Data Centers
Along with the rise of cloud computing, data centers are being reinvented via virtualization, servers and high-performance computing. Find out more in with the latest white papers and case studies.
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Adaptive Energy Forecasting and Information Diffusion for Smart Power Grids
Smart Power Grids exemplify an emerging class of Cyber Physical Applications that exhibit Dynamic, Distributed and Data intensive (D3) characteristics along with an always-on paradigm to support operational needs. Smart Grids are an outcome of instrumentation, such as Phasor Measurement Units and Smart Power Meters, that is being deployed across...
Provided By University of Southampton
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Can We Beat the Prefix Filtering? An Adaptive Framework for Similarity Join and Search
As two important operations in data cleaning, similarity join and similarity search have attracted much attention recently. Existing methods to support similarity join usually adopt a prefix-filtering-based framework. They select a prefix of each object and prune object pairs whose prefixes have no overlap. The authors have an observation that...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Data Center Network Architectures
Data centers have become increasingly essential part of Internet communications, thus there have been interest in understanding how to better design and manage data centers. In this paper, the authors explain a typical data center network architecture in the industry, the challenges modern data center networks encounter today and introduce...
Provided By Aalto University
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User Demand Aware Scheduling Algorithm for Data Intensive Tasks in Grid Environment
Computational grids use heterogeneous geographically distributed resources and solves large scale applications by sharing computational capacity. Effective utilization of grid resources requires efficient scheduling of jobs which identifies resource for the submitted jobs. Many researchers adopted several heuristic scheduling algorithms for efficient scheduling. But most of these heuristic algorithms do...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Priority Based Mathematical Modeling for Grid Computing Environment
Grids are a form of distributed computing whereby a "Super virtual computer" is composed of many networked loosely coupled computers acting together to perform very large tasks. This technology has been applied to computationally intensive scientific, mathematical, and academic problems through volunteer computing, and it is used in commercial enterprises...
Provided By The Interscience Research Network (IRNet)
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Complimentary SuccessFactors whitepaper: Leaders Drive Productivity
When it comes to business, high-performance environments stimulate individuals to work better, stronger, and faster. Why does high-performance management matter? It matters because it means better results, in the form of increased revenue, improved utilization, higher productivity, better quality and safety and greater engagement. Better results lead to greater recognition...
Provided By SuccessFactors
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MROrchestrator: A Fine-Grained Resource Orchestration Framework for MapReduce Clusters
Efficient resource management in data centers and clouds running large distributed data processing frameworks like MapReduce is crucial for enhancing the performance of hosted applications and increasing resource utilization. However, existing resource scheduling schemes in Hadoop MapReduce allocate resources at the granularity of fixed-size, static portions of nodes, called slots....
Provided By Pennsylvania State University
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An Efficient Distributed Randomized Solver With Application to Large Dense Linear Systems
Randomized algorithms are gaining ground in high performance computing applications as they have the potential to outperform deterministic methods, while still providing accurate results. In this paper, the authors propose a randomized algorithm for distributed multicore architectures to efficiently solve large dense symmetric indefinite linear systems that are encountered, for...
Provided By University of Tehran
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Building Cloud-Scale Networks Using Open Fabric Architectures
Several technology inflection points are coming together that are fundamentally changing the way networks are architected, deployed and operated both in the public cloud and private cloud. Requirements are rapidly changing and driving new approaches to building data center networks. Extreme Networks is enabling next generation data centers with open,...
Provided By Extreme Networks
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High Performance Computing Cluster Interconnect
High Performance Computing Clusters (HPCC) are no longer exclusive to the scientific community. "Big Data Analytics" are big business. Financial Services, Retail and Manufacturing all require real-time analysis for real-time business decisions. This white paper discusses the cluster interconnect, its importance to HPCC and a lowest latency, higher performing solution...
Provided By Extreme Networks
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Public, Hybrid and Private Virtualized Multi-Tenant Cloud Data Center Architecture Overview
The Extreme Networks Virtualized Multi-Tenant and Cloud Data Center Architecture are designed to meet the needs of service providers and enterprises in this fast-growing market. This architecture is built around highly virtualized environments where information isolation within a shared resource environment, infrastructure scale, virtualization lifecycle management, performance, automation and integration...
