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Top 10 IT Oxymorons

1. IT Management What a misnomer that is! Strictly speaking, there are two incarnations to this definition. One implies the management of a collection of systems, infrastructure, and information that resides on them. Another implies the management of...

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Green Data Center Storage - Part III

Written by: Bruce Naegel, John Colgrove, W. David Schwaderer Executive Summary Why You Should Read This Paper In May, 2006, IDC reported its 2005 data center survey results in a telebriefing titled End User Perspectives on Server Blade Adoption. This...

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Green Data Center Storage- Part II

Written by: Bruce Naegel, John Colgrove, W. David Schwaderer Executive Summary This is the second part of a three part paper on Data Center Power and cooling. It discusses data and disk types and how to match data and disks effectively within informa...

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Green Data Center Storage- Part I

Written by: Bruce Naegel, John Colgrove, W. David Schwaderer Executive Summary Why You Should Read This Paper This is the first part of a threepart series dealing with data center power and cooling issues that either are presently, or will soon, affe...

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TechTip: Greening Your IT Effort

Written by: Michael Harding Sr., Product Marketing Manager The world is recognizing that data centers are big users of energy, and many corporations are now dealing with a crisis in power usage, power cost, or both. A Gartner group survey found 70 pe...

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The Future Data Center: Multi-Core Processors

Written by: W. David Schwaderer Overview Today's IT departments face a multitude of challenges and impending changes. Some of these involve: New multi-core processor offeringsEmerging processor virtualization technologiesNew storage virtualization te...

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Using Software to Reduce Power Consumption

Written by: Bruce Naegel & Jose Iglesias Business demands on IT are ever-increasing to keep pace with the exponential growth of data throughput and the fast-rising need for data storage. Data centers are struggling to deploy the servers and storage h...

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Symantec Energy Efficient IT

Written by: Andrew Harrison, Senior Engineering Manager Gartner Group has identified IT power and cooling as the highest priority issue facing IT organizations worldwide. It is a serious and exacerbating problem. Gartner is presently advising IT orga...

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The Green Data Center — a Symantec Green IT Guide

Executive Summary High-performance IT consumes power and generates heat in enormous quantities—moving IT energy costs up corporate and even national agendas. Environmental, energy-cost, and space-planning considerations all call for conservation thro...

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Conclusion

Customers have been asking for a way to integrate Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies into the Altiris centrally managed infrastructure. This white paper provides simple steps for combining and facilitating the strengths of ThinkVantage Technologies and...

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Integration Examples

The integration examples between Altiris solutions and Lenovo TVTs described in this section showcase possible scenarios for customer use. They do not require any proprietary software or practices. Instead, IT administrators can simply leverage curre...

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Installing ThinkVantage Technologies in Your Altiris Environment

As described previously, the examples below use Altiris Task Server to deliver software packages of Lenovo TVTs. This section assumes that the administrator has successfully: Installed Altiris Notification Server on a separate dedicated serverInstall...

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Using Altiris Task Server to Call TVT Command-line Functions

The examples below use Altiris Task Server to execute various command-line accessible features of Lenovo TVTs. This section assumes that the administrator has successfully installed: Altiris Notification Server on a separate dedicated serverThe Altir...

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ThinkVantage Technologies Integration

By downloading the sample files above and following the included readme1st.txt file, administrators can centrally manage Lenovo ThinkVantage capabilities through the Altiris Console. The example integration will allow you to do simple but powerful ti...

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Download the Sample Files

Altiris provides the examples used in this paper as well as the TVT repository in the following ZIP files: Lenovo Task Pack v 1.0TVT Repository These files contain several resources that can be downloaded and imported into customer installations of A...

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Altiris Architecture

The Altiris® Notification Server™ software is the core Altiris infrastructure server. By itself, the Altiris Notification Server does not provide any direct systems management functionality. It simply provides a base set of services that are leverage...

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Altiris Overview

Altiris provides a modular set of integrated tools for centralized IT management. Altiris' platform allows IT administrators to start with just those capabilities that are needed today and expand functionality over time as needs change and grow. Whil...

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