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.

  • White Papers // Oct 2009

    Grid Enabled Varsity Examination Result System

    Grid computing started as a project to link geographically dispersed supercomputers, but now it has grown far beyond its original intent. The Grid infrastructure can benefit many applications, including collaborative engineering, data exploration, high-throughput computing, and distributed supercomputing. Computing Grids are basically networks that pool resources - CPU cycles, storage...

    Provided By JATIT

  • White Papers // May 2008

    A Coordination Framework for Sharing Grid Resources

    Distributed market based models are frequently used for resource allocation on the computational grid. But, as the grid size grows, it becomes more difficult for a customer to directly negotiate with all the grid resource providers. Middle agents are introduced to mediate between the providers and customers so as to...

    Provided By University Of Zululand

  • Case Studies // Mar 2013

    Military-Standard Data Center Management

    In the case of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) lives depend on it. There challenges were to make IT operations faster, better, and cheaper and move to greenfield data center without disrupting military operations. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified Data Center solution based...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Building Collaborative Platform for Driving Innovation

    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) Zurich accelerates innovation. There challenges were to create highly available, secure network that facilitates collaboration and help ensure IT model is aligned to support competitive advantage and growth for next 10 years. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Mar 2013

    University of Tennessee Knoxville Boosts Competitive Edge With Citrix Virtualization on Flexpod

    The University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, is one of the oldest public universities in the U.S. There challenge is to support anywhere, anytime student computing environment while conserving IT and financial resources. Build application and desktop virtualization delivery system with Citrix based on the FlexPod data center platform from Cisco...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Asset Management Company Builds New, Agile Data Centers

    Built largely through acquisition of top asset managers, Allianz Global Investors (AGI), a world leader in asset management and a subsidiary, there challenges were need to streamline data center management by centralizing and consolidating five existing data centers and standardize on platforms and applications across acquired assets. They chose Cisco...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Apr 2013

    Insurance Company Virtualizes Data Center and Desktops

    Promutuel originated 160 years ago when farmers from Quebec had the innovative idea to band together and create their own insurance company. There challenges were runaway HQ data center server costs to support continual expansion strain space, power, cooling budgets and different WAN configurations and server setups at 150 remote...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Electrical Firm Reduces Data Center Costs by 75 Percent

    EDIF is an electrical wholesaler and distributor that operate along the eastern side of Italy, generating revenues of 136 million in 2010. There challenges were to improve customer service, reduce operating costs and strengthen operational resilience. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They implemented Cisco Unified data center architecture...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Apr 2013

    Brennercom Invests in Cloud and High-Density Innovation at Its Data Center

    Brennercom is an Italian communications provider active over a vast area stretching from the provinces of Trentino Alto Adige throughout the territory. There challenges were to enhance Data Center capabilities with a flexible, high-performance solution able to deliver cloud and virtualization services, and develops a new business model. They chose...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // May 2013

    Subsea Supplier Improves Application and Data Center Performance

    Innovative technologies and the rising price of natural resources have pushed more companies into exploring and developing offshore fields of oil and gas. They wanted to support business activities globally by providing up-to-date reporting, virtualized and improve performance on servers running SAP applications and streamline data center management. Updated data...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Jul 2012

    Unified Computing Platform Makes Server Allocation Around 60 Times Faster

    DATEV eG offers software solutions and IT services across Europe for tax advisers, accountants and attorneys, as well as their clients. DATEV wanted a modern, easy-to-manage, failsafe, cost-saving and future-proof infrastructure solution that would integrate well within its existing rack server environment. The personalized infrastructure solution is based on a...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Mar 2012

    Global Enterprise Scales to Meet Real-Time Demand

    HireRight is the industry leader in providing solutions to meet its customers' employment background screening, drug screening, and employment eligibility requirements. Their challenges are to streamline IT infrastructure and simplify administration for long term, reduce carbon footprint and maintain high performance and availability for customers and internal users. They chose...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Oct 2012

    Service Provider Standardizes Data Center to Deliver Custom Cloud Services

    Peak 10 has evolved from a more limited provider of IT services into a comprehensive provider of cloud-based, fully managed IT. Their challenges were to unify cloud delivery of subscription-based, customized, fully managed, enterprise applications, need to create scalable, flexible, multitenant environment to meet growing demand for cloud services and...

