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Whitepapers
HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Best Practices
Nov 2012
Thin provisioning has become a data center 'must have', but to maximize its benefits requires a certain amount of planning. This white paper sponsored by HP + Intel® reveals best practices...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
ESG: Storage Virtualization for Efficient Operations
Nov 2012
This ESG white paper focuses on how IBM has been a leader in capabilites for storage virtualization for efficient operations.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Edison: Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems
Nov 2012
This white paper focuses on Edison's Competitive Management Cost Study (CMCS) methodology comparing IBM Storwize V7000 to EMC VNX5500.
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Success in the cloud: Why workload matters - Observations from IBM's own cloud transformation
Jan 2013
IBM is always challenged to drive new revenue opportunities and efficiencies while lowering costs. And cloud technology has delivered, becoming a catalyst for business transformation at IBM. Read...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
vSphere Storage Appliance Technical White Paper
Aug 2011
This technical white paper covers the the vSphere® Storage Appliance (VSA) architecture, deployment of a VSA cluster, and basic monitoring and management. Discover that VSA is resilient and...
Provided by VMware
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e-Books
E-Guide: 2011 Guide to Storage and Servers
Aug 2011
Today, we're seeing the rise of smart infrastructures. We now can dynamically change our networks, servers, and infrastructure to respond instantly to changing demands. But with greater power...
Provided by TechRepublic
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Webcasts
Network Infrastructure for the Cloud Ready Data Center
Apr 2011
Virtualization and distributed applications are transforming every part of the data center. To maximize the potential of virtualization, the network must also transform. The transformation of...
Provided by Alcatel Lucent Enterprise
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White Papers
Upgrading the data center to 10GbE with IBM servers and Intel Ethernet
Jul 2011
A high-performance 10GbE data center infrastructure can simplify the virtualization of office and enterprise applications and reduce per-server TCO. This paper describes a new 10GbE fabric design...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
10 Techniques for Improving Data Center Power Efficiency
Nov 2007
How to implement a power-efficient data center depends on the specific conditions. For example, when elevating a temperature set point, one needs to consider the temperature tolerances for the...
Provided by NetApplications.com
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Webcasts
Transforming the Data Center with Unified Fabric
May 2008
Is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) really the long-awaited breakthrough that will transparently integrate your network servers and storage, or is it simply the latest industry hype? Get the...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Order from chaos with data center automation
Nov 2011
These days, IT needs to deliver multiple services in an increasingly complex infrastructure. Data center automation helps, but can be limited by silos. The solution? A pragmatic data center...
Provided by BMC Software
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Webcasts
Boost Utilization and Cut Costs with SPARC Consolidation and Virtualization
Apr 2012
For many organizations, highly complex IT architectures, under-utilized systems and slow application deployment make maximizing the return on IT investments incredibly tough. Oracle's integrated...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Paycor Tackles Peak Workloads with Newest HP ProLiant Servers
Jan 2011
Plenty of servers and hardware companies promise the world when you're thinking about buying, but typically, when everything is out of the box and set up, your lofty expectations are greatly...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Edison: Competitive Management Cost Study: IBM Storwize V7000 vs. EMC VNX5500 Storage Systems
Jun 2012
As it has been the trend over the last decade, organizations must continue to deal with growing data storage requirements with the same or less resources. The growing adoption of...
Provided by IBM
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Podcasts
Security for Virtualization Movie
Aug 2012
As the move to virtualization gathers momentum, many companies find themselves doing business in a diversified environment - one that includes traditional physical servers, cloud-based solutions...
