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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
Stretch The Limits of Your Infrastructure: How to get the most out of virtualization
Nov 2012
Virtualization can enable organizations to create more agile IT services with greater resilience and availability and lower cost. But some organizations achieve greater value from their projects...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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
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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White Papers
IT Essentials for Data Center Trends and Innovations
Aug 2011
Once upon a time, the words "data center" described a pretty common facility, regardless of industry or enterprise. Today, however, the words "data center" can describe an overheated small closet...
Provided by TechRepublic
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White Papers
Optimizing a Virtualized Data Center
Aug 2011
Many data centers extensively use Virtual Machines (VMs), which provide the flexibility to move workload among physical servers. VMs can be placed to maximize application performance, power...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
How to Build a SAN Guide: Convert Any Windows Server Into Shared Storage
Aug 2011
This How To Build A SAN guide provides simple step-by-step instructions for building your own Storage Area Network (SAN) or centralized, networked storage by using standard off-the-shelf x86...
Provided by Starwind Software
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White Papers
10 New Features for VERITAS Backup Exec 10
Jan 2005
For over a decade VERITAS Backup Exec software has provided the best data protection available to growing companies and large, market-leading enterprises alike. It is the gold standard in Windows...
Provided by Symantec
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Webcasts
Microsoft Webcast: Data Center Management With Visio (Level 200)
Oct 2007
Microsoft Office Visio is a great IT tool that enables to convert static diagrams to dynamic visual dashboards. This webcast explores how Visio can help to increase effectiveness and efficiency to...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Increase The Efficiency Of Power Distribution In Your High-Density Data Center
Sep 2011
As power density in modern data centers has increased, IT pros are increasingly focused on ensuring efficiency in their power distribution infrastructure. This paper explores a variety of...
Provided by Eaton
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White Papers
2011 IOUG Data Security Survey: Databases More at Risk Than Ever
Dec 2011
More than 300 database and information security professionals were recently surveyed on their data security practices. The results were disturbing with 60% saying that a data breach is likely, or...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
Low Latency 10 GbE Switching for Data Center, Cluster and Storage Interconnect
Sep 2007
As the data center continues to evolve to meet rapidly escalating demands for higher levels of performance and resource virtualization, three rather distinct networking requirements have emerged....
Provided by Force10 Networks
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White Papers
A Compiler and Run-time System for Network Programming Languages
Jan 2012
Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) are a new kind of network architecture in which a controller machine manages a distributed collection of switches by instructing them to install or uninstall...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Whitepapers
Forrester Research: Blades Paper
Apr 2012
How Blade Centers Impact Data Center Management and Agility This paper examines enterprise adoption of blade servers in the US, UK and China; the benefits of blade server use; and the connection...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard & Intel®
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Whitepapers
Itanium: Slip/Sliding Away...
Apr 2012
Oracle has followed the trend of other major ISVs and terminated further software development for the Itanium platform. Looking at the decline in revenue of HPs Itanium-based servers, combined...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data center operational efficiency best practices: Enabling increased new project spending by improving data center efficiency
Apr 2012
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...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Enterprise Master Data Management: Market Review & Forecast for 2008-12 - An MDM Institute MarketPulse In-Depth Report
Nov 2008
Corporate master data is a critical asset that must be increasingly managed within and beyond the enterprise, primarily to solve business problems in compliance, customer service, sales, and...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Realize Energy Efficiency with Unified Fabrics - Cisco Whitepaper
Dec 2008
The Cisco Nexus family of products helps transform data center infrastructure from an isolated fabric topology (IFT) to a unified fabric topology (UFT). UFTs use Data Center Ethernet technologies...
Provided by Cisco Systems
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Webcasts
Achieving Green IT With Symantec
Jun 2008
Green IT helps address the growing data center heating and cooling challenges, the growing power bill and the growing energy crisis. The attendee of this webcast will learn how the Symantec...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
Intel Xeon Processor 5500 Series: An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
Mar 2009
In many organizations, IT infrastructure has begun to constrain business efficiency and growth. For the past decade, IT has rapidly added low-cost hardware to accommodate business growth. But with...
Provided by Intel
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Webcasts
Brently Davis on Data Center Efficiency
Jun 2008
The presenter of this webcast suggests that data center efficiency includes both reducing the cost of computing and the cost of servers, while implementing data center consolidation and grid...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Is Your Data Center Ready For Virtualization?
Mar 2009
This paper discusses important challenges that may be associated with virtualized environments—such as variable power consumption, fewer servers, inadequate power and cooling infrastructure and...
