Windows PowerShell is a flexible command line shell and scripting
language, that allows for customized and automated management of Windows Server in the
data center. With Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows PowerShell has been enhanced with a
graphical interface, remoting capabilities, and more than 240 new cmdlets aimed at simplifying
common management tasks.
Data Center Power Management
Windows Server 2008 R2 includes several new features designed to help reduce customers
power costs. Microsoft has improved the processor power management engine, introduced
new storage power management features, and implemented other processor-level
enhancements, which improve power efficiency out-of-the-box without the need for
administrator configuration. Windows Server 2008 R2 also includes new power measurement
and management capabilities to offer a deeper view into server power usage. Administrators will
be able to collect power consumption data via familiar technologies, including the System
2
Costs are based on a comparison of Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V™and Microsoft® System
Center Server Management Suite Enterprise with VMware’s VMware Infrastructure Enterprise with VMware
vCenter Server. Includes 2 years support costs for both. Based on Microsoft estimated retail prices and published
VMware prices available at www.vmware.com/vmwarestore as of 02/04/2009. Actual reseller prices may vary.
Additional comparison information is available at http://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/compare/vmware-
cost-comparisons.mspx
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8. Center suite of products, Windows PowerShell scripts, and also third party tools. Working
together, these features can help improve power efficiency by up to 18% over Windows Server
2003 R2.
With Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 can extend these power savings out of the data
center and all the way to the desktop. Windows Server 2008 introduced this capability with
Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 R2 includes new Active Directory Group Policy
Objects that enable even more granular control over Windows 7 desktop power consumption.
Increased Reliability Without Increased TCO
Cost savings are important to the new optimized data center vision, but a big part part of
reducing costs is the prevention of expensive problems. Increasing uptime and IT infrastructure
reliability will be a key concern for IT managers in the coming year. Windows Server 2008 R2
helps by including several features aimed at this requirement. Windows PowerShell is a key
enabler for IT managers looking to improve the service level agreements (SLA) they can offer to
their businesses. With 240 additional built-in cmdlets, the new Windows PowerShell Integrated
Scripting Environment (ISE) , and remote Windows PowerShell capabilities, administrators can
now manage and troubleshoot multiple servers remotely – without the need to visit those
servers or establish separate remote connections. This means less effort required to manageand
maintain servers, and better overall server performance and reliability.
Tight integration with the Microsoft System Center suite of management products further
extends an administrator’s ability to offer improved IT performance levels. First, it means
shallower learning curves for IT staff and improved analysis and reporting across disparate
server platforms. That decreases implementation and day-to-day operation cost, and also
ensures your existing IT administration resources can offer better up-time and reliability SLAs
8
9. than ever before. Second, the new reporting and analysis tools in System Center mean IT
administrators are forewarned earlier and with more detail on potential problems.
Third, Windows Server 2008 R2 has new features that offer guidance on management and
implementation, so IT administrators can optimize new server infrastructures and deployments
more efficiently. Microsoft introduced Best Practices Analyzers (BPAs) in Windows Server 2008
timeframe. This guidance tool automatically analyzed specific features in Windows Server 2008
and compared the server configuration with a Microsoft knowledge base related to the subject.
The resulting report clearly defined problem areas and suggested fixes to help keep the
infrastructure running with up-to-the-minute expertise. Windows Server 2008 R2 has added
BPAs across all server roles for the best possible guidance on Windows Server 2008 R2 best
practices and configuration. Microsoft is also planning to introduce new BPAs in other Microsoft
enterprise products, such as Exchange Server 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2.
Exciting New Scenarios
Windows Server 2008 R2 gives customers flexible and robust new tools to manage and control
their IT infrastructure. This enables not just cost savings and increased reliability, but also
enables IT administrators to quickly and reliably offer brand new tools and resources in response
to new business requirements. In short, Windows Server 2008 R2 offers more IT agility than any
previous Windows Server platform.
New virtualization tools, Web resources and management enhancements can help save time,
reduce costs, and provide a platform for a dynamic and more efficiently-managed data center.
The new IIS 7.5, for example, includes a streamlined new management interface as well as
support for PHP and .NET applications on Server Core. This lets IT managers run a single,
simplified Web server across multiple app platforms. The updated Server Manager console and
Windows PowerShell 2.0, work on top of these new feature platforms to give customers greater
control, increased efficiency and the ability to react to front-line business needs faster than ever
before.