Provided by Kaspersky Lab
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Whitepapers
Cisco Unified Computing System - At-A-Glance
Mar 2009
Virtualization is creating a market transition where servers have become objects that move throughout the network. Cisco has addressed this transition by delivering the Unified Computing System,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Presentations
Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: Demo
Mar 2009
With up to 9x the performance compared to installed single-core servers, up to 50 percent lower server idle power compared to the previous generation, and unique virtualization capabilities, Intel...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Building the Internal Cloud: Transforming the Datacenter
Jan 2009
Curious about cloud computing or assuming it only refers to services one buy outside? The presenter of this webcast shows what cloud computing is and how to begin to transform the own IT...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
The Business Case for Disaster Recovery Planning: Calculating the Cost of Downtime
Sep 2006
IT leaders recognize that a disaster can be any event that prevents a business from accessing the data and systems it needs to operate. This could encompass everything from regional power...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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Whitepapers
Data Center Best Practices: Managing Data with Cloud Computing
May 2013
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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Whitepapers
The Main Components of a Unified Fabric
Dec 2011
How does the unified fabric change the data center landscape? This whitepaper explains the challenges addressed by the unified fabric and how the data center will be organized with this...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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White Papers
Beyond the Hypervisor: A Holistic Approach to Developing Next-Generation Data Center Architecture
Apr 2009
As organizations work to evolve their IT infrastructure from a static collection of individual assets into a system capable of rapidly adapting to meet business demands, they have become very...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
Unloack Your Hidden Data Center
Jan 2009
The presenter of this webcast explains why organizations need to consider energy use in their data center, reasons to "Go green," as well as practical ways Dell technologies can help save costs,...
Provided by Infoworld
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Whitepapers
Business Case Development Best Practices for Data Center and IT Projects: Speed-Up Your Project Approval and Start With Confidence
Jun 2009
This white paper focuses on business case development. However, it will be worthwhile to understand where business case development falls in the overall TCO/ROI analysis spectrum. Depending on...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Hardware-Assisted Virtualization for Today's Businesses
Jan 2006
Intel is taking server and workstation virtualization to a new level with Intel® Virtualization Technology - a complementary hardware-assisted technology available on new Intel® platforms that...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Improving Data Center Compliance Using a Holistic IT Compliance Methodology
Apr 2006
Driven by standardization and regulatory requirements, data center organizations today face complex compliance issues. IT Executives often cite significant challenges in achieving sustainable...
Provided by BladeLogic
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White Papers
Intel Xeon Processor-based Server Refresh Savings Estimator
Apr 2010
Developed with key learnings from Intel's IT experience in justifying server refresh internally, this tool allows you to enter data about your existing environment and evaluate the benefits of...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Is Online Server Backup Appropriate for Your Business?
May 2010
Read this whitepaper to examine the setbacks of traditional backup, gain a better understanding of online backup, and discover why Iron Mountain's LiveVault backup and restore solution provides...
Provided by Iron Mountain
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Downloads
Don't pay for server virtualization - Citrix XenServer is free!
May 2010
XenServer is the only free, cloud-proven virtualization platform available, enabling organizations of any size to immediately benefit from server virtualization. XenServer is an open and powerful...
Provided by Citrix Systems, Inc.
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Whitepapers
Master Data Management: One Step at a Time
Feb 2006
Master Data Management is quickly becoming the key strategy organizations are embracing to be the centerpiece of their information management strategy. This paper, by leading information...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
Adopting iPad and iPhone for Enterprise Use
Jun 2010
Apple's iPad is being launched as a consumer device. Yet, there is little doubt that it will become a valuable enterprise productivity tool. IT departments should consider iPad when planning...
Provided by Sybase
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Whitepapers
Savvis Symphony Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) Tear Sheet
Jun 2010
Savvis Symphony VPDC introduces one of the industry's first enterprise-grade Virtual Private Data Center (VPDC) solutions with multi-tiered security and service profiles. The VPDC delivers a...
Provided by SAVVIS
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White Papers
Model Support for the Business Intelligence Lifecycle
Oct 2010
The business intelligence environment is both dynamic and complex. Modeling simplifies things throughout the entire lifecycle. In this white paper, industry expert, Jonathan Geiger shares his...
Provided by Sybase
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White Papers
Best Practices in E-mail Archiving
Jul 2006
If you're looking for an efficient and reliable long-term storage solution for your corporate e-mail, be sure to download this informative white paper from MessageLabs. It identifies the four key...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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Whitepapers
Data Center Projects: Standardized Process
Jan 2013
As the design and deployment of data center physical infrastructure moves away from art and more toward science, the benefits of a standardized and predictable process are becoming compelling....