Provided by Eaton
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Webcasts
Service Management in an Uncertain Economy
May 2009
Organizations are feeling the pressure of economic uncertainty—directly in their own financial statements and dealings with their business partners and customers—as well as indirectly through the...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Data Center Basics - Cisco UCS
Oct 2012
The Cisco UCS is a major step forward in data center development and creates numerous business and technical benefits. While complex from a technical standpoint, the system actually helps...
Provided by Global Knowledge
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eBooks
How Virtualization is Key to Managing Risk
Apr 2013
Is your IT environment ready for a disaster? Virtualization can save your infrastructure before an outage occurs and can also ensure an efficient recovery without data loss. Read this eBook to...
Provided by VMware
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Whitepapers
Embrace the New Era of Data Centre Services and the Cloud
Apr 2013
Read this white paper to learn about the trends affecting the data center and how cloud services are playing a huge role in helping organizations to modernize, improve utilization, and...
Provided by Hewlett Packard
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Whitepapers
Aerospec and EMC VNXe
Sep 2011
Aerospec, a system engineering and manufacturing company, leverages VNXe and VMware to cut operating costs, increase reliability. They have seen a 2x increase in data access and 75% increase in...
Provided by EMC
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Whitepapers
HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage for Client Virtualization
Mar 2013
Client virtualization is an important IT strategy aimed at improving employee productivity by supporting mobility and bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives while assuring application and data...
Provided by HP & Intel® Xeon® Processors
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Whitepapers
McAfee Virtual Patching for Databases: Easy-to-apply protection from potential database breaches
Apr 2013
Organizations store their most valuable and sensitive data in their enterprise database, yet a large number of organizations do not engage in the timely installation of vendor patches after those...
Provided by McAfee
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Whitepapers
How to get the most out of Virtualization
Jun 2013
This white paper shows why it is important to pay proper attention to all aspects of people, processes, tools, and knowledge, as well as the technology needed to get value from virtualization. It...
Provided by HP and Intel®
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Whitepapers
Deploying Cloud with IBM System x
Apr 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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White Papers
An Inconvenient Truth ...: About Enterprise Job Scheduling
Dec 2007
Since the 1970s, job scheduling solutions have been adapting to the ever-changing landscape of information technology. Initially, job schedulers were monolithic programs residing on mainframe...
Provided by OpsWise Software
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Whitepapers
Assessing and Improving Data Center Storage-Related Energy Efficiency: Technology Concepts and Business Considerations
Dec 2008
Taking a holistic view of data center operations provides an objective assessment of overall efficiency and value, as well as enables guidance for improving processes. This white paper examines...
Provided by EMC
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White Papers
Services Oriented Storage
Aug 2008
Connecting IT with business has been the mantra of IT organizations for many years. However, reality often finds the data center mired in redundancies and the proliferation of monolithic...
Provided by Hitachi Data Systems
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White Papers
Power Distribution Considerations for Data Center Racks
May 2008
A well planned rack level power distribution strategy is important to ensure continuous power to all IT equipment and to monitor and control power consumption. Proper consideration should be given...
Provided by Avocent
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White Papers
FlexFrame for SAP Version 4.1
Jul 2008
This paper describes the technical aspects of the FlexFrame infrastructure solution as of version 4.1, which replaces the predecessor version 4.0. The paper addresses consultants, administrators...
Provided by Fujitsu Siemens Computers
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Case Studies
Baylor College of Medicine Finds New IT Muscle With an IBM Power Systems Solution
Jan 2009
Baylor College of Medicine, located in Houston, Texas, has a clear organizational mission-to be a national leader in advancing healthcare. Baylor needed an economical, energy-smart consolidation...
Provided by IBM
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Case Studies
Building the Next-Generation Data Center
May 2008
In 2005, it became evident to CEO Mark Hurd and his executive staff that IT would play a critical role in HP's success. Hurd and his team determined that to become the world's leading IT company...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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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Whitepapers
The Top 9 Mistakes in Data Center Planning
Jan 2013
Why do so many data center builds and expansions fail? This white paper answers the question by revealing the top 9 mistakes organizations make when designing and building new data center space,...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Whitepapers
Making Geo-Replicated Systems Fast as Possible, Consistent When Necessary
Sep 2012
Online services distribute and replicate state across geographically diverse data centers and direct user requests to the closest or least loaded site. While effectively ensuring low latency...
Provided by Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
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Whitepapers
IDO: Intelligent Data Outsourcing with Improved RAID Reconstruction Performance in Large-Scale Data Centers
Nov 2012
Dealing with disk failures has become an increasingly common task for system administrators in the face of high disk failure rates in large-scale data centers consisting of hundreds of thousands...
