Vendors have been moving to liquid cooling on servers to reduce heat in data centers, but Hewlett-Packard Co. said today that it is expanding use of liquid cooling on its workstations to tackle another problem: whiney and irritating fans.
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The Intel Premier IT Professional site offers a new server efficiency tool that gives IT professionals a snapshot of their current performance and energy efficiency versus what it could be by turning up the number of processor cores and use of virtualization. It also compares their data centers with those of other IPIP members. More>>>

Server virtualization lets you consolidate multiple applications and operating systems onto fewer platforms. This white paper covers the 10 key elements of any successful virtualization deployment, from defining your strategy to taking a phased migration approach.

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