Provided By Extreme Networks
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Multi Objectives Heuristic Algorithm for Grid Computing
Grid computing provides the means of using and sharing heterogeneous resources that are geographically distributed to solve complex scientific or technical problems. Task scheduling is critical to achieving high performance on grid computing environment. The objective of the scheduling process is to map each task with specific requirements to a...
Provided By King Abdulaziz University
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Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Smart Grid
In the smart grid operation and management, reliable and real-time information and communication networks play a very critical role. By integrating the appropriate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure, automated control, sensing and metering technologies, and energy management techniques, the smart grid has emerged as a solution that empowers utilities...
Provided By Journal of Computing
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Introducing the New SPARC SuperCluster T4-4 E-Book
The pressure is on to deliver more performance at a lower cost, more capacity with fewer resources, and more business value with legacy systems. Aging and hard to manage infrastructure can make it tough to deliver what your business demands - but that's about to change. View this E-Book to...
Provided By Oracle
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Modellus: Automated Modeling of Complex Internet Data Center Applications
The rising complexity of distributed server applications in Internet data centers has made the tasks of modeling and analyzing their behavior increasingly difficult. This paper presents Modellus, a novel system for automated modeling of complex web-based data center applications using methods from queuing theory, data mining, and machine learning. Modellus...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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Priceline.com: Booking Vacations Faster with HP Converged Infrastructure
Learn how Priceline.com avoids a major data center expansion and cuts time to deliver new services in half.
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Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.Provided By HP and Intel®
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HP 3PAR Storage in Fashion at Chico's
Rethink your data center with a Converged Infrastructure and the HP Performance Optimized Data Center. Learn how Chico's leveraged HP virtualization and POD technology to build their own private cloud.
Co-Sponsored by:
Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries.Provided By HP and Intel®
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Analysing Grid Security Issues and Some Preliminary Approaches for Secure Environment in Grid
Grid computing is a wide area parallel distributed computing environment where idle processor cycles and underutilized storages of geographically dispersed resources are utilized optimum way which act as a supercomputer. In this paper, the authors identify and explain the problematic key security issues and propose briefly some novel approaches for...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science and Telecommunications
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Storage System Architecture for Data Centers of the Future
Storage system architecture for data centers of future aims to address a few areas of critical importance to the design of storage systems for data centers of the future. With the massive amounts of digital information expected to be created in the near future, storage system technologies of today will...
Provided By AICIT
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Job Outsourcing Portal with the Aid of Grid Computing Architecture
Over the years, businesses have been cringing under the heavy weight of insufficient resources for optimum business delivery. The field of operations research has helped a great deal in ensuring that decision variables are optimized (maximized or minimize) for maximum yield. However, in as much as these techniques are efficient...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Adaptive Security and Privacy in Smart Grids: A Software Engineering Vision
Despite the benefits offered by smart grids, energy producers, distributors and consumers are increasingly concerned about possible security and privacy threats. These threats typically manifest themselves at runtime as new usage scenarios arise and vulnerabilities are discovered. Adaptive security and privacy promise to address these threats by increasing awareness and...
Provided By The Only Solution
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Solve the 6 Top Problems in Your Data Center
What are the top 6 problems in your data center and how do you solve them? Learn how a primary service vendor can help you unify support strategies in your multi-vendor environment.
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Conquering the Challenges of Data Center Complexity
Virtualization and Cloud are two popular IT trends that lower costs and make computing more secure and efficient. However, they also add complexity. Read this thought leadership paper and learn new ways to conquer your data center complexity challenges.
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Towards Efficient Energy Management: Defining HEMS and Smart Grid Objectives
Energy consumption has increased considerably in the last years. The way to reduce and make energy consumption more efficient has become of great interest for researchers. One of the research areas is the reduction of energy consumption in users' residences. In order to reduce energy consumption in home environments, researches...
Provided By IARIA
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System Reliability of Fault Tolerant Data Center
A Single Point Of Failure (SPOF) in system operations is a weak point of system reliability. Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) of system operations is equal to the shortage component's MTTF in system. A Tier IV data center is designed to eliminate the SPOF. Data center system reliability is not...
Provided By IARIA
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Two10 Degrees: IT Firm Helps First Responders Save Lives With Cloud-Based Emergency Alert System
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) of the United Kingdom asked two10 degrees, a technology consulting firm, to help it save the lives of fishermen at sea. The RNLI wanted to be able to identify the exact location of a man overboard. two10 degrees (formerly known as Active Web Solutions)...
