Data center virtualization guide / Automating database integration

August 12, 2009 Published by  SearchSystemsChannel.com Systems Channel Advisor Data center virtualization and energy-efficiency guide Editors, SearchSystemsChannel.com When you're discussing data center design and management with your clients, the words virtualization and energy-efficiency are bound to come up. This guide fills you in on the key areas of interest for implementing green data centers, including server consolidation, cooling techniques and server virtualization. Microsoft System Center and VMware's Virtual Datacenter Operating System also share a spot in the limelight for helping to increase energy-efficiency and reduce power consumption. Read this guide. How to automate database integration This chapter excerpt follows a step-by-step approach for automating database integration and shows how automation is used to create and manipulate a database and script. Read this chapter excerpt. VMware lures Virtual Iron customers with discounts "Safe passage" from Oracle is what VMware is promoting as it dangles discounts over Virtual Iron customers. But VARs say VMware is leaving the dirty work up to them. Read this article. Win a Flip Ultra Series Camcorder by entering our tip contest Enter our first tip contest for SearchSystemsChannel.com and you could win a Flip Ultra Series Camcorder. The topic for this contest is systems management and monitoring tools. Write about how you've used systems management and monitoring tools to help your customers or to grow your channel business, and you could be the winner. Check out the contest rules.   ADVERTISEMENT   Get answers to all your channel questions on ITKnowledgeExchange.com Get answers to your vendor, managed services, product evaluation and vendor support questions today. View all the latest channel related questions and answers. Ask your IT questions today and get answers from your peers. View all channel related questions recently answered by the IT Knowledge Exchange community.   Need systems channel answers? Ask your own question or browse thousands of IT answers on IT Knowledge Exchange. ABOUT THIS E-NEWSLETTER This e-newsletter is published by SearchSystemsChannel.com, part of the TechTarget network. TechTarget provides IT professionals with the resources they need to perform their jobs: Web sites, newsletters, forums, blogs, white papers, webcasts, events and more. Copyright 2009 TechTarget. All rights reserved. Designated trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners. If you no longer wish to receive Systems Channel Advisor from SearchSystemsChannel.com go to unsubscribe: http://searchSystemsChannel.techtarget.com/u?track=NL-677&em=charles%40cpedley.com&uid=6486075&eid=719765& Unsubscribe requests may take up to 24 hours to process; you may receive additional mailings during that time. A confirmation e-mail will be sent when your request has been successfully processed. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. Contact Us: SearchSystemsChannel.com Member Services 117 Kendrick Street, Suite 800 Needham, MA 02494 Contact: Webmaster@techtarget.com When you access content from this newsletter, your information may be shared with the sponsors or future sponsors of that content as described in our Privacy Policy: PRIV LINK