    Provided By Cisco

  • White Papers // Oct 2010

    Midmarket Data Center Architecture: Ethernet Configuration Listings

    The Cisco mid market architecture is designed to meet the needs of medium-sized businesses having 100 to 200 servers per data center. Designed to be simple, modular, and scalable, the architecture can grow to support up to 576 servers without changing fundamental switching components. The architecture encapsulates data center best...

    Provided By Cisco

  • Case Studies // Apr 2012

    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

  • Case Studies // Mar 2011

    Cisco on Cisco: Cisco Unified Communications on Cisco Unified Computing System

    Rapid growth in Cisco's employee user base combined with new ways of working put additional processing demand on the IT department's communication services. Their challenges are to provide reliable voice communication services to rapidly growing number of users and increasing devices per user, scale Unified Communications (UC) infrastructure beyond the...

    Provided By Cisco

  • White Papers // Feb 2011

    Forrester Research on Network Strategy

    Free Forrester Report shows how to focus your network strategy on user experience and effectively deliver the services your users need to be productive. This guide helps you understand why network design has to change, with specific insight on:

    • Trends that impact your architecture
    • How to maintain the best...

      Provided By Citrix Systems, Inc.

    • White Papers // Jun 2008

      Node Allocation in Grid Computing Using Optimal Resouce Constraint (ORC) Scheduling

      The objective of grid computing is to distribute the jobs to heterogeneous environment and increase the speed of processing the jobs. Most of the Grid tool kits use the First Come First Served (FCFS) based scheduling algorithm to distribute the job to different executors or client nodes. The FCFS scheduling...

      Provided By Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Engineering

    • Presentations // Mar 2010

      Simplify your data center and reduce costs with the Cisco Unified Computing System

      The Cisco UCS C-Series Rack-Mount Servers unlock the potential of your data center to bring computing, networking, and virtualization together.

      Learn how you can incrementally build a unified data center, while enjoying significant ROI.

      Provided By Cisco Systems, Inc.

    • White Papers // Oct 2012

      Cisco Unified Data Center: The Foundation for Private Cloud Infrastructure

      Break free of data center constraints. Provide IT service and cloud computing that is more agile and efficient. Learn why Cisco unified architecture and cost efficient design uniquely positions you to deliver the advantages of a private cloud.

      Provided By Cisco

    • White Papers // Feb 2013

      Improve IT Productivity with Unified Data Center

      Increase ROI and improve productivity. See how the Cisco Unified Data Center can help you achieve these two goals by simplifying, standardizing, and automating IT processes, so you can turn your data center into an innovation center.

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Dec 2012

      Automotive Group Reduces Servers and Boosts Performance

      In today's market for new and used cars, customers are often in the driver's seat, actively communicating with dealers about what they need at all hours. Their challenges are to Provide always-on availability and responsiveness to staff and customers, delivering high-performance resources and Reduce infrastructure and operating costs. They chose...

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Jan 2013

      World's Largest Online Sports Betting Site Increases Reach

      Based in Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom, bet365 has grown rapidly from a handful of employees in 2000 to a global provider with 2100 staff. Their challenges are to drive business growth by extending gaming platform to new mobile devices and improve customer service by boosting speed, performance, and resilience....

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Jan 2013

      Innovator Gets Scalability on Demand

      From modest beginnings, Lonza has grown into a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical, healthcare, and life-science industries worldwide. Their challenge is to transform data center network agility, bandwidth, resilience, and scalability to support 24-hour global business model. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. Cisco Nexus 5500 series platform with...

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Nov 2012

      London Borough Council Saves Millions With Virtual Desktops

      Olympic Park, the borough had the world's attention during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Their challenges are to improve worker flexibility to cope with London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and deliver planned real estate rationalization and optimize disaster recovery planning. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Jan 2013

      KSM Attains 95% Faster Access to Customer Records With VMware on FlexPod From NetApp and Cisco

      At Katz, Sapper & Miller (KSM), supporting growth and efficient business management are top priorities. Their challenges are to scale with rapid company expansion by upgrading storage and server infrastructure. They chose Cisco Reinvent the data center with VMware vSphere built on the FlexPod data center platform from NetApp and...

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Aug 2012

      Bank Benefits From Borderless Network and Collaboration

      Ecobank Transnational Incorporated is a leading pan-African bank with operations in 32 countries across the continent, more than any other bank. Their challenges are to standardize provision of banking services across countries, reduce operational expenditure and support continued growth. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges. They chose Cisco Borderless...