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Case Studies
North Shore Credit Union Case Study
Aug 2012
Learn how North Shore Credit Union stays lean and agile using a hosted, secure, and private cloud solution based on HP Converged Infrastructure technologies. Their HP environment has been up 100...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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White Papers
EMA: The Journey to Unified Computing
Apr 2010
The demands of today's data center are vastly different than they were just five years ago. Advances in virtualization have finally brought a truly adaptive data center within your grasp. Cisco...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Resource Center
Save 20% When You Upgrade Your Skills on Microsoft Server Virtualization
Mar 2011
If you've been waiting to update your skills on the latest Microsoft technologies, now is the time to get started. New Horizons is casting a spotlight on a new Microsoft technology each month and...
Provided by New Horizons Computer Learning Centers
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Whitepapers
Forrester: The total economic impact of HP 3PAR Storage
Nov 2012
In this report sponsored by HP + Intel®, Forrester Research provides an analysis of four HP 3PAR Storage customer implementations to quantify the efficiency and cost savings achieved over...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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eBooks
5 Tech Tips Book
Apr 2012
Don't miss out on the chance to benefit from the real-world advantages of VMware's market-leading virtualization. With our vSphere(R) Essentials Kits you have the easiest, most affordable way to...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Introducing DPACK
Feb 2013
In an effort to help guide our customers through mission critical IT decisions, Dell’s team of solution experts have developed an innovative new tool - the Dell Performance Analysis Collection Kit...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Fine Tuning IT Infrastructure Through Rapid System Assessment
Feb 2013
IT organizations constantly strive to optimize IT infrastructure to meet enterprise needs efficiently and cost-effectively. For example, they may extend the life of an existing infrastructure by...
Provided by Dell
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Whitepapers
Performance Factors of Cloud Computing Data Centers Using M/G/m/m+r Queuing Systems
Sep 2012
Cloud computing is a novel paradigm for the provision of computing infrastructure, which aims to shift the location of the computing infrastructure to the network in order to reduce the costs of...
Provided by IOSR Journal of Engineering
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Whitepapers
Securing virtualization in real-world environments
Feb 2013
Through its ability to consolidate workloads and reduce the amount of time and energy IT spends installing and maintaining servers, virtualization allows you to satisfy your goals of fewer...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Transitioning Business Continuity To The Cloud
Feb 2013
In the past, server, storage and data center redundancy were the only options that met corporate resilience objectives. Read this white paper to gain an understanding of the resiliency challenges...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Improve IT Productivity with Unified Data Center
Feb 2013
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...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Top Reasons Why Customers Virtualize With EMC VSPEX
Aug 2012
EMC VSPEX is a proven flexible architecture solution that allows IT to quickly and consistently deploy a virtualized infrastructure to consolidate servers, applications, and desktops, while...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
Top Reasons Why Customers Virtualize With EMC VSPEX
Aug 2012
EMC VSPEC is a proven flexible architecture solution that allows IT to quickly and consistently deploy a virtualized infrastructure to consolidate servers, applications, and desktops, while...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
VMware vSphere Essentials
Jan 2013
Gain a basic understanding of some of the concerns or planning points to consider when you get ready to deploy vSphere in your organization.
Provided by Global Knowledge
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Whitepapers
A Reliability Analysis of Datacenter Topologies
Nov 2012
The network infrastructure plays an important role for datacenter applications. Therefore, datacenter network architectures are designed with three main goals: bandwidth, latency and reliability....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Resource Contention-Aware Virtual Machine Management for Enterprise Applications
Nov 2012
Consolidating Virtual Machines (VMs) in data centers is desirable as it reduces hardware and power costs. However the performances of VMs on shared physical servers are not isolated from each...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Whitepapers
Adaptive Provisioning for Evolving Virtual Network Request in Cloud-based Datacenters
Nov 2012
Cloud based datacenters provide on demand services and resources, both transparently and cost effectively. These services and applications are typically hosted and run on the servers located in...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Webcasts
LISP Part 3 - Deployed Network and Use-Cases
Jul 2012
In this webcast, the presenters will take a deep-dive of the various use-cases LISP provides. From low opex multi-homing to using provider independent addresses to data center to mobility...
