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Executive's guide to the 21st century data center

March 29, 2013 12:00am PDT

To help you develop the best data center strategies for your organization, ZDNet and TechRepublic pulled together this collection of the latest information, analysis, perspective, and advice.

Provided by: TechRepublic

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The Contemporary Meaning of -- and Demands upon -- Midrange Storage

March 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

New technologies are enabling organizations to more confidently transform their data centers without compromising on performance, scalability or availability. This ESG paper will examine the...

Provided by: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

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Customers Standardize on Oracle Database 11g

March 26, 2013 12:00am PDT

Faced with static or shrinking budgets, IT organizations need to lower costs throughout the data center, including costs of servers, storage, downtime, and human resources. But, their business...

Provided by: Oracle

Case Studies

NTTX Select: Hosting Provider Uses Industry-Standard Storage to Slash Storage Costs by 30 Percent

March 22, 2013 12:00am PDT

NTTX select is a United Kingdom - based service provider and member of the Microsoft partner network that offers custom managed IT solutions, including customized virtual desktops; hosting...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Evaluator Group - Evolving Datacenter Architectures - HP technologies for Cloud-ready IT

March 22, 2013 12:00am PDT

In this paper, Evaluator Group highlights the critical features necessary to move beyond server virtualization by leveraging key integration capabilities between IT components with a particular...

Provided by: HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors

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Building the private cloud: Prepare the fabric in System Center VMM

March 20, 2013 8:37am PDT

Building the private cloud: Prepare the fabric in System Center VMM article root Building the private cloud... Great for Win - pretty awkward in our growing Mac Environment. Two Synology...

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Server power management comparison: Dell OpenManage Power Center and HP Insight Control

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

As data centers grow, their power needs increase and space becomes more and more of a premium. These rising costs make it essential to manage your data center as effectively as possible. Using...

Provided by: Principled Technologies

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Dell PowerEdge R820 and R910 servers: Performance and Reliability

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

Whether you're looking for the highest possible performance per rack unit or the strongest RAS-enabled server to run your mission-critical databases, Dell has a server to meet your needs. Factors...

Provided by: Principled Technologies

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Managing clients with Dell Client Integration Pack 3.0 and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

In our tests, we found that Dell client management tools (Dell Client Integration Pack, Dell Client Configuration Toolkit, and Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation) integrated in a typical SCCM...

Provided by: Principled Technologies

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Dell PowerEdge C6220: Performance for large infrastructures

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations....

Provided by: Principled Technologies

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Centralized Systems Management: Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter Vs. HP Insight Control for vCenter Server

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

Leveraging the power of the Lifecycle Controller 2 and Dell Management Plug-In for VMware vCenter, Dell made server management simpler and faster in our test scenarios. In our tests, using Dell...

Provided by: Principled Technologies

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Total cost comparison summary in small to medium business scenarios: VMware vSphere vs. Microsoft Hyper-V

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

We designed our assumptions based on a small-to medium-business using 100 VMs. However, for businesses that grow and increase their virtual workloads over time, the potential for greater...

Provided by: Principled Technologies

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Towards Optimal Deployment of Cloud-Assisted Video Distribution Services

March 20, 2013 12:00am PDT

For Internet video services, the high fluctuation of user demands in geographically distributed regions results in low resource utilizations of traditional CDN systems. Due to the capability of...

Provided by: Nanyang Technological University

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Building the private cloud: Prepare the fabric in System Center VMM

March 19, 2013 12:53pm PDT

John Joyner begins a series that outlines the steps involved in building a private cloud based on a host-and-tenant model where central IT is the "cloud hoster" for its internal business units.

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VaiSulWeb: Hosting Provider Quickly Offers Cost-Effective Cloud Services to Small Businesses

March 18, 2013 12:00am PDT

VaiSulWeb is a fast-growing European hosting service provider that serves mostly small-business customers from a modern private-cloud infrastructure built on the Windows Server 2012 operating...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Efficient Live Migration of Virtual Machines Using Shared Storage

March 17, 2013 12:00am PDT

Live migration of Virtual Machines (VM) across distinct physical hosts is an important feature of virtualization technology for maintenance, load-balancing and energy reduction, especially so for...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Send us your shiny data center pictures

March 15, 2013 10:24am PDT

Share your pictures of data centers that showcase the latest hardware, new technology, or an outstanding design.

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Tangible Return on Investment From Virtual Infrastructure

March 15, 2013 12:00am PDT

Loughborough University is the premier U.K. institution for sport, and home to more than 40 research bodies and centers. Their challenges were confirm IT project benefits with detailed total cost...

Provided by: Microsoft

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Trust Management Model For Cloud Computing Environment

March 15, 2013 12:00am PDT

Software as a Service or (SaaS) is a new software development and deployment paradigm over the cloud and offers Information Technology services dynamically as "On-demand" basis over the internet....

Provided by: Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center