data center News and Other Resources

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Review: Avocent Data Center Planner

May 23, 2013 12:00pm PDT

Just about any data center administrator will benefit from a full-featured data center planning application.

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Dying of thirst in an ocean of data

May 22, 2013 11:09am PDT

Organizations need to find ways to bring seas of data under control and use methodologies capable of identifying and harvesting the information that they have a need to know.

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Apple data center deployment strategies await new Mac Pro specs

May 22, 2013 4:51am PDT

Apple data center deployment strategies await new Mac Pro specs article root Thumb Twiddling It is an intolerable pain to wonder at Apple's commitment to the enterprise. For some the wait will be...

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Integrated Computing Platforms: Infrastructure Builds for Tomorrow’s Data Center

May 22, 2013 12:00am PDT

The consolidation of physical servers drove massive efficiencies across the IT ecosystem, including improved resource utilisation rates for CPU and storage capacity. This is the fifth consecutive...

Provided by: EMC Australia (grey BG)

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EMC Service Assurance Suite: Manage Virtualized and Cloud Environments and the New Software-defined Data Center

May 22, 2013 12:00am PDT

Analyst report by Enterprise Management Associates on the newly announced EMC Service Assurance Suite, and how well it addresses operational challenges and market needs.

Provided by: EMC

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A Secure Data Forwarding Schema for Cloud Storage Systems

May 22, 2013 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. It moves the application software and databases to the centralized large data centers, where the...

Provided by: Interscience Open Access Journals

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Data Center Best Practices: Managing Data with Cloud Computing

May 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

Data centers are looking at cloud computing as a way to deliver the necessary flexibility, scalability, efficiency and speed. This article looks at Data Center Best Practices and focuses on how...

Provided by: Oracle

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Virtualizing Your Infrastructure with a Path to the Cloud: 5 Reasons Why Your IT Infrastructure Should Run on Blade Servers

May 13, 2013 12:00am PDT

Blades allow for small hardware footprints, eliminate the cable clutter typically found in data centers, and streamline setup and maintenance over the server’s life cycle. They are designed to...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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The Blade is Mightier than the Rack Server

May 13, 2013 12:00am PDT

With the typical data center rack, every time you add a new server, you have to add more cables, more interconnects, more switches, more power, and on and on. It's almost impossible to make...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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Optimize your Virtualization Efforts with a Blade Infrastructure

May 13, 2013 12:00am PDT

The increased adoption of virtualization is placing new demands on IT infrastructure. The interdependencies between server, storage, and network elements must be finely balanced to maximize...

Provided by: Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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A strategy to improve application development

May 10, 2013 12:19pm PDT

Following these strategies will help ensure the business value of your app development projects.

Discussion Threads

Five Data Center Management Apps

May 10, 2013 7:56am PDT

Five Data Center Management Apps article root Find out what to look for when you are shopping for a hard drive What to Look for in a Hard Drive That You Are Purchasing? When you are going to...

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Data center management on the go with ICM Mobile

May 10, 2013 7:52am PDT

Data center management on the go with ICM Mobile article root Find out what to look for when you are shopping for a hard drive What to Look for in a Hard Drive That You Are Purchasing? When you...

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Data center management on the go with ICM Mobile

May 10, 2013 3:49am PDT

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Infographic: Awesome data centers

May 9, 2013 5:33pm PDT

Infographic: Awesome data centers article root Cool! Thanks for this....I'm going to visit the NAP of Americas later this month! Fascinating! Where's Google's DC Where's Google's, Facebook's...

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The Keys to the Kingdom: Limiting Active Directory Administrators

May 9, 2013 12:00am PDT

Allowing data center server operators to be Active Directory domain administrators is a common practice—and a potentially damaging security risk. The challenge is balancing directory security with...

Provided by: Quest Software, now a part of Dell

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The modular server approach for small organizations

May 8, 2013 5:30am PDT

There are no shortage of ways to design infrastructure to solve a specific problem. One popular new trend is the modular server, as Rick Vanover explains.

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Infographic: Awesome data centers

May 7, 2013 9:53am PDT

This infographic from Whoishostingthis.com offers some statistics on the world's largest data centers.

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Hyper-V Recovery Manager on Windows Azure: Game changer in DR architecture

May 7, 2013 6:00am PDT

HVRM is a hybrid service that leverages the Azure public cloud and allows you to manage the replication of your primary data center to your disaster recovery (DR) site.