Provided by Oleksiy Kovyrin
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Whitepapers
Machine Learning Approach to Data Center Monitoring using Wireless Sensor Networks
Nov 2012
Data Centers face considerable challenges in seamless integration of telemetry and control functions. These functions are essential to management tasks related to power capping, cooling,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Success in the cloud: Why workload matters - Observations from IBM's own cloud transformation
Jan 2013
IBM is always challenged to drive new revenue opportunities and efficiencies while lowering costs. And cloud technology has delivered, becoming a catalyst for business transformation at IBM. Read...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
A Novel Approach to Enhance Reliability in Hadoop with Reduced Storage Requirement
Jul 2012
A data grid should provide fast, reliable and transparent access of data to a large number of heterogeneous and geographically distributed users. The volume of data handled in a data grid is in...
Provided by EuroJournals
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Case Studies
Digital Media Leader Revolutionizes Network Performance to Meet Rapid Growth
Nov 2012
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...
Provided by Cisco
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Case Studies
ViaWest Supports the Global Outreach Efforts International Organization on a Mission to Alleviate Suffering, Poverty and Oppression
Jun 2012
As an international organization on a mission to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression, Mercy Corps' primary focus is on serving others. With its top priority in serving others, they needed...
Provided by Viaway
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Case Studies
ViaWest Provides the Redundancy That Is Critical to the Growth of Rentrak's Product Line
Apr 2012
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...
Provided by Viaway
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Case Studies
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Croatia
May 2011
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Croatia is responsible for international promotion of Croatia as a modern, dynamic, and democratic Mediterranean and...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
VirtualKnotter: Online Virtual Machine Shuffling for Congestion Resolving in Virtualized Datacenter
Mar 2012
The authors measurements on production datacenter traffic together with recently-reported results suggest that datacenter networks suffer from long-lived congestion caused by core network...
Provided by Northwestern University
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Whitepapers
Demonstrating the Business Value of Deduplication for Data Protection
Dec 2011
Deduplication is a technology which dramatically improves IT economics by minimizing storage requirements, backup windows, and network bandwidth consumption in distributed enterprises and...
Provided by Quantum
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Whitepapers
Deploying Cloud with IBM System x
Jan 2013
As a small or medium-sized business, knowing which infrastructure investments you need to make to improve your business is easy. The struggle is being able to apply your finite resources for...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Solutions for a More Energy-Efficient Data Center: From Water to Fresh-Air Cooling
Jan 2013
This white paper discusses recent trends in the industry toward increasing energy efficiency of the data center in order to save on power and cooling costs without reducing performance. Included...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Flexible, scalable businesses with Linux and IBM System x
Jan 2013
Abstract option #1: Linux® running on IBM System x® and BladeCenter® provides an open, reliable and secure IT environment that can easily scale as workloads demand. The IBM System...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700: Ideal for VMware Environments
Jan 2013
Many businesses already have deployed or are considering VMware virtualization solutions to reduce costs through server consolidation while increasing the efficiency, utilization and flexibility...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM Storwize V3700 Entry Disk
Jan 2013
IT organizations have limited resources but need to stay responsive to dynamic environments and act quickly to consolidate, simplify and optimize their IT infrastructures. The new IBM®...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Capitalize on a highly available virtualization reference architecture
Jan 2013
Struggling with how to achieve consistent uptime? Address the challenges that can potentially cripple services and applications, while reducing data center costs and increasing workload...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
IBM SmartCloud Entry on System x with VMware vSphere Essentials Plus
Jan 2013
To address rapidly changing IT demands, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) can now go beyond virtualization and tap into the economic advantages of private clouds, enabling them to reinvent their...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
The Coming Storage Armageddon: What your Database Administrator Isn’t Telling You March
Jan 2013
The ever-increasing pace of data growth calls for a comprehensive storage strategy that protects data infrastructure from performance problems and is also flexible enough to handle changing...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Express tape storage solutions from IBM. Solving midsize business backup and archive challenges
Jan 2013
This solution brief discusses the backup and archive challenges that SMBs face and how tape storage solutions from IBM help companies cost-effectively ensure continuous operations, solve backup...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Trust as a Facilitator in Cloud Computing: A Survey
Jan 2013
Cloud computing offers massively scalable, elastic resources (e.g., data, computing power, and services) over the internet from remote data centers to the consumers. The growing market...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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Whitepapers
Cache Performance Models for Quality of Service Compliance in Storage Clouds
Jan 2013
With the growing popularity of cloud-based data centers as the enterprise IT platform of choice, there is a need for effective management strategies capable of maintaining performance within SLA...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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Whitepapers
A Cyber-Physical Integrated System for Application Performance and Energy Management in Data Centers
Aug 2012
Both performance and energy cost are important concerns for current data center operators. Traditionally, however, IT and mechanical engineers have separately optimized the cyber vs. physical...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Are Sleep States Effective in Data Centers?
