Server Room Temperature Monitoring Electricity Power Consumption Data Center Solution: Data centers are being squeezed by a variety of internal and external pressures such as power consumption, HVAC requirements, new servers, human errors, patching, asset tracking and more. In fact, the average data center consumes enough power in a month to power 1,000 homes!

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Easing Pain in the Data Center

Data centers are being squeezed by a variety of internal and external pressures such as power consumption, HVAC requirements, new servers, human errors, patching, asset tracking and more. In fact, the average data center consumes enough power in a month to power 1,000 homes! On top of all this, you have to keep up with dynamically changing business requirements. You need a solution that will allow you to align IT to your business, control costs and minimize risks. Data center managers are looking for a variety of ways to address these dilemmas. One of the key ways is server consolidation using virtualization.

Data Center Automation Solutions from Novell®

Novell has launched a new strategy to build a mixedsource-based platform that offers value through sophisticated integration of otherwise isolated components. This solution addresses the workloads shown in Figure 1. Consider the evolution of computing from mainframe to mini to client/server. Now modularize, standardize, commoditize and virtualize. Next, add integrated intelligence and you have a modern computer, comprising virtualized computing and storage that is controlled by a distributed operating system realized by grid-inspired resource management software. This new solution enables mainframe-class capabilities for commodity scale-out data center architectures. All workloads are supported by a common modular Linux* foundation: SUSE® Linux Enterprise, although all major virtualization platforms will be supported.

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