Provided By Microsoft
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Distributed Resource Discovery and Management in Grid Environment
Resource discovery is an important process for finding suitable nodes that satisfy application requirements in large loosely coupled distributed systems. Besides inter-node heterogeneity, many of these systems also show a high degree of intra-node dynamism, so that selecting nodes based only on their recently observed resource capacities can lead to...
Provided By IJART
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Job Scheduling Using Genetic Algorithm with QoS Satisfaction in Grid
Grid computing encourages utilization of idle, distributed resources existing worldwide to solve complex problems which are computational and data intensive. The problem is divided into independent sub problems called as jobs and they are executed by the resources available in the grid. Scheduling these jobs to different heterogeneous resources of...
Provided By EuroJournals
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Providing Fault-Tolerant Execution of Web-Service-Based Workflows within Clouds
With a variety of services rapidly evolving at all architectural levels of cloud computing, there is an increasing demand for a standardized way to coordinate their interactions. Business process management, that is, more general, the management of Web-service-based workflows, could satisfy this demand and, indeed, first corresponding offerings have gained...
Provided By Association for Computing Machinery
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An Energy Aware Framework for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Federated Data Centres
Data centres are powerful ICT facilities which constantly evolve in size, complexity, and power consumption. At the same time users' and operators' requirements become more and more complex. However, existing data centre frameworks do not typically take energy consumption into account as a key parameter of the data centre's configuration....
Provided By University of Manitoba
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Jellyfish: Networking Data Centers Randomly
Industry experience indicates that the ability to incrementally expand data centers is essential. However, existing high-bandwidth network designs have rigid structure that interferes with incremental expansion. The authors present Jellyfish, a high-capacity network interconnect which, by adopting a random graph topology, yields itself naturally to incremental expansion. Somewhat surprisingly, Jellyfish...
Provided By University of Idaho
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Electrical Wholesaler Transforms Data Center With Cisco Solutions
Van Meter, has continued to build on its rich tradition of innovation and service-first business culture to expand its footprint. Their challenges are to achieving greater value from data center investments, streamlining IT management and improving data center performance and scalability. Van Meter chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They...
Provided By Cisco
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Scheduling Heterogeneous Delay Tolerant Tasks in Smart Grid With Renewable Energy
The smart grid is the new generation of electricity grid that can efficiently facilitate new distributed sources of energy (e.g., harvested renewable energy), and allow for dynamic electricity price. In this paper, the authors investigate the cost minimization problem for an end-user, such as a home, community, or a business,...
Provided By Ohio State University
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A Case for Random Shortcut Topologies for HPC Interconnects
As the scales of parallel applications and platforms increase the negative impact of communication latencies on performance becomes large. Fortunately, modern High Performance Computing (HPC) systems can exploit low-latency topologies of high-radix switches. In this paper, the authors propose the use of random shortcut topologies, which are generated by augmenting...
Provided By University of Hawai'i
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Reducing Electricity Cost of Smart Appliances Via Energy Buffering Framework in Smart Grid
To reduce the long term electricity cost of Smart Appliances (SAs) with deferrable operation time in smart grid, the authors propose a novel energy buffering framework to intelligently schedule the Distributed Energy Storage (DES) for the cost reduction of SAs in this paper. The proposed energy buffering framework determines the...
Provided By Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Task Granularity Policies for Deploying Bag-of-Task Applications on Global Grids
Deploying lightweight tasks individually on grid resources would lead to a situation where communication overhead dominates the overall application processing time. The communication overhead can be reduced if the people group the lightweight tasks at the meta-scheduler before the deployment. However, there is a necessity to limit the number of...
Provided By Reed Business Information
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WebSphere DataPower Integration Blade XI50B
The WebSphere DataPower Integration Blade XI50B is a specialized, high-performance hardware appliance that can empower you to:
- Improve competitiveness by helping to strengthen business connectivity with partners and customers, and between internal organizations Add specialized connectivity, integration, and security processing to your existing IBM? BladeCenter? infrastructure
- Streamline...
Provided By IBM
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ViaWest Provides the Redundancy That Is Critical to the Growth of Rentrak's Product Line
Rentrak Corporation, is a global digital media measurement and research company that provides content measurement, analytical services and unique insight to the most recognizable names in the entertainment industry. They faced with the challenge of finding a data center that offered 100% uptime and a level of flexibility that would...