Apr 2012
While sleep states have existed for mobile devices and workstations for some time, these sleep states have not been incorporated into most of the servers in today's data centers. High setup times...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
The New Normal: Mobile Device and App Behavior Over Wi-Fi and Best Practices for Wireless Networks
Dec 2012
Use of more mobile devices and hence more mobile applications at work create an ever-changing number of challenges for wireless network administrators and engineers. In the past the IT...
Provided by Aruba Networks
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Whitepapers
Data Centre Physical Infrastructure - Optimising Business Value
Jan 2013
To stay competitive in today's rapidly changing business world, companies must update the way they view the value of their investment in data centre physical infrastructure (DCPI). No longer are...
Provided by Schneider Electric - AU
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Whitepapers
Top 10 Mistakes in Data Centre Operations - Operating Efficient and Effective Data Centres
Jan 2013
How can you avoid making major mistakes when operating and maintaining your data centre(s)? The key lies in the methodology behind your operations and maintenance program. All too often, companies...
Provided by Schneider Electric - AU
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Whitepapers
Cisco Global Cloud Index
Oct 2012
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...
Provided by Cisco
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Whitepapers
Choosing Between Room, Row, and Rack-based Cooling for Data Centers (duplicate 1- offline)
Jan 2013
Latest generation high density and variable density IT equipment create conditions that traditional data center cooling was never intended to address, resulting in cooling systems that are...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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White Papers
Driving 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adoption in the Data Center
Apr 2009
Intel and Extreme Networks are two companies leading the evolution to 10 Gigabit Ethernet adoption, Intel 10 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapters provide fast and reliable connections for...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
A Superior Hardware Platform for Server Virtualization: Improving Data Center Flexibility, Performance and TCO With the Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series
Mar 2009
Server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data center productivity in fundamental ways. It lets consolidate multiple operating systems and applications per physical server,...
Provided by Intel
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Whitepapers
Data warehousing with DB2 family for IBM System z customers
Aug 2009
Discover the unique support for data warehousing and business intelligence offered by the IBM® DB2® portfolio. This white paper shows how an IBM System z® server, integrated with the IBM DB2...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Cisco MDS 9000 Family Advantages in VMware Environment
May 2009
Virtualization brings numerous advantages to the data center, i.e. more efficient resource utilization, decreased level of management complexity, lower power and cooling demands, etc. However, it...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
DELL Best Practices Guide for Rack Enclosures
Feb 2009
The Dell PowerEdge Rack Enclosures are offered in two sizes, 24U (2420) and 42U (4220). The Dell 2420 and 4220 Rack Enclosures are designed to hold and protect server, network, and data storage...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Leveraging 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center
May 2008
Speed increase in Brocade switching platforms is one of many advantages from Brocade's next generation ASIC family. Higher speed in the data center brings the immediate benefit of...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Data Center Fabric: Native Fabric Connectivity for Today's SANs Center Fabric Technology
Sep 2008
Brocade is committed to providing native fabric compatibility throughout its integrated family of Storage Area Network (SAN) platforms. This means that SAN users can expand their existing SANs and...
