Data center efficiency

Mine Your Data Center for Hidden Gold

Greening your data center is an ideal way to cut electricity use, lower utility bills, and reduce environmental impact. Energy improvements in the data center can be made through a variety of ways, from buying energy efficient servers to utilizing virtualization and consolidation strategies.

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Featured Products

Cisco Nexus 5000 – Simplifying Data Center Transformation
Cisco Unified Fabric helps transform a “one application, one server” architecture into pools of virtualized storage, computing, and I/O resources - increasing responsiveness, flexibility, and resource utilization.

Benefits:

  • Achieve economies of scale with up to 50 percent fewer server I/O adapters and cables
  • Reduce power and cooling costs by as much as 30 percent to support green initiatives
  • Lower costs by concurrently handling LAN, SAN, and server clustering traffic

Contact your Softchoice Account Exec or call 1 800 268 7638 to find out Cisco Nexus can simplify your life and optimize your data center.

Cisco
Symantec™ Solutions for Windows
Symantec™, Altiris™ and Veritas™ software products help customers reduce energy consumption and improve utilization of their IT assets.

Features:

  • Veritas™ Application Director – Allows physical and virtual server consolidation to reduce power consumption and slow the growth of new hardware installation
  • Veritas™ Storage Foundation - provides storage tiering to move non-critical data to less energy-demanding storage sites.
  • Symantec™ Enterprise Vault - Eradicates duplicate email messages and dramatically shrinks storage and power requirements.
  • Altiris™ Energy Saver Toolkit – Enables administrators to aggressively manage desktop and workstation energy consumption.
  • Visit the Symantec Brand Store for more information

Contact your Softchoice Account Executive or call 1.888.607.7638 to find out how you can implement the Client Management Suite into your IT environment.

Symantec™ Solutions for Windows
Microsoft® Windows Server 2008™
Windows Server 2008™ is a next-generation server operating system that helps IT maximize control over its infrastructure, leading to a significantly more secure, reliable, and robust server environment.

Features:

  • Server Consolidation and Resource Optimization—Hyper-V
  • Flexible Application Access for Remote Users—TS RemoteApp
  • Easy Administration, Management, and Automation—Server Manager and PowerShell
  • Prevents unhealthy Devices from Connecting to the Network - NAP
  • Visit the Microsoft Brand Store for more information

Contact your Softchoice Account Executive or call 1.888.607.7638 to find out how you can make the switch the Windows Server 2008™.

Microsoft® Windows Server 2008™
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