Provided by Xiamen Sharelink Technology Co.,LTD
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Whitepapers
Quantitative Estimation of the Performance Delay with Propagation Effects in Disk Power Savings
Sep 2012
The biggest power consumer in data centers is the storage system. Coupled with the fact that disk drives are lowly utilized, disks offer great opportunities for power savings, but any power saving...
Provided by College of William and Mary
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Whitepapers
Architecting Oracle ATG Web Commerce for Maximum Availability
Oct 2011
The scope of this paper is limited to the technical considerations involved with running a single Oracle ATG Web Commerce site from two or more separate physical data centers. All systems involved...
Provided by Oracle
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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
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Tools & Templates
IDC ROI Calculator for IBM Tivoli Netcool
Aug 2009
This ROI calculator from IDC will help you quickly and easily understand the average annual benefit that you may be able to achieve using IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®. The tool and underlying...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Citrix XenDesktop Architecture and Implementation on ProLiant Servers
Oct 2008
The goal of this integration note is to describe Citrix XenDesktop technology, architecture, and implementation on ProLiant servers. The audience is both internal and external customers. Desktop...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Adaptive Infrastructure: Delivering a Business-Ready Infrastructure to Optimize Business Outcomes
Jun 2009
Given the current economic climate, every business is placing a sense of urgency on its IT infrastructure to be more agile - while managing costs more tightly - to react quickly to emerging market...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping for ProLiant Servers
Mar 2009
This paper describes HP power capping technologies, including the original HP Power Capping and HP Dynamic Power Capping. Both are power management features of HP ProLiant servers that operate...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE Reference Architecture for SAP Application Services
May 2008
HP Insight Dynamics - VSE provides a unified management environment for continuously analyzing and optimizing both virtual and physical server resources across the entire infrastructure. Key...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Case Studies
Intel Case Study: Virtually Green
Feb 2009
Business & Decision is a leading Consultancy and System Integrator, and provider of managed and hosted services. It needed to utilise high processing power and virtualization for energy efficient,...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Automating Datacenter Management: Consolidating Physical and Virtualized Infrastructure
Apr 2008
The deployment of virtualization technology for datacenter consolidation, cost reduction, and improved agility continues to accelerate datacenter adoption, spanning server, and storage,...
Provided by IDG (International Data Group)
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Case Studies
DataCenter S.A. Improves Its Information and Transaction Services With a Robust IT Infrastructure
Dec 2008
Datacenter S.A., headquartered in Bogota, offers information services to companies in the gaming and state lottery industries. It also contracts with other operators to provide added value for its...
Provided by Oracle
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Whitepapers
Data Centre Assessments: The First Step to Optimisation
Mar 2009
Data centres are large, important investments that, when properly designed, built and operated, are an integral part of the business strategy driving the success of any organisation. Yet the...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The New Reality of Balance and Optimisation in Planning Green Data Centres
Jan 2009
The recent release of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) study on data centre energy efficiency is adding fuel to the fire in the research and development of new ways to reduce energy...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Storage Essentials: Delivering on the Promise of Storage Automation
Aug 2009
Today's IT service is very complex. To support the agility and performance goals demanded by the business, IT needs to automate the processes that manage the IT service infrastructure. Without...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
Bringing the Edge to the Data Center - A Data Protection Strategy for Small and Midsize Companies With Remote Offices
Aug 2009
Small and midsize businesses with remote offices need data protection strategies that are closely aligned with their business priorities, IT infrastructure, and regulatory requirements for data...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
HP Data Center Management Architecture: Adaptive Infrastructure Supply Chain
Jun 2009
Infrastructure virtualization has provided significant benefits to IT - allowing resource utilization to increase significantly and reducing the cost of many time consuming steps in the deployment...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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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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Whitepapers
The New Reality of Balance and Optimization in Planning Green Data Centers
Jan 2009
Even though the industry has taken a major step forward in looking at energy efficient data centers, there still is a lot of work to do. Given the specialized and critical nature of these...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Whitepapers
The Green Data Center: Cutting Energy Costs for a Powerful Competitive Advantage
Apr 2008
After an intensive study of server and data center energy efficiency for Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported that the U.S. data center industry is in the midst of a...
Provided by IBM
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Webcasts
A Breakthrough in Service Delivery for Data Center Workloads
Sep 2009
Success in the new smarter planet demands reduced cost of ownership, more collaboration, higher profitability and increased reinvestment into your IT infrastructure. Transforming the data center...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Email Archiving: a Business-Critical Application
Jul 2009
Today's businesses are especially vulnerable to accidental email loss, compliance demands, and the threat of e-discovery. Yet these same companies often have the fewest resources for combating...