Provided by Brocade Communications Systems
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White Papers
Optimizing the Data Center: New Dell Servers and the Dell Energy Smart Architecture
Jun 2009
The Dell Energy Smart architecture, including new 11th-generation Dell PowerEdge servers, provides a comprehensive, system-wide approach to balancing performance with energy efficiency. By...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers : How NEC Supports IT Best Practices
Aug 2009
IDC's Views: Mission-Critical Workloads for Windows Servers: How NEC Supports IT Best Practices Within the typical enterprise-class datacenter, delivering mission-critical workloads with...
Provided by NEC
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White Papers
Coping with SAN Storage Frustration Caused by Server Virtualization
Jan 2009
Coping with SAN Storage Frustration Caused by Server Virtualization Server virtualization is clearly one of the breakout technologies in the first decade of the 21st century. The results are...
Provided by NEC
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White Papers
Unisys Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI): Automation and Virtualization in the Data Center - Financial and Operational Value Study of RTI Implementations Utilizing Unisys Infrastructure Management Suite
Oct 2008
Unisys Real-Time Infrastructure (RTI) solutions allow customers to enable business-driven IT with massive reductions in costs and risk. The following case study showcases customer value through...
Provided by Unisys
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White Papers
Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Architecture: The Building Blocks of the Unified Fabric
Jan 2009
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...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Dell Storage Selection Guidelines for Oracle Databases
Aug 2008
Dell strives to simplify IT in order to reduce complexity in data centers and has a broad storage product portfolio to meet database customers' needs. These storage selection guidelines will help...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
CA Resource Management Suites Address the Challenges of Optimizing the Online Mainframe
Sep 2008
Billions of eBusiness and supply-chain dollars depend on highly available, high performance mainframe applications and subsystems. Millions of people access and analyze petabytes of structured...
Provided by Ptak, Noel & Associates
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White Papers
Operations Energy Management: From the Data Center Through Facilities
Oct 2008
There is no doubt that energy costs are an all time high and are now so appreciably high that it affects the bottom line profitability of many companies, especially those in the IT or voluminous...
Provided by CA
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White Papers
Enabling The Virtual Data Center
Jan 2009
Virtualization has become an essential data center technology, allowing IT administrators to consolidate server infrastructure and reduce costs while enhancing service levels. Today, many...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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White Papers
SQL Advanced Protection Fast Recovery with Dell EqualLogic Auto Snapshot Manager
Jan 2009
Microsoft® SQL Server is the fastest growing RDBMS solution and supports a vast range of business critical applications. Dell EqualLogic™ PS Series iSCSI SANs provide the optimal storage...
Provided by Dell EqualLogic
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Case Studies
Maxnet Improves Power and Cooling Capacity Tenfold and Saves a Projected $1 Million NZD a Year With Dell Blades and APC Hot Aisle Containment
Jun 2009
Global trends toward blade server and virtualization platforms have dramatically increased data centres' power and cooling demands. Maxnet wanted a power and cooling solution that would enable it...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
HP Relocation Team Delivered a Seamless Move for BBC Worldwide
Jun 2009
BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC. It manages seven operating businesses - Global Channels, Sales & Distribution, Content & Production, Magazines, Home Entertainment Global Brands and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Efficiencies Enable Two Administrators to Manage 200,000 End Users Worldwide
May 2009
HP wanted to reduce the administrative costs to manage HP's client environment while simultaneously improving quality of service. HP automated management of the client environment, including...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
Don't Gamble With Your Recovery: Three IT Strategies to Keep Your Business in the Game (Part 1 of 4)
Aug 2009
Building out an overall recovery strategy can't just be a roll of the dice. It's no longer enough to have an "In case of emergency" disaster recovery plan that just sits on the shelf. Now there is...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
The Cure for the Overloaded Data Center - Leveraging Assets in Dual Data Centers for SAP Environments
Jul 2009
The attendee of this webcast will learn how to relieve these pressures and gain more productivity from the EMC infrastructure by improving refreshes of the SAP environment for non-production...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Managing the Virtualized Data Center
Jul 2009
Virtualization is not just a consolidation technology. With a new approach to people, process, and technology, it can be the catalyst to change data center management once and for all. As one move...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
The Future of Enterprise IT - Future Proofing Converged Architectures - Part 2
Jul 2009
The presenter of this webcast will discuss the architectures and solutions that will comprise the converged data center. The attendee of this webcast will learn which technologies are enabling...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
The Future of Enterprise IT: Technology Convergence: Transforming Data Center Infrastructure - Part 1
Jun 2009
The presenters of this webcast discusses on transforming data center infrastructure. The presenters will explore key challenges related to resource allocation, interoperability, migration, energy...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Growing Your VMware Deployments With EMC Symmetrix V-Max
Jun 2009
The attendee of this webcast will learn more about Symmetrix V-Max, the new Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, and powerful new software capabilities that accelerate the transition to a...