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // May 2012

      Financing Firm Leverages UCS for Improved Scalability and Performance

      Credit ACceptance Corporation (CACC) began working with dealerships to help buyers finance the cars they wanted. Their challenges are to scale computing, storage, and networking infrastructure for aggressive, long-term growth, need to improve systems reliability and manageability and enhance user experiences through increased performance. They chose Cisco to overcome these...

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Dec 2011

      Travel Insurer Gains Stability, Agility Through Virtualization

      Founded in 1993, Seven Corners Inc. has grown to become one of the most respected insurers in the travel industry. Their challenges are to enhance network reliability and performance, simplify data center management and provide flexible infrastructure that can scale to accommodate growth. They chose Cisco to overcome these challenges....

      Provided By Cisco

    • Podcasts // Oct 2012

      Global Cloud Index Video

      The Cisco® Global Cloud Index is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing. Watch now.

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Mar 2013

      Safeguarding the Status of Europe's Largest Port City

      Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands, is also notable as the largest port in Europe. Their challenges are to assure future delivery of local government and port-based services and reduce costs and improve efficiency. They chose Cisco to overcome these problems. FlexPod architecture, integrating Cisco Nexus data center switches...

      Provided By Cisco

    • White Papers // Apr 2013

      Avoid making major mistakes in data center virtualization (Spanish)

      With increasing demand for data centers, network infrastructure may become more complex and more costly. Cisco In this article, you'll discover how to avoid the five major errors during consolidation and virtualization of data centers and how to correct them. Read the report.

      Provided By Cisco

    • White Papers // Sep 2010

      Datacenter Transformation: New Directions for IT

      In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations increasingly require solutions and services that are delivered by a responsive IT department. In order to deliver such services, IT can no longer rely on the traditional datacenter model in which hardware and software assets are provisioned for the business in a process that...

      Provided By International Development and Consulting Group

    • Case Studies // Nov 2012

      Digital Media Leader Revolutionizes Network Performance to Meet Rapid Growth

      From streaming media to online distribution and supporting 3D video, the market for digital multimedia is growing fast, and DG is an industry leader. Their challenges are to accelerate network speed to provide advanced digital services for customers, Scale network capacity to handle network growth and reconcile disparate networks by...

      Provided By Cisco

    • White Papers // Jun 2010

      Enhanced Business Continuity With Application Mobility Across Data Centers

      The evolution of the global economy is redefining the paradigm of business continuity. Most businesses can no longer afford to operate only in their native time zones, but are mandated to operate round the clock. This puts a very heavy burden on Information Technology (IT) groups because the operational windows...

      Provided By Cisco

    • White Papers // Jun 2010

      Autoprovisioning Data Center Top-of-Rack Switches

      With the vast increase in available information, movement to virtualization, and growing demand for cloud computing, data centers are expanding at a rapid pace. To save costs, increase availability, and address environmental factors, companies are expanding their data centers into different geographical areas, while their network operations groups are mainly...

      Provided By Cisco

    • Case Studies // Nov 2011

      Children's Hospital Enhances Clinical Workflow

      A world leader in pediatric healthcare, Miami Children's Hospital ranks among the most prestigious medical institutions in the United States. Their challenges were to evolve infrastructure to support Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system, minimize administrative effort and environmental overhead required to scale data center and plan, design, and deploy backup...

      Provided By Cisco

    • White Papers // Jun 2010

      Cisco Data Center Services Node Architecture

      The Cisco Data Center Service Node (DSN) is a new product offering from Cisco that complements the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches in the data center. Cisco DSN is the platform of choice to host specific integrated network services relevant in a given data center. Examples of network services include...

      Provided By Cisco

    • White Papers // Oct 2010

      Midmarket Data Center Architecture: Ethernet

      The Cisco mid market architecture is designed to meet the needs of businesses with 100 to 200 servers per data center. The Ethernet portion of the architecture is designed for both scalability and simplicity; it can scale up to 576 servers, and multiple network layers can be collapsed into a...

      Provided By Cisco

    • Research // Oct 2012

      Cisco Global Cloud Index

      The Cisco® Global Cloud Index 2011-2016, is an ongoing effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic. The forecast includes trends associated with data center virtualization and cloud computing.
      This document presents the details of the study and the methodology behind it.

      Provided By Cisco