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How does a guy with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience wind up doing green IT initiatives at Microsoft? He also has co-authored a guidebook called Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line. I’m talking about Dr. Tony Velte. In this podcast, he offers a concise framework for how you can green everything from your data centers to desktops. He also has co-authored books about cloud computing and virtualization. How let’s meet Dr. Toby Velte, a member of a Microsoft team focused on helping large enterprise groups with their IT strategies. That includes going green. How does a guy with a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience wind up doing green IT initiatives at Microsoft and also co-writing a guidebook called Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line and the upcoming? Dr. Toby J. Velte’s work in computational neuroscience focused on creating models that were very similar to the widespread enterprise networks found in most large companies and in government agencies. Contacts he made along the way helped him to secure a position at Microsoft helping large enterprise groups with their IT strategies, especially around green IT. Velte’s green IT book provides a roadmap for how you can create a company-wide green IT program starting with your data centers, moving down to desktops, and empowering individual business units to develop their own IT strategies. He says that the number one problem companies have with moving forward with green IT isn’t the technology or having adequate funds. It’s the people situation.” He urges companies to get all of their stakeholders together to try to understand what the green initiatives are going to look like at the end of the day, and how do they plan to measure success. Next, companies need to measure everything starting with power consumption. “Most companies don’t have the metrics in place. People need to understand what they have and what they are consuming. “ Once companies know what outcomes they want to achieve, then it’s time to execute the green IT program as if it were another IT initiative. In most companies, green IT begins in the data center. In fact, that’s where it began at Microsoft. When Microsoft built its new data center outside of Quincy, Washington, it supplemented reliance on the power grid by use of water power. Meanwhile, virtualization and cloud computing can also cut down on a data center’s power consumption. He says, “By moving business process out to the cloud, you are really turning over the power consumption issue to the service provider. With virtualization, can you eliminate the servers with low utilization, say around 15 percent, by moving those applications to virtualized servers. You can achieve upwards of 80 percent utilization with fewer servers.” In this podcast, Velte talks about some of the practical measurements you can take to make sure your desktops and data centers are green, the ways you can translate those metrics into meaningful results, the steps you can take to reduce your reliance on the power grid, and a plan companies can follow to stay green.

Virtualization offers great advantages in the data center. And it s good on the client side, too. Intel IT s Dave Buchholz says that companies must face the reality of managing the corporation s assets while allowing knowledge workers to perform at a high level with new and seemingly unmanageable technologies. That means enabling employee creativity by allowing users to personalize their laptops and other devices or even bring their personal devices on to the network. In this video Dave discusses Intel s Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) road map and the advantages of adopting a DVC strategy.

http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/storage/?cm_mmc=agus_itmbitivv_2009Kelly Beavers, of IBM, discusses the profound impact data growth has on the storage environment today. Traditionally, companies have implemented additional storage solutions in an effort to get a handle on data growth. Companies need to manage data growth smarter. By having complete visibility, control and automation within the infrastructure - companies can build a true dynamic storage infrastructure.

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http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/sysmgmt/me/index.html?cm_mmc agus_itmbitivv_20090810-usitv021-_-n-_-jk2-_-m Jennifer Kuvlesky, of IBM, the importance of effectively managing the virtualized environments. A lot of times the tools that businesses have to manage these environments aren’t virtual-aware. Management Edition for AIX from IBM provides service management functionality for the AIX Power environment. The capabilities that AIX contain are the ability to discover the virtual and physical environment and report on changes, so when an incident does occur in the environment, businesses can quickly see that a change occurred and understand the root cause of the problem. Ranked 2.43 / 5 | 37 views | 0 comments Click here to watch the video (03:08) Submitted By: ibmservicemanagement Tags: Software Automation Virtualization Monitoring AIX Monitoring Managing AIX Vrirtualization Application Monitoring Tivoli Aix Jennifer Kuvlesky Categories: Science & Tech

This time on the show Jason Appelbaum joins with a touchscreen LCD mod that's a lot easier than one might think. Then Darren and Matt pit their desktop virtualization platforms, Virtual Box and VMware Workstation, against eachother over a game of Halo.

Microsoft and Intel architects reveal how both companies collaborated on Windows Server 2008 R2, taking advantage of the Nehalem microarchitecture to bring improved Energy Efficiency, Scalability, Reliability to the data center.

Matt Lestock returns and brings us the skinny on converting physical servers into virtual servers and piping 'em right into your ESXi box while Darren takes the scenic route on a Linux Apache Tomcat install with some Java and bash lovin'.