Provided By Viaway
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HP Networking Blog Article
Contemporary data center networks designed to support siloed IT architectures simply aren't designed meet the performance, security, availability and agility requirements of cloud. As you turn to cloud computing to accelerate business innovation and contain costs, you need to be keenly aware of how cloud (and virtualization) reshapes the way...
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Gartner Research: Picking the Right Server Type to Solve Your Data Center Space, Power and Heat Problems
The type of server you install in a data center can have a big impact - positive or negative - on the space, power and cooling required. Knowing and choosing the appropriate server type can extend the effective life of your data center, saving millions of dollars, and make room...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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India's Fastest Growing IT Company Saves $100,000 With Better Asset Management
With associates working often internationally, Polaris has to ensure that all employees have access to reliable, up-to-date business information regardless of location. This has to be balanced with the need to remain competitive and ensure that IT assets are being managed and used cost-effectively. IT projects managed by Polaris need...
Provided By CA
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Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Architecture: The Building Blocks of the Unified Fabric
Cisco has designed the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches to be the best solution for high bandwidth, low-latency, and access-layer switches for rack deployments. In the context of I/O consolidation, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches is also the basis for a unified network fabric that can help simplify data...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Using NetApp SnapMirror Async With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication
Many enterprises use NetApp SnapMirror Async for data protection, replication, and business continuance over a wide range of distances and transports. By copying only changed blocks, SnapMirror optimizes the use of network resources. Data ONTAP data deduplication can further reduce traffic by transmitting only nonredundant blocks in their entirety. Cisco...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Using Oracle Data Guard With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication
Oracle Data Guard is one of the most effective and comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery solutions available for enterprise data. The solution offers protection for Oracle Databases, providing customers the ability to protect business data. Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) optimizes the performance of many different applications by...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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N-Port Virtualization in the Data Center
As customers change their data center architectures to further consolidate data center resources, network-based technology must continue to change to help design and manage the number of devices in the fabric. N-Port virtualization is a feature that has a growing importance in the data center. The three deployment scenarios discussed...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Cisco VN-Link: Virtualization-Aware Networking
Until recently, data center networks were designed under the safe assumption that each end node was connected to the access port of an end-of-row switch in the network and it corresponded to one server running a single image: that is, a single instance of an OS and a single instance...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Data Center Top-of-Rack Architecture Design
Data centers are undergoing a fundamental shift. Application developments and server virtualization are causing IT to seek a more flexible, efficient, and available infrastructure that can dynamically adapt to the needs of the business. To achieve this vision, data center architectures are changing to become more modular, so that data...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Virtual Machine Mobility With Vmware VMotion and Cisco Data Center Interconnect Technologies
VMware has been the industry leader in virtualization technologies for the past decade and has brought to the data center several new features that enable faster and better provisioning of business-critical applications. One of the features is the VMware VMotion' technology that allows virtual machine mobility between two VMware vSphere...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Introduction to Data Center: Top of Rack (ToR) Architecture Design
This paper provides a look at the use of top-of-rack (ToR) cabling and switching model for next-generation data center infrastructure. The paper explores current 10G cabling choices and provides solution architecture based on ToR to address architecture challenges. Data center managers and facilities folks will choose cabling architectures based on...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Unified Data Center Fabric: Reduce Costs and Improve Flexibility
Enterprises' growing dependence on IT for business advantage invariably manifests itself as growth in the server infrastructure that supports these new business systems. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series delivers a server access networking solution that addresses the biggest challenges associated with this growth, namely sprawling, inefficient, inflexible infrastructure, with the...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Optimizes Application Delivery From the Cloud
The adoption of cloud-based computing and applications promises to improve the agility, efficiency, and cost effectiveness of IT operations required to provision, scale, and deliver applications to the enterprise. However, as with other new technology trends, delivering applications from the cloud to the remote sites creates additional challenges in application...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Building Blocks for a 100% Virtualized and Protected Data Center
IT organizations are under significant pressure to create, deliver, and maintain flexible IT services that enable the business to respond quickly to changing conditions. This technical session on the integrated technologies from EMC and VMware can be used to create a 100% virtualized and protected data center. The attendee of...
Provided By EMC
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F5 and the 8 Ways to Virtualization
F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories. With this paper, F5 discusses how it has implemented these same technologies within...