Windows Server 2008 R2 also adds powerful enhancements to Hyper-V, Microsoft’s in-box
virtualization platform introduced in Windows Server 2008 and already one of our customers’
most popular new features. With Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V includes Live Migration –
the ability to move virtual servers across physical hosts in the data center with no perceived
down-time for users, so IT can restructure the data center as business needs demand without
stopping important work streams. That’s a huge benefit to under-resourced IT departments,
given that it is included as one of the readily available roles with Windows Server 2008 R2. Using
Hyper-V in R2, early adopters like Lionbridge Technologies have decreased virtual server
management time from hours to minutes, while simultaneously saving server space and power
costs.
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10. A New Networking Experience
Networking also has seen exceptional improvements in Windows Server 2008 R2, with the result
that IT managers are now much better able to offer more flexible, streamlined and secure
connections to remote workers and branch offices. Much of this is due to the tight synergy
between Windows Server 2008 R2 and the new client operating system, Windows 7. With these
two platforms working better together, Microsoft is able to offer exciting new features that
expand the IT administrator’s arsenal, while reducing the organization’s bottom line.
DirectAccess is is a robust new networking technology that automatically provides users with a
security-enhanced connection to the corporate network regardless of which network they’re
currently connected to. That means that the corporate network and the intranet can follow users
no matter where they go—to their home, to a coffee shop or an airport, or even to a customer’s
network—automatically . With Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7, there may be no
longer any need for an organization to implement a potentially expensive virtual private network
(VPN). Furthermore, this technology is bi-directional, which means not only do users see the
corporate network without any additional connection required, but administrators can see and
manage these remote users…as if they were local clients. This can reduce the need for additional
management cycles and dollars spent on managing remote users and local users differently—
drafting remote management policies, architecting remote software deployment or patching
scenarios, and more. Clients are simply clients and Windows Server 2008 R2 can manage them
no matter where they’re connected.
BranchCache is another ―Better Together‖ networking technology. This feature allows Windows
7 clients in branch offices to access locally cached data from the corporate network. This data
can be stored across a number of Windows 7 desktops at the branch (distributed mode) or on a
Windows Server 2008 R2 server located at the branch (hosted mode). Either configuration
provides users much faster access to data since it’s cached locally while maintaining security and
also minimizing the amount of traffic traveling across potentially expensive WAN links, resulting
in significant cost savings of up to 40% in early customer deployments. Using both BranchCache
and DirectAccess companies like Convergent Computing have reduced weekly IT management
time by 60% or more, while simultaneously saving up to $40,000 in bandwidth costs per year.
Remote Desktop Services and VDI
One of the most exciting new features in both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 is the
evolution of Terminal Services into Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and how it takes advantage
of the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) suite of technologies, including Microsoft App-V,
which offers application virtualization. The combination has become central to the Microsoft
virtualization vision, and enables IT administrators to offer virtualized resources, applications and
even entire desktops to users across local or wide area networks, and with new protocol
improvements such that users may not be able to tell whether their applications are running
locally or in the data center.
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11. Administrators host specific applications or entire desktop environments on a server and
provide access to these resources to specific users or groups of users. Improvements in the
protocol architecture around RDS and VDI mean that users will have a much-improved
experience with remote applications, includingsupport for high-end graphics and sound,
multiple displays and more. Tight integration with Windows 7 means these applications and
desktops will simply show up in each user’s Start Menu, and will often run as fast as locally
installed applications – that adds up to faster and simpler application deployment for IT
administrators and a better experience for end users.
Conclusion
Windows Server 2008 R2 is the right server platform for today’s resource-constrained
enterprises as well as small and medium-sized businesses. It combines tools and features made
familiar in Windows Server 2008 with new, powerful features and easier implementation. It
leverages technologies like Hyper-V and Remote Desktop Services to provide new productivity
tools for end users, while simultaneously consolidating software and hardware expenditures to
save IT budgets. Windows Server 2008 R2 also includes numerous power saving features
designed to increase efficiency and decrease costs. In addition, Windows Server 2008 R2
provides a tight synergy with Windows 7. This means IT administrators can offer users new work
enhancements and resources, while using those features to decrease TCO at the same time.
The synergy of these new capabilities help make Windows Server 2008 R2 the best platform for
enterprises looking to streamline IT costs while simultaneously increasing IT flexibility, response
time and reliability. Windows Server 2008 R2 is truly the beating heart of the new optimized
data center.
Additional Resources
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows Server 2008 R2 offers a host of new management and productivity features. Learn
more at www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008.
System Center
System Center solutions help IT professionals manage the physical and virtual IT environments
across data centers, client computers, and devices. Learn more at
www.microsoft.com/systemcenter.
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12. Solution Accelerators
Solution Accelerators are free, authoritative resources to help IT professionals proactively plan,
integrate, and operate IT systems. In particular, the server suite of solution accelerators provides
guidance and automated tools to assess your hardware and to plan, deploy and securely
operate Windows-based servers. Learn more at technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/solutionaccelerators.
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