Data Centers
The traditional data center is undergoing many changes, if not a revolution. Hybrid cloud infrastructures, hosted servers, virtualized servers, and new methods to save energy and reduce costs in the data center create an ever-challenging array of decisions for today's data center managers.
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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 Techno...
Provided By Journal of Computing
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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 ...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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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. Co-Sponsored by: Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the...
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 clou...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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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...
Provided By IARIA
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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 thems...
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 w...
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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New Datacenter Realities: IBM enables customers to run more energy-efficient datacenters
A Technology Business Research (TBR) perspective on the changing landscape of datacenter energy and power management and how IBM® leverages the energy efficiency of the System x®, built upon...
Provided By IBM & Intel
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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 Tie...
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 ide...
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 thes...
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 su...
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 mana...
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, ...
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...
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 inves...
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. ...
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 ...
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 Di...
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 r...
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 ...
Provided By IBM
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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...
Provided By HP and Intel®
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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 clou...
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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 entertai...
Provided By Viaway
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Throughtput Competitive Advance Reservation Using Polynomial Time
In response to the high throughput needs of grid and cloud computing applications, several production networks have recently started to support advance reservation of dedicated circuits. An important ...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Integrating Virtual Reality in Education Using Intranet Grids
In recent years there has been increase in diverse views in relation to the use of Virtual Reality (VR) to enhance learning and cognition. Besides, there has been significant growth in the use of 3D v...
Provided By IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Gompute Harnesses Sophisticated IBM High Performance Computing
Gompute provides high-performance computing services for a remarkable range of customers. To attract new customers Gompute continually strives to find ways to boost performance, which helps customers ...
Provided By IBM
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Data center operational efficiency best practices: Enabling increased new project spending by improving data center efficiency
There are four key stages that describe the typical evolution of a data center as it relates to efficiency: Basic, Consolidated, Available and Strategic. How do you move up the efficiency scale and pl...
Provided By IBM
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Managing Macs in a Windows Environment
Computer networks are more diverse than ever. A homogeneous environment of only windows or Mac devices is a rarity. Multi-platform computing environments are the norm and require a complex it landsc...
Provided By Absolute Software
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Diskeeper 12 Server Edition - FREE 30-day trialware
SAN-attached servers require specific best-practice file optimization to allow the SAN to achieve its best performance. This pre-configured variation of Diskeeper Server edition is separately availabl...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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V-locity 3 Virtual Platform Disk Optimizer - FREE 30-day trialware
Virtual infrastructures must be dynamic, efficient and above all else, fast because they process the most critical company data. But underlying resource use must be optimized or the platform can slow ...
Provided By Condusiv Technologies
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A Fault-Tolerant Network Architecture for Modular Datacenter
Modular DataCenters (MDCs) use shipping containers as large pluggable building blocks to construct mega-datacenter, and each container encapsulates thousands of servers. MDC's "Service-free" model pos...
Provided By Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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Whitepaper: HP Virtual Application Networks
New IT Trends Impact the Network - To be successful, modern businesses must be extremely agile and IT plays an ever-increasing role in enabling that nimbleness. Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) sees a ...
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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HP FlexFabric Reference Architecture: A Technical Whitepaper
Tomorrow's virtualized data center demands more agile, efficient, and scalable networking solutions. This white paper reviews data center trends and describes HP solutions for building cost-effective,...
Provided By Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Node Progress in Cluster Computing
The system of cluster computing aims in distributing the process among the CPU to increase speed of processing. The server in the cluster performs the monitoring and load balancing of the clients. Her...
Provided By IJCER
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High Performance Computing Algorithm Applied in Floyd Steinberg Dithering
In this paper, the authors are going to implement parallel Floyd Steinberg Dithering algorithm for multi core architecture. The algorithm is based on error dispersion. This algorithm is commonly used ...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Processor Co-Allocation Enabling Advanced Reservation of Jobs Using Priorities in MultiCluster Systems
Grid Computing is intended to provide resource sharing and solve huge amount of complicated problems. In Multicluster Systems, jobs may require co-allocation, that is, the simultaneous allocation of r...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Robustness of Heuristic Resource Allocation Techniques in Grid Computing System
Grid computing system consists of machines with varied computational capabilities. These systems assist in the computing of large amounts of complicated tasks in scientific and engineering areas. It m...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Applications
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Data centre operational efficiency best practices
There are four key stages that describe the typical evolution of a data centre as it relates to efficiency: Basic, Consolidated, Available and Strategic. How do you move up the efficiency scale and pl...