Provided By F5 Networks
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F5 Networks Case Study: Brown Shoe
Brown Shoe is a leading consumer-driven footwear company, operating nearly 1,300 retail shoe stores throughout the U.S. and Canada. The company was looking to implement a real-time disaster recovery strategy to enable their large number of retail stores to continue operation in the event of a data center failure. The...
Provided By F5 Networks
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Application Delivery Network Platform Management: Application Delivery Networks (ADNs) Are Critical, Yet Sophisticated Parts of the Data Center. F5 Provides a Breadth of Solutions to Manage Your ADN
Over the past few years, one has seen Application Delivery Networking (ADN) mature in the data center and change the way applications are managed and delivered to users. Rather than building out an infrastructure of networking pipes for speeds and feeds, the ADN aims to intelligently push application services out...
Provided By F5 Networks
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Managing BIG-IP Devices With HP and Microsoft Network Management Solutions
The transition of the traditional physical data center into a dynamic, agile, virtual data center is one of the most widely discussed topics in technology today. It seems that every IT magazine or blog addresses how virtualization is changing the data center. While one sees rapid change in many technologies,...
Provided By F5 Networks
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Data Centre Consolidation: Know Where You're Going and Why
Maintaining a piece of hardware is four to five times more costly than actually acquiring it. This will, of course, come as little surprise to CIOs and IT departments the world over who, particularly in times of economic stress, are focusing attention on reducing operational cost. Saving money, whether on...
Provided By F5 Networks
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Audio White Paper: Optimizing Application Delivery in Support of Data Center Consolidation
Data center consolidation means more than simply reducing the number of servers, routers, and switches ones' company has in outlying offices and data centers. Data center virtualization is more than multiple images mapped to physical devices. Efforts to reduce both capital and operating expenditures by consolidating data centers can fail...
Provided By F5 Networks
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Cloudbursting Allows Failover Into the Cloud
How is cloudbursting the data center equivalent of overdraft protection for ones' checkbook? Lori McVittie of F5 Networks explains the concept and how it could potentially save one from unncessary data center build-outs.
Provided By F5 Networks
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The Evolving Data Center
In this IT Link podcast, the speaker talks about how the way people manage IT infrastructure is going to rapidly evolve over the next few years.
Provided By F5 Networks
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GemFire Enterprise Data Fabric (EDF) for High Performance Grid Computing
Grid computing is often viewed as a vehicle to realize the promise of distributed computing in large-scale heterogeneous environments. Simply put, it enables the virtualization of key resources like CPU, memory, disk and storage spread across disparate systems as a single managed entity. Grid computing solutions are often tasked with...
Provided By GemStone Systems
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Transforming the Data Center to Information Center
In today's global business world, data must drive strategic decisions. Being a truly agile enterprise means giving executives access to the right information at all times, enabling them to make choices that will propel business, improve revenue streams and foster growth. Employees also need constant access to data in order...
Provided By Hitachi
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Strategies for Greater Sustainability in the Data Center
Balancing the efficiency and costs of data storage has always been a difficult task for most IT leaders. The enterprise organization relies on data to function, driving a relentless need for data storage. But storage budgets are not rising to meet the continuous data growth that must be managed. New...
Provided By Hitachi
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Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: The Economic Evolution of Enterprise Storage
Global economic circumstances are affecting how organizations are looking at the IT environment. A tougher business climate, aggravated by volatility, increased competition and smaller or thriftier customer budgets means more than just making do with less. In a time when everything seems like a top IT priority, enterprises need significantly...
Provided By Hitachi
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Reduce Downtime, Increase Productivity
Enhanced Intel? Virtualization Technology (Intel? VT) for Directed I/O (Intel? VT-d) built into servers with the Intel? Xeon? processor 7500 series delivers best-in-class performance for your mission-critical applications. Improving the performance and robustness of today's virtual machine solutions, Intel? VT-d helps reduce potential downtime while increasing productive throughput with better...
Provided By Intel
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Increasing Utilization Intelligently
See how servers powered by Intel? Xeon? processor 5600 series enable you to combine servers from multiple generations into the same virtualized server pool to extend failover, load balancing, and disaster recovery capability.
