5 Simple Steps to Maximizing the Business Value of Your Datacenter

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1 GREEN MEANS BUSINESS ebook THE DATACENTER GUIDE TO MAKING GREEN STEP 1: Think Big STEP 2: Don t Compromise STEP 3: Trim the Fat STEP 4: Buy Smart STEP 5: Rely on WWT

2 Sure, Going Green is cool. But Green means business, too. Follow these five simple steps to maximize the true business value of greening your datacenters.

3 STEP 1: Think Big To maximize the business value of Going Green in the datacenter, think big. No, we re not talking about building a huge datacenter and further increasing your carbon footprint or farming out all of your datacenter operations to a large-scale managed service provider. Instead, think big picture. Your datacenter tools and technology must be aligned with your organization s top priorities. Once everyone is in agreement on over-arching goals, you can develop a comprehensive Green strategy by integrating energy efficiency within your datacenter design structure as well as system, storage and software choices.

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5 STEP 2: Don t Compromise Don t compromise Optimize. You can improve the ROI of your datacenter assets and cut energy costs with optimization. First, target waste and take on asset and capacity management. You ll save money by better utilizing current assets, and reduce the number of unused or inefficient applications across your enterprise. Then, evaluate new high-performance energy-efficient technologies designed to enable higher utilization levels and ease the power, space and cooling crunch. 3

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7 STEP 3: Trim the Fat Gartner Consulting estimates the three-year cost of providing electricity to a server will soon exceed the server s sticker price. It s clearly time to trim excesses in order to balance the space, cooling and power demands of your datacenters. But how are you supposed to integrate multiple heterogeneous computing environments, reduce power costs and still meet increasing demands to deploy missioncritical applications? Virtualization and consolidation help you build lean, green and mean datacenters that deliver higher service levels at lower cost. 5

8 When you centralize computing and storage on a single server platform (like Sun Fire x64 Servers or Sun Blade Server Modules and Modular Systems) within an enterprise datacenter, you cut energy consumption and put an end to managing multiple distributed PCs, which improves IT efficiency and cuts the total cost of lifecycle services. FACT: Virtualization can increase hardware utilization by five to 20 times and allows organizations to reduce the number of power-consuming servers. 6

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10 STEP 4 Buy Smart You don t have to give up performance, resilience or security as you Green the datacenter. Carefully select datacenter solutions that are scalable, compatible with current IT assets and the right fit for your organization. Through Sun Microsystems, World Wide Technology, Inc. offers a rich portfolio of data center solutions and services designed specially to help you enable robust, energyefficient data centers across even the most disparate environments. So, buy smart when it comes to servers, storage and software: SERVERS Choose from a wide range of powerful data center platform options, including Sun Fire x64 Servers, Sun Blade Server Modules and Sun Blade Modular Systems all of which support multiple operating system technologies, from the Solaris OS, Linux and Microsoft Windows to virtualization technologies including Logical Domains 8 and VMware Infrastructure 3 software.

11 STORAGE The Sun StorageTek Portfolio provides the services, software and hardware you need to simplify implementation, integration and management throughout the entire lifecycle of your data. SOFTWARE Sun provides easy, no-cost access to enterprise software and a proven portfolio of open, integrated and interoperable hardware that runs across multiple platforms and environments. So, you can populate both you datacenters and desktops with cutting-edge products from multiple software providers, including Red Hat, Microsoft and VMware. 9

12 STEP 5: Rely on WWT A Sun Microsystems partner since 1992, World Wide Technology has achieved the highest levels of product and service certifications offered by Sun and is ready to help you deploy dynamic datacenters that raise utilization levels while conserving space, power and cooling resources -- and increasing the level of agility with which you can deploy new applications. And, as an Executive Level partner, WWT has the expertise and experience to design, deliver, install and maintain any solution in the Sun datacenter portfolio as you make your way toward greener and less expensive datacenter and desktop management. 10

13 WWT offers: More Value: WWT brings a geographic focus with an emphasis on delivering value-added services and solutions. Proven Technical Expertise: WWT s commitment to training ensures specialization in specific technologies that enable us to deliver the newest solutions to our customers. Sharper Focus on Customer Satisfaction: WWT provides access to online customer satisfaction tools that allow us to develop targeted plans for continuous improvement. To learn more about how WWT can provide the affordable lean, mean and green datacenter tools and technology you need, visit today. 11