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Social Responsibility's Strategic Benefits
December 15, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Ed Granger-Happ, CIO of Save the Children, for a discussion of how creating an organization that is socially responsible improves staffing, retention, leadership development and overall corporate health.
Working With and Communicating to Your Board of Directors
January 13, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM US/Eastern (GMT-5)
CIO panelists who will share tips and experiences working with their boards: Twila Day of SYSCO; Jeff O'Hare, West Corp.; Marc West, formerly with H&R Block.
IT's Role in Growing Mid-Market Companies
January 14, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET (GMT-5)
Mid-market Council members will share their companies' stories and challenges in driving or coping with growth. Panelists represent Veterinary Pet Insurance, Medicis Pharmaceutical, and Intrax Cultural Exchange.
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Data Centers: Where Does the Power Go?
It may come as a surprise that more than half of data center power actually isn't used by the servers.
October 30, 2007 — CIO — Seventy percent of electricity in a data center powers equipment other than IT gear, according to American Power Conversion (APC), a vendor of backup products and service in West Kingston, R.I.
If you're considering how a green data center may save you money, check out APC's estimates of power usage in a typical 1 megawatt data center:
- Air-cooled chillers: 33 percent
- Uninterruptible power supplies: 18 percent
- Computer room air conditioners: 9 percent
- Power distribution units: 5 percent
- Humidifiers: 3 percent
- Switches: 1 percent
- Lighting: 1 percent
Just 30 percent of incoming electricity goes to IT servers. That's a significant portion, but by no means the majority.
The next time someone tries to sell you superefficient "green" servers, listen. But realize that that's only one factor in building an environmentally sound data center.
Also, the way you have your servers—and chillers, air conditioners and humidifiers, too—placed on the floor can waste or save power as well. Installing air conditions at the room's perimeters, for example, may bring in the right number of cooling units. But using fans to push that cold air close to the racks of blade servers in the center of the room will use extra power and cost extra money.
Other stories by Kim S. Nash © 2008 CXO Media Inc.
This report shows the findings of a recent Proofpoint and Forrester Consulting study on e-mail security, data loss prevention, and includes statistics on electronic risks.
Learn how Proofpoint delivers a dedicated, hosted e-mail security solution that combines state-of-the-art anti-spam and virus control.
Learn about the key e-discovery challenges facing legal and IT departments today and how businesses can develop an e-mail archiving strategy to deal with e-discovery requests.
Download this paper to learn why e-mail encyrption is critical to an organization's overall security architecture and the advantages of identity-based encryption.
This whitepaper discusses the latest global regulations that impact the e-mail security policies and strategies of today's enterprises, universities and government organizations.
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Turn your information management best efforts into best practices.
MDM Journey: The Right and Wrong Master Data Management Strategies to Start Small and Grow Big
How RFID Improves Data Center Efficiency
From Laggard to Leader: Transforming the Data Center
CIO Viewpoints on Exchange 2007 Risks and Mitigation Strategies
ESG Research on Server and Storage Virtualization
Save with 0% Lease Offer on HP Servers and Storage
Gartner on Data Deduplication Cost Savings
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