Provided by MessageLabs, now part of Symantec
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White Papers
Journal of Management Excellence - Creating Value
Feb 2009
The principles underlying TVI are as old as control theory. Accountants audit a company by aligning money, information, and the flow of goods—or core business processes, in more modern terms. It...
Provided by Oracle
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White Papers
VL2: A Scalable and Flexible Data Center Network
Aug 2009
To be agile and cost effective, data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation across large server pools. In particular, the data center network should enable any server to be assigned to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
CAFE: A Configurable PAcket Forwarding Engine for Data Center Networks
Aug 2009
Recently, Data Center Networking (DCN) has attracted many research attentions and innovative DCN designs have been proposed. All these designs need specialized packet forwarding engines due to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Why Should We Integrate Services, Servers, and Networking in a Data Center?
Aug 2009
Since the early days of networks, a basic principle has been that endpoints treat the network as a black box. An end-point injects a packet with a destination address and the network delivers the...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Understanding Data Center Traffic Characteristics
Aug 2009
As data centers become more and more central in Internet communications, both research and operations communities have begun to explore how to better design and manage them. This paper presents a...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Power In, Dollars Out: How to Stem the Flow in the Data Center - Server Power Considerations for IT Administrators
Nov 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the server power landscape for Information Technology (IT) administrators. It explains the effect of server power usage on Total Cost of Ownership...
Provided by Microsoft
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Whitepapers
Dynamic Infrastructure Helping Build a Smarter PlanetDelivering Superior Business and IT Services with Agility and Speed
Sep 2009
In this smarter world, we need our infrastructure to propel us forward, not hold us back. This infrastructure becomes instrumented, interconnected and intelligent to bring together the business...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Creating a Dynamic Infrastructure through Virtualization
Sep 2009
In almost every case,the transformation to a dynamic infrastructure will involve virtualization.Many IT professionals think of virtualization specifically in terms of servers.IBM,however,has a...
Provided by IBM
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Downloads
Optimization Pack
Jan 2009
Virtualization success is all about balancing resource utilization and VM performance. VKernel's new Optimization Pack contains three powerful new applets (Wastefinder, Rightsizer, Inventory) that...
Provided by VKernel
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White Papers
Buy or Lease Your Own Data Center?: Think About It
Aug 2009
Before a company buys the data center, however, it will want to consider some of the factors not often assessed versus the favorable events listed above. There is a big difference between running...
Provided by IBS
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White Papers
Managing IT Infrastructure With Template-Based Provisioning
Sep 2009
The ideal approach is one in which all underlying physical IT data center resources and their interdependencies can be manipulated in software-defined templates. The entire application or service...
Provided by Liquid Computing
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Whitepapers
Mastering Virtualized Environments
Sep 2009
Data centers are growing rapidly in size and complexity. At the same time, competitive and economic pressures are making cost control even more critical to the overall success of data center...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Automated Workload Scheduling
Sep 2009
IT professional are increasingly challenged by the number of jobs and workloads created by company growth and expansion. Existing workload scheduling solutions are often inadequate and there is...
Provided by IBM
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Whitepapers
Deploying and Managing Windows Server 2008 R2 with Microsoft System Center
Jan 2009
Microsoft System Center supports organizations as they deploy and use Windows Server 2008 R2. System Center optimizes the deployment and management of Windows Server 2008 R2 by, automating...
Provided by Microsoft
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Tools & Templates
Green IT Impact Calculator
Sep 2009
Quantify the Impact of Green IT Virtualization Investments. Welcome to the Green IT Impact Calculator. This worksheet enables you to estimate the impact of virtualization investments to drive...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Unlock Your Hidden Data Center
Jan 2008
Kevin Smith, Enterprise Solutions Marketing Manager at Dell, explains why organizations need to consider energy use in their data center, reasons to "go green", as well as practical ways Dell...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
Virtualized Storage and Windows Server® 2008
Dec 2008
Storage virtualization is nothing new, but what is new and exciting with regard to storage virtualization and Windows Server® 2008? In this podcast, Computerworld Vice President Bill Laberis poses...
Provided by Dell
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Case Studies
NetBenefit: Hosting Provider Uses Virtualization to Expand Services and Reduce Costs
Sep 2008
NetBenefit is a leading provider of managed hosting services in the United Kingdom. Faced with ever more expensive London data center costs, the company was looking for ways to expand the hosting...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
The Intelligent Choice for Microsoft® Windows Server Virtualization
Sep 2008
Dell has partnered with Microsoft to create several validated reference configurations, -profiled here -for Microsoft Hyper-V and SCVMM. Each offers a single source for fully tested hardware,...
Provided by Dell
