Executive SummaryIn today's business climate, with growing global awareness of environmental issues and rising costs of energy, enterprises and vendors alike are responding by looking for new ways to build and use more energy-efficient products. The datacenter has emerged as a particular area of focus, as an explosion in the number of servers in the average datacenter, as well as in the density of those servers, has resulted in
significant growth in power and cooling costs and carbon emissions. Little more than an afterthought as recently as a decade ago, power and cooling concerns have risen to the top of the list of IT managers' challenges.
NEC is responding by launching a new solution called REAL IT COOL. Part of NEC's broader vision of reducing carbon emissions by developing more environmentally sound products and solutions, REAL IT COOL is an end-to-end approach to managing and reducing energy requirements for the datacenter. REAL IT COOL consists of three primary elements:
- Hardware. The heart of REAL IT COOL is the ECO CENTER server, a highdensity datacenter-class system designed with energy efficiency in mind.
- Software. SigmaSystemCenter provides a number of energy power andmanagement features and, in conjunction with its built-in virtualization support, can help IT managers allocate workloads to maximize energy efficiency.
- Services. NEC's professional services include offerings to help IT managers assess, design, and manage more energy-efficient datacenters.
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