Provided By Intel
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An Intel Retrofit Data Center
Old fabs don't go away, they come back as....data centers? The presenter of this webcast shows how Intel took a wafer Fabrication facility (fab) with a 3-story design and retrofited it as a data center. One can see innovations in data center power delivery and air cooling, as well as...
Provided By Intel
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Intel World-Class Data Center Tour
Normally an Intel data center tour requires an NDA due to all of the technology that Intel has deployed. This webcast give tour of an Intel greenfield data center with a unique 2-story construction and hot/cold aisles.
Provided By Intel
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Data Center Health
Making a case for IT managers to reconsider their timeframe and upgrading their data centers every 24 months, the presenters conduct a whiteboard discussion. Among the drivers for considering this new data center paradigm are the cost savings associated with virtualization, reduced power and cooling costs, increased performance for users...
Provided By Intel
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Brently Davis on Data Center Efficiency
The presenter of this webcast suggests that data center efficiency includes both reducing the cost of computing and the cost of servers, while implementing data center consolidation and grid computing. The presenter also touches on the top concerns for tackling such a project.
Provided By Intel
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Enabling Location Based Services in Data Centers Via Wireless USB Radios
Major data centers routinely sport several tens of thousands of "Assets" (servers, switches, storage bricks, etc.) that usually go into standard slots in a rack or a chassis that fits the rack. These assets may move around for a variety of reasons including replacement, SW patching, manual reorganization, etc. The...
Provided By Intel
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Data Center Manageability Interface (DCMI) Specification
The Data Center Manageability Interface (DCMI) specification explicitly addresses the unique requirements of server platform management within Internet Portal Data Centers (IPDC) and other High Density Data Centers where large numbers (into the ten's of thousands) of servers are deployed. This specification seeks to help High Density Data Centers reduce...
Provided By Intel
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Intel Microarchitecture and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Transforming the Data Center
A transformation is taking place in the data center, with more powerful compute resources available, IT managers are using virtualization to consolidate more applications onto fewer physical servers for greater efficiency and better resource utilization. The result is a more efficient, flexible data center that can better adapt to changing...
Provided By Intel
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Increasing Data Center Efficiency Through Metering and Monitoring Power Usage
To increase data center energy efficiency at one of older data centers in India, Intel IT's Data Center Services group collaborated on a technology study with the IT compute organization and Intel Facilities Management to develop a comprehensive approach to metering power usage. It developed methods for identifying measurable efficiency...
Provided By Intel
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Atomic Read Modify Write Primitives for I/O Devices
New I/O usage models have emerged recently. There is a trend towards offloading compute intensive applications to specialized engines/accelerators. Many such applications today are in the high performance computing domain, examples of such are financial options modeling, seismic exploration, game physics, and bio-informatics. This paper illustrates the need for synchronization...
Provided By Intel
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Data Center Power and Thermal Management Using Intel Data Center Manager Software Development Kit
Power and cooling literally constitute a burning issue in data centers today. According to IDC1, while data center CapEx costs have moderated, OpEx costs are on the upswing, and a major component of TCO comes from energy costs: every dollar invested in hardware represents requires fifty cents in power and...
Provided By Intel
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Unlocking Life's Secrets at Columbia University
Can Intel processors enable progress on the most demanding life sciences applications - and do it within the strict floor space and power constraints of a Manhattan data center? One of the largest academic computing centers devoted to molecular and systems biology says yes. Columbia University's Center for Computational Biology...
Provided By Intel
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Maintaining a Leading Position in the Marketplace
Working with some of the largest names in the automotive, aerospace and construction industries, Hutchinson consistently brings to the marketplace new technologies to improve the safety, comfort and well-being. This innovation relies heavily on the company's High-Performance Computing (HPC) cluster, which is used to run "Solvers" for solving mathematical systems...
Provided By Intel
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The Optimized and Accelerated Cloud
Cloud computing is an interesting change in the data center because it simultaneously offers huge benefits and brings huge risks to enterprise IT. The benefits come from providing a much more dynamic and agile computing environment for any application, as well as helping IT move expensive assets outside its own...
Provided By F5 Networks
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BIG-IP Version 10.1: An Integrated Application Delivery Architecture
For enhanced efficiency and performance, dynamic data centers needs contextual application delivery that can manage applications on access and network conditions. This need has been taken care of by F5 BIG-IP v10.1, on access and network conditions Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that provides sophisticated, integrated, contextual application management on a...
Provided By F5 Networks