Provided By IBM
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Evolving Data Center Architectures: Meet the Challenge With Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches
Data centers have an evolving need to meet newer IT trends of virtualization of servers, greater processors, enhanced demands for storage of data and increasing data rates. To manage these growing nee...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Peak 10 Selects Data Center Switches to Centrally Manage Traffic Rates
Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Peak 10 is a leading independent data center operator and provider of managed services, delivering scalable, economical, and reliable solutions. The company...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Service Provider Adopts New Architecture
Hellas Online (HOL) is a retail services provider that services more than 350,000 people and provides fixed-telecom services such as hosting, storage and email. The company recently adopted a new arch...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Next-Generation Cloud Data Center Helps to Achieve Leadership in SaaS Market Through Virtualization
Nihon Unisys decided to adopt the Cisco Data Center 3.0 architecture and Cisco Nexus 7010 to construct a cloud data center which serves as the foundation for its prospective primary business Software ...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Powering Italy's Information Society: Cineca Takes Supercomputing Performance to New Levels and Lays the Foundations for Virtualization
Cineca powers Italy's information society as a nonprofit consortium. It provides High-Performance Computing (HPC) services that enable scientists, researchers, educators, students, government, and com...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Data Center Service Provider Reduces Costs, Improves Service
TELUS is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada that provides a wide range of communication products and services including server-hosting services. Three of company's data centers pr...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Outsourcing Provider Transforms Business Model
Italian ICT Company TSF adapted the Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision to create new, on-demand cloud services. In order to reach its business goals TSF decided that it could best achieve its goals by using...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Small Italian IT Services Company Provides Customers With Enterprise-Class Data Center Applications
Italdata is a subsidiary of Siemens and an Information Technology company that provides Information Technology (IT) system and software development services along with implementation. They also offer ...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Data Center Services System: Creating a Tight Linkage Between the Data Center Cloud and Core Network
With changing dynamics, network operators are finding it difficult to optimize their networks as per new traffic patterns. With the convergence of video, mobile services, and cloud technologies, IP ne...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Dutch Defense Ministry Improves IT Service Provision and Cuts Costs With Cisco Data Center Technology
The DTO (Defence Telematics Organisation) wanted to increase demand from customers for more data center resources and data storage requirement increasing, sometimes a 100 percent a year. The challenge...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Naples University Set to Bring Scientific R&D to Market Faster With High Performance Computing
Naples University wanted to maintain a reputation as a leading scientific research and development center and increase the potential to attract new funding and investment in innovation. The challenge ...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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City of Zurich Deploys Next Generation Data Center to Improve Services and Reduce Costs
Zurich wanted to increase business application performance and reliability and ensure mission-critical systems are robust and available 24/7. The challenge was to continue to improve the quality of se...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Kotak Group Builds State-of-the-Art Data Center on Cisco Nexus 7000
Kotak Mahindra Group wanted siloed data centers across five divisions resulting in duplicated resources and inefficiencies and lack of architecture direction for consolidation efforts. The challenge w...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Healthcare Company Builds Data Center for the Future
Since 1980, Molina Healthcare has been a leader in arranging delivery of healthcare services to people eligible for Medicaid, Medicare, and other government-sponsored programs. Molina Healthcare wante...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Most Powerful R&D Computing Center in France Advances Toward Next Generation Data Center
The National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3) comes under the jurisdiction of the French Ministry of Research. Demand for computing resources expected to double every year. The chall...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Research Laboratory Builds World-Class Data Center
Located in Livermore, California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a national security laboratory, with a mission to help ensure national security and apply science and technology to the impo...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Radiology Services Provider Creates Highly Available Environment
NightHawk Radiology Services wanted to ensure availability of critical healthcare service and minimize data center costs. The challenge was to avoid service disruption during transition. NightHawk Rad...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Healthcare Provider Saved $1 Million on Data Center
Saint Joseph Health System (SJHS) is an integrated healthcare delivery system sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. As part of the strategy, SJHS decided to transform its California data c...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Healthcare Provider Moves Virtual Machines
Virtua decided to outsource certain data center services to a remote facility approximately 60 miles away, and use one of its existing data centers for disaster recovery. The company needed a cost-eff...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Borderless Network Connects Schools for Next-Generation Learning
Abu Dhabi is the capital and political, cultural, and industrial center of the of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Their challenges are to connect 270 public schools to the data center, the Internet, a...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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New Data Center Deployment Enables Business Growth
Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Consert Inc. develops real-time load management solutions that help electric utilities. With a number of pilot programs taking place throughout the country, Conser...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Local Government Centralizes Storage to Reduce Costs
The city of St. Paul, Minnesota is home to more than 272,000 citizens. The IT team contributes to the city's economic health by striving to keep operational costs low. Their challenges are to reduce d...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Training Institute Adopts New Datacenter Architecture
SENAI-SC provides technical training and vocational higher education to citizens of the Santa Catarina state in southern Brazil. With demand for IT services rising in the professional education sector...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Cloud-Based Virtual Data Center Helps BT Improve Performance, Scalability, Efficiency, and Customer Satisfaction
BT operates in 170-plus countries and serves more than 18 million customers. Their challenges are current VDC solution lacked scalability and flexibility and needed new solution that accelerates provi...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Energy Management Firm Builds Dynamic, Scalable Data Center
Comverge grew out of a merger of technology groups from Scientific Atlanta, Lucent/Bell Labs, and PowerCom. Their challenges are to overcome scalability limitations of physical servers, accelerate ser...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Legal Services Provider Starts Work Twice as Fast
Epiq Systems is a leading global provider of software and services that legal professionals use to streamline the administration of litigation, bankruptcy, and financial transactions. To support busin...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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German Scientifc R&D Center Builds Next Generation Data Center to Manage 1PB a Week Data Throughput
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a research centre of the Helmholtz Association in Germany, is one of the world's leading centers for research in the structure of matter and for photon science...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Retailer Prepares for the Future While Reducing Costs
Slumberland, Inc. wanted to implement cost-effective data center server platform and support more servers without adding staff. The challenge was to decrease operational costs. Slumberland, Inc. deplo...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Delivering Faster and More Cost-Effective e-Government
Lazio Innovazione Tecnologica (LAit) S.p.A. is helping the local government extend and improve the delivery of public services to the Italian region of Lazio, whose capital is Rome. LAit wanted to eli...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Why WebEx? Discover the Beneits of Real-Time Web Collaboration in Your Organization
The global economy requires new ways of doing business. It simply is not feasible to travel to all locations to meet prospects, customers, and colleagues. It's inefficient, too expensive, and hampers ...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Enterprise Data Center Topology
A typical large enterprise network often consists of multiple data centers, each with a responsibility for supporting key functions. In general, these data centers can be classified into three types: ...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Data Center Design - IP Network Infrastructure
The Cisco Data Center 3.0 architecture is built on the concept of investment protection, allowing incremental integration of new technologies and platforms into the existing infrastructure to meet cha...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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University Deploys Unified Fabric in Data Center
University of Arizona the university wanted to modernize its data center to support new initiatives to increase administrative efficiency and reduce costs, such as replacing all enterprise application...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Holmesglen TAFE Reduces Server Hardware Costs by 30%, Uses 50% Less Space in the Data Centre
Holmesglen TAFE challenge is to Replace ageing servers and network equipment to provide a more reliable service to students and teachers. They got the solution of new network, server and storage infra...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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Kotak Group Builds State-of-the-Art Data Center on Cisco Nexus 7000 Switch
Kotak Mahindra Group, one of India's leading financial services provider, they facing the challenge of Siloed data centers across five divisions resulting in duplicated resources and inefficiencies wi...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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School District Provides Next-Generation Learning to Students
Park Hill School District with business challenge aging servers desire to easily manage servers with Desktops for students, teachers, and administrators who could not afford them. They implement state...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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University Builds Scalable Data Center
The University of Wyoming offers undergraduate and graduate education, research, and outreach services. There challenges is to accommodate more data center users, applications, and data which Provide ...
Provided By Cisco Systems
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EMC Documentum Media WorkSpace: Next-Generation Digital Asset Management
Is the organization making effective use of its rich-media digital assets? Maybe the management system is too hard to use. Or creative personnel can't be sure they're using the "Latest and greatest" c...
Provided By EMC
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A Policy-Based Approach to More-Efficient and Greener IT
Pressures are greater than ever to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the data center. At the same time, as awareness of environmental issues increases - along with focus on the data center's gro...
Provided By EMC
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The Future of Enterprise IT - The Business Impact of Converged IT - Part 3
The presenters of this webcast will discuss the business capabilities that will result from the converged data center. The attendee of this webcast will learn how will convergence evolve and in what t...
Provided By EMC