Provided by EMC
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Webcasts
Cisco Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Solutions
May 2009
The presenter of this webcast will provide the latest information on Cisco Data Center Interconnect (DCI) Solutions, a key element of Cisco Data Center 3.0 vision and strategy, providing a range...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Sustainable Operation and Management of Data Center Chillers Using Temporal Data Mining
Jul 2009
Data centers are a critical component of modern IT infrastructure but are also among the worst environmental offenders through their increasing energy usage and the resulting large carbon...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Using NetApp SnapMirror Async With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication
Oct 2008
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...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Using Oracle Data Guard With Cisco Wide Area Application Services for Data Center Replication
Oct 2008
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,...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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White Papers
Improving IDC Cooling and Air Conditioning Efficiency
Aug 2008
With the demand for Information Technology (IT) equipment increasing year by year and data centers with densely packed IT equipment experiencing dramatic jumps in power consumption, energy-saving...
Provided by Fujitsu
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Whitepapers
Energy Efficiency in the Data Center: Exploring the Inherent Compatibility of Green Initiatives and Corporate Profitability
Sep 2008
There was a time, not long ago, when the primary responsibility of the IT infrastructure and those who ran it was to provide continuous availability. Perpetual uptime. Unrelenting reliability....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Rethinking Server Virtualization: Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers
Apr 2009
Virtualization opens up a new range of possibilities for data centers. These include higher server utilization with lower costs, the economies of server consolidation, and high availability and...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Data Center Provisioning Automation With ProCurve Data Center Connection Manager
Jan 2009
The data center landscape is evolving at a rapid pace. New technologies are emerging in all facets of data center technology areas, enabling increasingly complex application environments. Growing...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Green Networking in the Data Center
Jun 2009
Today, advanced technology ecosystems are what fuel business. This surge of technology is one that presents new capabilities but greater challenges as companies look to meet their business needs....
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Data Center Improvements for Long-Term Savings
Oct 2008
There is a tremendous difference between data center improvements and simple space expansions. For true hard-dollar savings, data center improvements must include identifying redundancies so...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Multi-Tiered Hybrid Data Center: An Innovative Design Model for Cost Reduction and Facilities Optimization
Mar 2009
By helping today's enterprises work within tightened budgetary constraints and realize more cost-effective and energy-efficient operation - while accommodating their continuing need to house...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
Optimizing the Datacenter for Cost and Efficiency
Apr 2009
The days of buying servers based on speeds and feeds alone are fast fading away. The changing dynamics of the datacenter are driving customers towards new criteria in selecting the products and,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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White Papers
Data Center Power and Thermal Management Using Intel Data Center Manager Software Development Kit
Jul 2009
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...
Provided by Intel
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Case Studies
How IBM Supported Kika/Leiner's Branding Strategy With a Green Data Center
Nov 2008
European furniture retailer kika/Leiner Group is going green. Its stores and furniture products are designed and branded to appeal to increasingly green-conscious consumers in its home country of...
Provided by Forrester Research
